An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 7. Those Priests therefore that set carnal, ungodly Sinners (Fornicators, Murderers, Gluttons, Drunkards, Liars, Perjured, &c.) on expiating their Sins by good Works, without teaching and persuading them to that internal repentance, and Conversion of their Wills, and holy devotedness to God, by which their Works must have a right Principle, End, and Form, do but delude men, and cheat them by flattery into perdition.

§. 7. Those Priests therefore that set carnal, ungodly Sinners (Fornicators, Murderers, Gluttons, Drunkards, Lyers, Perjured, &c.) on expiating their Sins by good Works, without teaching and perswading them to that internal repentance, and Conversion of their Wills, and holy devotedness to God, by which their Works must have a right Principle, End, and Form, do but delude men, and cheat them by flattery into perdition.

§. 8. Much more pernicious is it, to take Sin, Folly, and Superstition, for good Works, and look to be saved by that which deserveth Damnation, and to expiate sin by sin; such are the Works of Persecutors that think they serve God by unjust killing, or imprisoning his Servants, or causeless silencing his faithful Ministers; such were the Wars of the Cro•sad•'s against the Waldenses and Albigenses; and such are the Works of the Inquisition, and their persecuting Executioners; such are Rebellions that have fair Pretences, as were those against the German Emperors, Fredericks, Henry, &c. and of many of such Agents oft against the ⟨p. 285⟩Kings of England; such hath been the zealous killing of Kings, and burning of honest desirable Dissenters; and such is the alienating Mens Estates from better Uses, to maintain a supernumerous sinful, vicious, idle Monastery, or their prelatical needless Pomp and Pride; or to buy Pardons or Masses for departed Souls; or to build useless Structures to the Honour of some Saint or Angel; or to set up useless Formalities and Shadows, as Candles by day-light, and abundance such: And such are long Pilgrimages to the Shrines of such as the Pope hath Canonized, and to visit Relics, and the carrying about of Relics, with an ungrounded carnal confidence in them; with many such like.