426 C rt A P. 5. An Exiteìtia>s von the frrft VER,s,6, will needs bee ['doves in difobedience. Secondly, There is another fort, and they are much a- mongll men : Mungrill Chriftians,as I may terme them: 5 s kin. '7.33, as it is Paid of Samaritanes, They pared God,g arid f e, ued h s their idols; and as oflfrael, They (ware by the Lord, h. and 6y t_lcicorn. So tiefe make amixture in their Judge- ment and praice of prophanetfe and pieties of Chri- Ì fIlan Religion, and Anrichriflianfupeitlition : heare as Proteltants, belecue as Papitls : profdre as Chriltians, line as Heathen: talke as Samts, doe as Deuils : fo abo- minable, difobedient, and to encry goad works fo reprobate i are they. The Lord to Ifrael permitted no medieyes: Agar -I ment ofLinfey- woolfey, his people might not weare; nor' low their field, with eí2ifcellane : to teach (fay moil In- terpreters) how farre his people Mould bee from fuck medleyes in Religion. Anti though, I fay not, it is a perfefl rule to try truth of Religion and Grace, by far - theft difiance from Heathens pra &ife; for I. know there ;Rem.2.:4. are Tome principles of 1 the Lawwrittenin their hearts: yet this _1 am lure of; cuill things fhould bee fo much more deteflable unto vs, becaufe cuill men pra Life them; and for things good in their matter, Gods chil- dren fhould adde another fbrme and manner of perfor- mance, that they may be acceptable veto God. Shall needeto adde other reafons? Confider this; Firfi, Uwe be Gods, There is another k jirit in vi, than in the world;asdifferent in his operations, as exceeding in 'Rom. 8.x .. power. W e haue Paul telling vs.That a as many ad are the fairies of God, are led by his Spirit; and they are none of his,in whom that fpirrt workes, m that roles in the children ofdi /obedience. Secondly,We fhould confider what Peter bath. Chrif bath ranfomed and redeemed vs, not only from the guilt, n r Paola S. and punifhment of our finnes, but from your 11 vain con - uerfation taught by traditions ofour Fathers. They calk e idly,
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