snova) "from the faith;" (and, then, for the very manner of their Apostatizing he adds oorles) “giving heed προσεχονίες) "to seducing Spirits and to doctrines 66 66 of Demons" (for whatsoever outward appearances the Demons may have assumed, in order the more effectually to seduce them, yet the Doctrines themselves, which the Church of Rome has adopted confessedly on account of supernatural appearances and spiritual relations, are so notoriously contrary to the Holy Scriptures, and to " the Faith once delivered to the Saints," that there can be no reason to doubt of their being really what the Apostle has expressly called them, viz. Doctrines of Demons,) "speaking Lies in hypo"crisy, having their conscience seared" (or cauterized)" Forbidding to Marry” (and commanding) "to abstain from" meals, &c. This fatal Apostatizing, "from "the faith," (by “some persons”—TWEC) both as to the manner of it, and the prin cipal doctrinal marks of it, could not have been more expressly declared than they are in this Text; insomuch, that the 66 TIVES, or some persons-apostatizing" need no farther description to make them known than these very circumstances as declared in the Text, whereby the Church of Rome hath been most notoriously convicted and exposed for many centuries! DEO SOLI GLORIA. AN |