Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...

[ 1853] Sectarian subtilty, Diabolical delusion.

AS common Drunkards, when they get in a temperate Man upon their Ale∣house-bench, entice him, tempt him, tole him on, first to taste, then to pledg them, then when he is well whitled and come on, cup after cup, this health and that health,* 1.1 till he be fully fudled, and his brains intoxicated. Thus the subtile Sectarians are modest at the first, and very Maiden-like, they will not force upon their Proselytes a full carouse of their Circean cups, but by degrees, by lit∣tle and little, they wind into their hearts, and privily bring in damnable heresies. They do not violently rush, but slily creep into houses, and there they begin at

the apronstrings, with illiterate Mechanicks, silly women, such as are led more by a••••ection then Iudgment,* 1.2 then they let fall an apple to see if Atalanta will take it up, some general received Truth, but withall secretly foyst in some ••r∣ronious opinion, or poysonous principle,* 1.3 scatter some sparks of their mild-sire, to see whether they will heat or enflame; And having their methods and wayes,* 1.4 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 rules to go by: they grammer and ground their deluded Follow∣ers, 〈…〉〈…〉 admission in general and Fundamental principles of their black art, but let them not see at what they drive, acquaint them not at the first dash the mystery of Iniquity, the depths of Sathan, Rev. 2. 24.

Notes

• * 1.1

  R. Hooker's Eccles. polit. in preface.
• * 1.2

  Mr. Edwards Antopology, p. 296.
• * 1.3

  2 Pet. 2. 1.
• * 1.4

  Ephr. Pagett Heres••••graph. Ephes. 6. 11.