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Ephefians
Chap.
4.
Doá.
Yfe
r.
joyfully;but whatconcord
can
there be betwixt the wifedome
of
God
and
the wifedome
of
the
flefh,fimple
Hier
men and lubtle
fophifterse
The
lark
thing thing to be obferved
is;What
is the
weapon
of
alferea-
chers,
wilynes
and craft. As the devil! himfelfe bath
alwayes
had thefe
weapons, Craft and
Cruelty;
for
he
hath
beenea
lyer
and
a
murtherer,
a Serpent and
alyon,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;
I
am
afrayd (faith Paul)
left
any
by
fabtilty
bath
beguiled
you
as
the
devil!
did Eve,
z
Cor.
r
5.3.
Lyers Sophiftry
is
the
devills Logicke,
his
Logicke
is
madeonely
of
fallacies.
Therefore
we have noted
in
falfe
Teachers fometime their
enticing
fpeeches,
erewhile their
Philofo-
phie, their
oppo
ftien
of
fcience,
falfely
lb called,their
depthes,
their
glo.
zing
pretenfes; Even
as a
foule faced
whore
painteth her face;
fo
doe they their bad
caufe
with eloquent
infrnuation and fuch kindneffc
and
curteíe
as
finelleth
fkrong
of
craft
in a
wife mans fenfes:
Rom.
16.
r
8. they
are
Paid
to
fcduce
the
hearts
of
filly ones
by
xsnmoyia
&ëvroyta,
faire
fpeech and
flattering;
this
is
their fheepes garm'ent,at leaf/
a
part
of
it. All
falfe
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 fawning
and pre-
tending
fuch kindneffe,
as
the devil' their Father
did
to
our
firft
pa-
rents,
Tom
fhall
be
like
Gods.
Not
that
all perfwaftve force
of
fpeech
is
condemned;which
Saint Paul himfelfe
frequenteth,
I
lave
you
from
my
heart roote;What
is
ourglory,
our
ermine
of
rejoycing
?
are
not
yee
in
the
day
of
the Lord? But
when
a
man laboureth
by
affebtcd Rhetoricke
without the power
of
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!
to
give kinde
words
topeople,but
when one fpeaketh
all
to
flatter,
and
beyond truth
fpeakethpicafingly, will uowhere offend, nor
freely
rebuke, and
Bill
doth this
that
he may
worke them to the
liking
of
the
opinions he falfely
vented'.
In
fine,
when it
is
made
a
cup
of
fine
wine
to
carry
to
the heart more
effeâ/ually
a
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
of
humility,
of
mortifying
the flefh,
of
furring
up
zeale
of
good workcs,
of
upholding the
j
uflice
of
Gode
it
is
all
but treacherous
deceitfulneffe.
We
mull:
therefore
Cede
to
God, that
he would
make
us
innocent
as
Doves,and fubtle
as
Serpents,
that
we may notbe
enfnared
through
the craftineffe
of
feducers. Let
us
awaken our
felves, yea the
Lord
open our mouthes who are
his
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,
as
Diof
orue
and
the
devill done
;
though