Chap, 24, enExp,ofaienupon the Bockcf JGB. Ver1.z5. Devill,chemore finfull and abominable it is.And therefore among, thole who (hall be without, lyemahers are chiefe ( Roy. 22. 15. ) Without are doggs, andforcerers, and whoremongers,andmurderers, andId.lrters, ant vho(sever loveth and maketh a lye. The univer- fality of this exclufion is onely expreffedupon lyars, as if he had fayd,to be fare all lyars Ali be wttkout. He that maketh a lye hack nothing worfe to make ; and he that maketh ( that is, proveth ) a man to be a lyar, path nothing worfe to make of him. And Maki my fpeech nothing worth: The Hebrew is, And bring my [peck, to nothing ; as if he had t tit.7 idégaod fayd, I challenge all men to difprove my reafons, or toprove that Nt7L1 G,aci my reafons are not a proofe of that for which 1 brought them. be:è ïnre+pre- In briefe,let any man refute or confute what I have fayd,if he can, tantw; atsd'd`en, and then lee all that I have fayd gee for nothing, or be counted verbs" è ver- nothing worth. 6o in nor. Hence note. Vnfeand ddilrine rs worthleffe dctizrire. The (peech ofa /jar is nothing worth found docetrine is ofgreat value, it is worth thoufands. Dsvid preferr'd the word of God before thoufands of Gold,and filver;every holy truth is the word of God eyther formally or vertually, eyther in termes or by con- fequence. The Apoftle compares found dodtrine to things of greateft worth, even to Gold, flyer, and precious aeries and in the fame piace ( r Cor, 3. r2.) he compares unfound dodtrine or doctrine unlutab le to the foundation ( which is JeusChrift a. lone) to wood, hay, ftubble, which as they are things in their ewne nature unconfiderable & worthleffe in comparifon of Gold, filver, and precious (tones, fo, as to the bufines upon which he there treates (a fuitable building upon (krill ) they are altogether worthieffe. And if thole doftrines, which (becaufeof tome errour in them) are unfutable to the foundation, are to be accounted but wood, hay, and 'hobble, howworthleffe are thofe doc`lrines, which ( being altogether erroneous) are inconfiltent` with and q cite o- verthrow the foundation Such dotrines are worthy of nothing but a dunghill, being themfelves nothing but droffe and dung. What is that worth to us, which is ufeleffe to us ? How worthleffe then is that which is deftrue°live to us ? Every error is a Bable, a R r r r thing 673 1
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