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2 Some aimed to fill their bellies, and to get gain and pleasure from their followers, Rom. 16. whose belly is their God, so that they serve not Christ, but their own bellies, and for that end with fair flattering speeches, they beguile for filthy lucre; Tit. 1.11, 12. so that all the lust of the world, they aim at, ambition, sensuality, and filthy gain, are the ends they aim at, and if their ends be so corrupt, their Doctrine must needs be corrupt and a lye.

2 Some aimed to fill their bellies, and to get gain and pleasure from their followers, Rom. 16. whose belly is their God, so that they serve not Christ, but their own bellies, and for that end with fair flattering speeches, they beguile for filthy lucre; Tit. 1.11, 12. so that all the lust of the world, they aime at, ambition, sensuality, and filthy gain, are the ends they aime at, and if their ends be so corrupt, their Doctrin must needs be corrupt and a lye.

Reas. 3 From the sport and jest they make at deluding people, one would think there should none be so desperately wicked, to come into congregations, and obtrude false Doctrine, and delude men, and then make a sport of it 2 Pet. 2.13. it sports them to see how handsomely they circumvented such a man, at such a conference, this is matter of sport to them, to see how at feasts and meetings they could carry the whole Table before them, Gal. 6.12, 13. what is their end? they desire to make a fair show in the flesh, and they glory in it, and triumph, and they themselves regard not many things that they obtrude on others, they make no scruple of it themselves, they know they are empty things, so that this is manifestly a lye.