86 I CHAP .2. dln Expofition vponthefecond V E x,2. VERB. 2. That yee bee notfoone fhak¿en in minde, or bee troubled, nei- ther by fpirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from vr, as that the day ofChrifl is at hand. mHe greater matter of the Caueat. eaxeUOnvas âoo I rs voos, to bee mooned fiomyour minde. It likes Ma- fler Reza bet/ to interpret after the proper fignificati- on of vxc ; In his apprehenfion it founds, putting befide their minde or right wits ; as if force dementia fhould feize them when once they gaue way to vnfound do- ¿trine; inflances hee gives many in antient and lat- ter Heretickes, and their Sectaries : fo inchanted and madded when once throughly pofleffed with errour, that except furious obílinacie be Reafon, there feemed left nothing of Reafonable creatures in them. Indeed Saint 'Paul Flickes not to impute d demencie to (educed Çalathi- ans, and conceits a kinde of Witchcraft and prong in- chantment to poífeffe them. To Timothie mentioning fuch, hee faith they e xarfgaQ(4vos 761 140 ; In his loffe, imputes no leffe then ávo:av,amentiam, madne% or loffe of wits vnto them. Gods Iudgements are fometimes open, fometimes fe- cret, alwaies iufl : firong was the infatuation call vpon Gentiles for f detayning truth naturali in vnrighteou fne(Je. If Chriflians to whom the light of Gods glorious Gofpel, hath fhined, yet grow to maintaine errors, bee firicken with blindneffe of minde, pofleffed with a jpirit of giddi- neffe, I wonder not. But ftngularity is dangerous, the next fiep to madnef e. Minde it, Brethren, you that itch after nouelties, leaíl,you loofe your mindes, when once that fpi- ritus veriginis fpoken of in the Prophet, hath poffeffed you. But why not vas Tropically for yvw/.n? Sentence or Iudgement: the trope is not infrequent. Wee haue g the minde ofChriTI; that is, his fentence and judgement by hirnfelfe
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