Chap.7. aecorditsg to St M A r r H a vv. 281 ruled by the Phyfician,) And fr thiscaufe God delivers them up Eufebiu,, and to ftrong delufions, vile a edionsp bale and bcaftly pratifcs : as Luther. I an. committing and defending of Sodomy, and fuch like abhorred fw:r. owner filth, not oncetobe named amongft Chriftians. But force ha- rnanife/li bæ- ving put away a good confcience, as concerning faith have cbrt.re made fhipwrack, faith the Apoftle. A good confeience is as 1,:, it were a theft, wherein thedoctrine of faith is to be kept fafe : Mathem Paru which will quickly be loft, ifthechef( be once broken. And they (Peaking of the that turne from the truth, will prove abominable, difebedient, Courr of axdunto everygoodwork, reprobate. Rome, faith, Vctfe z8. gg oodtree cannot bring f orth evil f ruit &c. ] Here- Tour fetor ufque al nu. tikes then, and heterodoxes are not good hone.0 noes, as the vul- ber fumum' te. gar counts them. For their pretended holineffe, and counterfeit terrimum ex. humility, Col, 2.18. Were they humble men indeed, they would batahat, fool yecid to the truth difcovered unto them, and relinquir Tic.r,a},as, theirerroneous opinions. Sweockfeldiur could not be a good mar., as Bucholcerus judged him, fo long as he held fait his herefias, though he were much in the commendation ofa new life, and deteftation ofan evil : though himfif praid much, and lived fo- berly. Hebewitched many with theft magnificent words, and ttately tearms that he had much in his mouth, of Illumination,. Revelation, Deification: the inwardand .fJiritteall man, Ste. but in themean while, he denied the humane nature of Chrift to be acreature; and called thole that thought otherwife Creaturifts. Heaffirmed the Scripture to be but a deadletter: which they that held not, hecalled them Scripturiftr. Esithhe faid, was nothing elfe but Goddwelling in us, as Ofsander after him. In a word, Lev. i;.Æ4 he was a leper in hishead, and is therefore pronouncedutterly un- clean. An evil tree cannot bringforthgoadfruit. That popish in- cunt in mari- quifitour was quite out, that faid the Waldenfian Hæreticks may bas conapniri be difcerned by their manners and words : for they are model}, modal, true, grave, and full ofbrotherly love one towards another, but vefiburpen ranck hæretikes. This was fomewhat like Pliny, his dcfcription habc7r - ¡ed of the Chriftians in that Province, where he was governour, fides serum, of And hereI cannot omit, that when the B. ofrrarcefter exhorted fneorrWoWli. M. PhilpattheMartyr (being broughttohis anfwar, ) before he dj'pe run, began to (peak, to pray to God for grace. Nay, my Lord of 1hrGti n r, 'worcefter laidBonner, youdoenot well toexhort him to make gquæf poi t S I; any praier : for this is the thing they have a fingular pride in. For in this point they are much like to certain arrant haxetikes, of whom
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