A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…

A Because it springs from a lying spirit, not from a Spirit of truth, but of lies; so the Devil describes himself when he seduceth false Prophets, 1 King. 22.22. to be a Lying spirit, as if there were no more effectual way to seduce Kings than by false Teachers, acted by the Lying Spirit; I will put error in their hearts, and make them obstinate in it, and unanimous in it, so that four hundred false Prophets shall easily out-bear one Micaiah; the like doth the Devil in all false Teachers, he cometh, and is a Lying Spirit in them, with such seemliness and show of truth, that it deceives them, they take it for truth, 2 Thes. 2.6. they shall come with deceitfulness of Doctrine, and many false lying wonders, whereby they shall seduce many.

A Because it springs from a lying spirit, not from a Spirit of truth, but of lyes; so the Devill describes himself when he seduceth false Prophets, 1 King. 22.22. to be a Lying spirit, as if there were no more effectual way to seduce Kings than by false Teachers, acted by the Lying Spirit; I will put errour in their hearts, and make them obstinate in it, and unanimous in it, so that four hundred false Prophets shall easily out-bear one Micaiah; the like doth the Devill in all false Teachers, he cometh, and is a Lying Spirit in them, with such seemlinesse and shew of truth, that it deceives them, they take it for truth, 2 Thes. 2.6. they shall come with deceitfulnesse of Doctrin, and many false lying wonders, whereby they shall seduce many.

Rea. 2. From the corrupt end that these false Teachers do evidently aim at in all their Doctrine, Acts 20.30. some do it in ambition to draw Disciples to themselves, and not to Christ▪ such was Simon Magus, that gave out