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Show ' /!'"~ • .. ~1 ~ ~ - !f"'-. • i\ St.ate, Toleration .(ometimes necejfa~y·. grolfe o~endors, chen ch_c fpcech ofChri~. Let them alone , is not a word of command'" way of an Ordtnance, but a word of Permiffion, and predill:ion, what will be, in way of Pr?videnc~, Like chatin £,".: H. 36. He that hathnofword, let h1m fellhts C>arment and buy a fw:ord, It is not a word of command, or di. rea:io·n, whatthc Difciples lhould doe; But~ word of predill:ion, what times oftryallthey fhould meetvvnhall. CHap. 58 • .AReprytohisChap.6r. Difculfer. Hit 'third Anfrver i1 thu. For tfJofe three 'PrinCe! n~m~d by JON, who Tokrated falfe Religion,. .,., can name rmre and g~e,.ter, who ha'llt not 'tolerated Hmtic~ and Schi[matickf, notrvitbftanding thtir pretence of Confcience , and Arrogating thecrorvneof Martyrdome to their [Mffiringl. Confiantine the great 111 the ReqMeft of the gen~rall Counce/ ofNice, B anifh<d A.rius;with fomeofhis fellowu, Ecclefiaft.HHl:or.l J, Cap. 19· 10, "lbe fame Confiamine made a fever. Law,ag•inJI the Dona tHis: & the lik,t procetdings againjlthem wm uftd by Valentinian, Gratian, & Theodofius , as Auguflinertporteth in Epill. 166. onely Julian the Apojlatt graltnted Iibert! to Heretici« as JTtO Ql to Pagani, ~bJt ht migbt by'[ ohrttting all wttdltO g~ow, choa~e the vita/Is of~brijh· anity: Which was alfotbe pral/!f•and jinneo(Ualens the Artan. J2!!eme Elizabeth, at famotufiJr l1er government, ar m•jl •( tk former, Jt isJPtll k_nmme JPhat Lawer /ht made, and execMt<tl ag•wft '1'11pijls : Yea a~d King James (nve of JOur owne lPitneffir) tboNgh he was flo..., i'l procmJing againJI Papijls(as ;ou foy )for Confczence fok$; yet J OH are not ignorant, how fharply and fever ely he puni(htd tba{t, whom theMalign4nt w•r!tl cuUethPuritanr,men ofmore Confti<nte & /!mer Faith, then the Papijlt, whom he Tolerated. Dilculfcr. FirJI, for mineoJPnepart, Iwouldnotufe an.Argumt?t fromtbl tiUm~er ofPrinm, '¥Ptlll<}fing in profejion1 or pr11f1iji, ag,~fl perflll'' · troD tim forcauftofConfci<nct, &c. Truth, and Faith, muft not be rectivtd .... ith r~JPef1ojptr{o>ll : pretiour pearler art f .. md in muad, {lulls. The moft Higb c&ooftth the pnore of thu world, to he JPitneffa to his '[ruth : and Buchanan dying"''" g•ingthither, JPhether few King1 were comming. 'Definder, This Chapter chen might have been fpared : for it neither maimaineth his caufe, nor refutcth my anfwer to his friends Argument: but yceldeth up the invalidity of the Argument from fuch a To pick place, As from the number and votes of Princes. But by his leave, the anf wer which I gave co his argument is not taken from the like number ofPrinces,but from the greater piety, and prefence of God with thofe Princes, who have profcffcd and praa:ifcd againft Toleration. Itiscruly faid, S11jfr•gi~ non funt numer.zndaJtd ponder•nda.Heroicall wifdome, magnanimity and zeale, is not the leffe co be tflecmed,becattfc icis found in the fpiric, and counCe!, and praa:i!e of Princes • CHAp, 59· A 1{Jprytohis Chap. 62. Difculfer. Secondl,, 1 obferve, bow incmfi derattly(lhope not wi/lingiJ) the A11[wmr pajfeth by the rea[on1 and grotmd!, urg•d by theft three Princes. In King James hi&(peecb, h< pa{{.!•h by th.Jt g·•lden Maxime, that God never loved to plant bu Cb11rch by bloud. Defonder. The Difcnffer is miftaken, when he faith I paffcd over their r.cafons and grounds inconfiderately, though he hopech, not wit. hngly : for indeed\ paffed them over willingly, but not incoulideracely. For I well conudered, either the reaions wanted weight, or elfe did not impn~oe the caufe in hand. For inlbnce, this fpeech of King J.zmer (That God never loved to plant his Church by bloud) though it boa Truth of weight: yer itdoth noc touch this caufc. It is farre from us, to defend the pb ncing of C~ u rches |
