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2. Heresies and errors come from damnable causes; therefore they are not to be slighted: the general cause of them is made to be the flesh, Gal. 5.20. and reckoned in the nature of them with gross sins, murders, whoredoms, &c. and joined in the damnable effect of them, They that do ⟨p. 21⟩these things shall never inherit the Kingdom of heaven; neither is there any necessity of that forced interpretation, to take heresies (there spoken of) for contentions and strifes, seeing though the word may denote some wilful pertinacie, yet it frequently signifieth some pertinacy about religious matters; by this therefore it appeareth, that a man may be carnal by his head-sins, as well as by his hand-sins; then there are more particular causes mentioned by Scripture of error, which are damnable, as obstinacy, covetousness, pride, and vain-glory, as in Marcion, when he said, [Greek or Hebrew], he would throw the fire-balls of contention, which should be unquenchable like those of hell: especially these errors are of a damnable cause, when they come from a looseness of heart, as those that dispute against the morality of the Sabbath, and the strict keeping of it, and against the obligation of the moral law, and the divinity of the Scriptures; therefore go to the fountain of every error, and see how dangerous that is.

2. Heresies and errours come from damnable causes; therefore they are not to be sleighted: the generall cause of them is made to be the flesh, Gal. 5.20. and reckoned in the nature of them with grosse sins, murders, whoredoms, &c. and joyned in the damnable effect of them, They that do ⟨p. 21⟩these things shall never inherit the Kingdom of heaven; neither is there any necessity of that forced interpretation, to take heresies (there spoken of) for contentions and strifes, seeing though the word may denote some wilfull pertinacie, yet it frequently signifieth some pertinacy about religious matters; by this therefore it appeareth, that a man may be carnall by his head-sins, as well as by his hand-sinnes; then there are more particular causes mentioned by Scripture of errour, which are damnable, as obstinacy, covetousnesse, pride, and vain-glory, as in Marcion, when he said, , he would throw the fire-bals of contention, which should be unquenchable like those of hell: especially these errours are of a damnable cause, when they come from a loosenesse of heart, as those that dispute against the morality of the Sabbath, and the strict keeping of it, and against the obligation of the morall law, and the divinity of the Scriptures; therefore goe to the fountain of every errour, and see how dangerous that is.