96 C H A P.2. E.kpOItioilZ'pon the fecond V E R.3, VERS. 3. Let no man deceiue you by any meares, for that dayfljall not come, except there come afalling anvay firg,and, that man of Pinne b, reuealed, thefonne of perdition, He iteration of the Caueat ; where leafi he had not fpoken home enough, in the particulars mentioned, he enlargeth to all men, or meanes whatfocuer tending to feducement. The tearme expref{ìng the euill cautioned againfi is changed ; before let them not 'bake or waver you, and fo difquiet you; heere, not deceiue or miflead you from the a. of o+ov tract of truth. There is a diuellifh method , an ordinary progrefi in mifleading Cods people; I am decciued if `Paul ment not here to exprefíè ir. s The iudgement is vnfetled, and brought into wavering, by plaufible op- pugning the truths received. 2 Then followes naturally anxierie , and refileffe diflurbance of the Confcience, through feares and doubtings: no maruell, when the nyinde affoords it no certainty, whereout to frame the difcourfe for comfort. 3 In this café, worke the poore foule you may like waxe ; fitted it is to fafien on any thing true or falfe,that may but feeme to promife comfort :Sirs, AQs 16.3o. r what "ball l doe to befilmed ? q d. prefcribe what you will I am ready to entertaine, to execute it', fo be I may pur- chafe tranquilitie of..minde : happy is he,to whom,inthat tlob 5 , z 3 . cafe, God fends his t interpreter, that one of a thoufand to declare hi, Rithteoufnere. And a thoufand to one, but if We.v4e+*lrf he meet with an Heretique but palliating the cure, he lies qw- downe in his graue with that Herefie or f rperlition,which he there fir(} dranke in. Luc, t6,8, The Children of this world are reif r in their generation, thenthe Children of light. Thofe Loculls of the bottome- lefïè pit, haue ad vngucm, this Ne Bod'siet zits a>,av"ns 'En= tertaine their difcourfè, the firf} bout is, about Religion in generali, whither theirs or ours be the true : next whither the
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