Sibbes - Houston-Packer Collection BX9339.S5 B6 1641

96 . I fleep. . } SE 1.. Ill. one Chriftian underminech and rageth againft f Aug ~d hnu. another. Hum.aneinventionswerefo multiplied, I _ar.Eptfl:b: 1'.t9· that notlong afcerint.Attguftinestime, hecorn• Tolera ' tor • .:l .h h d' . ·f .h . l JuJ.eorum con- .plameu t at t e_ -con lt!on o t . e ewes was 1 Jino qa.1• more tolerable then tbeus;forthough the}ewes . 711 Q 74 ' wereunder burdens., yet they were fuch as were· impofed byGodhimfelfl,andnot hmmmeprefomp– #ons. But Gerfon many hundred yeares after in-, .si t11o tempo~e creafeth his complaint. If (0 LAugNjlfne) tho·u I - b.e~Ji,thtU.{O faidftthusinthytime whatwouldefl:thou have fapzer~r Aug,u· 'd 'f h h dll.l' cl' h . . {line) quidnofat 1 t ou .a u tve no~~w en_men(asatoy . ft_ra_rempeflate taketh themmthe head) Will mulnply burdens. ~~~iffiderl_ Gfie~- And he·was not afraid to fay,that the numherof L0n e vu. p1· 11.. · • {j h h 'f ritual. humanecon1~1tut1ons was .uc , t at 1 they were Site~erenturin obferved 'in rigour, the greateft pa,rt of the · foortgere,ma~· Ch h · Id b ·d d Th· ·h'l ll. h ima p4f't E"le· urc \VPU · e amne : us w t eu: t e _fi.ed4mnar.ctur. husbandman flept, the envtous man Satan flept not, bur few'd histeares. Thus Popery grewup bydegrees, till it overfpread the Church;whilft the watchmen that fbould ·have kept others awake, fell alleepthemfelves. And thus wean– fwer the Papifts, when they quarrell with us aboutthe beginning oftheir errours. They aske of us when fuch and fuch an herelie began : we anfwcr, that thofe rhat lhould have obfcrved them, were alleep. Popery is a myfl:ery that . crept into the Church by degrees under glori- . ous pretences. Their errours had modefi begin– n!ngs. W?dhipping of Images arofefrom refer-/ vmg the p1dures offn .ds, and after that were brought into the Church. Invocation of Saints! arofefrom fome oftheFathers figurative turning ·' · · . , of

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