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…

But on the other hand, the greatest deceits and depths of Satan have been brought into the world, under the name or notion of new Lights. Did not the serpent beguile Eve with this notion of a new light, Gen: 3. 5? Which example the Apostle setteth before our eyes, 2 Cor: 11. 3 plainly warning us that Satan is transformed into an Angel of light, and his apostles into the Apostles of Christ, vers. 13. 14. So Rev: 2. 2. Did not Jeroboam make Israel to sin by a false new Light? It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem, behold thy Gods, O Israel, &c. 1. Kings. 12. 28. He would show to the ten Tribes, how they might in all matters of Religion be independent upon Jerusalem; howbeit (to note that by the way) he did not erect Independent Churches, without an Independent Commonwealth. He would show them also that they were abused with a pretended sacred order of the Priests, the Ministers of the Lord, therefore no jure divino men, but Ministers dependent, 2 Chron: 11. 14. 15. And so he would needs make Priests of the lowest of the people, vers. 31. for all which he had a pretence ⟨p. 126⟩of power or liberty from God, 1 Kings, 11. 37. His new light made an Independent Church, and a dependent Ministry. The Gnostics had their name from the profound knowledge and greater light which they pretended to, above all others, yet the ancient writers tell us they were but a profane Sect. Maho•et himself pretended that the Angel Gabriel taught him his Alcoran, that so he might purchase the greater credit to it.

But on the other hand, the greatest deceits and depths of Sathan have been brought into the world, under the name or notion of new Lights. Did not the serpent beguile Evah with this notion of a new light, Gen: 3. 5? Which example the Apostle setteth before our eyes, 2 Cor: 11. 3 plainly warning us that Sathan is transformed into an Angell of light, and his apostles into the Apostles of Christ, vers. 13. 14. So Rev: 2. 2. Did not Ieroboam make Israel to sin by a false new Light? It is too much for you to go up to Ierusalem, behold thy Gods, O Israel, &c. 1. Kings. 12. 28. He would shew to the ten Tribes, how they might in all matters of Religion be independent upon Jerusalem; howbeit (to note that by the way) he did not erect Independent Churches, without an Independent Commonwealth. He would shew them also that they were abused with a pretended sacred order of the Priests, the Ministers of the Lord, therefore no jure divino men, but Ministers dependent, 2 Chron: 11. 14. 15. And so he would needs make Priests of the lowest of the people, vers. 31. for all which he had a pretence