172 'J:he tender Confcience. C~p.I2. implicite (wallowing oftheir pernicious Do.; - __ tl:rines ; .and thofe oftrntimes not the filly p 8 underlings, and the weaker people,but thofc 2 et· 2 ' 1 that are accounted godly' and had clean efca- . ped from them who Live in err.our; yea fame– times the choifefr wits , and greatefi parts have been in.tangled as far as any; as inay,be feen in that Irupofrer Mrmtanw, who gave out himfdf to be [ome ·Great 'One, no leffe then the Paraclet , far abov~ the Apoftles ; That his Doctrine and Gofpell did {:Ontain more excellent things then Chrifl and his _Go!pell : And fttch an overcoming tongue and carriage he had, that he took with moft; but that Tertullian, one of the.greater Lul'lli– naries of the world, a man of that eminency :tOr learning , and of that defert in the Church, whofe Champion and Advocatehe was againfi both Pagam and Perfecutor.r, that he, I fay , fhould be bewitched into thofe horrid a.ffertiouS,' to believe and affirme the 't'ertu:llittmtr fame of that Montanut, who ~an read 01· .MJntanum ·· hear it, but with aftonilhment. : Faracleru,.n: . Tenthly, thetender confdence mufr go f£pe nomt- • ,_ l!at, fPiri- • further; not onely fly what appeares evtll; tun1fanEium and try what appeares gocd., but take heed in Apofl~liJ of what he knowes lawful/: .He date not do fuif!e dicit, all that he may do. · . 11 1on ParapOb. You'l iay; This is Gmple TticenifJ, not c etunr, 4rr. . , racletum neceuary tender~~fs. , plura in . Montano dixijJe qu4m Chri{lus in EvctngeliG ' · nee plura t4ntdm fed t~i4i1~ meliora arqu~ majora. ,~ I An.
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