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 proof of the thing, somewhat might be said from the very light of nature, for hath a nation changed their Gods, •er: 2. 11. Religion hath the very name of it, a Religando, so far it is, a Relaxando. The heathen Greeks called a •ubricus and inconstant man [Greek or Hebrew]. They said also, that he who errs or miscarries in his Religion, doth [Greek or Hebrew], drink out of a bored or foraminous cup. How firm and constant ⟨p. 135⟩have heathen Philosophers been in maintaining their opinions? they could not only displease their friends, amicus Plato, &c. but suffer the heaviest things for their opinions. And shall not we much more hold fast the profession of the true faith? Zonaras Annal, tom: 3. In the reign of Michael the Emperor, the son of Theophilus, tells us▪ that when the sister of the Prince of Bulgaria became a Christian, and the Prince also by her means converted, the Bulgarians conspired against him for this change of Religion. This diabolical steadfastness of theirs, provoked him to a true Christian steadfastness, till by Gods assistance and blessing, they were made to turn to him, but he turned not again to them. The Athenians impeached Socrates upon his life, for going about to innovate and change their Religion. But to set aside natures light, there is not any of the primitive Churches, to which the Apostles wrote Epistles, but they were expressly warned either positively to stand fast in the faith, to hold fast their profession, or negatively to beware of and to avoid false teachers, and not to be carried about with diverse and strange Doctrines. Now it must needs be, not only a truth, but a most special and necessary truth, which the Apostles thought fit, thus to press upon the Churches in all their Epistles written to them. See Rom: 16. 17, 18. 1 Cor: 16. 13 2 Cor. 11: 3, 4. Gal: 1 6, 8. Eph: 4. 14. Phil. 3. 2. 18. Col: 2. 6. 7, 8. 2 Thess. 2. 2. 3. Hebr. 10. 23