Verse 18. A good tree cannot bring forth evil 〈◊〉〈◊〉, &c.]
Here∣tikes then, and heterodoxes are not good honest men, as the vul∣gar 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them. For their pretended holinesse, and counterfeit humility, Col. 2. 18. Were they humble men indeed, they would* 1.1 soon yeeld to the truth discovered unto them, and relinquish their erroneous opinions. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 could not be a good man, as Bucholcerus judged him, so long as he held fast his heresies, though he were much in the commendation of a new life, and detestation of an evil: though himself praid much, and lived so∣berly. He bewitched many with those magnificent words, and stately tearms that he had much in his mouth, of Illumination, Revelation, Deification: the inward and spirituall man, &c. but in the mean while, he denied the humane nature of Christ to be a creature; and called those that thought otherwise Creaturists. He affirmed the Scripture to be but a dead letter: which they that held not, he called them Scripturists. Faith he said was nothing else but God dwelling in us, as Osiander after him. In a word,* 1.2 he was a leper in his head, and is therefore pronounced utterly 〈◊〉〈◊〉. An evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit. That popish in∣quisitour* 1.3 was quite out, that said the Waldensian Haereticks may be discerned by their manners and words: for they are modest, true, grave, and full of brotherly love one towards another, but ranck haeretikes. This was somewhat like Pliny, his description of the Christians in that Province, where he was governour. And here I cannot omit, that when the B. of Worcester exhorted M. Philpot the Martyr (being brought to his answer,) before he began to speak, to pray to God for grace. Nay, my Lord of Worcester said Bonner, you doe not well to exhort him to make any praier: for this is the thing they have a singular pride in. For in this point they are much like to certain arrant haeretikes, of