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John Trapp on Matthew 16:6

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Matthew16:6

Verse 6. Take heed and beware of the leaven] Or take knowledge [non-Latin text not transcribed] [illegible: 2 words] est [non-Latin text not transcribed] [illegible: 2 words]. of, and then take heed of false doctrine; which is fitly called leaven, because it sowreth, swelleth, spreadeth, corrupteth the whole lump, and all this secretly, slily, easily, suddenly; neither can our eyes discern it from dowe by the colour, but only our pallate by the tast. Now the [illegible: 1 word] trieth words, as the mouth trieth meat, Job 343. Try all things before you trust any thing. Those that sow [illegible: 1 word] doctrine, are somewhere in the Acts called [non-Latin text not transcribed], pests, Acts 24. 5. botches, for their danger of infection: some can carry their collusion so cleanly, that if possible the very elect might be deceived; like serpents, they can sting without hissing; like cur-doggs, suck your bloud without biting. Nota est Arry [non-Latin text not transcribed], saith one, quâ [non-Latin text not transcribed] ponentes [illegible: 1 word] [non-Latin text not transcribed]. [illegible: 1 word] de fide Ni [illegible: 1 word] elusit examen, by the cogging of a dye, by the adding of one Iota, they corrupted the sense of the Habuerunt [illegible: 1 word] quo [illegible: 2 words] quam [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. whole Synod. The Valentinians had a trick to perswade before they taught. The ancient Antiirinitarians set forth a base book of their doctrines under [illegible: 1 word] name, and sold it dog-cheap, that men might the sooner [illegible: 1 word] it, and be led by it, as Ruffinus complains. Take heed and beware of such: ye are not ignorant of their wiles. Of the Pharisees, and of the Sadduces.] [non-Latin text not transcribed],Erasm. [illegible: 1 word]. Never a barrel better herring. Howbeit the Sadduces affected, by their very name, to be held the only just men; haplyJoseph. lib. 17. cap 3. & 18. cap. 1. because they held, that all the reward that righteous men are to look for, is here in this world. The occasion of this [illegible: 1 word] is said to be this. When Antigonus taught, that we must not serve God for wages, his scholars understood him, as if he had utterly denied allGodwin. [illegible: 1 word]. future rewards or recompence attending a godly life: and thence framed their heresie, denying the Resurrection, world to come, Angels, devils, and lived as Epicures and Libertines.

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