Ae-t.i.5c. The befi men before Regeneration the world, that this comes not into their mindes, they confider it not. Secondly, Others with-hold it out of perverCe. neffe of opinion, their judgements are not right,they doe not thinke that fuch things ought to be done, they are not perfwaded that fuch an exaa ftri lneilè of holineffe is required, they thinke men may live af- ter another manner; and thus they doe imprifon the light; fo doe all Heretikes that beleeve lyes, and fo with- hold the Truth. Thirdly, there bee Come that falle in neither of there, they remember the Truth well enough, and they have no falfe opinions concerning it, bat they refit theTruth,as Stephen, 417.7.5 r. fpeakesof fome that refilled the Holy Gbofi, that is, when their opini- on's right, and they remember it too, but they fup- preffe it, they keepe it downe, they fuffer it not to come forth, out of their love to unrighteoufnefft:, to fame lutt wherein they are refolved to pleafe them {elves. La(tly,there be Tome that imprifon the Truth,not out of any of thefe three refpeets, but becaufe they mif -apply ir,men that know it,that have no perverfc heretical! opinions,thatlikewife doe not ref ll it,that make not warre againft it, that doe not rife in rebelli- on againfl it; but yet when they come to the point, out of falle diftin&tions and evafions which they have invented., they wreft the rule of Truth, they bend it too much to their o,vne'particular affe &ions, and practice; though they know the Truth in generali, yet in particulars they feeke to evade it, and (aile in applying ir. As for example, Men doe not thinke Sabbath -'
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=