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2 By Heresy; broaching schisms and factions, and erroneous opinions: as it were feeding the people with bones, or rather with poisons, in stead of wholesome meat. The Apostle speaks of such, not with malice and contempt, but with sorrow and tears:¹ I tell you of them weeping. They so fill their hearers heads with crotch••• and scruples, that they run about like frantickes, and cry down all plain-so•• with their divisions. He that dissolves your union, and breaks your peace, do•• what he can to sell your souls.

2 By Heresie; broching schismes and factions, and erroneous opinions: as it were feeding the people with bones, or rather with poisons, in stead of wholsome meate. The Apostle speakes of such, not with malice and contempt, but with sorrow and teares:¹ I tell you of them weeping. They so fill their hearers heads with crotch••• and scruples, that they runne about like frantickes, and cry downe all plaine-so•• with their divisions. Hee that dissolves your union, and breakes your peace, do•• what he can to sell your soules.

1. 1Phil. 3.18.

3 By silence. The advocate that ought to plead, betrays the cause by his voluntary silence. The watchman that doth not ring the alarm bell at the approach of danger, betrays the City to the enemy. If the Minister hold his peace, when […] sees Satan in the market bargaining for souls; he doth as it were make merchandise of them, and take money for them. I grant that as Demosthenes had a great see for his silence in a cause, so many have gotten preferments by rarity or rather nullity of Sermons. I envy not their purchase, nor desire a partnership in their merchandise. The Lord keep me from selling that by holding my peace, which he bought by dying on the Cross. I will sell any riches to buy a soul, I will never sell a soul to buy riches.