Calvin Com. in loc Qu. 1. How cometh it to passe that there should be such Doctrines held forth Ans. 1. By Gods providential and effectual Permission Efficax Permissio Melanct. So disposing hereof for divers ends 1. The manifestation of his own power 2. For the honour of Truth 3. For the manifesting of such as are approved Triticum non rapit ventus nec arborem solida radice fundatam procella subvertit Inanes paleae tempestate jactantur invalidae arbores turbinis incursione evertuntur Cyprian do Unitate Ecclesiae Sic probantur fideles sic perfidi deteguntur sic et ante judicii diem hîc quoque jam justorum et injustorum animae dividuntur et à frumento paleae separantur Cyprian ibid. 4. The Just Condemnation of others Of false Teachers themselves Of those that hearken to them A. 2. This is Satans doing A. 3. This is mans own work Natural Corruption the Mother of false doctrines conceiving and breeding them False doctrines brought forth by 1. Hypocrisie 2. Ambition Vide Grotium Bezam ad loc 3. Covetousnesse False doctrines propagated and multiplyed through the negligence of Ministers and Magistrates Qu. 2. How Christians come to be carried about with false doctrines A. The general Resolution 1. Through Gods righteous Judgment 2. Satans subtlety 3. Mens own Corruption A more particular Resolution fetched from 3. Heads 1. From the Teachers of these doctrines In whom consider 1. Their Activity 2. Their Subtlety Whereby they deceive those that hearken to them Which they do divers wayes 1. By Fallacious Arguments taken from 1. Scripture 2. Reason 3. Custome Bishop Iewel 's Apolog. Pretended Custome a taking Argument with many 2. Pretended Revelations 3. Feigned Miracles Simon Magus deceiving the people thereby till he was arrested by Divine vengeance Antichristian Lying Wonders Other Artifices made use of by false Teachers A Glosse set upon their Doctrines 2. A Vizour put upon their own faces Scribes and Pharisees pretenders to special Sanctity Therein imitated by many false Tea chers As in the Church of Rome So among our selves Two other Qualifications promoting this Seduction 1. Learning 2. Piety From the Hearers and Receivers of these Doctrines who 1. It may be are Chaffe 1. In regard of their natural Levity 2. Or spiritual Vanity 2. They may be Children The case of many in the present Times 3. They may be Blinded 1. Through Blind Zeal 2. Fear 3. Covetousnesse By-respects promoting the embracing of Errours 3. The third Head Taken from the Doctrines themselves 1. It may be they are New and strange Novelty and strangenesse taking Arguments 2. It may be they gratifie the flesh 3. It may be they are consonant to Reason 4. It may be they have a shew of Piety Applic. A just Lamentation over the present state of the Church in this Nation Use 2. A double Caveat to Christians Caveat 1. Be not offended No Reason why Christians should be offended at this 1. This is no other then what hath been 2. No other then what is foretold shall and must be Caveat 2. Take heed of being seduced Arg. 1. For your Ministers sakes Peoples Apostasie the Ministers losse Their Grief Ministers spiritual Parents The Ministers Losse and grief reflecting upon the People Arg. 2. Christians to beware of this for their own sakes Beza Gr. Annot. Errours not all alike dangerous in themselves Yet all dangerous in the Consequence Soul-unsettlednesse in Religion an undoing thing Beza Gr. Annot Arg. 3. For the Churches sake 1. Not despising it Chrysostome Augustine Grotius ad loc Fuller in miscellan Calvin ad loc Beza Gr. Annot in 1 Cor. 11. 18. Pareus ibid. in vers 22. Camero in Praelect de Ecclesiam adversus Bellaminum et Fulleâ—â—â— fusè To despise the Church no small contempt 2. Not shaming it Divers and strange Doctrines tolerated a shame to the Church Arg. 4. For Religions sake Arg. 5. For Christ his sake Q. 1. Preservatives against this spiritual Vertigo A. Direct 1. Christians not to be Over-confident of themselves 1. Not of their own strength Christians alwayes to fear themselves Committing their soules to a Divine Custody Taking hold of their Fathers hand 2. Nor of their own Judgment Particularly in expounding of Scriptures Specially being ignorant unlearned who are apt to pervert it Strange perverting of Scripture in the present Times A Taste of it in the Sect of Quakers Gipsies in Religion See the perfect Pharisee set forth by the Ministers of New-Castle Texts perverted against Ministers Texts perverted against Magistrates Direct 2. Christians not to be over-Credulous so as to take Doctrines upon Trust. 1. Not from any one singular person Pretended infallibility not to be regarded Nor yet pretended Credentials Spirit Word or Letter Spirits to be tryed Merchandizing Spirits 2. Not from any Community or Society of men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Euseb. Histor. Eccl. lib. 5. cap. 13. Direct 3. Take heed of coming in the winds way Caveat 1. Take heed of High things 1. High thoughts 2. High Speculations Cavat 2. Take heed of Eddie winds Conventicles truly so called Q. May we not try all things A. The Apostles sense expounded The itching ear a dangerous disease Specially in those that are unlearned and unstable Direct 4. Take heed of beginning to turn Object We are going up the Hill Answ. The common Plea of all Sects and Secturies 4. Particular Caveats under this generall direction Caveat 1. Take heed of turning from Jesus Christ to any thing else From Christ to Moses An unsound and dangerous Maxime To fall from Christ a desperate declension A needful Caveat in regard of the present Times See the perfect Pharisee Pos. 7 8 9 10. Caveat 2. Take heed of turning from the Church The Church a Mountain Paramount An unwarrantable and dangerous Separation Donatists and Anabaptists parallelled Maximè quod à Traditoribus Divinarum Scripturarum fuerit Ordinatus August de Haeresibus Tanquam Ecclesia Christi de toto orbe perierit ubi futura promissa est atque in Africâ et Donati parte remanserit in aliis terrarum partibus quasi contagione communionis extincta August ibid. Diu perstitit haec Haeresis etc. Posteà tamen jugulata est atque acquieverat nisi miseri et insani Anabaptistae eam ab inferis hoc nostro seculo revocâsâ—ent Danaeus in Augustin de Haeresib Cap. 69. Audent rebaptizare Cathol cos August de Haeresib Separation a Mother-Error Vide Augustin de Haeresib Danaeum cap. 69. A practice observable in the Donatists Haereticos negant ullo modo Magistratûs quanquam pii et fidelis autoritate coercendos castigandos vel comprimendos ne eorum Venenum latiùs setpat vel ut ipsi Haeretici resipiscant Error 3. Danaeus ubi suprà Obvios sibi quosque in plateis et agris homines a suis erroribus alienâ—s caedunt et jugulant furiose Danaeus ibid. Error 7. The Church the Pillar and ground of truth how The Church Gods Park
