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Show D f:brgr. This is as little to the fl>rpofe, •s that which went before. The difhnftiun fp.•ke of ho]Jj ,,g forth Erroneous and unlawful things, i}1 a way tending n! it G:lfe, to the diflurbance of Civill Peace.This Difcuffion hoiJeth forth another way tending to the .diAurbance of Civill P,·Me, nor of i. felfe, bm byocc.lion or by Accident, to wit , wl• <n the holding forth ot L•ght and Truth diflurbeth the (ore Eyes of a c,>rrupt Stare. If per fo, and per. tAccidau (of it fclfe, and by o::ofion) be all one: If the hvldingfonh o•T.uth ' · and E r'lr be all one, then this D:lcuffivn hoth fhaken the diflinction of lwlding forth Error, not in .an humble and meeke way,bm in a wav of Arroganceamjlmpetuoufne!f~ . But when he (.,ith,vigilant and fJi:thfi•ll P<rfoT>J are not jiurori/Jied, 110 not at.thtfalfo .Religio7l. of Jm> or Gentii< ·: If he m~anenot fu murh. t:oubled at rheiaHC: fl.eiigion, ncorrupt Sates be at the true Relrg10n: there may oe truth in ~he-fpeech, but it onely argueth, That corrupt nature is more l<alous in the defence of its owne will-worfhip, then th~ faithfull be in the defepceof the Truth. But furdy 1he faithful are called co conten~ Earneflly-for .. tiJe'faith;;O~· ~-) .and have_ as much eautc-to be troubled.at ffle flolding r<Jiit;i ¢f;the W orfbip of B:.al, a.< corrupt S!at·~·l!ltattheholding forih'-vf.t~e.Worfhip of JeboIJ> h. If his rnOotrfng be, that vigilant and fallhfull Perfons, are n.ot fa tr~~f>hit!at th~ t.ure !:\.e!Jgi9~'?~ J.ew o~~~ntile ' but that they can Tolerate them t6!ive~rijo"~g~ t~em iria·Cjvill Body, we fay fo too : And therefore thel4diam, who h•ve fubmi rted to the Government of .. chit jurifJiaton, are not COJ)lp~lled. to the Profdlion or ackn.owledgement of our Rdigion , either by Force of Armes, or Pee 1all Lawes. But yet if Chrlflians fhould !educe Chrillians to turne Apoflates from the Faith, and to imbrace Jud•ifm•, or P agani[11u: Orif Je~<>u or P agani!iving amongfi us lhou'd openly blafphemetheGod ofheaven,& draw awayChririans to A•J,.ifme, or Jud~ifm•, I fhould not account them ei$her vit~ i!.nr, or faithful! Chriflians, that were not troubled at fuch a deflroyiog of the true R:digion, and propagating of the falfe. Paul blamed the falfe Teacheu to be theTrouolers of tile Churches of G~latia, G.,J. 5· 1 o, 11 • .A{]s 1 5· 24- Difcu!fer. 2. Brqch ofCiviO Pe.ce "''!>' ~rifo wben falfo at'ldldo.latro>H pra!!lifit ar< af.out matter! of 'R.,Jilgion. are held forfh,and ;et no Breacbof'Civill Peace from tbt Dollrine, l>r PrafJi{e or the manner nf holding them forth, but from tht rr>ro11g and prepofter~HI way of Supptcifing, and preV<nfing and extingul(bingfoch Errors hJ weapons of wrath andBioud, WbipJ,Stock!., lmprifonment1 Banijbment, Death, by wbi<h men ar.• ~mmo~/1 p<r[wade~ to cmvert Hmti:~t, and to c•ft out uncleane JPmlt, '!'?"hone!] the ftnger_of <}od can doe that it, the might; Pewer of the Spzm of the Word. It ttlzght alone that u able todiJpell and {caller focb mijls andfiggt of tlark:J1fo in ihe foHiu and Confciences of men. Hence the Sonnu •fmen difqHitl tbemjilvet in vaine, and unmercifully di fiJuiet otbm. Defender. Thenit.feemeth that if the MJriners of the Ship wherein Jonah fayled when he fl~fromthePrefenceofGodJ if they I fay ~id c.1f\ Jon~h over board into the Sea, this prepoflerousw.1y oftheua in fuppreffing the Error of his way,was it which raiCed the ftorme and Tempefi, whereby the Ship was toffed to and fro,& diflmbed, yea & in jeopardy to be funk and deflroyed. BliC 'he Text fpeakes to the contrary, when they had ca£1 Jonab forth int0 the ScJ, the Sea ceafed from his raging, Jonah I· f$ • But what was the Iinne of Jonah? wa~ it not fome lin~e againfl: the fecond Table, fome aa ofunrighteouli1<ffi: aganl'fl h1s ~etghbour ? It was a direfrand immediate breach of a rule oflm Propheticall ·Office, a fin againfi the fecond Command·ement of the F 'rfl Table. But was not the Sea, in which this tempeil·ai:ofc ag• infl JonJh, and agai~1fi th~ whole Ship for his fake, ~as .i' nut che Sea ofTibtrias, which bcmg Wlthlll the Confines vi Ihc HuJy Land the Sea alfo was Hcly, and would not fuffer fuch a Un unpunifhed? No, the Sea '{fTiberiaJ is within the Confines of G,J,_Iee' and other parts of the Land oflfrael ; But this Wa< the M,d,, re:ranean, Sea, between ] oppa and T"fhifh: Jonah 1. 3· Bm were not thefe' MJrimrJ, lfrJetzteJ , who mtght have fome _fpectall ~h,arcre from Gud,to roote out all Idolatry •.nd fa! fe Wurfh1p from am6~gfl them, which bindeth !lOWS Gwtzi<J l N,, ~ thoy were 'p •ganJ ai1d Geritilu, as appe.rtth in that every one ot them cryed out, unto his o,wn God. . · But w~y did not Godfend out the tempefl to pumrn thofe P a- , D 2 gan |