Revelation 8:10

The next judgment inflicted, or rather the farther progress of the former judgment, was the infecting of the waters and rivers with. mortal bitterness by. bitter star falling from heaven into them; denoting, some say, the fall of. great captain amongst the Jews in Judea; others understand it of heresy in general, of the Arian heresy in particular; and some apply it to the fall of Rome, the seat of the western empire; so Mr. Mede.

If it be understood of heresy, it shows us what. poisonous, bitter, and deadly nature, error and heresy is of. Error is as damnable as vice, the one is an open road, the other. by-path, to hell and destruction; and accordingly that person, and that people, which have. due care over their soul's salvation, will be as much afraid of erroneous principles as of debauched practices.