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…

so that they who are under the Covenant of Grace, are not bound to walk by that rule, that they ought not to repent and mourn for sin, that God doth not afflict them for sin, that Faith without the evidence of any marks, or fruits of Sanctification doth assure the soul of its interest in Christ, and what is that scientia media which the Jesuits glory of as a new Light, but the very old error of natural men, which looks upon things contingent as not decreed and determined by the will of God, and what is the Erastian way which oppugneth suspension from the Lords Table, Excommunication, and all Church government. 5. What is it but a declaration or manifesto of the proud imaginations of mens corruptions, which say within themselves, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us: And y e take too much upon you Moses and Aaron, seeing all the congregation are holy every one of them, and the Lord is among them. I conclude this point, every natural man hath in his heart, somewhat of Popery, somewhat of Socinianism, somewhat of Arminianism, somewhat of Anabaptism, somewhat of Antinomianism, somewhat of Erastianism, (and I cannot bu• add) somewhat of Independency too, so far as it pleadeth for more liberty then Christ hath allowed, and if every man hath a Pope in his belly, as Luther said, then every man hath an Independent in his belly, (for the Pope is the greatest Independent in the world) and tis natural (I think) to every man to desire to be judged by no man.

so that they who are under the Covenant of Grace, are not bound to walk by that rule, that they ought not to repent and mourn for sin, that God doth not aff•ict them for sin, that Faith without the evidence of any marks, or fruits of Sanctification doth assure the soul of its interest in Christ, and what is that scientia media which the Iesuits glory of as a new Light, but the very old error of naturall men, which looks upon things contingent as not decreed and determined by the will of God, and what is the Erastian way which oppugneth suspension from the Lords Table, Excommunication, and all Church government. 5. What is it but a declaration or manifesto of the proud imaginations of mens corruptions, which say within themselves, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us: And y e take too much upon you Moses and Aaron, seeing all the congregation are holy every one of them, and the Lord is among them. I conclude this point, every naturall man hath in his heart, somewhat of Popery, somewhat of Socinianisme, somewhat of Arminianisme, somewhat of Anabaptisme, somewhat of Antinomianisme, somewhat of Erastianisme, (and I cannot bu adde) somewhat of Independency too, so farre as it pleadeth for more liberty then Christ hath allowed, and if every man hath a Pope in his belly, as Luther said, then every man hath an Independent in his belly, (for the Pope is the greatest Independent in the world) and tis naturall (I think) to every man to desire to be judged by no man.