EpiftkofS.Paul to Titus. CHAP.3.3. by that law requiter!). A third fort ofmen as farre deceitied as the former , are fecure per- fans, who beeing baptized into the nameofChrift, as yet neuer came voto him, but plod on in all dirty and finnefùll wales ; withmany pre- tenfes vnderpropping themfelues, but neuer examiningdulywhether they be right or no. And becaufe the wales of this error are infinite, we (ball not doe amiffe in difcrying Tome few of them : and tracing them, we (hall not find them fo vnfrequented,but that infinite numbers of fecure men andwomen (hall be found in curryof them, who all of them areBill deceiued, and as they were borne, fo they liue in errour. Of chete I will mention flue forts,all in feuerall pathes, but neuer one in the right. a. Are fuper(litious perfons,who takevp a voluntary reliñion,which bath Tome !hew of wifèdome andhumbleneffeof miede; worfhippe God they thinke they doe, but it is vncommanded , deuout they are , but re- fill the truth , as thofe detour women which refsfted`Paul. What a num- ber ofPopifh minded menwander after vanity, they looke at antiqui- tie, at confent of numbers and multitudes of men, who are ready i- nough to betakethem to their owne inuentions. Hence is it that you (hall ouertake hundreths that are let forward on their Pilgrimages: and fee thoufands who are fetdowne or kneeling before their idols; be- fides numbers that are wilful' prifoners,cheined in their own bands and wicked vowel of pouertic, tingle life, abtlinence , and fuch lake. And what ground haue they for all this ? they haue learned the proteftation ofthe /ewes, Wewill doe whatfoeuergoeth out ofour owne month ,we will offer to the Queeneofbearien ae we háuedone/menwe, our Far hers,asir Princes, and ourpeople;for then wehadtoreofall things ,and every thing was cheape. Nay,as though the truth wereimpropriate veto them, they are fo zea- lous in their way,that if Peter or Paul fhould (land againfi their traditi- ons, they would thinke they did Godgood feruice to kill them , as Chrift foreprophecied: a pregnant marke of a Popifh and Arrtichriflian fpirit, to bare and caf(out the brethrenfor the nameofC'brifl, andyet to.fay,Let God beglorified;yet fir they downe here moil fecurelyas in a good way,wher. as alas,all is deceit:this beeing the way which isgood in 4 mansewneeses, but the iffues ofiì are death: analothe en&of it is foreprophecied in theplace of leremie alleadged, that theLord will watchover fuchperlons for e- uill and not for good,and confumethem with (word and famine, and fundrydeliru6lions. a Sort are general] or Catholike Proteflants,ofall, any,or no religi- on; thefe content themfelues with the lewes to fay, theTemple, t,óe Temple, the Coaepant, abratiatns feed, e5'c.. fo chete finde a religion ellablifb- 6os III Fine fors of men in feuerall paths,andne tier one in the right. r fol.,.s;. AR.r;.So. Ier,4}.ri. Ioh.i6.3¡ Efa,66.5. Prou.lq.v.ud 16. 3.35. 3 Ie.7,4 r. Matth.3.g.
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