The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians,…The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians,…

what a fearful thing will it be for false teachers, who have made it their whole business to spread new opinions, to lose all their labour! The other effect is, that though he be saved, yet it shall be so as by fire, that is, he shall be in extreme danger, and he shall have sad tribulations and miseries falling upon him; see the like phrase Jude 23. pulling them out of the fire. That which thou comfortest thy self with, and gloriest in, as if it were persecution, it may be is nothing but part of the fire in the Text, which is to afflict thee, that thy dross may be purged out: let therefore all false teachers (though belonging to God) expect a fire of burning, great afflictions and tribulations. And if Antinomians have trouble for their Doctrine, they are bound to believe God chastiseth them for this very opinion, that he doth not chastise for sin. I have bin the longer on this place, because of the multitude of hay and stubble that is built every where. God will have his day, when a fire shall rise to consume it all, and the true Doctrine will only continue. The Apostle speaks as terribly afterwards, v. 17. If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, where the Apostle calleth the Corinthians, The temple of God: now this is not so much true of every single Christian, as when collected together in a Church or body; and ⟨p. 82⟩the Spirit dwelling among them, is much more admirable then his presence in the Ark; and he defileth this Temple, who by any false Doctrine and error, corrupts that society; now the greatness of this sin is seen by the words following, The Lord will destroy him, for so [Greek or Hebrew] is the same with [Greek or Hebrew], so that as God destroyed Athaliah, and Belshazzar for profaning the Temple, and the offerings or gifts of the Temple, no less punishment (unless they repent) shall fall upon those who pervert the Doctrines of Christ.

what a fearfull thing will it be for false teachers, who have made it their whole business to spread new opinions, to lose all their labour! The other effect is, that though he be saved, yet it shall be so as by fire, that is, he shall be in extream danger, and he shall have sad tribulations and miseries falling upon him; see the like phrase Jude 23. pulling them out of the fire. That which thou comfortest thy self with, and gloriest in, as if it were persecution, it may be is nothing but part of the fire in the Text, which is to afflict thee, that thy drosse may be purged out: let therefore all false teachers (though belonging to God) expect a fire of burning, great afflictions and tribulations. And if Antinomians have trouble for their Doctrine, they are bound to believe God chastiseth them for this very opinion, that he doth not chastise for sin. I have bin the longer on this place, because of the multitude of hay and stubble that is built every where. God will have his day, when a fire shall rise to consume it all, and the true Doctrine will only continue. The Apostle speaks as terribly afterwards, v. 17. If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, where the Apostle calleth the Corinthians, The temple of God: now this is not so much true of every single Christian, as when collected together in a Church or body; and