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…

Secondly, there is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding, all lusts which, a natural man lives in, are lusts of Ignorance, 1 Pet, 1. 14. the sins of the people are called the errors of the people, Heb: 9, 7: and the wicked person is the fool in the Proverbs, the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, and what is the reason, because they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned, 1 Cor: 2, 14. the world cannot receive the spirit of Truth, because it knoweth him not, Joh: 14, 17. The •opish Doctrines of free will, of Justification by works, of meat, of implicit Faith, of believing the Scriptures because the Church receiveth them, (& what marvel that they do so whose eyes are not opened to see the Sun beam of Divine light in the Scripture it self, which is Spiritually discerned.) Of the Sacraments conferring of Grace, and the like, also the So•inian tenets that a man is no• bound to believe any Article of Faith, nor any interpretation of Scripture, except it agree with his reason, that Pastors and Ministers of the word have not now any distinguishing sacred vocation, authorizing them to be the Ambassadors of Christ, to preach and minister the Sacraments more nor other Christians (which is also maintained by a late Erastian writer in the Netherlands.) These and the like errors professed and maintained by them, what are they but so many legible commentaries and manifest interpretations of those corrupt and erroneous principles, which are lurking and secretly seated in the judgements and understandings of natural and unregenerated persons, as well learned as uulearned: these Heretics do but bring forth to the light of the Sun, what is hid within the minds of other unregenerate persons, ⟨p. 151⟩as in so many dark dungeons: The like I say of t•e Arminian Doctrine of universal grace; and universal atonement by Christs death And of Original sin, that it is not properly sin, (which doctrines are common to many Anabaptists, with the Arminians,) the like I say also of the Antinomian doctrines, that Christ hath abolished not only the curse and rigour and compulsion, but the very rule it self of the moral Law;

Secondly, there is no sinfullnesse in the will and affections without some error in the understanding, all lusts which, a naturall man lives in, are lusts of Ignorance, 1 Pet, 1. 14. the sins of the people are called the errors of the people, Heb: 9, 7: and the wicked person is the foole in the Proverbs, the naturall man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, and what is the reason, because they are foolishnesse unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned, 1 Cor: 2, 14. the world cannot receive the spirit of Truth, because it knoweth him not, Ioh: 14, 17. The opish Doctrines of free will, of Justification by works, of meat, of implicite Faith, of believing the Scriptures because the Church receiveth them, (& what marvel that they do so whose eyes are not opened to see the Sun beame of Divine light in the Scripture it self, which is Spiritually discerned.) Of the Sacraments conferring of Grace, and the like, also the Soinian tenents that a man is no bound to believe any Artile of Faith, nor any interpretation of Scripture, except it agree with his reason, that Pastors and Ministers of the word have not now any distinguishing sacred vocation, authorizing them to be the Ambassadours of Christ, to preach and minister the Sacraments more nor other Christians (which is also maintained by a late Erastian writer in the Netherlands.) These and the like errors professed and maintained by them, what are they but so many legible commentaries and manifest interpretations of those corrupt and erroneous principles, which are lurking and secretly seated in the judgements and understandings of naturall and unregenerated persons, als well learned as uulearned: these Hereticks do but bring foorth to the light of the Sun, what is hid within the mynds of other unregenerat persons,