The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

Direct. 4. Abhor the furious ignorance, which brandeth every one with the names of heresy or blasphemy, who differ from them in the use of some unnecessary metaphor of God, when their different phrases tend not indeed to his dishonour, and perhaps may have the same signification with their own.

D•rect. 4. Abhor the furious ignorance, which brandeth every one with the names of heresie or blasphemy, who differ from them in the use of some unnecessary metaphor of God, when their different phrases tend not indeed to his dishonour, and perhaps may have the same signification with their own.

When we are all forced to confess, that all our terms of God are improper or metaphorical, and yet m•n will run those metaphors into numerous branches, and carry them unto greater impropriety, and then rail at all as blasphemers that question them; this practice is (though too common) a heinous sin in them, as it hath direful effects upon the Church. Should I recite the sad histories of this iniquity, and show what ⟨p. 172⟩it hath done between the Greek and Latin Churches, and between those called Orthodox and Catholic, and many through the world that have been numbered with Heretics; it would be too large a subject for our sorrow and complaints.

When we are all forced to confess, that all our tearms of God are improper or metaphorical, and yet m•n will run those metaphors into numerous branches, and carry them unto greater impropriety, and then rail at all as blasphemers that question them; this practice is (though too common) a heinous sin in them, as it hath direful effects upon the Church. Should I recite the sad histories of this iniquity, and shew what ⟨p. 172⟩it hath done between the Greek and Latine Churches, and between those called Orthodox and Catholick, and many through the world that have been numbered with Hereticks; it would be too large a subject for our sorrow and complaints.