I VERSE 2. 2,5z - 'Metz,' cy z. omnt- umELeretico- ru firperbia. ..lug.deGen. cent r.Manich. La, cap. 8. & Coafepta 2.c. up 6 7'beodor.Eccle. vici.PetneAred. Decret.I.I.Tat.6. feet.: 2.. Tertull. con. 4-3-& The goffiel1 is Chrifts orPnePoPer. .-_--. the inf.+ feverity of God, they are fornetirnesgiven over for the punithruentof their owneand others Ernes. Se- condly, within them (upon which the other is groun- ded) as a Pride of wit, joyned with ambition and im- patiencie of repulfe in vatic defires which bathancient- ly beetlethe ground of many heredes and Ichifines :No- thing hath ever beenmore dangerous to the Church of God than greatneffe ofparts unfanEttfied and unallaid with the love oftruth,and the Grace of Chrifi. Second- ly, b envie againfl the paines and eft/nation of thole that are faithful!. This was oneofthe originals ofArri- us his curled heretic , his envie againft Alexander the goodbilhop of Alexandria, as Theaderet reports.Third- ly,impatiencieof the fpiritualneffeand fimplicitie ofthe holy Scriptures, which. is ever joyned with the preclo- minancieof forme carnallluft, whereby theconfcience is notorroufly wailed or defiled. Hee that hath once put away a good confcience,and dothnot defire truth in or- der and refpeato that, that thereby his confcience may be illightened,purihed,and kept even towards God,will without much adoemake fhipvvracke ofhis faith, and change the truth for any thriving errour. And this im- patiencie of the Spirit of truth in the Scriptures is that which, curled*heretikes efold to reje&Come parts and to adde more to the Canon of facred Scriptures ' and in thefe dayes to fuper-adde traditions and apocryphall ac- cetlions thereunto ; and in thole which are pure and on all fides confeffed to ufe filch licentious and carnal! glof- fes, as may halethe. Scripture to the countenancing and conformitieoftheir lufts and prejudices rather than to the reciifying of their owne hearts by the Rule of ChrilL Secondly, men preach themfelves when they make themfelves the 04:61 of their preaching, when they preach felfe-dependencie and felfe-concurrencie,rnaking themfelves,as it were, joynt-faviours with Chnti filch was
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