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…

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgement of others, and perverted them in the way of Religion, it was the love of preeminence whi•h perverted Diotrephes, 1 •o. 3. 9. 10. It was pride which made Coreth, Dathan and Abiram cry down the Magistracy of Moses, and the priesthood of Aaron, a•d cry up the whole congregation as holy, it was the love of a crown that made Jeroboam set up his Calves, and make another Altar, and other priests, and erect that independent Church of his, which should not go up with their hard cases to the Sanhedrin at Jerusalem Henry the fourth of France, who was once a Protestant, changed his Religion for the same cause▪ that he might get a Crown: So did Julian the Apostate once a Christian▪ Porphyrius forsook the Christians, that he might be the better ⟨p. 145⟩avenged upon some Christian in Caesarea of Palestine, who had done him a wrong, yea there is an innate pride in all men by nature against Jesus Christ, Psal. 2. 3. Luke 19. 14. Which pride must be mortified, 2 Cor: 10. 5.

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgement of others, and p•rverted them in the way of Religion, it was the love of preheminence whi•h perverted Diotrephes, 1 •o. 3. 9. 10. It was pride which made Coreth, Dathan and Abiram cry down the Magistracie of Moses, and the priesthood of Aaron, a•d cry up the whole congregation as holy, it was the love of a crown that made Ieroboam set up his Calves, and make another A'tar, and other priests, and erect that independent Church of his, which should not go up with their hard cases to the Sanhedrin at Jerusalem Henry the fourth of France, who was once a Protestant, changed his Religion for the same cause▪ that he might get a Crown: So did Iulian the Apostate once a Christian Porphyrius forsook the Christians, that he might be the better