Notwithstanding▪ manifold evils prevailing, & threatening yet the Prophet will not admit that […] […] no Balm in Gilead, that there is no Physician there. Though Christ hath not ⟨p. 46⟩seen good to exempt his with a preservative from exercise by temptation, yet hath he so provided, as to supply them with a defensative against the evil of temptation. There was not more sickness amongst the people, then there was healing virtue in the Disciples gift, Mat: 10.1. A venomous Serpent may he brought into Crete, or Ireland, but (may report be credited) no such can live there. The wiles of the Devil are Serpentine and malignant, yet not to be compared to the wisdom of Christ. The Serpent's head is poisonous, but thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, his malignity is both antidated & antidoted. I will put enmity between thee & the woman, between thy seed & her seed. It shall bruise thy Head. Gen. 3.15. The Saviour of his people hath smitten Satan long ago in his intellectuals. His plots are foreseen, and the remedy hath prevented the disease. T▪o Christ belongs the prerogative of being the only Politician. Now a complete Polity exhibiteth means sufficient, as to the sufficiency of means, for the defence of the Law, and of all those that are loyal subjects thereunto. Would the Patient but regularly attend the prescript, there is no stratagem can infest the Churches, in reference whereunto we may not still boldly say; yet there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: According to this time, It shall be said of Jacob, & of Israel, what hath God wrought? Num. 23.33 mine eye affects my heart. Lam. 3.51. A due sight of the Spirit of error & heresy, is a great help to affect a Christian Spirit therewith. Monsters in nature are eye sores. The face of death, that King of Terrors, the living man by instinct turneth his face from. An unusual shape, a Satanical phantasm, a ghost, or apparition affrights the disciples. The vision of sin unto a spiritual eye, is an object of much more abhorrence then the former. But the face of heresy is of a more horrid aspect, then all the forenamed, put together: as arguing some signal enlargement of the power of darkness, as being in a high degree diabolical, prodigious, & portentous.
Notwithstanding▪ manifold evils prevailing, & threatning yet the Prophet will not admit that 〈…〉 〈…〉 no Balm in Gilead, that there is no Physician there. Though Christ hath not ⟨p. 46⟩seen good to exempt his with a preservative from exercise by temptation, yet hath he so provided, as to supply them with a defensative against the evill of temptation. There was not more sicknes amongst the people, then there was healing vertue in the Disciples gift, Mat: 10.1. A venimous Serpent may he brought into Crete, or Ireland, but (may report be credited) no such can live there. The wiles of the Devil are Serpentine and malignant, yet not to be compared to the wisdom of Christ. The Serpent's head is poysonous, but thanks be to God through Jesus Christ, his malignity is both antidated & antidoted. I will put enmity between thee & the woman, between thy seed & her seed. It shall bruise thy Head. Gen. 3.15. The Saviour of his people hath smitten Satan long agoe in his intellectuals. His plots are foreseen, and the remedy hath prevented the disease. T▪o Christ belongs the prerogative of being the only Politician. Now a compleat Polity exhibiteth meanes sufficient, as to the sufficiency of meanes, for the defence of the Law, and of all those that are loyal subjects thereunto. Would the Patient but regularly attend the prescript, there is no stratagem can infest the Churches, in reference whereunto wee may not still boldly say; yet there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. Surely there is no inchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: According to this time, It shall be said of Jacob, & of Israel, what hath God wrought? Num. 23.33 mine eye affects my heart. Lam. 3.51. A due sight of the Spirit of errour & heresie, is a great help to affect a Christian Spirit therewith. Monsters in nature are eye sores. The face of death, that King of Terrours, the living man by instinct turneth his face from. An unusual shape, a Satanical phantasm, a ghost, or apparition affrights the disciples. The vision of sin unto a spiritual eye, is an object of much more abhorrence then the former. But the face of heresie is of a more horrid aspect, then all the forenamed, put together: as arguing some signal inlargement of the power of darkness, as being in a high degree diabolical, prodigious, & portentous.
