The danger of Conventicles [ 463]
CUnning Thieves,* 1.1 when they can draw a Travailer out of the common road way into some by path, then it is that they rob him; deceitful Tradesmen will be sure of a false light, to put off their bad Wares by: and in dark Cellars, there may soon be water mixt with wine. Thus the Ordinances of God are never more perver∣ted, and the doctrine of the Gospel by seducers never more corrupted, then when they can draw silly men and women, out of the open places of ordinary recourse, in∣to their close corners, and lone houses; there it is that they vend their counterfeit Wares, and there it is too that that they mixe their Wine with Worm-wood, set false glosses upon the truth of Gods word; there it is that they make Scripture speak not what God intends, but what they in their wild fancies imagine, but that there would be such as should cry up Christ in a corner, Christ himself foretold it; Be∣hold he is in the secret Chamber, Mat. 24. 26.