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Show Mafter John Cottons An[wer I but Solomo11 ) He tba~ wjthbaldeth- the Corne, . tbe p:ople fhall curft; him, Prov. , ., . 26, And curfi.,g. implyeth S.parauon. He there· fore that fb.ll withdraw, or feparate,_the Corne.from thc.people, or the people from the Corne; the people have Juft c~ufe to fepa~ tate either-him from themfdves,or themfdves from h1m. And this p1oponion wil! hold as well in fl!irituall Corne at bodily_: the Az. gument !till ftandeth unfhakcn. · What though· we never re~d.of Bani!hment in lfrael ?:we read of lomething proportionable:. what _elfe cneaneth that Decree? L<t Jildgemenl be <Xtcutedlo death, or to B'anifbmust, Ezra. 7· 27. A'nd lzr~.JO, 8? Let all-hisfubjlancebe{orfeited,_and himfelfe feparated from the Congregation of thofe tbM had been c~rried arJ/'!}.1\nd in Mo· fes, fr<q\l_ent menti~n is made of,_Csmmg_ off from t?e peeple; which diough mlfrael, It mayfometlrnefigmfle,_cumngoffby Gods 1\and;fometime by die fword ' of the Majlift~ate, .and fometim~ cuuing. off from the f~llowfhip of Gods Haufe : yet in Abraham~ ll'iunily, The cutting off (in Gm. '7·14··) may very well reach,_ rutting off from their civill Cohabitation: as for a like offence.l)bmatl, and his-mother were cut off from cohabitation in rhe Tents' lllf Alirahams people, Gen. 21. 9· to 14. Alfo lie that had unawares O•ine a man,was banifhed; though 11ot out of all Ijtael, yet from his own Houfe, and Towne, and' Tribt, till the death of the High Prieft, and that was as much as Banifbment out of any Society of Chri!b people now, whe1her in. Church, or Civill F ellowfhip. For though out of Ifr ~el, there was no f'rlll Banifhment legafly enjoy ned, 15ecau(~ there was then, no o· . ther Church extant in the world,(. and Cow banifh-a man out of I[rael, was as much as to fay, Goe,and ferve other God~,, Sam.2·6. 19 }.yet now when Church-fellowfhip in the true Religion may be had in fomany places, to banifh·a man out of his Countrey,l~ no more then_it was then to banifh an l)raelite into a Citie of R.e· fuge.But though baniffiment be no\\ta lawfull punifhment in Come cafe, yet lgoe not about to prove that every wilfull withholding of carne, in every State is banifhmenr, much Idfe death. But he 1hat !hall withhold his own corne, and' goe about to perf wade all O· then that have ccrne lying by them, to !hUt up their facks mouths, and' not to bring forth their carne for the nourilhment of the peo: el~, (which is, if we fpcake of fpirituall carne, the very cafe ?f tb)e . Exam~~~er , to .Mafter Roger William~. -------· --- Examiner) ldoe not fee but fuch an one may be juftly accoumed as Hojln Reip,.blice, a publick enemy of the Coumrey, and, •s (uch an one, in due order, to be caft out ofit. In due order I fay; for if fllch an one be detained from bring• iogforth his carne by fome fcruple of Confcieoce, (as fuppofe a man able to Preach Chrift,and fo able to difpenfe fpirituatl come, yet doubting of the true way of the Miniftery finee the Apoftafie of Antichrifi, dare not pra8:ife the Minillery.) Such an one fhould not be {odainly caft out of the Countrey, till h.e be firft convinced; that the Apoftafieof Antichrift, did never fo farre prevaileagainfb the Church of Chrift, as to roote it out from off the face ot theearth. The woman (which is the Church ofChrift)was !till nou· rifhed in a Wildernelfe, even during all the II: eigne of Amichrift, Rev. 12. 14, IS, 16. The Temple of God,( which is his Church) together witlrthe Al.tar,and them-that worfhip therein, were ftill meafured, and thlt by Jabn (by·Apoftolick meafure }all the time, when Antichrifi trod downe the outward-Court of•the holy City,-Rev. u. I, 2· The Golden ve!Tels of the Ttmple 1\ill cominued·in 1he middeft of the Babylonifh C>ptivitie.And if fpirima!l Babylon bne now Co farre prevailed againft· the Church ofChrift-, as chat they h•ve rooted it up from the face of tile earth, then what is become of the promifc of Chrift; '!he gate! of HeU jb,/1 mver prevaile again]! it ?·Mat. J6.·J8. Surely the Promile isgiw1 co a puticular Congregationall Church,thaE it !hall never fai!e,but !hall ahvayes be oxrant in fame Countrey, or ocher ;-for he fpeaks of fuch aChurch, to whom the keyes of the Kingdo,ne are committed, ver. 19, It will be VJine to look for new Apofiles to rep! am <Chur• chesout of the ruines oltheAmichril\ian Apoflafie. !~'or the new· 'l'el\ament acknowledgech P 3111 and B;rtubJJ to be the lafl Apo· flies, 1. Car. +· 9· If any Apoflles rife up after them, th<n P uul and BJrnJb,, will not be the !;,[(.And when the New Him1t!em come3 downe from Heaven ,yedhee fhalhwt be build a! by .my new Apo· fries, but built upon that foundation which the L1mbes twelve Apofi[ es have already laid, Rev. 21 . I 4· A1 for thofl mJny exceUent, and wort by Gentlemw,LawyerJ, P hjfid• aiJJ,andothm,whom tbe Ex•miner commmdeth tn be M weO gifw:/iw' tb<i~(loWiedge oft be Scripttm,and furnifhed with gifu, nftong:ter, and'• <lltermce1 at moj! tb-:zt pfofejfo tbe Mini fiery, and ) <I are-not pufwadecl · . W ' |