The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…

They are wholesome words both by way of opposition to doctrines that poison and corrupt the minds of men: and by ⟨p. 4⟩way of difference from such truths as for the present and in some respects are not wholesome to the hearers though in themselves they be wholesome.

They are wholesome words both by way of opposition to doctrines that poyson and corrupt the mindes of men: and by ⟨p. 4⟩way of difference from such truthes as for the present and in some respects are not wholsome to the hearers though in themselues they be wholesome.

We may observe by diverse passages in the Epistles of the Apostle, what kind of Doctrine he accounts to be in it self ¹unwholesome, as all false Doctrine contrary to the Gospel of Jesus Christ: such as was Justification by works, the forbidding of marriage and meats, the denial of the Resurrection and the like: and this he calls [Greek or Hebrew], to teach other ²Doctrine. Such corrupt stuff the Apostles also accounted all the vain janglings of men with pride and perverseness wrangling about words, or disputing of needless things, and those he calls [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew], &c. 1. Tim. 1. 3. & 6. 4, 5. •0. Further unwholesome words, the Apostle accounts all their curiosities and vain speculations in Philosophy, as when out of the liking of the writings of old Philosophers, they brought in Angel worship into the Churches,