A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

That the end of heresy is to make men proud and insolent, or riotous and •• cessive; contrary to the doctrine of mortification which the Gospel preacheth. […] that which promiseth that the flesh shall not kill us, chargeth us also to kill the […] The one is promised, Rom. 8.1. the other imposed, Col. 3.5. Ahab was assured by […] Prophet that Benhadad should not slay him, but withal he was commanded to […] ⟨p. 425⟩Benhadad; that proud enemy of God and his Church: but because he did not, Thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people, saith the Lord, 1 King. 20.42. But now the doctrine which encourageth and flesheth the flesh, which admireth and admitteth the world; doth also make much for the Devil. His first policy was to catch the soul through the treason of her guard, the Senses. For Nisi prius deciperetur sensus, non sequeretur assensus; Unless the sense had first submitted, the consent of the soul would never have followed. And still he insinuates to the soul, as the men of Tyre to Herod, by Blastus the Chamberlain, Act. 12.20. The flesh is a perfumed fawning Blastus, that does all with the great one. Here is then the difference between true doctrine and false; the former only intends to make [Greek or Hebrew], to unbody the body of death: and the scope of the other, is to turn the grace of GOD into licentiousness, and to enlarge the jurisdiction of sin.

That the end of heresie is to make men proud and insolent, or riotous and •• cessive; contrary to the doctrine of mortification which the Gospell preacheth. 〈…〉 that which promiseth that the flesh shall not kill us, chargeth us also to kill the 〈…〉 The one is promised, Rom. 8.1. the other imposed,