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE Spirituall Vertigo OR TURNING SICKNESSE OF Soul-Unsettlednesse IN Matters of Religious Concernment The Nature of it opened the Causes assigned the Danger discovered and Remedy prescribed As it was lately delivered to the Church of God at Great YARMOUTH By JOHN BRINSLEY Minister of the Gospel there And now presented unto a Publick View as a needful Antidote against the Infection of those divers and strange Doctrines wherewith in these unsettled Times many possibly well-meaning but unwary and unstable soules are carried about to the great disquietment of the Church the dishonour and prejudice of Gods true Religion the hazarding of others and eminent indangering of their own Soules Jam. 1. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eph. 4. 14. That we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro c. Rom. 16. 17. Now I beseech you Brethren mark them which cause Divisions and Offences c. London Printed for Tho. Newberry and are to be sold at his Shop in Corn-hill near the Royal Exchange 1655. TO All the Fixed STARS in Englands Horizon Whether Ministers or others who in these loose and unsettled times do yet through Grace remain stable as to matters of Religious concerncernment Specially those in the Town of Great YARMOUTH Highly and deservedly honoured in the Lord YOu see what Matters they are I have here to deal with Not Civill but Religious The former of these I leave to the wise Providence of that Most High who ruleth in the Kingdome of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will Dan. 4. 17. The latter I look upon as properly within the Sphere of my sacred function And being so I have taken occasion to deal therewith according to the exigence of the present Times which being themselves unstable are apt to render those that live in them like unto themselves as the Ship doth the Passengers that are imbarked in it Hence is it that vertiginous distempers as to a secondary cause of them are grown so Epidemical in this our Climate at this day that in this our Heaven so the Church is frequently stiled in the Book of Revelations there should be so many Planets wandring Stars it is St. Jude's word Jude 13. to be seen in every quarter of it so many every where carried about with divers and strange doctrines to the no small disquietment of the Church the high dishonour and great prejudice of Gods true Religion with the eminent indangering of their own soules That you are not in this number this you owe to that Grace by which the Heart of man is established And that you may not be so is my design in this Treatise wherein I have according to my weak skill done or at least endeavoured to do what becometh a spiritual Physician Opened the Nature assigned the Causes discovered the Danger of and prescribed a Remedy proper and Soveraign for this Malady And these my good Intentions I do here present to a publick view desiring what I do not wholly despair of that they may be in some degree useful and successfull if not for the reclaiming of those who are already turned aside from the way of truth yet for the preventing of the like deviations in others Which that they may be let them not want the additional Ingredient of your Prayers For which I shall rest Yours obliged to serve you in the Gospel of Jesus Christ Ioh. Brinsley Yarmouth March 19. 1654. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE Spirituall VERTIGO OR TURNING SICKNESSE OF SOUL-UNSETTLEDNESSE IN Matters of Religious concernment Heb. 13. 9. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace c. IT is not for nothing that the Prophets the Ministers of God in the Language of the Old Testament are sometimes called by the name of Watchmen Son of Man I have made thee a Watchman saith the Lord to his Prophet Ezekiel Ezek. 3. 17. What the Watchmans Office is it is not unknown viz. to stand upon the Watch-Tower to look out for and give warning of approaching dangers or Enemies And such is the office of the Ministers of God Thus to watch for the soules of men which is their proper work as the 17. verse of this Chapter sets it forth Obey them that have the oversight over you c. for they watch for your soules to look out and descry what spiritual dangers do threaten them and to give timely warning of them Son of man saith the Lord to that Prophet in the place forecited Ezek. 3. 17. I have made thee a Watchman unto the house of Israel therefore hear the Word at my mouth and give them warning This did that Apostle who is commonly reputed the Penman of this Epistle the Apostle St. Paul He made this his work to warn others So he tells the Elders of Ephesus at Miletum propounding himself unto them as to all other Ministers of the Gospel as a pattern for their imitation Act. 20. 31. Remember saith he that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with teares And writing to his Colossians he inculcates the same telling them how this was one thing which he ever had an eye at in his preaching of Christ Whom we preach saith he warning every man Col. 1. 28. And this is the design which my self have upon you at the present God having by his Providence and Ordinance set me as a Watchman in this place my desire is to approve my self faithful in discharging that trust committed unto me by giving a seasonable warning unto you of that which may indanger your soules I presume there are few or none of you but take notice of a flood of dangerous and soul-destroying errors which in these unsettled times have broke in upon the Church of God in this Nation Some of which have already entred in at these gates and others in all likelihood are treading upon their heeles ready every day to follow them Now upon this account it is that I have singled forth this portion of Scripture wherein the Apostle giveth the like Caveat to his Hebrewes that I intend to you forewarning them of the like danger willing them to beware of it Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines Then seconding and backing that Caution that Admonition with a Reason of it wherein also he comprehends an Antidote or Remedy against it For it is a good thing that the heart be established with Grace These are the Parts of the Text which by Gods assistance I shall handle distinctly beginning with the first the Precaution or Admonition Be not carried about with divers and strange Doctrines Wherein for the better handling of the words we may take notice of two things The Affect or Malady and the Ground or Cause of it The Affect or Malady a spiritual Vertigo or Giddinesse Be not carried about The Ground or Cause of it Divers and
allude in the Text whilest he giveth this Caveat to his Hebrews that they should not be thus carried about Be not carried about as Wheeles as Chaffe as Waves as Clouds And thus I have shewen you the Affect or Malady it self Spiritual Unsettlednesse Come we in the next place to take notice of the Ground or Cause of it which we have in the words following With divers and strange Doctrines Here is the wind which carrieth about these Waves these clouds A wind of Doctrine So the Apostle calleth it in that place to which I have had and shall have frequent recourse Eph. 4. 14. Be not carried about with every wind of Doctrine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Every wind An elegant Metaphor saith Calvin upon it fitly expressing the nature of all those doctrines of men as the Apostle calleth all false doctrines Col. 2. 