.. 98 ,.i. , Apoc.11.11 z Pro.13.2.3 aHeb.ro.16,17. C H A P.2. An Expofation vponthefecond V E E.3. Let no man deceiue you by any meant';.) `Deceiue. 1. Se- duce, or our you of the way of truth, or miflead you to er rout. Thinke it fpoken to vs ; and a little more nearely concerning vs inafmuch as thcfe are the lafl tirnes;wherein the Seducer ofthe Brethretz,andsthe falfe Prophet, Yk ¿ow- ing their time but 'bon, bufily beflirre themfelues: that may bee one tnotiue. r Through remaines of ignorance and loue of noueltie, we are inclinable to errour, more then to Truth. z %Truth is precious, Errour dangerous. And if we 2 fnne willingly, after wee haue receiued the knowledge of the 7'ruth, what remaineth butfearefull ex- pedatien of vengeance and violent fire to deuoure. There is, t 7'emerarium. z There is Erroneum. 3 And there is Hæreticum. There is a graduali order between them. t Temerarius they call opinions or auouchments, pub- lifbed without fufficient euidence of Authoritie orReafon to fupport them; wherein, though perhaps there maybe Truth,yet there is not euidence fufficient to conuince,or to induce a wife man to beliefe or auouchment. exemp. That there is an Hierarchie of Angels, fo ordered as the Tfeud- Areopagite bath framed it, perhaps is true; yet of him that intrudes into what he bath not feeee, nor God reuca- led; may we not fay as Paul, b he is rafbly. pu 'fed vp in his foolifh mincie. That to euery man from his birth is aflìgned his ('u/lo.r Angelus, as Heerome and other learned opine, perhaps is true ; yet he,fhall be rafb, who fo peremptorily afferts it: forwhere is the euidence? 2 Erroneous addes toTemerarious apparent falfitie of opinion; fuch as ouerthrowes no foundation, razed/ no Article. exemp.that there are moe then two Sacraments of the New Teflamenr, whether three, or flue, or feuen, as opinions are varied, is not hereticall to avouch : yet aptly more then Temerarious ; no lefl'e then erroneous to thinke or affirme. 3 Heretical], denotes notorious falfitie in matter of necefrary faith ; efpecially when pertinacieappeares in the auouchment.E'xemp.Thac Chrifl is a meere creature,as A- rita
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