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Show whttber [educing 1eachm,&c. fmgfoducing 'te~cb;rs.,and (ca~zJJ.Iour W~J,a<>th< p.ruper ;:md_ad£quatz obje/1 of th< .MJg.iftwes care and WJm~ to f"/JJI'''•ffo atJdpurifh. . Defemkr. I no where ma'ke it the proper and adreq~tc objea Qf the]Wagi· flutes cue and worke,to fupprelfe, and punifh feduciug Teachers, and fcandalous.livers. For I 1\ave.aprtGy faid it,and 1Jrovesl it before,~ hat it ii,and oogkt to be the care and worke of Jibe Church. :tlfo ~o fil?pr.efl'e and pnnHh (educing Teacher:J,and fcandalous 1i· vel'S, in a Church·w.ay, as well as th.e Ma,gillrate,io a .civUJ way. Difcuffer. IFirjl, ·1hi.jl!)lning of thin{/ of}u<h Jiffirent kjradu, ;.; n.ot an ho· >N~~gmcaY,blftlheterogm~a/1 commixi.Mtle.a[ thing; ®jl.diffit."'£'1 in .4inds. • Deftoder. But thefe different kinds, they agree in.ane comrm>o kind: they are.both of them.evills,and e.vills .de!lruaive in Lbcir feyeraiJ Wi'¥elto the common goGd of Gods people,which.ought.te bl! preferved bodl•in Onmch andCommon•wealch. T>be T.erma~ of.N~mogene· all <tnd 'blemogm. .'l l;o.re in t\lis cafumly words of11oy!e,~od of i~ !llflpt;yJf0lmd ,iit tou~e-with.fimple peoplePiat.kno~oor.be.roc~· ning, n0r.ure.of them. Difauffer. . . W'ho~IJWttb notsthu•naanJ fed11Cing1'e4liltrV ofdte P Agdr!i{h;]~, llurJ0h,~r .l41tbisbriftian Religion,fllay·b..! ·cleal'l! aud fr,potn foaT!dt4P.IIf .,;ffenGMin-theirJ!iveJ, and from difobedienct-to tbt cjvi:O l.Jwu of .tk .Slate ? P.efond<r. Now you may feethcDifcrljfer WJS willing to makeufe.of fou.ll• ·rungworru, ~vhic;hllimfelfe (dt,feemetb) kne.w uot·well:~\le ufeof. !!or ,V,hatilf there were many .feduaing Teachers of ~I ,R.ellgiOQJ,. 1hatmay\be cleare from dcandalou~offences? the diRjuguifbiQg therefore of evills into thefe two fom,into feditious Teachers, and f.:andalous offenders, is fo mnch the moreallowable,and accurate. If a man fhalltfay .the worke.of the.Ct.eation,on ehe fi!lt day, was either of m;m,or of Beall: fh11l a mangoeabout here to obferve a great evil/, t1,3t here;, not an bomogeneaU,hut an hmrogeneall commixtureof thingJ mJifo dijfirent i"k.!_nd l For whok__no..,.th not that there are m~ <'B.i!a]IJ, Lyom, LeopardJ, WolveJ, Bearu, tb"t never were men, but"'' cleare and free from all hum.me namre ! · Such ,a,lij(e rea!oqing is that of the.P1fcuffer here. What if manY . . . c,ducing ,. Mt to be pr~liiJbe1- I ! 5 [educing Teachers, whethe~ ]~JPi(h, Paga~i{h, 'fu,.k.!_;~,,A~tic~rifli; an, w.crenever fcand~!Ouibve~~' ~to~dtent~o the pv1ll Stale. yet are they not ~II otl dwn.1. ct~IU ~. ~d :'-<;co~d)ngly tp !Je refi~•·Y'· ned,by Jawfull Author~\Y,?J l\r,ciJ.~lh~)9Ynlng,s>f ~h•111 coge,th.~r the~reat eviU uf an h114Y~en~all Cl!!llffiiXt\\re? . ~ ·, Bigaine, let the D.i(cuJ{<r be pi~~ fed to ob[<lfV~ (that wluch hat\1, beun o!ren touched afor~ )that we.lool<f ~t tt,~ !l\~r~ toler~ble.fo.~: faduping T ~~hen to fed.uce thofe who ~r~ iljl r~ady io tlje. fame !Hll of.bitterneffe with th.emfelves, nf<~g~!Z' to,feou~ Pagans~1e1Pesto feduoe' Je1Z1.eJ, l'm;kes to fedlJC~ Turkes,~qd A.~>,ticprijliam to_!edl,lc.e. A•tkbrijlia,s.Thougb chi& alfo ought tQ be pr~ve)lted by wtfe an.c!· wholfome meanes, by a Chrl!lian Magiflrat~ in ~II thofe lh.at are unde£ his do!ilinion, fo far~ there ie power m \11! h~nd, WJthout the hanrd of the publick State!. · • . Laftly, let me adde this'Rtpl, t0ttbe rc!l,tbat It Wlil be; ha,rq, fq,f the Difc,.§erto Iinde ,4pticbrifl!m feduce)'s~le~re a11~ free _frp?f Difobedience to the civil! Lawes ufil State, m cafethat4nm~rift. (to whom they arcfworne) (h~ll excommunicate the civill ~agi· flrate,and prefcribe the civill'Scate to the iovafion 9fForraynfr~ Difculfer. .. . " ; '.Agairl wbo knoweth, nat that a feducinl 'teacher properly finnetb •gainjl the Church,& againfo the Spiritual! Swe ~nd L~wes ofit?aml therefore pugbt rt~ofl properly and •ne!J to b< tkal! W.Jtball m foch a rPIIJ• · 'Defender. Thefe twife-fod Coleworcs,t'he "Difcu§er hath often fet them before us heretofore·: but with as little favour l}Ql,V, as betQ~ l'or what if a.feducing Teacher haying finned againft the Church , be oe•ft qut by the Clmrch, and ·ftill continue feducing? y~a what ~ weake and guilfull evafion, would this prove_ for th~ Difou§er, tQ referre a f~ucing Te1cher to a Church-way, \\!hen himfelfe clo~i} not acknowledge any Church ofChrifl ~~(ant upon ~lle face of tl),~ Eartll?' Difcuffer . .A [econd evill,whichi okfer:ve in co,upling{ed11cing 'teaclm J with {catld~ lom livers, i< ~filent and implicit JuJ!iftcqliOil of all nrrigfm. Hf. and cr"!ll pr'ifeedin{-1 •f J~wes,a'ld Genti~es agai{1P all t['f fr_qpbetJ of ({ed, thl.Lord Jc[U< piiltfo/fo, apd all hi< me !fin!'.~" aTjd.ff.!L(JejJu, w~o»f 1beir 4;citfor,,b.ve i7Jer fo coupled ,.,d"lf~id w.11b potmo!" ev:ll 4oers, an·d fc·a n'd alosu livers, &~. Q · 2 ·Defender. |