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…

First, it is but a false new light which expelleth not only the old darkness, but much of the good old light. As in Medecins ⟨p. 127⟩the Paracelsian way is most dangerous when it is destructive to the Galenic way, and overthroweth the old approved principles, yet tis of very good use when prudently, and skilfully managed, for perfecting the Galenic way, and for doing things more speedily, easily, and pleasantly, than the Galenic way could do: So in Divinity, such new Lights as do not expel, but retain, improve, and perfect the old, may be of singular good use: but those new Lights which are destructive and expulsive of the old true Lights, those new ways which lead us away from the old and the good way, are to be utterly disliked and avoided, 2 Epist: of John vers: 8. Look to your selves, that we lose not th•se things which we have gained. He speaks it against those deceivers who would have seduced them from the Doctrine of Christ, as is evident both from the preceding vers and from that which followeth: Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the Doctrine of Christ, hath not God, &c Rom. 16. 17. Now I beseech you brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences, contrary to the Doctrine which ye have learned, and avoid them. A Bishop, saith Paul, must hold fast the faithful word, as he hath been taught, •it▪ 1. 9. Phil. 3. 16. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind. This he adds as a prevention of a dangerous mistake, and abuse of that which he had said immediately before: And if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Behold, a reserve for any new Light, might some say: Nay but take •eed saith the Apostle, you do not shut forth, but keep fast the light you have already attained unto, you must not under pretence of new light, loose what you have gained, Col. 2. 6, 7, 8. As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him, rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving: Beware least any man spoil you through Philosophy, and vain deceit; &c. These