22. which draw men aside from the simplicity of the Gospel whatever they may seem to be what noise soever they may make in the eares of those that hearken to them and how prevalent soever they may be with them yet they are but wind vain and empty speculations And concerning this wind it is that our Apostle here as elsewhere warneth Christians that they should take heed of being carried about with it Hence is that natural disease in the Head which we call a Vertigo the Turning Sicknesse or Giddinesse it is caused by wind by flatulent vapours affecting the Brain And from a like cause many times is this spiritual Vertigo the unsetlednesse of Christians in the matters of God They are turned and carried about with this wind of Doctrine But what Doctrine That we have here set forth by a twofold Epithet Divers and strange Doctrines Two words as Lapidee noteth upon them fitly agreeing to False and Hereticall doctrines Which are 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Various divers So they may be said to be in as much as they differ alwayes from the truth and often from themselves 1. Alwaies from the Truth Being no other but Lyes So Paul calleth Heretical doctrine 2 Thess. 2. 11. a Lye And speaking of Heretical Teachers he calleth them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 teachers of lyes 2 Tim. 4. 2. And so Divers Truth as Aquinas notes upon the Text is but one being like the Center Errors are many like the several points of the Circumference which as they all differ from the Center so one from another And so do Errors all differing from the truth which is but one they differ betwixt themselves 2. Yea and often differ from themselves Such is the guize of Hereticks having no sure ground to stand upon they are often flitting running from one Error to another they do not sibi constare but are often inconsistent with themselves self-contradicting saying and unsaying with the same breath denying and destroying that by Consequence which positively they assert and maintain Thus false doctrines are said to be Divers And 2. Strange 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So tearmed again in a like double respect Being strange to the Scriptures and strange to the Church 1. To the Scriptures not to be found in the Canon of the Old or New Testament Not known to Christ or his Apostles Were they alive again they would be strange to them They preached no such doctrine They are no other but humane Inventions Commandments and Doctrines of men as the Apostle calleth them in the place forecited Col. 2. 22. not delivered by God in his Word but invented by men And being so they may upon that account well be called strange having no acquaintance with the Scriptures And secondly strange to the Church Such Doctrines as the true Church either never heard of or at least never owned never acknowledged New Doctrines Such was Paul's doctrine to those Athenian Philosophers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as they call it A new doctrine Act. 17. 19. whereupon they charge him to be a setter up of strange gods vers 18. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Strange deities and a bringer of strange things to their eares vers 20. Strange because new And such are Heresies unto the true Catholick Church of God either not known to it or not known by it And upon that account may well be called strange Now concerning such doctrine it is that the Apostle here giveth this Caveat to his Hebrewes that they should take heed of being seduced of being carried about with them Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines A useful a needful Admonition So it was to the Church at that time when the Apostle gave it And that in a twofold regard 1. In regard that some such doctrines were then abroad 2. Some Christians were then carried about with those doctrines Both which are insinuated in the Text. And so it was 1. Some such Doctrines were then abroad in the world Divers and strange doctrines Such was that doctrine which was then preached by the false Apostles whose design was to make a mixture of the Law and Gospel to joyn them both together pressing the Observation of the Mosaical Law not onely the Moral but Ceremonial Law as necessary to Justification and salvation This did some and many in Paul's time who placed a great part of Religion in Ceremonial Observances Such were those Ordinances which he speaketh of Col. 2. 21. where he blameth his Colossians for dogmatizing for complying with the false Apostles in subjecting themselves to them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Why are ye subject How is it that ye suffer your selves to be so inthralled unto such doctrinal Errors and superstitious Rites and Observances viz. Touch not taste not handle not These were the prescriptions and injunctions of those false Teachers who by crying up these Ceremonial Rites corrupted the minds of those that would hearken to them from the simplicity that was in Christ as he speaketh 2 Cor. 11. 3. drawing off the hearts of Christians from looking onely unto Christ and the free grace of God in him for Justification and Salvation And this was one of those doctrines those divers and strange Doctrines which our Apostle here in the Text hath an eye at So much we may collect from the latter Clause of the verse where he saith It is good that the heart be established with grace not with meats i. e. Not with the choice of meats and drinks using of some as clean abstaining from others as unclean under which by a Synecdoche he comprehendeth all other Ceremonial observances as I shall shew you hereafter This did some of the Teachers of those Times presse upon Christians therein teaching them a Doctrine diverse from and contrary to that which Paul had before taught which was that the Kingdome of God is not meat and drink Rom. 14. 17. The Kingdome of Christ under the Gospel did not consist in such outward observations And besides this there were at that time sundry other Doctrines abroad
of like nature Divers and strange Doctrines Such were those which Saint Iude speaketh of verse 4. of his Epistle Iude 4. There are certain men saith he speaking of false Teachers crept in unawares 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 subrepserunt subintroierunt they came in closely and covertly coming under-ground as Pioners do who sometimes enter a City by a Mine while the guard is standing upon the Walls So did they insinuate themselves into the Church coming both unlooked for and unsent Not expected or suspected by the Church nor yet sent by God but taking the Ministery upon them of their own heads as our New Annotation paraphraseth upon that word And so entring what did they why among other things they turned the grace of God into Lasciviousnesse and denyed the only Lord God and Saviour Iesus Christ. Both these they did and that as by their practice so by their Preaching Under a pretence of crying up Gospel-liberty and advancing the free grace of God in the pardoning of sin and justifying of sinners they set open a wide door to all kind of sensuality So turning Evangelical Liberty into Carnal Licentiousnesse And they denyed the onely Lord God and their Saviour Iesus Christ Such St. Peter had foretold of 2 Pet. 2. 