3. Hereticks and false Teachers who yet professe to beleeve
in God Creator of heaven and earth, and in Iesus Christ,
to hold also the Scriptures the word of God, may yet ••each such
Doctrins that they may be justly stiled false Prophets, Apostates,
Idolaters, Blasphemers, as divers of the ancient Hereticks, Me∣vandrians,
Gnosticks, Manichees, with others, and sundry of the
later sort, Papists, the Libertines against whom Calvin writes,
Socinians, Familists. The Apostles in many places of their
writings speaking of Hereticks and false Teachers in their
times, and Prophecying of those in after times, both the Po∣pish
faction and the Sectarian, speak of them as Apostates, An∣ti-Christs,
false Prophets, Seducers, Deceivers, Idolaters, Blas∣phemers,
and their Doctrines and wayes as Apostafie, Idola∣trie,
Blasphemie, worshipping of Devils, Seducing and such
like, as these and many other such like places of Scripture
show, 2 Thes. 2. 3. 1 Tim. 4. 1. 2 Tim. 2. 17. 18. 1 Tim.
1. 19. 20. 2 Pet. 2. 1. 1 Iohn. 2. 18, 19, 22, 23, 26. 1 Iohn.
4. 1, 2, 3. 2 Epist. of Iohn 7. 9, 10. Iude verse 4. Revel. 2. 20.
Revel. 9. 20. Revel. 13. 5, 6. Revel. 16. 13, 14. Revel. 13. 3, 5.
Revel. 18. 4, 9. Revel. 19. 20. It were easie for me to show
how many of the Hereticks in the three first Centuries that
professed the name of Christ, and therefore not cald infidels,
might justly be termed Apostates, false Prophets, Idolaters,
Blasphemers: Junius observes upon Deuteronomy 13. that He∣reticks
are distinguished divers wayes, Heresie is either totall
as that of the Menandrians, Gnosticks, &c, or partial departing
only in part from the Doctrine of faith: Now I suppose totall
Heresie, will easily be acknowledged Apostafie; but I will
only instance in some Hereticks and false Teachers of the latter
times, Papists, Socinians, Antitrinitarians, Anabaptistis. Are
not Papists grosse Idolaters in severall particulars, as our
Divines have unanswerably showen in their writings a∣gainst
them? Are not Socinians also Apostates, grosse
Idolaters, who make the Christian faith in the object
of faith and worship not to bee distinguished from the
faith and worship of Heathens, Iewes, and Mahumetans,
and besides one God Maker of all things, worship
Christ with divine worship whom yet they hold to be but a