1. Wavering in Religion: How many do ⟨p. 300⟩we see desultorii ingenii, unresolved and unsteady: Like Reuben, unstable as water, Gen. 49. 4. These the Apostle fitly compares to waves of the Sea, and wandering Stars, Jude 13. They are not fixed in the principles of godliness. Beza writes of one Bolsechus, his Religion changed like the* Moon: Such were the Ebionites, who kept the Jewish Sabbath and the Christian: Many Professors are like the River Euripus, ebbing and flowing in matters of Religion; they are like reeds, bending every way, either to the Mass or the† Alcoran: They are like the Planet Mercury, which doth vary, and is seldom constant in its motion: When men think of heaven, and the recompense of reward, then they will be godly; but when they think of Persecution, then they are like the Jews, who deserted Christ, and walked no more with him, John 6. 66. Did mens faces alter as fast as their Opinions, we should not know them: to be thus vacillant and wavering in Religion, argues lightness: Feathers are blown any way, so are feathery Christians.
1. Wavering in Religion: How many do ⟨p. 300⟩we see desultorii ingenii, unresolved and unsteady: Like Reuben, unstable as water, Gen. 49. 4. These the Apostle fitly compares to waves of the Sea, and wandring Stars, Iude 13. They are not fixed in the principles of godliness. Beza writes of one Bolsechus, his Religion changed like the* Moon: Such were the Ebionites, who kept the Jewish Sabbath and the Christian: Many Professors are like the River Euripus, ebbing and flowing in matters of Religion; they are like reeds, bending every way, either to the Mass or the† Alchoran: They are like the Planet Mercury, which doth vary, and is seldome constant in its motion: When men think of heaven, and the recompence of reward, then they will be godly; but when they think of Persecution, then they are like the Jews, who deserted Christ, and walked no more with him, Iohn 6. 66. Did mens faces alter as fast as their Opinions, we should not know them: to be thus vacillant and wavering in Religion, argues lightness: Feathers are blown any way, so are feathery Christians.
- *Religionem Ephemeram habuit.
- †Hos cum hyaena meritò comparaveris, de quâ Plinius lib. 7. cap. 2. Hyaena sicut & ichneumon, nunc mas est nunc faemina, it a quidem sui dissimiles, nunc Deo serviunt, nunc carni, ab uno ad aliud transferuntur, tipula leviores.
