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…

Thirdly, beware of those new Lights, which make any certain truth (although neither fundamental, nor circumfundamentall) to be uncertain, as we ought not to say of any sin, so neither of any truth: Is it not a little one? Let every truth be highly valued. Buy the truth, and sell it not; say not, This truth is but a matter of discipline, let it go, 'ts not worth the buying? He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least, is unjust also in much, Luke 16. 10. Melchior Adamus, both in the life of Carolostadius, and in the life of Luther, observeth the great evil which grew out of Luther's dislike of Carolostadius, his strictness, zeal, and forwardness, in abolishing auricular confession, and difference of meats, and casting out images out of Churches, at which things Luther was the more offended, because done by Carolostadius in Wittenberg, during Luther's absence, and without his knowledge and counsel. Luther did also allege that Carolostadius, ⟨p. 130⟩his strictness and zeal in these lesser things, hindered and retarded the Reformation in more substantial points of Doctrine. However the story noteth, that hence was the first rise of that deplorable Sacramentarian controversy, which hath ever since made so great a rupture in Germany. I could never yet observe, or read, or hear of controversies about discipline in any Christian Church, but still they grew higher and higher, and those who rejected, or slighted the will of Christ in smaller things, did afterwards slight it in greater things.

Thirdly, beware of those new Lights, which make any certain truth (although neither fundamentall, nor circumfundamentall) to be uncertaine, as wee ought not to say of any sin, so neither of any truth: Is it not a little one? Let every truth be highly valued. Buy the truth, and sell it not; say not, This truth is but a matter of discipline, let it goe, 'ts not worth the buying? He that is faithfull in that which is least, is faithfull also in much: and he that is un•ust in the least, is unjust also in much, Luke 16. 10. Melchior Adamus, both in the life of Carolostadius, and in the life of Luther, observeth the great evill which grew out of Luthers dislike of Carolostadius, his strictnesse, zeal, and forewardnesse, in abolishing auricular confession, and difference of meats, and casting out images out of Churches, at which things Luther was the more offended, because done by Carolostadius in Wittenbreg, during Luthers absence, and without his knowledge and counsell. Luther did also alledge that Carolostadius,