1. But there were false Prophets among the people saith he meaning the people of Israel under the Old Testament even as there shall be false Teachers among you you Christians under the New who privily shall bring in damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them And what he foretelleth St. Iude having an eye to that Prophecy as he hath almost throughout his whole Epistle unto that second Epistle of St. Peter the one being looked upon but as a kind of abstract and summary of the other shewes how even in his time it was come to passe Such false and Heretical Teachers then there were who denyed the Lord that bought them denyed the onely Lord God and their Saviour Iesus Christ denyed Christ to be God who having paid a price in it self sufficient for them and being their Master and Saviour by an outward profession they ought to have owned him But they denyed him And that as by their deeds so by their doctrines This among others did thnt Simon of whom we read Act. 8. who was in his time and still is famous or rather Infamous for three things his Sorcery his Simonie his Heresie His Sorcery for which he was admired by the people who cryed him up for little lesse then a God This man say they is the great power of God vers 10. and was afterwards called for distinctions sake by the name of Simon Magus Simon the Magician His Simonie in offering money to purchase the Holy Ghost the extraordinary and miraculous gifts of it from the Apostles vers 18. from whence it is that that Sin for such a sin still there is what ever the present Times think of it beareth his name being called Simonie And lastly his Heresie for which he is no lesse famous in Ecclesiastical then for those two other in Sacred story He being the Father of Hereticks as he is called the first Apostate under the Gospel who broached and maintained divers Blasphemies and damnable Opinions Among other denying the Trinity and denying any other Christ but himself affirming himself to be the true God as afterwards he was accounted at Rome where through the just Judgment of God giving them up to that strong delusion that they should believe a lye they who who in the dayes of Tiberius would not acknowledge the Divinity of Christ yet soon after in the dayes of Claudius erected a Statue to this Impostor with this blasphemous Inscription Simoni Deo Sancto To Simon the Holy God Thus did he bewitch the people as by his Sorcery so by his Heresie Wherein he being the Ring-leader wanted no followers Divers there were who within a few years after when he was gone off from the Stage stept up in his room owning most of his opinions and adding to them many other no lesse monstrous and absurd Such was Menander and Ebion and Cerinthus The last of which was that Heretick with whom St. Iohn is said to have refused to enter into the same Bath and who is the reputed Father the first Authour of the Millenary opinion concerning the temporal Kingdome of Christ upon earth after the Resurrection wherein his Subjects should live in the full enjoyment of all kind of carnal and sensual pleasures and contentments These and some other Hereticks and Heresies did the first age bring forth Among whom St. Paul taketh notice of two Hymeneus and Philetus by name who among other Errours as Errour seldome goeth alone denyed the Resurrection of the Body as Simon Magus is said to have done before them saying That the Resurrection was past already 2 Tim. 2. 17. acknowledging as is probable no other Resurrection but that of the Soul or of the Church in the Renovation the new state of it under the Gospel Besides these St. Iohn maketh mention of another Sect notorious in his time the Sect of the Nicolaitans so called from Nicolas one of the seven Deacons mentioned Act. 7. the reputed Father of them whether justly or no is a question This he doth once and again in that one Chapter Revel 2. First telling the Church of Ephesus to her deserved commendation that she hated the deeds of the Nicolaitans ver 6. then charging it upon the Church of Pergamus as no small blemish to her that she had them some of her Members which held the doctrine of the Nicolaitans ver 15 what that doctrine was Scripture is silent but Ecclesiastical Histories with one consent tell us it was the renouncing of a Conjugall propriety betwixt man and wife and so allowing a promiscuous community at which door brake in many other horrid enormities not fit to be named amongst Christians To them soon after succeeded that impure and infamous brood of the Gnosticks who were indeed the same Sect under a divers name calling themselves by that name Gnosticks from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth knowledge which they of that Sect pretended to above all others who had either gone before them or were contemporaries with them Such high thoughts had they of themselves as for the most part Hereticks are not wanting in that way and thereupon gave themselves that proud title Whereas in truth those other stiles were far more proper which as Augustine tells us were given them by others who called them Borboritae or Coenosi Men given over to wallow in the mire and filth of all kind of abominable uncleannesse Such was their practice and such was their Doctrine I might here yet go on and following the track of Ecclesiastical History shew you what a flood of like monstrous errours after these broke in upon the Church The Golden Age of the Apostles and Evangelists being spent then how did false Teachers croud in
not to be carried away with Errours let them not lean too much upon their own Armes trust too much to their own Judgments By this means many have been deceived in matters of the world more in the matters of God And therefore beware of this Self-confidence also And that as in other things so in interpreting and expounding of Scriptures We know what the Apostle St. Peter tells us 2 Pet. 1. 20. where he layeth down this as a Praecognitum a thing which he would have all those who meddle with Prophetical Scriptures to take notice of Know this first saith he that no Prophecie of the Scripture is of any private interpretation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 propriae Explicationis of a mans own expounding for a man to interpret of his own head according to his mind without consulting with others with God with Scriptures with other men with God having recourse to him by Prayer with Scriptures comparing one place with another with other men consulting with their Wrttings conferring with their Persons This is the ordinary way for expounding of Prophetical Scriptures And the like we may say of all other Texts specially such as have any degree of obscurity in them And therefore let all Christians take heed how they go about to expound them that therein they do not go upon their own heads lean too much to their own Understandings Which as it concerneth all so more specially those that are ignorant and unlearned who leaning to their own too often prejudiced understanding in interpreting of Scripture may and do sometimes make strange work of it wresting it Thus in Peters time dealt some by Paul's Epistles as also by other Scriptures as himself observes 2 Pet. 3. 