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…

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 ⟨p. 111⟩note that by the way) only for such a sect, as either was indeed, or was esteemed to be of some heretical opinion, as Act. 5. 17. and 15. 5. and 24. 5. and 26. 5. and 28. 22. The Apostle hath the word [Greek or Hebrew], twice in his Epistles, and in both places he makes some difference, and distinction between heresies, and divisions, or strifes and variance, 1 Cor: 11. 18, 19. Gal: 5. 20. For every division, strife, or variance, is not Heresy. Therefore in the Text which I now speak to, I understand Heresy to be some what more then division. The Arabic 1 Cor: 14. 2. that is in the Greek, and our Translations, 1 Cor: 11. 19. repeateth the word Schisms out of the precedent vers: & addeth moreover the word Heresies, reading [Greek or Hebrew]; for there most arise Schisms and Heresies among you, that these of you who are godly may be known: it seems that they who understand, only divisions to be meant by the word Heresies, do not observe the rising of the Apostles speech, for after he hath spoken of their [Greek or Hebrew], or Schismatical divisions contrary to the rule of love;