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Show :r--: • • ~. ..... .. . tl .. It " ,.to/ • ~, • . The Ttjfimorms alledged from that 'f<·tulli.m ( / crotm, he would fay) mcaneth a civill. Sword becaute he quoteth that ofchc Apo(Hc, a little leavc:p leavenetll thewholelumpc. . . . . For 1 gather ir, nor from hts quotatlon.ofithole words of the A poftle (which I e.fil y graunt,doe clearly fpeake of Chu:ch cen· fure not of civil! cenfure:) But I gather It partly from hu expo· fici:n ,0 f, the parralell words in the· fame Chapter : and partly_ f•om chcwordsheu(cchinopeningch.c very T~xt. The parralell place in the fame Chap,ts ver.u.I won/tl(fatth the Apo!He) they were eut off thai trouble yoll. This c~tti!l~ ~ff, ( ~r .,:,..,,..,..,.) He expnundech the cutting off of thetr.vmhty whtch no man• will fat isaChurch-Cenfurc •. I fpake notherc.ofthc true mu, ning of the Text( which doubdcffc, fpeakcth of a Church-Cen• {urc )but of tbe crue meaning of Jeromtl wordt. . Againe, when Jerome wouldha:vethcfgark,_alfoone autap- . peareth, to be extinguilhed,and.tbe leaven to lie removed fr~m the reft·of the Dbu'gh &c. chougbitbeuue(whlch the Dtf· cuffcr fpeaketh) that the Apofrle intelldetl)..a.Cburch,Cenfurc : yet doubtle(fe !erom< aymed at more in tbo~e com p~rifo11s~ even to a civill cc:nfure alto.For co thde compartfons,he uamedtarely. fubjoyneth the(e words, Arius ;,. Alex•ndrf-.*n" fcinsilla j11it: fed t]*ia nun [fasim oppre JJ• tfl ,w•m orb em , nfiJ fl"r""/ de p•ptllattJ, ejh AriHs ( i'ith he) was but ot<e fparkle: yet becaule he was not fpcedily ~ec11ted ( orfupprc:ll) his 6ame depop.ulaced all the woFld. hetc: by chc:excinguHhing of that (pack, he doth ~ot meane b excommunication :.for he was not ignorant,chatAnut lr.ad b~eri fpeedi!y cxcommunica~e, once .and agaiae out of the Church i>tAitxandria ; once whiiflhe was Dcacon,.as Soz DmiTit reporteth ioJ.ib,t, Ecclejiaj! Hi/foria,Cb~p. T 4.And th?ugh after· wards, he -got iino th= Church ~gline,yet hew as ag~tiiC c:xcom· muoicaied,-.when he was Pre(oyter, and callout ofhis P; efbJttrJ, as s.cral<l reporteth in histib,. t. E.rcltjiafl Hifroria, Cap.6. oftbe Greek Edition 1 Ch1p. 3- of the Iarine. So that .Hi.r_ome com· plaining,of the great hurr,whi-:h chc: fparke r)f A"". I dtd,becauhfe hew as not time! y put out,he did not meane,of putung out .o~t e Church (which was done: timely cllougb, and twice: for fatbng) but bec:aufe he was not put out either out ofthc world,oratleaft, 0\1~ pi the C·Jnfin~ of Neigh_b~ur C~u~c;hes,. S$Y.: .Ancient and later writer1 difcuj]eJ. · If) 'Say not:yet P a11l doubtlefi'e'fp•ke of putting~ut of the Church. For though that be true: yet now thc:~ftion is not of PJu/s judgement In thjsplace, but of Hieromu judgtment, which the Author of the Letter alledgeth as a wimeffe for himfelfe, and rhe Difcuffer would maintaine it : though ler•mes words will not beare it. It argueth, men are more led by will, then judgement to uphold a cauCe,when the Wttneffes which themfe!ves produce, beare witneffe againft them. Neither lc't any man lay, That this graunt of his,Thas Hmjie mu jl be c11t •if JJ~ith the St~~ord of the [pirit1 d•t!J imply an abfolute foffi<ienty iTJ the Sword of 'rhe Spirit to '"' ·it d•r~"'e, according so zCor I o. 4, ~. For though Spirituall weapons beabfolutely ftifficienr to the end for which God hath appointed them (as hath been opened above) to wit, for the conviction,and (if he belong to God) for cbcconvemon oftheoffe•dcr, f()r the mortifying of his ll.elh, & for the favingof his fou\e, andtorche ckanfing of the Church from tbefellowlhip of that guilt : yet if all He.cticke llill continue obfrinate, and petfill in !educing, crcepe into Houfes , lead captive filly Coules, and deftroy the faith of feme, (it may be:, of many)iuch Gangre11er would be cut off by another Sword, which 1 in the hand of th< Magillrateis not borne in vaitlc:. Difcuffcr. , Buttheefe ofthit Anfwtrer cnnlil ntvtr 'be fo •hfm,.J,aJ to rHn to a Smithslhop,for a Sword of Im s, 11nd fltele, to help •he Sword of t he Spirit, iftbe Su,ne of righreoufnrjfe h.td once bee" ple•fed to {hew b1ffl; 1h4tll Nationa//Chltrcb( whichel(where he fr~fofJeth ag~infl )a S tateCbNrch,( whether explicite,aJ ;,. 0 !d England,or.implicite,aJ in New) ltnotthelnftitnlionofthe Lora JefurCbrift. T he NationJ117)pir,aiiSt• te.Churcb •f the Jewc:s, Hece[flrily ctd!td for fucb ""' "pons: 7lut tin P•rticult~r Church" ofChrift in • il p• rtJ of th< .,orld, cnnfiP•ng nf }ewes ~tnd Gentiles , is powtrfullJ «bl, to de feud it felfo, and rjfnJ mtn, and Dive/IJ 1 althougb the S tare a11d Kiugdum' (wh.r<m 1hr Chttrd9eJ be) bud nti tber c:Jr"a 11 Sw11rd, uor Speare, aJ onct it WaJ i 11 the NatiDn~lt Church in the LandofCanan; I Sam. 13. '• Drj<ndcr . . I !hould think minH ye were very obfcure in~•ed, if! fho•tld run tb a Smitbt Chop to f<tch the Au r h<~ rity of th: civil! Magi, firatdrom thence: or if l fhould chink< his Authority d.:JUld not X z b<: |