A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

What is meant in Scripture by the word Heresies, and how we are to understand, that there must be Heresies, for making manifest the the godly party or these that are approved. 1 Cor: 11. 19.

What is meant in Scripture by the word Heresies, and how we are to understand, that there must be Heresies, for making manifest the the godlie parti• or these that are approved. 1 Cor: 11. 19.

For there must be also Heresies among you, saith the Apostle, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you, or as others read, that they which are approved among you may be manifest.

FOr there must be also Heresies among you, saith the Apostle, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you, or as others read, that they which are approved among you may be manifest.

By Heresies here some understand no more but divisions and Sects, and conceive that Heresies in point of opinion or doctrine, are not here meant. So Chrysostom, Erasmus and others. If so, then the very divisions and sects, will make a discovery who are approved, who not, before it come to Heretical opinions, i. e. Sectaries are not approved, and these who are indeed approved, are none of theirs, but keep themselves unspotted, and free from them. So Tit. 3. 10. [Greek or Hebrew] is rendered in the Tigurin Bible, Sectarum authorem, and in the margin f•ctiosum, i. e. a man that is an author of sects (or factions) after the first and second admonition, reject, and 1 Cor: 11 19. they read, opportet enim & Sectas in vobis esse. Sometimes the word, [Greek or Hebrew] is taken in the new Testament for a sect, yet (to