16. In which saith he speaking of those Epistles there are somethings hard to be understood viz. by reason of the sublimity the height of the matter and some particular expressions in the phrase which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest as they do also the other Scriptures to their own destruction This did those kind of men then And the like they are still apt to do Being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 men void and destitute not onely of Humane Learning which is what ever any who have either little acquaintance with it or affection to it may think and speak of it no small help to the right interpreting and understanding of Scripture but also of Divine having little acquaintance with the mind of God revealed in his Word not having their senses the faculties of their soules Understandings and Judgments exercised to discern good and evil as the Apostle describeth the growen Christian Heb. 5. last to discern betwixt truth and falshood they by this means medling with the Interpretation of Scripture and trusting to their own Judgments wrest it torment it set it upon the rack as I shewed you before the word there used signifieth A truth I think never more verified in any age or part of the world then it is at this day in this Nation Wherein how do these Sacred Records in this time suffer being thus wrested thus tortured by many different sects like so many wild horses drawing at the severall quarters of man every one endeavouring to force them and bring them over to their own party to vote with them and speak for them To which end some of them put such senses upon them as the world before never heard of nor any sober and unprejudiced spirit would ever have dreamed of It were an easie matter here to give you some instances in this kind Take only a taste of them from that poor illiterate act the noise whereof hath of late alarummed these Quarters which gave me the first occasion to fall upon this subject those Gipsies in Religion so I called them with some others before and know not how more fitly to tearm them vulgarly known by the name of Quakers Being as it seemeth every way such as Saint Peter there describeth unlearned and unstable what a nose of wax do they make of the Scriptures which having a low and contemptible esteem of they handle accordingly Bear with me a little if I take up a few of those fragments which have fallen from some of them Having all of them an evill eye upon those two standing Ordinances of God Magistracie and Ministery which diverse look upon as the two witnesses spoken of Rev. 11. 3. and some suppose to be now about to be slain v. 7. and having a design as much as in them is to slay them to take them out of the way or at least to render them contemptible in the eyes of the people how do they hale in Scriptures to their â—id not sparing to offer violence to them to inforce them to speak that which neither the Spirit of God nor yet any man besides themselves ever thought of As for instance Whereas the Prophet Ieremy speaking of the false Prophets that were in Israel saith that the Priests did bear rule by their meanes Jer. 5. last meaning that they strengthened themselves by the league which they had with the Prophets and so were confirmed in their ambitious courses and corrupt carriages they envying the Ministers of God that double honour which the Apostle 1 Tim. 5. 17. saith those which rule well and specially they which labour in the Word and Doctrine are worthy of viz. Countenance and Maintenance and not willing to allow them either the one or the other but being desirous to muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn and willing that they which serve at the Altar should live upon the Ayr some of them and I suppose none of the meanest would have thereby understood their temporal subsistence The Priests bear rule by their means i. e. Ministers of the Gospel domineer by their Maintenance which upon that ground they would have taken away And so finding our Saviour blaming the Pharisees for their ambition and among other things charging them with this that they loved the chief seats ni the Synagogues Matth. 23. 6. they not understanding what the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth nor yet what the manner of the Jewish Synagogues was wherein as in our Churches there were many chief seats for more eminent persons they apply it to the Pulpits which Ministers in preaching of the Word make use of for conveniencies sake not without an expresse Scripture president for it viz. that of Ezra of whom we read Neh. 8. 4 5. That Ezra the Scribe stood upon a Pulpit of wood which they had made for the purpose And so it is said he opened the book in the sight of all the people For he was above all the people And so again while they find the Pharisees taxed by our Saviour for loving to stand praying in the Synagogues so making their private prayers in those publick places which they did for ostentation sake that they might be seen and heard of men as our Sadiour himself there
were in Saint Iude's time These are they that separate themselves Jude v. 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word properly signifieth Separatists such as separated themselves and others from the true Church of God renouncing Communion with it so making of Sects Such were the Donatists some ages after against whom Augustine so strenuously and earnestly contended The founder of which Sect Donatus a Bishop taking an unjust and groundlesse distaste at Cecilianus Bishop of Carthage not unlike that which some among our selves at this day have taken up against the Ministers of the Church of England as also of other Churches being in this respect in the same Predicament with them viz. because he had received his Ordination from the hands of some of the Traditores or Proditores such persons as had in time of Persecution delivered the Book of holy Scriptures to be burnt even as our Ministers are said to have received theirs by or through the hands of Antichristian Romish Bishops thereupon he fell off from the unity of the Church separating himself with his party from all others as if the Catholick Church had been no where else to be found but onely in that Corner of Africk where himself dwelt and that among his Society himself and his followers Thus did that Sect then And the very like have the Anabaptists of the last age done who are not unjustly looked upon by some as revivers of the Sect of the Donatists being therein followed by their Successours among our selves in this Nation at this day who by that one Act of Rebaptization which also they learned from those Donatists of whom Augustine tells us that they did the very like Rebaptize those that were baptized before do at once unchurch all the Churches in the world in as much as they do thereby make a nullity of that Sacrament which the members of those Churches have received in their Infancy which being the Initial Seal of the Covenant and the distinguishing mark betwixt Christians and Heathens none can be looked upon as visible members of the Church without it An Errour which be you ware of It being a Mother-Errour and that a teeming a fruitful one in whose womb ordinarily many erroneous Opinions are conceived So it was to those Donatists the first founders of it who being fallen off from the Church stayed not there but were then carried about with divers and strange doctrines ran into many pestilent Opinions as inveterate Schisme for the most part turns to Heresie besides some desperate practices One of which amongst the rest is very observable viz. that whilest they at the first plead for Liberty of Conscience and an Universal Toleration that no man should be compelled to any Religion nor yet hindred from holding forth any opinion denying the Civill Magistrate though Christian as Constantine the Emperour then was under whom this Schisme had its beginning any power for the punishing or repressing of any Hereticks or Heresies or to take any Course whereby either the broachers or maintainers of them might be brought to Repentance or else the poysonous breath of their Opinions might be stopped from infecting of others which is and not without cause reckoned up as none of the least Errours they were guilty of yet in processe of time they came to that height of rage that if they met any in the field or streets who were not of their judgment they made nothing furiously to fall upon them to assassinate to murder them The like spirit whereunto modern Histories tell us was to be found among their successours in Germany in the last age And God grant England may never have experience of the one Well to draw to a conclusion of this Head take you heed of this so dangerous a defection of this turning from the Church Which being the Pillar and Ground or the Stay of Truth as the Apostle calleth it 1 Tim. 3. 