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

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.

Direct. 5. Abhor presumptuous curiosities in enquiring into the secret things of God; much more in pretending to know them; and most of all in reviling and contending against others upon those pretences.

Direct. 5. Abhor presumptu•us curiosities in enquiring into the secret things of God; much more in pretending to know them; and most of all in reviling and contending against others upon those pretences.