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False Prophets.
THREATS To False-Prophets, or, False-Teachers, and Seducers.
They are Punished, or Threatned
1 With being Deceived themselves (though they deceive others.) But evill men, and sedu∣cers, shall wax worse, and worse: deceiving, and being deceived, 2 Tim. 3. 13. For, as (in generall) none hurt themselves more, then they who hurt others, most: so none are more deceived, then such deceivers. They are deceived by the Devill, when they doe what they should not; and they are deceived by God, when they suffer what they would not; which they are sure to doe.
2 Impenitencie, and growing worse and worse. Worse in sinne, and worse in misery. But evill men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, 2 Tim. 3, 13. (as you had before)
Evill men] for such are evill in graine, wickedly (or malitiously) wicked, who do not only hold false doctrines themselves, but teach men so. In Matthew ch. 24 we read, that after our Saviour had said to his Dis∣ciples, There shall be false Prophets (vers. 11,) he presently added, And because iniquity