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Show C H A p, 19, vf 'R.Jp/y to hit nineteemh Chapter, Difcillfer. 'tbat the Lordintcndeth not DofJrinCJ, or PrafJifes in tbu P 3rable, It if cleare: For, 1. The Locd Jefusexprrjly interprewh the geod(iedtobe Perfons, & tbo[e th< children of the Ki,gdome: 1h< T"es alfo tofignijj men, •nd tbofi the children of the wick<_d one ver. 38. Defender. If the Difcuffer had call his eye a lie de lower,he might have found, that Chri{\ interpreteth the Tares, not unely to be Perfons,bm ·things "'"'"' .,.; >:<drl<t.Mo all things that offend , as well at thofe that doe imquity ver. 4'· But I fball nodbck upun that at all; let the Tares be Perfons, whether Hypocrites, like unto rrue Chrillians , or holders forth of fcandalous, and corrupr,Doctrines ~nd 'Practife! like unto found. Dilculfer. 2. Such corrupt Doctrines and Practiles are not to be tolerated now(as thofe Jewifb obfervations were for a ~hile, Rom. 14-) nor fo long till the end of the world:F or can we thmk,t~ar though the Lord tendered the render confc1ence of the Jews , m rhe obfervation of the difference of meates and drinks (which were fometimes his owne Ordinances) that therefore Perfons mull be now tolera· ted in the Church (lor I fpeake nor of the Civill Stare) in Cuper· i\itious forbearing and forbidding of flcfh in PopHh Lents and fuperllitious Frida yes? &c. Defender. Who can tell what this Difcuffirwould have? The Tares he would have to be Perfons;not corrupt Doctrines, and Practife!. And yet when he commeth co prove,that co_rrupt Doctrines and Practife1 are not to be tolerated, he proveth It from the unlawful· nelfe of tolerating corrupt perfons :for can we thinke (faith he) that perfons mujl be now tolerated in the Church, in t~e [uperjlitiou.r_ forbe~ring or forbidding of jlefh in P•pifhLmts and FrtdayeJ 1 Such IS them· conllancy of thefpirics of men, whofe heam are not llayed, and fimed fleered by the Spirit ofT ruth, chat fometimes Tares mufl not b~ corrupt Dotl:rines and Practifes, but perfons, becaufe Tares, and {o perfons mull be tolerated till the Harvell , not fo corrupt Dotl:rines ami Practifes : And yet all the reafon given, why corrupt Doll:rines and Pratl:ifes mull not be tolerated, is this, becaufe· Perfons that hold them forth mull not be tolerated. CHAp, ~o. tA 'R.Jp!y to hit twentieth chapter what is meant ly Tares? Difculfer. The Origina/1 word ~~~d,<t,Jignifying all tbofl weeds which fpring up with the Come, aJ cockJt dar nell, Tares &c. fe<meth to imply juch a kjnde of people, al are commonly and gener,,l!y k..,nowne to be manifejlly dijferingfrom,.and opp•Jite to,the true Worfhipers of God &c. Defendlr. I. It is not true , that ~~~.:,~, fignifyeth all thofc weeds that grow up with the Corne. For they be a fpeciall weed ,growing up cheifely among{\ the wheat : bur when it commerb to the earing, it groweth more like to Buley, yet having a narrower leafi:, fatter, and rougher, and a leaner feed in a prickly b1rke,bearing a purple flower: as DinflorideJ teflifyeth.Now this is farre from a defcnption of all forts of weeds, that grow up wirh Come. 2. Neither is it true, that Tares are commonly and generally known affoone as they appeare. For Hieron~, who for a rime lived in Jury, tellifyerh, thatlmer triticHm et z.izani•, qu1dno1 appellamus Mium, qu zn~diu h<rb. ef!, et nondum culmur venit ad 1~ic zm, gr m~i< fimilizudo eft , el in difcernendo aut nulla aut perdijji:ilu dijjanua. Comment.Mat.Cap.I3· Yea the Text it felfe (though theDifcuffir deny it)holdcth forth as much. Fort he fervants of the Husbandmon (in whofe Feild the Tare• were fowen by the enemy )drd not difcerne the t.res from the wheat, till rhe blade was fprung up, and brou~ht forth fruit: for then it was, and not till then,thar the Tares ,,pr'e.red co be THe3, UJ£.,. 13. 26. whatthough the Text holdeth forth no fuch tim7, wherein |