laciter fibi promitti arbitrantes, & de ipfi mercede fiaei defperarent. Wee are not, at leaf} ought not be, ignorant of Satcns wiles. See how cunningly he courtines errors intended to be conueied into the Church in this particular view his comming. r Approach it bath as neare as arerrour may haue to the truth taught by the Apot`Iles. ñyyrxe faith Pe- ter; appropingasat : ±:vísnxe, Infat,fay thelè false teachers : exin s, poffedit me, in the text of the Septuagint; change but a letter (pronunciation will hide that too) read fxTto-4, yea haue th3 full herefie of Arius; that Chrifi is a meere Creature. 2 Seemingly it tends as much as any thing to mortifi- cation and devotion; what more then the thought of Chrifls nigh approaching to iudgement ? be but a little erroneous about that Article he will be the firfl Thal broach it : how excellent is the regular vie of failing? rneanes of mortification : quickner of devotion; fall with opinion of fatisf a5li ion and merit, he prefers failing before Epicu- rifine, like thinke of Prayer,Contemplation, &c. Learne hence co keepe flrilly to the word of God; ad- mit not corruption of a word,a fyllable, a letter, be pre - tenfes or likely -hoods of profitable auaile neuer fo holy. Saint eAmbrofe obferues, that the little addition to the prohibition of the tree of knowledge, made, whither by Adam or Ette,gaue hint to the Diuell,to entangle the wo- man in opinion of Gods enuying them their good ? yee (hall not q eat thereof, is all the Lord faid; nor r touch it is the cautionate addition : how is theDiuell aduantaged to faflenthe opinion, that for force fpeciall good in that fruit, the Lord is fo flria in interdiEling it. Its reported of 1oab, that when his Teacher taught him to corrupt the text but in the vowelling, he flue him without ranfome; the charge was to deflroy zacher, the memoriall of eA'ma- lech; he read it zacheer, the males of .4malech : for this he flue him. The violent expreffions were irregular; elfe his zeale commendable. The charge is aria, not toadde, nor alter,nordiminifh;not to turn afide,no not to the right hand. V F R z r.ot.z.7 %. Vfe. Gen,z,17. r Gea.3,3,
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