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Show The praEiifes of P,rinm difc;.ffed. ---;---;:-;----;-;---;Perfecution withullt reatly lea··nbrg the CaligH>getbereof And doubt. 1 jl t1 1 jo~le tbJt C>ll [o readily !tame Babels L~ng•uge, hath ;,:(e ::flare t64t he bath vot 7et in Point of Worjhlp left the g.ru ot' [«bHrbi of it, d Vifrn er, TithhJ,angpage u.ftd ~1\Pie bc,~~Te,mes, ofSoriftu~e,. and by ,tie :; cknowll:"ilgim~'r)t ofT' uHi nghtl y a11plyed, ~li<n rtmhe Language of Ca"aJn, and not of Babe~. What Language they have learned, who in point of Wor!hrp,h3VC ltftZion, but not the gates and Suburbs ofB•hel,(,for the~ fet up Bulwa<k s ot Im. runity, tO lccure them) Ltt the~{clves ( .n.the fcare of-God) co.n· ' fid·'B.r.u t wh~t Lanv;u •ge is it to Cpea ke of me, as ha v·m g. Ie arne d the opinion & pra1tife of perfecution, I ddire.the God ofTrutb to teach hm to know, It is the Language of.brm that· ftuod 11ot in· the, "I;' rut~, and offuclulfo, as call tvlll gopd, .and good eiill. Difcolfer .Againe in bl~ming Julian the Apojfate, and Val ens lhe Arianfor 'J' oler4 ting all weedt to grow, he not_n? tkeir finfH/1 ~,d, that rh_mb) rhry might cboaf<! thevitllliJ of (hriJiz~mty: •md feemetb hemu t• confent (on a Jpeecb •f J crome) 1hat ehe rtJ:etdt offal(< Religunt to• ler('tcr;l, hJ••e '! P.ower to kjO true Cbrijlia,.itJ in the Chur,.ch. . . BHt ,..~e• Chrij!ianity began to 6t choak'd,lt was mt,.hen Chrif/rAIIJ lodged i~ cold Prifons, but Dowm·'Bedt of eaft, and PtrjicuteJ othert. <JJefinder, , ·I noted indeed the fin full end of ]11/ian the Applbte ill tole•• ·rating all Religions and Herdics, to aime at the choaking of the viral', ofChril\ianity. OrV<~lmt I noted the like fin full praC!rfe• of To~ crating all Rc'igions: but did notexprelfe~isend. Bu~ what I fpake of thcend,concerned Jztii<~n: and ICp ke ufit n_ot of min'~ owne imagination,(thpugh he lhatojh>ll rtad the llor1es of his Ap ,/hcy,jr:d m<lignity againft the: N.tme ofChrill, an~ Chrifilans, migQt c•fily bcleive an~ Cp_cJkc it withnut u{hne~e:) but I frcakeit out of a graveandjudu;;ious Authqur, w~o l!vtd neere thofe times, I meane Auguj!ine, who in his r66. Epijlk, thus pp.c!fetb Jt~li•n,s,bof~ pra~,,f~, anp en~ ·, Jzt!i~wHi dt;:pi Chrifti1 • et lnimic.u~, H4,.;:ticiJ liber'tatem perditioniJ permijit, et tum,BaJiltcas H_<C.rmcu rtddidit, qHand• Temp/a V•monijt ; Eo 'modo put Ant, Cbr,[lzanum Nomen poffrperire,deTerrit, fi•mitflti Ecclt• fi4.,de qu> l~pfiu fuerat, invidtret, et {acrileg•I Viffenjiona liberal •Jfe permittertt, that rs, ruliPl, the for faker, and enemy of Chrift p,rmitted to Heretick• liberty of perdition: and at the fame tim~ reftored Pall aces (or royall meecing·houfes) to H' reticks, 1rhcn thtTtmplt~to Dive ill; thinkj11g by this ,,•na, the c . rijlian 1'{jme mightperiP, [rom the earth, ifhefoould envy•h~t unity to ,theChurcb from which himjdfef.:/1, and permit Sacri/egiour Diffinjionrto enjo} their liberiJ, What the. 'Dlfcu!fer fubjoyned, as weakning this end, that Chrijlia>ity beg11n to be cbo•k,e,d,not when (hrijlimr lay in cold Pl'ifons, b.t Bedt of eaft, a11d ptr(ecutcd otber s: This doth not at all weak. en the right apprehenfion of JutiJnsend J For 1. Jnlia" might ayme at.that end, though ·be might ndt have attained ir. SC'candlylevident ic is,rhat Toleration ofbryars and th'Ornes, {and fuch. .are Herefies and B!Jfphemies) doechoake the life of rGitri!Hanity. For befideexperience, the Tcxr in Re'u, 8, Io. 1 1, Dedareth, that by the'f.ll l·of a Starre,( called wromewood) into ihe warer~,the·chir<l·part of the Waters were embirr.c:red by it, and• many m'en dyed that drd'nk of thofe waters. And' what was that Srarre,buc r.A'tiur and'Conjf mtiz11 ? · Thirdly, Though Bedsofellt: haw been one meanes ofchoaking Cltriftianicy, yet tbJC hindereth not, but rhc Toleration· of .allweedsro grow with the~;ood feed, is another. Founhly, when he faith,The.ir per(ecuti11g of .rhert "'"a mzaner •fcboakJ.ngCbriflialliiJ•: Ttis a plaine conmdittinnoHis formcr fpeecb,tbJt Conft•mincdid more hu~t toChri[ls Cl111rcb a111l Ki"gd. me, then the raging fury of tin mojf blottdy 71(lroer, CHAP. 63. A ?Vplytohis Chap. 66. Difculfer. H.E ••dJ ~hi& paff•ge with approbAtion of .~eene Elizlbeth for [e , Perjiru11ag the Papifts , and artproofo to Ki11g]amcs for Pertc~ ttmgtht ~Nritans, · Vefendtr, |