Chap.7. according to S` 1L`I A T T x IVY. 277 (took themfelves in theaffumption) he that keepeth not the Saba bath is not ofGod. Wemay alfofafely reafon in like fort. Such and filch deny orqueflion principles, as the Jntitinitarians, A. tiers, Eutychians,and others not afew in the Primitive Church, fo pelter'dwith arch-heretikes,that it was then as ErafmM bath it) an ingenious thing to be a Chrifüian. Had thefe been of' God, they would have hearkened to his Word ( ?oh. 8.47.) which is Mibicerteitax. entius nurquaos aliui quays di- abolur erit,quia Arianur, ait Hiiarius:qui etta'a vocavit Conflawiurn, fisticbriftu.o. plain in principles, and comrnandcth to hate falte heterodox o- pinions, Pfal. z 19.104. and thofe that broach them, buzzing doubts in mens heads, Rom.16.17, Mao 5. That heretike con- futedby 7sanite, took an ungain courfe for his own fatisfaetion, whoconfeft that hehad fpent t wo and twenty years in trying re- ligions. He had been with 7eros , Arians; cAtahometztns, and fuchfefts ; that at length he might finde truth among them : which is (as he faith) View per avia gtearere, to leek truth by wandering thorow all forts oferrours. But truth, ', is divine, grounded upon theScriptures; wherein wehave a pool/ filmword, as 'Peter bath it, and felf- fitfficienr, faith Paul, fir infirttOion in a righteoufneffe, to make themanof(Jodperfefí, thorowly jÇrni/bed onto aTin, ;..6, 7; all goodworkr. So that it is impoflible Gods cleft fhould be final- tviat,a4,sy. ly deceived ( though fora tire they may he f arfully milcarried, as theyoung Prophet was by the old Bethelite, and Tarnabes by Peter) becaufc they are alltaasght of god; they have an unftion within them, the holy Ghoft that illighteneth both the Organ I'Ca ;o.zr. and theobjeft;. and fo teacheth them all things, thatthey under- Iob.7 17. Inh ftand theScriptures, and grow to a certainty, `Pfd. 19,7. Prov. s. :o. 1,4, All Chrifls Cheep arc rationall, and will not follow a flranger; lob iz.a8, loh.lo,,5. though they arc Pimple toevil, yet they are wife to that which is good. If they be ofany fiandingand worth their years (as we fay) they have a fillafaranceoftenderflanalioq, Colofi; a 2, andvtrf7, they are rooted and flablifhed in the fàith, and in the prefnttruth, 2 Pct.'.ta, fo that, though man or Angel fhould obj:6t againft it , yet they would not yeeld to him, C%al.1,8 9' t Cor,z.ul ; . Heb,g.ulc,, For hethat is fpirituall difcernet'n all thing: as having the nsinde of Chrift, a fiirit ofdifecrning, and fenfesexercifd to difference good itom,ia,a: from evil, beingable to give a reafonofthat hc believeth, r Pet. ;. Rum.a3.a.t a 5. to perform a reafona6le fervice, even the obedience offaith, whence iowethand folioweth refi to his foul, [er. 6.16. and a-. bundantconfolation, Coloff.a.z. Say hccannot anfwcr all the ca Tilsof an adverfary, yet hecan hold the conclufìon ; and though
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