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It is suspicious if they be men that are so Impudent as to draw out your secrets, and screw themselves deeper into your privatest thoughts and ways then is meet: Yet a compassionate Minister, when he seeth that poor Christians do endanger themselves by keeping secret their Troubles, or else that they hazard themselves by hiding the greatest of their sins, like Achan, Saul, or Ananias and Sapphira, and so play the Hypocrites; in these Cases he may and must urge them to deal openly. 7. Above all be sure that those that you seek advice of be sound in the Faith, and free from the two desperate plagues of notorious false doctrine, and separating dividing inclinations, that do but hunt about to make Disciples to themselves. There are two of ⟨p. 507⟩the former sort, and three of the latter, that I would charge you to take heed of (and yet all is but four) 1. Among those that err from the Faith (next to Pagans, Jews and Infidels, whether Ranters, Seekers or Socinians, which I think few sober godly men are so much in danger of, because of their extreme vileness) I would especially have you avoid the Antinomians, being the greatest pretenders to the right comforting afflicted Consciences in the world: but upon my certain knowledge I dare say they are notorious subverters of the very nature of the Gospel, and that free Grace which they so much talk of, and the great dishonourers of the Lord Jesus, whom they seem so highly to extol. They are those Mountebanks and Quacksalvers that delude the world by vain ostentation, and kill more then they well Cure. 2. Next to them, take heed of the Papists, who will go to Rome, to Saints, to Angels, to Merits, to the most carnal delusory means for Comfort, when they should go to Scripture and to Heaven for it.

It is suspicious if they be men that are so Impudent as to draw out your secrets, and scrue themselves deeper into your privatest thoughts and ways then is meet: Yet a compassionate Minister, when he seeth that poor Christians do endanger themselves by keeping secret their Troubles, or else that they hazard themselves by hiding the greatest of their sins, like Achan, Saul, or Ananias and Saphira, and so play the Hypocrites; in these Cases he may and must urge them to deal openly. 7. Above all be sure that those that you seek advice of be sound in the Faith, and free from the two desperate plagues of notorious false doctrine, and separating dividing inclinations, that do but hunt about to make Disciples to themselves. There are two of