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Columna et Firmamentum or Stabilimentum as Beza hath it holding forth and in some sense bearing up the truth of God even as Pillars and Posts are wont to do the Proclamations and Orders of Magistrates which are affixed to them that so all may take notice of them No wonder that they who recede from it turning their backs upon it recede also from the truth and so become subject to this Peripherie to be thus carried about with divers and strange doctrines Even as it is with Deer I do not know a fitter comparison when once they have left the Herd and got out of the Park then though they get into Pikles yet there they are restlesse driven to and fro by every Passenger so as then they leap hedge and ditch Even such is the condition of those who have once given a farewell to the Church which is as Gods Park in the world being once got out of the Pale of it now though they fall into Pikles and severals several Companies yet it cannot be expected that they should rest there but that they will be subject to be driven to and fro by Errour after Errour till at the length they come to leap hedge and ditch to make Shipwrack of faith and a good Conscience as the Apostle saith that brace of Hereticks Hymeneus and Alexander with some others in his time had done 1 Tim. 1. 19 20. But I passe to a third Whilest you thus hold fast the Head and the Body Christ and his Church take heed of turning from the Scriptures The Scriptures they are a Christians light whereby he is to walk in this world Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path saith David Psal. 119. 105. And St. Peter speaking of Scripture-Prophecie 2 Pet. 1. 19. calleth it a more sure Word that is most sure the Comparative put for the Superlative as sometimes in Scripture it is whereunto saith he ye do well to take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place c. Such is the Understanding the mind of man in regard of spiritual and heavenly mysteries it is like a dungeon a dark place untill it be enlightned by that light which the Lanthorn of the Scripture holdeth forth Which therefore all Christians are to attend unto Object True say some they are so to do but how long untill the day dawn and the day-star arise in their hearts as it there followeth that is untill their hearts be fully enlightened by the Spirit of Christ who is as the morning-star so called Rev. 2. 28. and the Sun of righteousnesse Mal. 4. 2. But when the Sun is up what need of Canales when Christ is once come into the heart of a Christian dwelling there by his Spirit what need then any more of this Candle-light of the Scriptures This is but to burn day-light A. To this it is answered that true it is the Saints upon earth are thus enlightened They who
were sometimes darknesse are noon-light in the Lord as the Apostle saith of his believing Ephesians Ephes. 5. 8. having an inward light of the Spirit within them But this illumination is imperfect This light is but a Twilight like that of the morning when the day-star appeareth before the Sun ariseth Now during that time a Candle will not be unusefull in a dark room And of such use are the Scriptures unto enlightened soules illuminated Saints here who though they have some light yet still they have much darknesse within them and so stand in need of a light without them which is Scripture-Light To this Paul directs his Timothy Though he was then illuminated by the Spirit and that in a more then ordinary measure and manner being an Evangelist yet he bids him Give attendance to reading 1 Tim. 4. 13. viz. of the Scriptures the Law and the Prophets And again in his second Epistle Chap. 3. 5. he tells him that the Scriptures which he had known from a child were able to make him wise unto salvation And in the verses following verse 16 17. enlarging himself in setting forth the divers and excellent uses of Scripture he saith It is profitable for doctrine c. that the man of God may be made perfect thorowly furnished to all good works Now if Scriptures contribute so much to Ministerial perfection surely they cannot be uselesse to the most illuminated Saints upon earth This is their Light to see by As also their Rule to walk by Even as the Card and Compasse is to the Seaman so are the Scriptures unto the Christian serving him to stear his Course by And therefore take heed of laying them aside Should the Mariner do so by his Card and Compasse lay them aside and stear by guesse no wonder if his Vessel were carried about to this Coast or that striking upon this Rock that shelf this or that Quicksand And truly so is it with Christians if once they shall come to lay aside the Scriptures and pretending to Revelations and Inspirations as it seemeth too many in this Nation at this day do stear their Course by guesse following their own fancies no wonder they be carried about this way or that to the imbracing of all kind of Errours And therefore as you would be freed from this deception take heed of this delusion of thus turning from the Scriptures Turning from them whether in whole or in part 1. In whole as Anti-Scripturists do of which sort it seemeth there are not a few abroad in this Nation who will allow the Scriptures no such Divine Authority as that they should be called the Word of God above any other Writings but onely look upon them as the writings of holy men setting forth their own and others Conditions Whence it is that they are usually stiled by some The Saints Conditions Moses's Davids Isaiahs Ieremies Pauls Conditions In the mean time they do not look upon them either as a Light or a Rule which they are bound to follow 2. Or yet in the second place of turning from them in part This do they who whilest they receive the New Testament reject and disclaim the Old as being now like an old Almanack calculated for the year past out of date of no more use for Christians under the Gospel And so do they who renounce the Letter of the Scripture as a uselesse Shell or Bark a dead Letter as they ordinarily call it They are all for the pith the inward Mystery To which end they turn every thing into an Allegory as if the Literal sense were not at all to be regarded By which meanes they make no other then as Papists stile it a Nose of Wax or Leaden Rule of the Scripture turning it which way they will to please their own foolish fancies Being so far in love with the pretended Pith as that for it they cast away both Bark and Timber too This be you aware of of offering such force to Sacred Writ Which whilest Origen did God is said justly to have met with him leaving him to offer violence to himself through mis-expounding of one Text in a literal sense who before had done the like to many by turning of them into an Allegorical And which whosoever shall do no wonder if they be carried about with divers and strange doctrines Here is a third of these Caveats To which adde a fourth Whilest you thus hold fast the Head and Body Christ and his Church with the Scriptures the Rule of faith take heed of sorsaking the House of God I mean his Publick Worship and Service This also is set upon the Hill So was the Tabernacle which David erected And so was the Temple which Solomon built the places of Gods publick worship and service the House of God Wherein we find these four precious and sacred Reliques all mentioned by the Apostle in one verse Heb. 9. 