Chap.7. acco rdixa g to St M A T T 11 1: v v. 275 not fò, when Hierome complained that the whole world was tur_ , King. 10.,7, ned Arrian ? and Bafsl cryed out AnEcclefsas fleas prorfau dare- tngei utr er5at, liquit Don.ì: Lie ? Hach God utterly forfaken his Church? &c, ernz7rcrus eí= The love of many 'ball 11.7ax cold, but he that endureth to the end, le / f4- &c. It is but a He in the {insular that endureEth to the end, the ltu:ne biro fe .airs. an,,g. Hier. Many fall away from their former ftedfaffnes. Verfe 15. Beware offalfe Prophets which come to yeu &c. 7 This is another dangerous rock, that the leffe careful' may eafily (plit againft. Take heed rheref'ore,left whiles ye limn a fhelf,ye fall not into a whine-poole. By corrupt teachers Satan catcheth men, as a cunning fifner by one iih catcheth another, that he may feed upon both. Hecircuiteth the world, feeketh whom to devour, and usually beginnethwith violence and cruelty. If this take not, then heputsoff the flock ofa whofe, and makes his next encounter in fheeps-clothing. Nowwhat havock hehath made by this means offih'y les laden with lulls, who knowsnot ? The old Church was pelffed with falfe Prophets, ant.' a Pet.z,i. There Were falfe Prophets among the people, and there fhadibe falfe tea:hers among you, who privily fhall bring indamnableharefi:s and many [hall follow their pernicious waies. This was Peters prophecy : and Paul faith the fame, A/7.:o.3o. Grievous wolves {hall enter in among(t you (in fheeps-clothing you tnuat think) [peakingperverfe things (whiles they pervert the fcriptures to the defence of their own devices.) to draw away, difciples after them. The word fignifieth to pull them limmeal, as wolves Life to do the {beep they felze upon. A like expreilion there is, Desist. 13.13. where thefe naughty men are laid to thruifor drive away 2 tfng 17 2 t, folk from the true God, as feroboans is laid to have drivenIfrael freesfollotting the Lord. This they do, notfo much by cruelty as by craft, by force as by fraud a deceitful) workers St Paulcanes x Cur.a t,u, them, trrsnsfrrning them{ Ives into the./ipoflles of C.hrift, and 240 oninifcrsofrighteoufnef'e,and by good words and fair leeches 1"1 ". d.,ceive the hearts of the Pimple and overcrednlous This they have learned of the devil t`:at grand jugler,, whocan foon tranf form himfelf into an Angel of light. St john in his firít epiftle -tells us of many petty Antichrists, even then gon out; whopro- 1 Jo'zd 4.sò.. f llìng Chn{ts name, didyet oppofehis truth. And in his Reve,_ lation, that the beaít, ( which is the great Antichri{t) bath two Revs.:3,.it, horses like the lambs, but p.ak,t like the Dragon. The locusts al.(o ( which are his limbs and agents) have facesìike women, in, r finnativ_
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