Caryl - Houston-Packer Collection BS1415 .C37 v7

122 Chap. 22. An Expansion opin the Bookaf JO B. Verf:73. thee as GUilty ofthis blafphemy, That, Thott rapft, How cloth g.4.kno, ? Henceobterve ; Fir tt, That gooi,men are fornetimes charged with raying and do- tng the worn and vilen things. Thus (ï King. 21. I3.)N.abqhwas accufed of 61aftierning Goo I and the King. Chrift himfelfe was taxed with blafphemy more then once (Matth. 9 3:) ,4ndbcho1deertainefthe Seeibes faidwithin themfelves thus man blarybenoes. There they did not only averre it, but they faid it wirhin therntelves At. ocher times they fpake ie openly ( 7qh. o. 33.) Tkz. 7 tres anrc..-ered and laid; for a good deed tl.enone thee not, bat Jr biajphemy,becat*F thou be. inga man makefi thy re/fo G,1. And againe, (Mark. 26 65)1-ie bob fpcken bialphtmy, ye have heard bw blafploerny. To {Ix ¡Ice or do well and heare ill WaS the portion oi" _,hritt, and may be die portionof the holyeft ofchofe who are Chris. Secondly, Note ; That where men are heated indi,,tete, they are apt to makefolfe inferencesfrom the tenets and rajings of their eppolers. Eliphaz faith, 7h providence, whereas 7,6 adored ; that he denyed Gods knowiedge of the good and evil! done in the world, becaufe he rmiatained, tha good men receive evil', and evill men good in the world. When we deny tran- fubftantiation, or that the bread is changed into the very fub- flame ofThe body ofChritt Papitts inferre-,-that we deny, that Chria fpake truely, when at 'his Lati Supper he laid, This is my body ; and they will hence force it uponus, that we fay, Gcd is nct omnip,tent, becaufe we affirme that ir is inconfiftent with the nature of a true humane body ((nets as thritt hath now heaven, though glorifiedand fpiricuall ) to be in many places at once. For as force deny the omni. pretence of the divine na. ture, fo Prapitts affirme the omni.prefence of the humane na- ture, And (fay they) while we deny chis, we deny the omni. potency ofGod. Otherscharge us that we make. God the au- thor offinne, and ,hat, according to our tenet, all the impie- ty and, wickedr.effe that is in the world, lyeth his doore s he. fatee we affirme, That God bath paffcd an Etcrnall abiohite and

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