S4 { Luci 1.93 tl Tim.E.to. ° Mat.S,19: * Gal. S.1 z. Y I0h.17.t7. Ga1.S.9. a 2Tim,3,E.7,18 7Jfe. C, H A P.2. An Expo,* on vpon t h sna d" V& R. I. heard the Judge himfel e pronounce him, e bleffed, whom, when bee comes, bee fliall fiade CO doing. 3.M atter of the caution. t.Generali; not faone m nod from your minde,&c. a. Particular; a ifthe comming were in/lant. 3. Item alto he glues àgainfl the meanes,Spirit, Word, Epif le. Compare if you please Pauls earnefnffe in his caution, with the quality or degree of aZ ainfi which its intended. The :naive Article of Chri(is comming is not called into clueft:on amongft this people : in the circumflance onely is the attempt to corrupt their iudgement;yet with what earneftneffe dothPaul pref e the caution ? As if it concerned vs, almosi vpon peril/ ofour foules , to preterite judgement found in matters of Faith, euen filch as but aloofe touch the Foundation. Hence is the charge to Timothie, conueyed in much paffion ; O Timothie t fer- ua depofitum; the fubflauce yea circumitances of Euange- licall dodtrine : our. Sauióur cryes woe to them thatubreake er teach breach of the minima mandatorum. And Paul wifbeth * cut o, f therm that troubled the Church , but with ax little leauuen in the Article ofluftification. z. Certainely every peece and parcell of Truth is pre- dot's., it tends in the degree to perfe t,Y to fan//ifae the vn- derftanding; leaft errours are maculæ,though not vul rere intelleíus. 2. And know you not,faith Saint Paul, z a little leauen ieauens the whole lumpe? fvef dro-ra JoOsvroc xi r'á),.ia ov¡.tßatvtt : fuchfpeech a fretsas a Gangrene, and will en- creafeto mare vngodli metre : of them which denyed not the Refurre6lion, but affirmed it pawl already. ' Fis ftrange liberty men take to thernfelues in Ar. ticles of inferiour Nature if in the fubtantialls of Faith , fach as wee call ftindamentalls , they keepe found ; indifferent they feeme, or tempered rather,to take itnpreffion of- inferiour errors : turbulent they are indeed that oppófe or contradict. So we hold Chats prefence in the Sacrament, What matters it for the
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