and the Beelzebub of those flies in Calvins time, shuts his sore eyes against this definition of sinne, delivered by the Apostle, and makes this onely to be a sinne, viz. to see, know, or feele sinne, and that the great sinne of man is to thinke that he doth sinne, and that this is to put off the old man, viz. Non cernendo amplius peccatum, i. by not see∣ing sinne. So that when the Apostle tels us that sinne is the trangression of the law, Porquius tels us, That sinne is the seeing and taking notice of any such transgression; surely if they that confesse sinne shall finde mercy, then they that will not so much as see sinne shall finde none at all: A Be∣leever indeed is to dye unto the Law, and to see no sinne in himselfe in point of imputation (for so he sees the truth, there being no condemnation to them in Christ Jesus) but thus to dye unto the law, so as to see no sinne inherent in himselfe, against the law, this is impious (for so to see no sinne and die unto the law is an untruth, if the Apostle may be believed, 1 Iohn 1.10.) Those that so annihilate a Christi∣an, and make him nothing and God all, so that a Christi∣an must neither scire, velle or sentire any thing of himselfe, but he must be melted into God, and dye to these (for then they say he is out of the flesh) and live in God, and God must bee himselfe, and such like language, which in truth is nothing else but the swelling leaven of the devout and proud Monks, laid up of late in that little peck of meale of Theologia Ger∣manica, out of which some risen up of late have made their cakes, for the ordinary food of their deluded hearers: I say these men had need take heed how they stand upon this precipice, and that they deliver their judgements wa∣rlly, for although a Christian is to bee nothing by seeing and loathing himselfe for sinne, that so Christ may bee all in all to him; yet so to bee made nothing, as to see, know, thinke, feele, will, desire nothing in respect of ones selfe, doth inevitably lead to see no sinne in ones selfe, by seeing which the soule is most of all humbled, and so God and Jesus Christ is most of all exalted; and yet such a kind of annihilation the old Monks have pleaded for, and preach∣ed also (as I could shew abundantly from out of their own writings) insomuch that sometime they counsell men not to pray, because they must be so farre annihilated, as ni∣hil velle; and sometimes they would feigne themselves un∣able to beare the burthen of the species of their own pitch∣ers in their cels from one end of them unto another, because forsooth they were so farre annihilated (as neither to vel••••