4. The Golden Censer the Pot of Manna Aarons Rod and the Tables of the Covenant not unfitly whether intentionally or no I will not say representing those four great Gospel-Ordinances Prayer Word Sacraments Discipline these were seated upon the Hill upon Mount Sion the one the other upon Mount Moriah So as whoever in Ierusalem went aside from this place they went down the Hill And so do they who ever they are that forsake the House of God that forsake Publick Ordinances What ever they may fancy to themselves as too many at this day do whose design it is to get and live above Ordinances as they call it looking upon them as low things fit for Children and so they think that they are flown above the ordinary pitch yet certainly they are gone down the Hill and unlesse mercy step in to them are not far from the bottome O be you ware of this so dangerous a Declension of this forsaking the House of God This did some in our Apostle's time as he giveth us to take notice Heb. 10. 25. where he giveth this Caveat to his Hebrewes that they should not do as some among them had done Not forsaklng the Assembling of your selves together as the manner of some is that is not forsaking the publick Congregations and Assemblies of the Church where publick Ordinances are dispensed where the Word of God is rightly preached Sacraments duly administred Prayers and praises in a publick way presented unto God These Assemblies some Christians in those early times forsook upon what ground it being not expressed is uncertain whether for fear or through negligence or out of Pride Self-conceitednesse and affectation of singularity But what ever it was this practice of theirs the Apostle censures and condemnes And well doth it deservea Censure in whomsoever upon what ground soever True it is where God separates men as by sicknesse or any just and necessary impediment this pleads their excuse but where men shall separate themselves this is a practice both unwarrantable and dangerous In the fear
of God be you ware of it It is Grotius his Note upon the Text Heb. 10. 25. and it is a true one Deserere Conventus est initium quoddam defectionis To forsake the publick Assemblies is the beginning of Apostasie and defection opening a wide door to all kind of Errours and Miscarriages in Doctrine and Practice A truth sufficiently evidenced by many and sad Examples in this Nation at this day Whence is it that so many have been carried about with divers and strange doctrines follow it to the Head enquire into the Original of it and you shall find it for the most part to have begun here in their for saking of the publick Assemblies of the Church falling off from publick Ordinances Let this be a warning to you Take heed how you fall off from attending upon or submitting unto any Ordinance of God which is dispensed and held forth in the Congregations where you live and whereof you are or ought to be members according to the Rule of Gods holy Word And in particular take heed of renouncing a true Gospel-Ministery Which whilest some have done in this Nation being carried forth not onely with groundlesse distastes against the persons of Gods Ministers but also against their office and calling crying that down as Antichristian and I know not what as that poor ignorant Sect forenamed and some others do how have they been whirled and carried about And no wonder it should be so This being the Ordinance which God hath appointed for this very end among others for the establishing of the hearts of Christians to keep them from being thus carried about So the Apostle setteth it forth expresly in that Text forecited Ephes. 4. where having reckoned up divers ends wherefore Christ instituted those Ministerial offices in his Church Extraordinary and Ordinary why he gave some to be Apostles some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastours and Teachers among other he points out this for one ver 14. That we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine Mark it it being worth your marking To this very end Christ instituted not onely Apostles and Prophets and Evangelists extraordinary Officers but also Pastors and Teachers Ordinary Ministers who are to continue to the end of the world as that promise made to them implyes Matth. 28. last that by and through their Ministery his people might not onely be begotten unto God but also confirmed and strengthened edified and built up in their holy faith and so established in it as that they might be kept therein not being carried about as light and empty vessels without a Pilote are upon the waves And if so what wonder if those who throw away the Antidote which is prepared for them and given to them be infected with that disease which it was proper and soveraign against If they who cry down this Ordinance which God hath given them to be a preservative against this Turning Sicknesse be thus carried about as generally they are with such divers and strange doctrines Thus I have done with this fourth Caveat as also with this fourth Direction which adviseth you to beware of beginning to turn of beginning to go down the Hill in particular of falling off from Christ from his Church from Scriptures from Ordinances To which let me yet adde one more which is still upon the Negative shewing you what you should not do what you are further to take heed of and that is of following of false Lights By this meanes men are sometimes oft-times carried and led wild by following of Ignes fatui false Lights insomuch that sometimes they are led into ditches and bogs and riuers And by the very like meanes are unwary and unstable soules often seduced and carried about by following of false lights Which are of two sorts Lights without them and lights within them 1. There are false lights without the man Such are false Teachers of whom I have spoken Teachers are Lights Ye are the Light of the world saith our Saviour to his Apostles Matth. 5. 14. And being true Teachers they are true Lights Such was Christ the Master of whom it is is said He was that true light Joh. 1. 9. So he was Originally as the Sun is which is the fountain of Light And such are his servants his Ministers who hold forth the Word of Truth they are Lights also though by participation onely as the Stars are by which name they are called The seven Stars are the seven Angels the Ministers of the seven Churches Rev. 1. 20. But so are not fale Teachers They are Lights indeed but false lights Not true Stars but Comets blazing Stars So called by St. Iude as some understand his expression Iude v. 13. wandring stars Such as Comets are or Planets that is his word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which have no regular motion Now would you not be carried about take heed how you follow any of these lights how you follow false Teachers That is our Saviours advice concerning them Luk. 17. 