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O Sirs, take heed ye are not deceived; may be ye look upon the Lives and Conversations of Men, and you think they are good Men, holy Men; yet for all this examine the Doctrine they preach: for an evil and corrupt Doctrine may be as pernicious and damnable as an evil Conversation. But there were false Prophets also among the People, even as there shall be […] Teachers among you, who shall privily ¹bring in damnable Heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift Destruction.

O Sirs, take heed ye are not deceived; may be ye look upon the Lives and Conversations of Men, and you think they are good Men, holy Men; yet for all this examine the Doctrine they preach: for an evil and corrupt Doctrine may be as pernicious and damnable as an evil Conversation. But there were false Prophets also among the People, even as there shall be 〈…〉 Teachers among you, who shall privily ¹bring in damnable Heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift Destruction.

1. 12 Pet. 2. 2.

7thly, Be wary also, lest you are carried away with the Error of the Wicked, to doubt of, or deny the Resurrection of the Body: If once you come to deny the Resurrection, your State is dangerous, for that is a capital Error: If the Dead rise not, then ¹is not Christ risen; and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your Faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false Witnesses of God, because we testified of God that he raised up Christ; whom he raised not up, if so be that the Dead rise not. It must be the same Body, not another; for if not the same, it will be no Resurrection, but a new Creation; and if not the same Body, but another, then it will not be that Body that suffered for Christ that shall be glorified, nor that Body that sinned against God and Christ that shall be punished, but an innocent Body, a Body that never sinned.