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Show pernicious and unlelfe the confcience be convinced of the errour and perni~iouGJdfe thereof, that fo it may •preare, the erruneom p.my fuffererh, not for his conference, but for his !inning againfi bis confclence. foch • Pofition or. Theljs at thu u, It it not lawfull to perfecute the lArd Je{m. . Surch all Scripturu, Hijloriu, RecordJ, Monumentt , confolt "'ith .11 Experienm; Did ever Ph.r•oh, S ;ul, Afub, }z·bol, Scribes and ·Piuriiees, the J 'w", H.ro.:l, th< bloudy N ;roes, G.rdincrs, Bonner, P.>pe or De viii himf<lfe prof<Jle tn perftcute the Sonne of God, J'fm 111 Jefur, Chrifl•r Chrijl, "'ithout M.t~orCrrvering? ' And though it be true, there is a li:ared confcience in fome, to which God hath in his judgement, given them up, that they may never fee light, how de are focver, both in Sc"pture and nature: and though this feared coniCience d_oc not extenu~te, but aggra· D<fend<r. vate finne; and though a man .by thtl fearedconfclencemaycom• lc may feeme though the Truth be as cleare as the Beames of mit fome notorious capitall crime, (as he that in Ireland bw nt hit ihe Sunne,yec the Difcufrer can efpie a.moare of adruir.ble weakeowne forme in thence, in the imitation of Abraham, and called in ne!le in the delivering of fuch a Poficion,. though never fo true or his Neighbours to rejoyce in beholding the power ofhis f•irh :') cleare. But lee him ceafe. his Admiration, unle!fe it be.to admire and though fuch a man was iullly put to death: y<t ic '!"Y not be his owne Fancy. faid, he was puni!hed for his confcience, bur for th•t unnaturall For I doe not lay it downe as a Poficion, that it is not lawfull barbarous cruelty and murther, which he committed, and whicb . toperfecut• the Lord Jefus; .or that Chrill in his T iuth mull not his confcieoce could never have blinded him to co,.-, mit, out of any be perfecuted. But my Pohtton was, It is uot law full to perfecute natural! humanei~norance, orintirmity, but out ofpa:nall and any for C:onfci~nce. fa~e, righ~ly inform_ed : And fora reafon judicial! blindeneffe, which God never leaveth men llnto, bf!t UiJ' hereof, I !IIV~ thiS Prtnctple, for tn perfecuong fitch, Chrill is peren habitual! and cullomary finning againfi light of confcience. fecuted: Is tt no~ _become .an admira~le firange thing to give a ·.A Reply.to his eleventh Chapter touching Perfmition [fll Confcience rightly informed. Difcuffer. A. Fter explication of tb, Point in the[e former Dijlinl1iont , tbt pAnfwerer of the Letter givetb·bit Re{olution to the [f0ejli•n" f•ure particular~.. • ' · ·I· It it not l3wfuUtoper{<cute.any[or Con[cience pk,e rightly infor: med for in ptr.ftd<tingfuch, Chrift htmfilfe'u perfecuted; Afh 9+ ' A m3n m'J} a; foone jinde:dark,meDe in the b, ij!,ht B~•m;t oftbJ , Sunm, aJ_i:',tkit cl~are,B:~7" o{'frutb, .. t1h•t Chrijljejiffw bu 1ru:: .mujl-notle puJicutid. . , 'Iettbit Imujl J,~ ,''(for it wiUbt admirtd by allfober mw) wb<l . jhould be the Caufe or Inducement to the anfwerert mi~de te lay !jJ Pnnetple of R.elt~ton, not for a P<ifiuon, (and.~et if it were fo, what llrange thinll were it ?) but for tbe proofe of a Pofition ? Lerme give you a like inllance, G im~liellaycth itdowne for ·a Pofition, that the Dothine of the Apofiles, ifit be of God, the Priells ~nd Elders_cannot_overr~row it : and he ~ives this principle ~ora reafon oftr, lefl zn fo domg ,y< be found (faith he) to fight agamfl Gad, All! 5 · 38,39. Now is this fuch a matter as will be admired of all fob<r men, that fo wife a ·nun as Gam~liel fhould lay dow_ne this a~ a Pufition, That men fh,mfd not befou,;d fighters a~amll God? M.y not a man rather admire and adore the firange h•ndofGod, th•r !h. II leave a man {oberly to admire · at fuch a thing, and to rhinke afl f<,ber m~n will in like.forfwonder at. the f•me? Btl~ th.e- t.ruth, ;,, Neither Gamaliel, nor· my felfe, latd downe th>t Prmaple for a Condufion, nor for a Pulition : norifwe had, had we done any thing f (lf fobermen to admire at. 2. Though ic were rrue,( which th~ Difculfer mak.s the Ground of his Admtration,) Th•t no Pbaraab, or Herod, or Nero, did ever profelfe to r;~G;cute the Soru1e of. God, Chr~~'¥ ChrHl, jl<:c • · yet, |