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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.

Reas. 3 From the sport and jeast they make at deluding people, one would thinke there should none be so desperatly wicked, to come into congregations, and obtrude false Doctrin, 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 shew 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.

Use. 1 May teach us how to conceive of Popery, and stir up in our selves an holy indignation against it; you see that Popery is a lye, and hath deluded many; Mahivell did clearly discern, that their religion was but mere juggling, to fill the Popes Coffers, and keep his Kitchen warm by purgatory and pardons, &c. therefore let none trust them; but indeed this was his wickedness, though he discerned this, he sought not the true Religion, and this is the evil of their Religion, it leads simple men to superstition, and understanding men to Atheism; and if Popery be but cheating, and juggling, and lying, it must kindle in us, an inward loathing of that Religion; Bellarmin doth directly bring that for his defence, which was palpable and ex instituto, writ against them, and therefore it is plain, that every Antichristian Doctrine si a lye; not only against the truth, but against their own judgement to deceive,