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On
the
Excellency
of
the Soul.
2
79
dreadful Text
againft
chofe
that (hall
drink
in
the errours
of Popery.
But
you
will
fay,
that
they
are learned
men ,
and
have
a great deal
of
thew of
truth
,
with all
deceiveablenefs
of
unrighteoufnefs
But
how
art
thou
deceived
by
them
?
becaufe
thou
received not
the love
of the
truth,
that
thou
mighted bee
faved
:
And for this
Gaffe
God fhall
fend
them
ftrong
delufions
to
beleeve
a
lye, that they
might bee
damn-
ed;
to
that end
God
fends
drong delufions, that men
might beleeve
thofe
errours, and drink in
that
cup
of for-
nications,
that
they
might bee damned
for ever.
If
it
were
but onely
that
one
errour
drunk
down
in the
grofnefs
of
ir,
that
is,
that
the righteoufnefs
that I mull
tender
up
to
God
for
fatisfaetion
to
divine Jittlice, and
for
my
eternal
falvation,
mud
bee mine own
righteoufnefs
,
mine own
works
:
Here
is
enough to
poifon
a
foul
to
eter-
nal perdition;
and many
other waies
there may bee
that
may
indanger the foul
extreamly, and
very
ill
confequen-
ces may bee gathered
from
Qood
principles
:
As
for
that
principle
of
our
Juflification
by
free Grace in Chrid;
That
it
is
onely
by
Chrift
that
wee
are
juílified,
that
principle
is
exceeding good, but from thence
fuch
dangerous venomous
confequences may bee drawn,
as
may
extreamly indanger;
and
I
make
no queflion do invenome
and poifon many
thoufand
fouls,
upon
which
they draw confequences for
loofenefs, and
againd humiliation
for fin, and
againd
obe-
dience
to the
Law,
as
by Mofes.
All
the
principles
and
errours
that
are
againd
the
dried waies o;'
God,
that
tend
to
any loofenefs, certainly
they are invenoming principles
:
Oh rake heed of
any
do
ìrine,
of
any
conceits, of
any
opi-
nions
that
do
any way
tend
to
loofenefs
!
they will cer-
tainly
poifon and invenome
your fouls,
fo
that
your very
errours
may bee enough
to
damn
you
eternally. Many
lofe
their
fouls
by
poifoning:
Seventhly,. And there
are many
that
lófe
their
fouls by
venturing
of them
;
there are
many
ventures upon
which
many
come
to
lofe. their
fours
;
there
are
four
cafes
where,