17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.



Ver. 17. They zealously affect you] Depereunt vos; as jealous woers they would have you whole to themselves without a co-rival, åñùò and åñéò are related.



They would exclude us] As standing in their way. This is the guise of all sectaries and seducers, they denigrate the true teachers that they may be the only men.



That you might affect them] Our Antinomians call upon their hearers to mark, it may be they shall hear that which they have not heard before, when the thing is either false, or if true, no more than ordinarily is taught by others.



" Quid dignum tanto ferat hic promissor hiatu?"



Her. de Art. Poet.