The carnality of religious contention in two sermons preached at the merchant's lecture in…The carnality of religious contention in two sermons preach'd at the merchant's lecture in…

With which false Doctrines they conjoined a most impurely vicious Life and Practice; falling in much with the Jews in their corrupt Doctrines, and with the Pagans in their Licentious Practice. Which must be equally tempting to carnal Minds.

With which false Doctrines they conioyned a most impurely vicious Life and Practice; falling in much with the Jews in their corrupt Doctrines, and with the Pagans in their Licentious Practice. Which must be equally tempting to carnal Minds.

And this may make it appear less strange, that all these sorts of Carnality, that are here mentioned in this Context from ver. 15 to the 21st. should, in reference to the same sort of Men, be so put together.

For it is evident they were partly a Judaizing, and partly a Paganizing sort of Christians; as (for ends of their own) they affected to call themselves. They held it lawful for Christians to join with Pagans in their Solemnities of Worship, which they were wont to Celebrate in the Temples of their Idols. It is notorious how gross Impurities and Immoralities were ⟨p. 7⟩in those days incorporated into the Paganish Worship; such as made it sufficiently reasonable that Idolatry should have in conjunction with it Fornication, and Adultery, Uncleanness and Lasciviousness. And for the addition of Witchcraft, it was not unaccountable, there being also Sorceries, Magical Rites and Diabolical Incantations observed to have been intermingled with the Sacra of the Pagans. And for which these (misnamed) Christians might have the greater kindness also, for the sake of Simon Magus, the Father of their Sect, by whom the Affectation thereof was transmitted to some of his noted Followers, that thought it a glorious thing to vie with their Predecessor in this sort of Excell•nc.