23. Go not after them nor follow them Yea and knowing them so to be how you come nigh them how you resort unto them have any unnecessary society much more familiarity with them That is St. Iohns advice to the Elect Lady and her Children Joh. 2. Ep. v. 10. If there come any among you that bring not this doctrine viz. the doctrine of Christ spoken of in the verse foregoing but a doctrine contrary to it Receive him not into your house neither bid him God speed And thus let Christians deal by false and Heretical Teachers keep a distance from them as they would do from those creatures which poyson with their breath not shewing them any countenance not affording them any encouragement not having any unnecessary society with them These are false lights without a man 2. Besides which there are other false lights within him These are of two sorts Supernatural Natural 1. Supernatural I mean going under that notion so apprehended and taken to be by those that are deceived by them Such are Enthusiasmes supposed Inspirations This is the Light which some and not a few it seemeth in this Nation at this day as the Anabaptists in the last age also did pretend to be led by Not by any light without them the Scriptures or any outward teaching No this they renounce as a dimme and uncertain light But a light within them The light of the Spirit This is that which those poor deluded soules forementioned so much boast of as being that which they professe to follow as their onely guide sending all Christians to it for direction All people cease from your outside lights saith one of them and return to the light of Christ within you Which light is not a Chapter without you in a book So do they take men off from Scriptures directing them onely to a light within them This is the light saith the
Caveat 3. Take heed of turning from the Scriptures How long Christians are to give heed to the light of the Word Saints upon earth enlightened but in part The Scriptures a Christians Light to see by and Rule to walk by Turning from the Scriptures in whole See the perfect Pharisee Pos. 13. In part Letter of Scripture not to be renounced Regulam Lesbiam Nasum cereum Ita Origenes poenam dans merito tot Allegoriarum Eunuchatum planè Allegoricum ad literam paulo servilius interpretatus sibi vim tulit qui non minùs vim intulerat Scripturae virque esse desiit qui non desiit esse malus interpres D. Josephus Hall in Communione ad Synodum Dordracenam Caveat 4. Take heed of turning from publick Ordinances Church-Assemblies not to be forsaken Forsaking publick Assemblies the beginning of Apostasie Take heed of renouncing a Gospel-Ministery Note Direct 5. Take heed of false Lights 1. False Lights without a man False Teachers 2. False Lights within a man Supernatural Enthusiasmes Perfect Pharisee Pos. 12. Ibid. Enthusiasmes for the most part an Ignis fatuus 2. Natural Reason Perfect Pharisee Pos. 11. How Reason may be consulted with in matters of Religion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost. Hom. ad Text. Rationi naturali verae nunquam contrariatur Theologia sed eam excedit saepè et sic videtur repugnare Thom. Disp. de fide Artic. 10. Take heed of making Reason our guide Not Grosse Reason Nor yet Reason Refined Philosophy Philosophia Theologiae se submittat ut Agar Sarae patiatur se admoneri et corrigi sin minus pareat ejice ancillam Clem. Str. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost Hom. ad Text. Direct 6. Get the soul well ballasted Viz. with Grace Use 2. Christians to be careful of their Brethren for the prevention or cure of this Turning Sicknesse in them All in their places Siquis pudor si qua pictas reprimite hanc petulantissimaâ— insaniendi libidinem modum imperate hominum et linguis et calamis Et facite ut qui vera sentire nolunt falsa divulgare non ausint etc. Vide D. Joseph Hall ubì suprà 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Possidens Retentionem Montanus Magistrates to restrain Falle Teachers The Law against false Teachers 2d. Part of the Text. The Reason of the Prohibition Parts two Part 1. The thing commended Heart-Establishment Explic. Q. 1. Heart what it here signifieth The Soul of man Q. What part of the Soul A. The whole soul specially the Mind 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pro mente et ratione intelligente ponit Homo is est interior et spiritualis Aret. Com. ad Loc. Q. 2. Heart Establishment what A. Oserv. The heart of man naturall unstable Paâ—iter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ascendendo Montanus Obser. 2. Heart-unsettlednesse a great evil 1. Such is Actual turning from the way of Truth 1. A sinful Evil. Upon a double Account 2. A penal Evil. 2. Habitual instability a great Evil in two respects 1. Rendring the soul unserviceable 2. Exposing it to Danger Obser. 3. Heart-Establishment a good thing 1. An Honest good 2. A profitable good 3. A delightful good Applic. Use 1. Be convinced of soul-unfetlednesse Use 2. Be convinced of the evil of it aud be humbled under it Use 3. Seek after Heart-Establishment Damnat hic Apostolus fidem Conjecturalem h. e. fluctuationem Jesuitarum quâ necesse est conscientias circumferri dubias Contra asserit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fidei c. Pareus ad Text. Heart-Establishment needful in respect of the present Times Directions for the obtaining of it 1. Seek it from God by Prayer 2. By a conscionable attendance upon Establishing Ordinances The Sacrament of the Lords Supper an establishing Ordinance Part 2d. The meanes of Hearr-Establishment Grace Oserv. The best Ballast for the Soul Grace Q. Grace what here it signifieth A. The Doctrine and Habit of Grace 1. The Doctrine of Grace the Gospel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pro gratuitâ Dei erga nos benevolentiâ acceptante nos justos pro nunciante propter meritum Christi Aretius ad loc Heart-Establishment not to be expected from the Law Not from the Ceremonial Law Nor yet from the Morall Law Reason Grace like the Authou of it All-sufficient Applic. Use 1. Seek not Heart establishment in any other way Not from Ceremonial observances Nor yet from Moral performances Much lesse from Temporal enjoyments Use 2. Seek it in a Gospel-way making free Grate our foundation Concerning which two Directions Direct 1. See that this foundation be well laid 1. Right set 2. Deep laid Direct 2. Settle the soul upon this foundation Which is done by Faith resting upon free Grace 2. The Habit of Grace Regeneration Quum Cibis opponit Gratiam non dubito quin spiritualem Dei cultum et Regenerationem intelligat hoc nomine Calvin ad loc Iisdem etiam verbis Beza Gr. Annot. ad loc Nomine Gratiae Graeci fidem etc. Atqui nihil verat generatim significari interna ac spiritualia Dei dons quibus homines sanctificantur ut fidem Spem Charitatem caeterásque virtutes Estius Com. ad loc Q. How the Habit of Grace establisheth the Heart 1. By way of Evidence 2. By way of Efficiency 1. Indirectly by freeing it from what might disquiet it As from fear So from other inordinate Affections and Passions 2. Directly by fixing the Soul upon a sure foundation the Grace of God in Christ. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost. ad Text. Faith compared to an Anchor Applic. Seek after the Habit of Grace Chrysost. ad loc Having an eye to two things To the Quality that it be true 2. To the Quantity that there be a good proportion of it