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Show I ~- ~ ~~- - ~ - !,.. • . 64 Haw the Suord is u[~d againft errors. - ---- -· ------ to compell Pharifes to fubmit to the Dothine or Religion of Chrift Jefus. A11d therefore allthefeChapters from 29· to 35· (feven Ctiaprers in all) tendmg to prove that Chrifts Difciples were to let th< Pharif<s alone in this way, are but fo many ~mpry flourifiJes, b:arin~the a ire,& playing with a [Judow. And yet the rell of the Chapters which remaine muft not palfe without fome Advcrtif< ment of li.rcb pailages in them ,as doe corrupt the truth of Chrift. How the P!Jarifcs can be as good fubje8:s, and as peaceable, and profitable to the civill State as any, who yet dellroyed the civil\ State, by deftroying Chrill; let any but a blindconfcicnce jud~~;• CHAP· 33· Difcuffer. , , 1'[ is truth, '!ht mifchiefe of a blind P hari[es blind guidance, is gre~ler then ifhe aiJedtreafom, murders,&c. And thelo.fli of•nefouleby ·his [edu[iion, is a greattr mifchiefe, then if he I> lew up P arltam<nll, or e11t the throats of Kings and Emperours, &c. And therefore a jirm~jujlice, that requires an eye for an ~e, a tootb for a tooth, life for life, call<th alfo foule for foule. Butth~t no civill [word can injliU, butt be LnrdJefuson<ly. Defender •• Reply 1, But he that corrupteth a (oule with a corrupt religion, orwm fi1ip, layeth a fpreading leaven, which cor.rupteth the State. The Idolatry began in the Haufe of Micah, corrupte:l L•iJh, Judges chap. '7· and chap. 18. And that was the beginning •ffinne to the D'ug,hter ofZirm, Micah 1. •3· Aod that Apoftacy wa.s the captivity of tbe Land. As in the New-Teftament, the worfhtp of Images was the advancement of rhe '!ur~s, and the ruine ~f Chri!\ian States, Rev. 9· 1 4• to 21. When therefore the corrupu· on, or dellrueion of foulcs, is a dellru8:ion alloof lives, liberties, eftatcs ofmen, lextalioni<eallethfor, not or.ely foule forfoule, but life forlife. Reply 2. Falfe Prophets io the Old· Tcftament did but co_rrupt the Coules of fome, and it may be 'did not corrupt them neuher, but attempted itonely . . -'lnd yetamong fi Gods people,wherc ltx tafi~r1i.1 was much attended, the Law was, 'thine eye JhaU not JP•~1 burt him, D~-ut. '3· !he reafon of which execution is not !etched fro ao£yf~i ypfr cha llholmeffeoftheLand·· butfromtheda ngerous wr· c ke d m-ne e o c. e. attempt, to thru~ aw•y a foule from God, which is a greater m)ury, then to depnve a man of• bodily life. Difcuffer. But dead men camrot die, nor be infeiJuJ N 111 11 he • • 11 State, the world, are dead in jinne, &c. • ""' men, .t mn ·Defellder. :RrpZ, I. Dead men may be made worfe b corru T trl,.·jold mure the cbildren •f hell then befo:e ~ tth pt eac'A;,~ therefore fuch asfo corrupt them are wo:th •. "23 · 1 5• f d proceeding of a two-fold death. ' . Y m a way o ue Reply 2. Such as profelfe the truth of the Do&rin d W !hip of Chrift, they live a kind of fpiritualllife tho e ~n oras accompanieth falvation. Elfe how are fal fef each ug no~ },uc~ as are led by them, faid to be 1..,ice dead pil•cl·e, 'Per:._, abn uc 1 J de 2 A d h f • • ' ~." u VJ t e r11o11 " ver. I • n t ere ore tt IS not tr!lc that r. ch b . . 1 lift ' .I • ' '" as et1•g 1n ana- IR' a att, are aea<~Jn jinne, caHnot be infelJed no d' . · Difcutfer. . ' r· lt agame. ~:::be~qftm"':: ~l('J:io~ ofthhe plague, f.-in the infe[ii0n of'her(.t, I'HC~ ea fl> ut "' Olfl God hath thereHnto ordained &c . Defender. • ' ' h ~tp!JI ·r ..• No more can any man bemurthered bmwho G cf a}. ordam~d thereunto• But it is a prophane facriledgem 0 • c~ e, ?r allevrate the punifhment of Iinne by Gods·eternall to ;f l1lmauon. Was the finne.ot Herod, or the ':l,,u or of"" prcp~ate any h. h 1 tr :J' ' TOilttU< •- . b h W It t e eue, becaufe they did nothing againft Ch "ll 0~ w at the hand of God and his Counfell h d. " d .n ' to oe done) AlJs 2 Su . . . a wre- etermmed of JudM, ~nd of~·h:H· ·,gh~Pe ~~ '!.' CbdtdlEaldggra vatcth the finnc h' A nens, an en of th ':1 . b ~ 18 rl?ument, that P.ilate could doe norhin a ain e.Jewes Y ~~::~IVen him from above. 'therefore (faithghe3 he ft,Z~~~.~~:r:j R /'' barb the greaterfinne, John I ]I. 11• .• . 'P~ 2 • The Dilculfer himfelfe acknowledgeth .,., h h l1<acommon pi · .~a· . . , 111at t nug are ordained tbag~e or tnle u:n_, none art fmitttn, or die, but fuch as common d "'';n~• 'Jet_lt IS not onelyeverymans duty, but the .fervethec ~ty o \" agrll:rarestoprevent infetl:ion, and IO prefon. s into ~·;mon eblch of the place, by removing infell:ious p.,.,. o aary ta ernacles. K Di!cu!fer. |