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Show The praeiifes if Princes difcuj]ed. doe punifh.ment of Apoflate.Sedu=ers, and id.-o-l-ater-s:_ra_n_d Blafphe· rner~,i1 manifold. Fidl:, icpuuerh away <viii from the people, and cutteth off a Gan!('teene, which would fpread co further ungodlinelfe, Deut.I3, 5· z 1im. 2. t6, 17, 18. Secondly, h dtive~h aw•Y Wolves from worrying, and fcatte• ring the She<pof Chrifi, Fur falfe Teachers be Wolves, ( Matth, 6. 1 S• A[IJ zo. 29.) And the veryoameof Wolves holdeth forth what benefit will redound to the fheep, by either killing them, or ~hiving them away. · Thi(4~, fueh J!Jxecutionsupon fochevill doers caufeth all the Gourltry to heare and feare, and doe no more fuch wickednelfe, Deut. 1 ~· JJ. Yea, as thefe punifhments are preventions of like wickedneffe in fome: fb are theyu holfome Medicines,to heale fuch as are curablo of thtfe tvllls, z • .-b.-13· 4• J' 6-. Fwtihly, the punlfhments exemued upon falfe Prophets , and feduclng Teachers , doe bring downe fhowers of Gods bleffiogt optln thecivillStace, 1 Ki11g1 18. 4o, 41. Ftfthly, it is_ ali honour to Gods Juflice, that fuch Judgements afU!leCo!ed;<ilev. 16. 5, 6, 7· ; • • • ' Difcuiier. But fuch Exw11ior11 in fff2!!.'en ElizJbechs dayu bad r.lJfed al· moJI aU Eur?pe in combuftio~; the warm nf 88. the Spanijb Inva}i· on had JPect•ll rFfPeU to tba. And had not the Lord borne witneffo to hu owne Lait>, >md~o hil people berti", (by tlefoating the Intendrntntl of tbPir E.•mieJ) itm_ight have been the rJiint, both of England and 1he Netherlands, whtch areJbe wordJ of Mr. Cotton himfelfe on tbt third ViaU. Defender. The words Anfwerfor themfelves. The Devill and hi! Iofiru· ments r?ged againfi fuch L1wes, and fuch Executions, but God bare wtmdfe to both, by mightily defeating the Invafioos and C·Jnfpiracies· of E!lemie!. Difculfer. It iJ no Ar!(ument that God barewitneffi to his people in foch '])e/ivto rancieJ and Vt&orin: For, t. EventJ and Succe.!Jes c9me ali~e to aU and are no ArgUJtltnlt •f hve, or Hatred. ' '])e[endtr• . ' Defendtr. Events and fuccelfes are indeed no Arguments of a mans fpirituall Efiate, of tile Love or hatred of God, to a mans perlon, in which fenfe Solomon fpeaketh, Ecclef. 9· 1, 2. But otherwife they are ordinary wimeffes, good Events of a good c•ufe if it be well handled: ill events of an ill caufe, or at leafi of the ill handling of a good caufe,P[al. 1. 3> 4• Jer. 22, 1 s. t6, 17. -Difculfer. Se<Ondf], PapijlJintheir wtl'l'reJ bat11eeiler yet f1ad both in Peace and warre, vilJ~ry and Dominion. And therefore (if fucceffi be the mea· fore)God baih borne witnefle t• them: IH in·the Warm httlP<en Charles the Jift : and fome Germane Princu , where the jHccejfo wM variott<, between Philip o[Spaine, .uJd the Low-Countries; tbc Kiug of France, JJnd hir Protejlanf Subjttis, fometimu win,ing;, pmetimu (o.Jiil_g. . -'Bill m~ _memorable if the Hiftorj of t!Je Waldenb, who f•t~ghf """/. Battks againjl three fucceeeli»g P"P<J, with variom fH<«Jfo :But t'be f.na/J {uccejfo and VifJory fell to the Pope dome, and Romifh Church• in the utter extirpation of t!Jofe Waldenfian 'Riitneffir. Defender. . ,Repb . 1 • .I will not inquire of the meaQing of rhe words, how the Papill's in their .Jlarres have had botliln Peace and Warre Viaery and Dominion. But this I cannot excufo from CDIJtradiUion, that the P aP,ijiJ in their Warm <ver -bad the :Vif1ory: and yet· have aften fought rvitb var'iour [uccejfo, ·fometh{ie 'Riinning, fometime loo· fing. . Nor can I tell, how it fiandeth with Truth, thatPapillsin their Warres ever had the Vitlory: fince Q!!een E!iz;tmh ever had the Viaory o~.er them. ' . . Rep~. 2. Though Papills have fought with various Succeffc, lt!S Gods mannerto unrturc his people with f<,me crofTes, that theymighr at length !carne to fight nbt in 'their owne firength, but in the Lords. Reply. 3· The !tory is evidellt, that the W•lden{e1 never loft Bmel_l, but when theycomplyed wi1h the P,1pifis, •nd tru{l<d tnorem their falfc pretences, then in the Lord. Neither u it tme,tiHt t~e fm_aU{ucc•Jfe efth• Vi[fory f.:/1 to the Romijh Church to tbc:llm ex- '"'"""" ofJhii(e Waldenfian wiTtm ffiJ. :1. For |