ofHypocri{le in Rtligion~ · . 3lJ . ThAt there 11re fuch corrupt and f(ll{e opiHiom ifJ ReNgion,that Ob[erv. carrJ the followers of thrm nofarthtr then ·to h;pocrijic. Thofe that fit at the feet ef fuch Doctors,- they never go but to the bottome of the mounta.in, they are not admitted with Mo- [ts to Geds prefence ; They never have more then the fhdL · and do not eat the kernel. As they themfclves are whited Sepulchres, fuch are their difciples ; (o great a matter is it to look what are the Theological principles that a man is brought up 'with. As truth is Cib1# animtt, the food of the fouJ,and thereby i~s fanetified,fo faHhood is the poifon of the foul, and many have fucb principles in Religion, that by them they are made fie fuell for hell: So that as it is of great cenfequence, what Nurfes milk the childc fucks; no ldfe is it wha_t do8rinal principles in Religion thou art inllruch:d in. We fee many men living 0nly in formality, and a meer carkafs · of Religion; they have a glorious forrn)and yet are nothing, and all becaufe corrupt doCtrinal opinions put fuch an empty varnifu upon them: Now as there is a twofold hypocrifie, 1. A groffe, a.ffetted and intended one; its his avowed principle tokeep up fimulation and diffimulation, And 2 • Amore fccret and unknown one, fo there are principles Whatopinien$ whicharelikeoiltothcflame, that breed and nouri!h fuch carrynofurther vermin within us. ·Groffe hypo&rijie tb:fe corrupt opinions dQ then hypocriftc maintain, · - . Firfi, Tbat held itl~ewfull tojwear ;zndforfwear, and to.ccmJ, municate in an] evil way, fo M tht] retained that jtflith they The_opinion thought true in their ~Wff hMrt: For not or:~ly Atheifiical Poli- of confarming · · h · d h · k d · !J • to ant way f-o ttclan_s . ave cne up t at WlC c max1m, 1 uro per;uro mcntem a· m~~ kept injurat111mgero, bat even fome heretical monlltrs in Divinity, that fiith he fuch were thePrifcillianifts of old, that held a lie, though thinketh trut: joined with perjury was no fia,which did fo moveAuflin,that in his hearr. he wrote abookDeMena'acio,toconfute that wickedalfertion, . Now thcfe Pri[cilii;~nifls by reafon of fuch abominable opi– Rions, that it was lawfull to lie and forfwear, afferting that prophane fpcech, · tPJr~t, perjura,{tcretum prodere noli, They would never difcovcr what Do~rincs they held. Such ' T t 3 opinions
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