[41] Eph. ii. 1; Col. ii. 13; 1 Cor. xv. 35; 1 Tim. v. 6; Joel i. 5
[42] Rom. viii. 9, 16; Rom. ix. 8; Eph. ii. 3.
[43] See my sermon on Prov. i. 32, in the end of "The vain Religion of the Formal Hypocrite."
[44] Read Mr. Bolton's Assize Sermon on 1 Cor. i. 26.
[45] See more of Temptations, chap. iii. direct. 9.
[46] I have since written a book on this subject, to which I refer the reader for fuller direction.
[47] Fere idem exitus est odii et amoris insani. Senec. de Ben.
[48] Scientia quæ est remota à justitia, calliditas potium quam sapientia appellanda est. P. Scalig. Of the necessity of prudence in religious men, read Nic. Videlius de Prudent. Veterum. The imprudences of well meaning men have done as much hurt to the church sometimes as the persecution of enemies. e. g. When Constantine, the son of Constans, was emperor, some busy men would prove from the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity, that his two brethren, Tiberius and Heraclius, should reign with him: saying, Si in Trinitate credimus, tres etiam coronemus; which cost the chief of them a hanging. Abbas Urspergens. Edit. Melancth. p. 162.
[49] Leg. Acost. 1. 4. c. 21 et 22. de fructu catechizandi. Et Li. 5.
[50] Opus est imprimis duplici catechismo: Uno compendario et brevi quem memoriter addiscant; ubi summa sit eorum omnium quæ ad fidem et mores Christiano sunt necessaria: altero uberiore, ubi eadem amplius, dilucidiusque dicantur, et copiosius confirmentur: ut ille prior discipulis potius, hic posterior ipsis præceptoribus usu sit. Acosta, l. 5. c. 14. p. 490.