CHAP.2, Epfle to the Theffalonians. ' .áïuf`>. l r: V E R.8. 139 entie of Errour ; within a day, its as old as Truth, Renca led to man : For the diuell was a lyar, a man - (layer from the beginning; thinke not as theManichees and Archon - tici, of his ovine being; but of mans exifience, intentionali- ter, of his being finfull , aaually. And Papifis much dif= aduantaged themfelues , when they made fathers errours th'higheff originali of their Prefcription. They are but yeflerdaies men in comparifon to Simon o 21/14go , and fuch like ccatanei of Apoffles. Eelieue vs no more, if wee fuite them not with Patriarches, fuch as Teretsllian calls Philofophers,whofe heads were Gray, long ere their fauo. ring fathers were borne : but branded , I confeffe, for he- retical' prauitie. I vrilh our people fo wife as to make Scriptures the Rule of their faith ; to thinke of errours , flrengthened by cuflome neuer fó ancient, as Cypriax: Confssetudo fine veritate, vetaflas errorù ell. ()mil he which lets will let, vntill bee be taken out of the way. Will let, is not found in th'originall, but the çxxsi.4.ic, is frequent, as Mr. Beza noteth; and without ftrayning fupplyed : fee 2. Cor. a < 6, e:7' 2. 10. & 5.13 Th'other draines of Mafler Reza and other Neotericks, about the varied fignification of xaTiyHV, as impertinent, I omit. Cut tlQx yÉVUTat : that is, tilt he be remoued at d taken away : compare I. Car. 5. 2. and Col. 2. 14. Whither remoued ? hath been aireadie treated. And then (hall that wicked be reuealed t then immediatly, vt fupra: His Epithite def rues our notice, and will leade vs by the hand where to finde him. ó : that is, that lawlefre one, whom no lawes of God or man may keepe within bounds of duetie. Grattan in his Decrees forts vs with varietie of !awes of God and man. Publique, pri- uate; poftiue, ofNature,andNations,Cuflomaric; writ- ten, vnwritten ; Ciuül, Canonical!. Of them all,the con - clufion after fume debate is ; they are fubieil to `Popes Inter - pretation, difpenfation : many to abrogation. Hee is the afpi- rituall man who indget h all t bings,all men him felfs fudged of none; and though he fend, Flores animaram Cirrus ad T'ar- tara, no man may dare fay; Why doeft thou fo : See f apra, citata Cor,a. 15.
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