who deny all the fupernaturall mysteries of Faith Written in the Book of God; Blush ye Heavens, and be ashamed O Earth at the Atheisticall libertinifme of this licentious age. Seducers who did thruft men out of the way which the Lord commanded them by his written word to walk in, were put Mr. Bur. to death, Deut. 13.5,10..though they were roughes directed by a fupernaturall Revelation, to

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pag. 35.

walk in that way.Reverend Mr. Burroughs fions. doeth often acknowledge in his Irenicum, that fuch as profeffe Chriftianity, are justly punished for finning against the common light of Christianity, For it is not confcience, but the Devil in the confcience which moves Chriftians to maintaine errours against the light of Christianity, erreurs that are deftructive to the Chriftian Religion; and if any man bath a minde to be an Advocate for the Devil, I dare not be an Advocate for him; only I defire him to beware how he hearkens to the Divell in Samuels mantle, and befeech him to cry mightily to him who alone can caft out Devills,to caft the Devil out of hisconfcience,& place himself there as on aThrone, The very atthat he may rule the confcience, and com- tempt of kil mand the whole man by his Word & Spirit. Ling a Soule deferves

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XIX. He that by feducing feeks to thruft Death. men away from the beleife and worship of see Mater. the only true God, Father, Son, and Holy Cottons Ghost, doth deferve to be punished for his Tenent very attempt and endeavour to fubvert

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foules, though he doth not prevaile with one foule to depart from God. Because he hath fought to thrust thee away from Jehovah thy God. Deut. 13. 10. The very murtherous attempt of killing a foule by abufing an Ordinance of God, corrupting of Religion, telling lyes in the name of the Lord,fathering our own damnable lyes upon the holy Spirit, is a Capitall crime.

XX. Chriftians are in a worse condition then the Jewes were,if men may seduce our wives and children into such opinions and practices as will certainly undoe their fouls to all eternity, and wee muft onely increat them not to feduce our friends to Hell,and the Chriftian Magiftrate hath no power to. punish these Soule-murthering feducers. This argument is affectionately preffed by fweet Mr. Burroughs in his book of Heart divifions, pag. 23. 24.

I have much more to deliver upon this weighty point; but I remember what Hugo faid, That it is beft at fome time to say nothing, at every time to fay enough, but at no time to fay all.

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