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1. By way of Caution: and here in general, Beware that you judg not of Truth by false Rules. Every smooth stone, is not to be counted a touch stone, nor will it distinguish of Metals; there are many Balances that Men make, in which a thing may bear weight, which when it is brought to the Standard will there be found too light.

1. By way of Caution: and here in general, Beware that you judg not of Truth by false Rules. Every smooth stone, is not to be counted a touch stone, nor will it distinguish of Mettals; there are many Ballances that Men make, in which a thing may bear weight, which when it is brought to the Standard will there be found too light.

But more particularly, let me caution you in special against such things as the generality of men are wont to suffer themselves to be abused by: And here,

1. Receive nothing for a Divine Truth upon the […]: And therefore have a care ⟨p. 99⟩of having mens persons too much in admiration; the Apostle complains of such, Jude 16. Having mens persons in admiration because of advantage. That may be true which men teach, but it is not therefore so because they teach it: it derives not its verity from their authority: hence you have a description of a right entertaining of the Word of God, in 1 Thess. 2. 13. When ye received the Word of God, which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but (as it is in Truth) the Word of God. That which is it self false, cannot alter the property, or become otherwise, though it should come with the authority of an Angel; hence, that,