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VER.14.
%phefians,
Chap.
4.
The
Ufe to
us
is, {icing it
is
windie
light
wares they
bring,
we muff
beware
they
doe
not
beguile
us
:
we would not be over
-
reached
wil-
lingly with falfe
commodities; nay,
we
are fo cunning
that
we will
fay, he mull rife
betimes
that
outgoeth
us;
how much more circum
fpel
muff we
be
in
do&rine, feeing
it
is a
merchandize
that
faveth
the
foule
if
wholefome,or poifon,if
it
be orherwife!
The
fourth thing to be
marked is,What
a
caufe
of
our
being led
to
this
and thatdoflrine,
the
deceiveable
lightneff
e
and
inconfiancie
that
is
in
us,
through the
deceitfulneffe
of
men, the
deceitful
uncertaintic
in
the
nature
of
man.
This
otofès
intimateth,
Deut.
11.16.
Take
heede to
your
hearts,
as
who
fhould
fay; doe younot know that your
hearts are
unftable
and
more then
prone to turne to Idolatry?
and
Pfal. 62. man
is
lighter
then
vanity
:
this made them fo often goe
out
like a
deceit-
ful
bow,
becaufe
their
fpirits were
not faithfull. Hence
it
was
that
the
people of I
frael
within
forty
dayes
changed their
glory into a
Calfe,
that
the
people cryed to day Hofannah,to
morrow
Crucifie him:
that thofe
of
Lyflra
would
now have worfhipped Paul
as a
God,
and prefently
lone
him:that the
ralatians
fo
Toone
were
turned to another
Gofpell.
We
muff
therefore labour to
defcrie
this
difcafe in
our (elves, and
feeke
to God
to ftablifh
us
with
his
grace
:
for whatfoever the devill
could doe without,
if
we were
true
at
home,
he could
not
prevaile a-
gain!
us.
The
fifth thing
to be
marked is,
That
falfe
teachers are the
devifs
infiruments
to
feduce
us
from the
truth.
2
Per.
3. 17.
Take
heede
you bee
not
carryed
away
with
the
feducing
of
the
wicked :
and therefore our Sa-
viour
doth
bid
us take
heede
of
filch as
come
in
fheepes
cloathing,
and
are
inwardlyravening
Wolves.
And every
wherethe Apoftle cryeth aime,
bidding
us
take
heede, we come not
neare
them, come not
in
the
wind
of
them,
for
they
are
infectious perfons. As an heire
that
will
keepe
his
inheritance,mul
have
nothing to do with craftiebroakers,that
lye
in
the
wind for fuch
a
Purchafe
:
fo mull we not
falute fuch
feducers,
if
we will hold poffeffionof
the truth.
RIO.
But you will
aske,How
may
I
know
a
falfe
teacher?
vinfw.
In generall,by
his
fruites,
his lifeand
do
&rine. But becaufe
their lifes
fometime
are
cloaked
with hypocrifie,
and
it
is
not
eatie
for
every one
to
found
the depth
of
their
doótrine;
take
two other
marker.
T.
Their
manner
of
teaching.
2.
Their
followers that
applaud
their
doûrine.
They
Teach
fo
as
thepower of the
Spirit doth notaccompany
them,
but
are full
of
words,
selling
words
of
vanity,
per
fwafive
#eeches,
fuch
as
humane wifedome
fuggeleth.
a. Marke,
if
unregenerate men approve
the matter with delight
which
fuch
a
one teacheth, it
is
an evidence
he
is
not
a
reacher
of
Chrift:
Gal,
x.Ifl
fhould
pleafe men,
I
were not a
fervant of
Chrifl.True
it
is,
that for
phrafe
of
fpeech and manner,
if
one be
a
golden-mon-
thed preacher,
and
of
more gracious
delivery, they may
applaud this
joy.
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Our inbred
inconSancie
is
the
c..ule
of
our following
every
new
do-
arise.
Pfal.yS.
Yfe.
Doli.
Falle
teachers
are
the
devils
ináruments,
to
feduce us.
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