is intimated and implicitely contained such a _connex axiom_ as this: If there shall be false teachers among you, like as there were false Prophets among the people of Israel, then must you be alike careful to beware of these, as the Israelites were warned heretofore to beware of them. After that description which is made by way of comparison, followes an absolute description; wherein the false teachers are described by their effects. Which effects have either an immediate reference unto the false teachers themselves, or unto others by them. Those that have reference unto the false teachers themselves, are 1. The bringing in of heresies, which are set forth by their adjunct, that they are damnable, whereof he gives a reason also, taken from the nature of heresies, which is said to be such, that _it brings in a denying of the Lord_. 2. The second effect is, that _they bring upon themselves swift destruction_. In respect of others the first effect is, that _they shall have many followers_, who are pointed out by another effect accompanying this seducing, namely, _a speaking evill of the truth, or of the Gospell, which shall come to passe by their meanes_. The other effect is the abuse of those whom they do seduce for gain; which abuse is set forth by the helping cause, namely _by fained words_. The Doctrines arising herehence. Doctrine 1. _There are alwayes false prophets and false teachers in the Church._ This is gathered from these words: _there were, there shall bee_. _Reason._ This comes to passe in a threefold respect, 1. in respect of God. 2. In respect of the Devill. 3. In respect of men. First, in respect of God, and that 1. that they which are approved in the Church may be made manifest, _1 Corinthians 11.19._ _Deuteronomy 13.3._ 2. That the obstinate wicked may perish in their ungodlinesse and cruelty, _2 Thessalonians 2.10,11,12._ _1 Kings 22.20,21,22._ Secondly, in respect of the Devill, because he is alwayes the father of lyes, and a murtherer, and that envious one, which soweth tares among the good seed. Thirdly, In respect of men, because the wisdome of the flesh is enmity against God and his truth. The use hereof according to the Apostles intention is twofold: _Vse_ 1. To admonish us, not to be offended, nor to be too much troubled in minde, when we see heresies to arise in the Church, but to say as the Apostle did, _There were, there shall be_. 2. To instruct us, not to believe every spirit, but to try whether they are of God, _1 Iohn 4.1._ Doctrine 2. _Every heresie hath damnation joyned with it._