AI! 1500 ,) Ephefians Chap. 4. Doá. Yfe r. joyfully;but whatconcord can there be betwixt the wifedome of God andthe wifedomeof the flefh,fimple Hier men and lubtle fophifterse The lark thing thing to be obferved is;What is the weapon ofalferea- chers, wilynes and craft. As the devil! himfelfe bath alwayes had thefe weapons, Craft andCruelty; for he hath beenea lyerand a murtherer, a Serpent andalyon,from thebeginning : So he bath fct out his chil- dren with the felfe fame furniture, arming them with violence and fubtlety. Falfe teachers fight wíthdeccite, fltew of reafon, not found reafon; Iamafrayd (faith Paul) left anybyfabtilty bathbeguiled you as thedevil! did Eve, z Cor. r 5.3. Lyers Sophiftry is the devills Logicke, his Logicke is madeonely of fallacies. Thereforewe have noted in falfe Teachers fometime theirenticing fpeeches, erewhile their Philofo- phie, their oppoftienoffcience, falfely lb called,their depthes, their glo. zing pretenfes; Even as a foule faced whore painteth her face; fo doe they their badcaufewith eloquent infrnuation and fuch kindneffc and curteíe as finellethfkrong of craft in a wife mans fenfes: Rom. 16. r 8. they are Paid to fcduce the heartsof filly ones byxsnmoyia &ëvroyta, faire fpeech andflattering; this is their fheepes garm'ent,at leaf/ a part of it. Allfalfe Prophets dwell at Piacenza (as an Italian fpeakes) they will fpeake pleafrngly,fometimc tickle itching cares with fuch corrupt elegancies, as may make them admired, fometime fawningand pre- tending fuch kindneffe, as the devil' their Father did to our firft pa- rents, Tom fhallbe like Gods. Not that all perfwaftve force of fpeech is condemned;whichSaint Paul himfelfe frequenteth, I lave youfrom my heart roote;Whatis ourglory, our ermine of rejoycing ? are not yee in the day ofthe Lord? But when aman laboureth by affebtcd Rhetoricke without the powerof Gods Spirit, and evidence ofmatter, to win an acclamation to that he propofeth, r Cor. 2. 4. otherwife t.4pollos was 2,61,,H}, and who a better Orator then Chryfofteme? Neither is it unlaw- ful! togive kinde words topeople,but when one fpeaketh all to flatter, and beyond truth fpeakethpicafingly, will uowhere offend, nor freely rebuke, and Billdoth thisthat he may worke them to the liking of the opinions he falfely vented'. In fine, when it is made a cupof fine wine to carry to the heart more effeâ/uallya cup of deadly poy- fon. And thus what is there with the Popifh crue, but deceite What tendeth all their Allegations to; their (hew of reafon, their Fathers, Councels, their pretences,as ofhumility, of mortifying the flefh, of furringup zeale of good workcs, ofupholding the j uflice of Gode it is all but treacherousdeceitfulneffe. Wemull: thereforeCede toGod, that he would make us innocent as Doves,and fubtle asSerpents, that we may notbeenfnared through the craftineffeof feducers. Let us awaken our felves, yea the Lord open our mouthes who arehis watchmen every where, that wee may fpeake in this kinde; the theefe (I meane the devil!) fpoyleth at his pleafure, while we keepe filence. Let us not be carried away with baby Cards, when we heare all the Fathers, Scriptures, reafons brought, for thus have heretickes, asDiof orue and thedevill done ; though
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