-.7 172 Fatious Defire ofthe futoefs of our o CHAP, XXXII!, FailiousDefire of the piccefs of our own opinions and Parties,ou fuck, &c. - Its. A Nother felfifh Intereff to be Denyed, is, The farthest g *1* defire of thefiecceft of any odd opinions which we have efpoufed, andof the increafe and profperity ofany dividing party in the Churchwhich we have addiRedour(elves unto. It exceedingly deligheth a Carnal mind that his Judgement fhould- be admired and he fhould be taken as the lightof the Countrey round about him,and thereforewhen he hath hatcht anyopinions of his own,or efpoufed any whereby his fingulari- ty may be mandated , or by which his felfifh intereft may be promoted, he is as careful to promote thefe opinions, and the party that holdeth with him , a Covetous man is to pro- mote his gain. There is ineed as much offelf in many mens Herefies and Church-divifions, as any Senfualift bath in his way. And hence it is that a zeal for felfijh opinions is eafily got and eafily maintained , when zeal for the faxing truths of God is hardly kindled, and hardly kept alive. Yea multitudes in the worlddo make the very truth to be the matter of their carnal intereft; while they fome way get a feeming peculiar intereft in it, and promote it but as an opinion of their own, or oftheir party, and ufe it for felfifh carnal ends. And hence it is chat many that are called Orthodox, can eafily get and keep a burning zeal for their Orthodox opinions, when Pradi- cal Chriftians do find it a very hard matter to be zealous for the fame truths in a Pradical way. Manyungodly men will be hot in Difputing for the truth, and crying down all that. are ,againfl it, and perhaps fo far exceed their bounds, that the godly dare not follow them 1 'And the reafon is clear. Whe- ther it beTruthor Error that a man holds, ifhe hold it- but as a conceit of his. Own, or as the opinion of his party, or tobe noted in the world, as one that hath found out more truth then ottxrs, or any way make it but the matter of his felfilb intereft., nature and corruption will furnifh him with a zeal for
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