`ncteaneJje of heart the 'canje of error. *It ir, your erroneous men that fall to fns many vile and damnable errours. they are of one of thole two forts,either men that have ken forward profeifors, and beginning to be.carnall and fenfu- all, and vain ; o otherwife, young ones that take upon them the p ofeüion of Religion, yet never kn w what the fight of fiinnaeant,thefe fee not God ; their hearts are fo foule and vile they cannot fee Cod as God, nor the things of God in the true beauty and excellency of them ; Ile give you a Scripture or two ro ihew you how errours do follow from the lufts of mens hearts, rather then from the miftakes of the head ; z Tits 3.5, '8. (that s for thoiè that are but formals profeifors of Religion, they come to fall) Having a forme ofgodline f'ebut denying the der thereof, faith the Text : But what are they ? 4c fanner and f ambres wi thf ocd Mofes, fo do thefe al fo re g. fl. the truth, ar en rfeorrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. Men before -de'cribed to have the forme of godlineíie but denying the power,that have made fore profeiíionof Religion,and denyed the power, faith the Apoftte turne away from them, there':; ne ,medling with fuch men ; Then he tells what kind of difpofitions they are of,,they are chore that refill' the truth,men of corrupt minds, and reprobate concerning the faith, _ And fo others that are drawn afide by their own lufts, z Pet: z. i H. fpeaking of false teachers, for when they fpèak great f veiling words of vanity, they allure through the tufts of theflefh, through ra _ch wantonnefJe, theft that were clean efcaped from there who live in errour ; It's a very remarkable Scripture, and much concerning our times, and faith he in the s 9. verf. While they proms fe them liberty, they themfelves are fervants of corrupt:oa ; Falfe teachers that fpeake great fwelling words ; you than have them have no religion but words (to anrufe peo^1e w shall ) that people do notunderfland, and people think that there are area` mattes in rhofe great words which they have, but they are but a bladder fwell'd up with wind, do but prick them, .do but examine them and there s nothing in them, they are fwel- ing words of vanity c You may have fome caufe of fifpedting when you hear them preaching (or oherwife a grea b:ine- bafted words (as Tmay fo fpeake) words that feeme ro have G g g 2 great
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