&p, 11.4rov.P.firniais; 315 regaina your faith. The whole power of darknefs, of iintichrif, of his reducing fpiritso likely and probably enough, will ovtr foreaci the whole face of Chrillianity once more, that the mutt tit as a Lady, before The be defolate and forfaken for ever. The hpoftle bids you 1)::ware of Dogs, beware of the Concifion, be; ware of evil.workers, guard your felves againfi them , guard the truths you have, learned by argument, by Scripture, by Rea. )n, that you may have wherewithal to confute them by the word of truth mightily, out of the Scripture, as the. Apofille did, Three things you are to guardagainft. I, Your own deceitfulnefs , elpecially in a rafh and fudden forfaking of thole ways that have been taught, and theprofeffi- on you have taken up ; for Chriffiens would nev:r be fomad to apoliatize, would they but feriouflydeliberate about the weight of them Gal.i 6. 0 fockh Gal:et-Aunt, who bath bewitcbcdyou thae )ou itould not obey the truths' atc. I marvel what ailed you, that you are fo foon fumedaway to another Gofpel: One would have thought they might have fpoken with Paul firs, and fent tohim, and reams Coned the cafe with him : There's a marvellous bewitching in falfe Doerines, and falfe Worfhip , to take men prefently, who are not watchfull over themfeIves, It is in difputations and pradti- fing truth, as it is in contentions : if you make a Judgement be- fore you hear both, parties fpeak, you judge unrighteoufly ; if you forfake the ways and truths of Jefus Chrift before you hear what can be faid for them, you do unrighteoufly. 1 Guard them againft the lufis of your own hearts. The great work of a Chrittian is contention : it is not fo much againft Antichrift ; thofe that are without him as that that is within him. If all Heretical De &rives and ways were rooted out of the ,world, not onely, the being, but the memory, the heart is bad enough in one a too fit,them all on foot 7gain therefore guard the truth: Men f 'corrupt minds will pi efently growRepro- bate, as to the Faith,' i 7im.34. Such Datrinet and Worfhips as fball lute with ciuquits, as (hall fuse with exalting it felf, and laying Chrift low, as (hall lute with an eafie way toHeaven when the Scripture faith, firirigbt is thegate ; as (hall futc with filf.: prefervatton : So I might fccure my Effete, my Liberty : I would 1441 fuch DoEtrines s thefek before I take them up for the ways of chaff. S f 2 3 Guard
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