wrought in them life wrought in others Prov. 30.2,3 2 Cor. 4,5,12 III. They are not of one mind some more grosse as the Saduces and some more refined as the Pharisees in their conception of the way Secondly In the inclination of their mindes not to exilt Christ onely but themselves as Lords and Rabbyes liking it best that the People should rest on their Judgements for points of Faith and interpretation of Scripture and not to presume to know beyond contrary to the Vpright that were not content till they knew as themselves knew and had their evidence from God that they might not depend on them and would have them still be trying by Scripture and wait for that Knowledge and rejoyced when they had it 2 Cor. 4.5 Joh. 3.29,30 2 Pet. 1.18,19,20 besides the glary honour wealth and great places they Desire and seek for themselves Gal. 4.17 From which corrupt Mindes proceed their corrupt reasoning and Practice First Their corrupt reasoning and Arguments can it be that so many great Learned and Godly Devines Ministers and Professors Annas and Cayaphas The high Priests The Priests and Elders The Scribes and Pharisees that sit in Moses Chayre and all their Disciples whom the great Church so long Reverenced should be ignorant of the Truth and erre and that a Carpenter the Sonne of a Carpenter and a few Fishers a Publican a Tent-maker men that are Gallileans whom scarce any follow but the common Illiterate People that know not the Law should kâ—…w the mind of God and be in the Truth Joh. 7.47,52 As the Antichristian Brood reason Is it likely so many Godly Fathers Divines Bishops Counsells The great Church for so many Hundreth yeares should erre and a few despised upstarts should be in the Truth Secondly Their corrupt practise of worshipping Angels Messengers Adoring these great learned Officers as if they could not erre and so to be Depended on for all knowledge and certainty of the word of Truth not presuming to know but what they have declared nor looking for further light then in their sayings And so calling them the Church Thereby as their Fathers the Pharisees of old shaddowed Christ with two heads by having two High Priests making Christ two Bodies or Churches one Spirituall another Secular one of the Clergy another of the Laity one of Publike Officers and Members Another of private members without Office that the one may depend on the other and neither hold the head and both neglect the True Body Col. 2.18,20 Contrary to 1 Cor. 12. Chap. like that 1 Cor. 1.12 2. They are Reprobate and of no judgement concerning the Faith concerning Letters Tongues Etimology of words Philosophy Logick diversity of Bookes Histories Genealogies Morallities To move subtill Questions To answer knotty Questions To Dipute about Law c. They may be of great skill 1 Cor. 1.19,20 1 Tim. 1,2 But concerning the Faith in that they are of no judgement whether we respect the Doctrine and object of Faith or the Spirit Grace and opperation of Faith For How all men should be reconciled to God in Christ and yet most men in themselves and their own hearts enemies to Christ and so to God still 2 Cor. 5.19,20 How Christ should have paid the price for and bought all men into his dispose and yet justly Judge many of them to eternall Death Rom. 14.8,12 How enough should be done for All men by Christ that they might be saved and yet many not infallible atternarly saved Joh. 3.17,19 How man being dead in sinnes c. And having no Power or freedome of will to choose life and yet so much done by Christ to make his Will free That the fault of his not being â—…lly saved should be found in his owne will and not in the Will of God and Christ Joh. 3.17,19 1.9 Prov. 1.23,26 Ezek. 18.23.32 33.11 How there should be such a Will in God To have all men saved and then brought to acknowledge the truth And that Christ should Accomplish this his will and condemne any to Eternall Death 1 Tim. 2.4,5,6 2 Pet. 2.1 How God should Order all things in his Counsells and work all things according to the Counsell of his owne Will and yet not so necessitate any to destruction But that their destruction is of themselves They loose their owne souls and bring upon themselves Destruction Ephes 1.11 Hos 13.9 Mat. 16.26 2 Pet. 2.1,2 They cannot rightly conceive or declare Againe in the distinction the Spirit in the Scripture maketh between the Salvation Iesus Christ wrought in his owne body with God for men 1 Pet. 2.24 And the salvation which in Application of the former hee by his Spirit worketh in men to God Revel 5.9 2 Cor. 5.18 The Salvation he came down from heaven was abased to work that he might bring us to God Joh. 16.28 Heb. 10.1,10 1 Pet. 3.18 And the Salvation he ascended to heaven was glorifyed to Worke in making sonnes and bringing them to God Psal 68.18.20 Act. â—5 31.32 Between the divers ends of Christ in laying down his Life 1. To be a Ransome and Propitiation for sinnes Heb. 9.22 Rom. 3.24,25 2. To seale and confirme the New Testament of Precious Promises Heb. 9.15,16,17 3. To be an example to us of Sufferings 1 Pet. 2.23 And the different extent of these ends 1 Joh. 2.1,2,3 And between the mission of Christ To be the Saviour of the World in Dying and giving himselfâ— a Ransome for All. 1 Joh. 4.14 Joh. 1.29 and 3.17 and his Mission to Preach the Gospel and confirme it with Miracles which was to the Iewes and for the Circumcision Matt. 15.24 Rom. 18.8,9 Between his giving Himself to die and offer Sacrifice and his giving himself to Advocate and apply the vertue of his Sacrifice 1 Tim. 2.6 1 Joh. 2.1,2 Ephe. 5.25,26,27 Between his Purchasing of his Father by blood-shedding Rom. 14.9 2 Pet. â— 1 And the Purchasing from among men by his spirituall Application of his blood that was shed Rev. 5.9 Act. 20.28 Between that which is full compleat and true in Christ for All men That they may beleeve and in beleeving receive it Rom. 3.23,25 and 5.18 1 Joh. 5.10,11,12 And these high and peculiar Priviledges in Christ further to dispense to such as through grace are enabled to Beleeve Joh. 1.12,13 and 7.36.39 Yea between the extent and scope of the generall Affirmations of the Gospel as Propositions for Faith in the Third Person Joh. â— 19 â— Tim. 2.6 and Applicative Affirmations in First or Second Person Rom. 8 3â— Gal. 2.20 In all or most of these Distinctions they are ignorant and confound them in one as of like large extent whence issues their setting the Scriptures at vaviance to be reconciled by their prooflesse Glosses And their corrupt opinion that all Christ dyed for must of necessity be eternally saved and their false conjectures and Reports of those that beleeve CHRIST gave himself a Ransome for All Men as that they hold men by nature to have