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Show Ye~ (,() the pr~fcnt ddhutlion pf (om.e OJ other An~c~illj;llj ldola~(S .in r;very ~ge, though the ScatCJll1~ CO!J.tinue rw~fl.i.og) . 1tilitl\etinlC-<!PPoint~ . .It might .as ~(tle\y h~ fa(d, the Mit\(ftm of ·ChrHl ar~ forbidden to denounce prefenc,or fPoc.dy;d.eflruttiqn tQ any murtheffr~, whoremongers, T 1 ranu, extor~\<;>flct;s, P.~qufe th<l!.lgn fame of them, may tii'!I undcrm.any rowand.feat:.::ful·rla· f.l!es : .y.et . there will ne~er wanta company of fuc.h wi~kcd doers, till the Great H.~rvcfl, the end of the world. Befit:ies what if a melfengerofChrifl fbouldnotdenounce .pre· fent de!lru8:ion, yet he cannot.be fak!w'let thetl) alone, who Is hewing ·~~hem tobriJ1&P!em to dd!r!!tl:i,on ma'!y year~~ belPre. <It is not every !lroake with an Axe th•tfelleth an Oake: tt ma,y be ·notan hundred, not a thottfand flroakes; yet no Jlroake isJoll tha,t maketh way for the felling of it at the !all. Neither qn h.e.beuid <to leHhe Tree alone, that flrike.th and heweth at it every day,So he that heweth at the Antichri!lian State every day by Prayer, and Preaching. He doth not let it alone, though it may !land many a yeare after. It will fall the Cooner, and with more-facility for every flroake. 3· Nor can itbethemeaoingofChrifl, in commandiqg hit .l\lliniflers to let the Tares alone, to forbid them to flirr up Princn and States, to the rooting out of Antichriflian Idolaters , and all fuch falfc worfhippers,asdeflroytheTruth and Religion of the Lord Jefus. For amongfl all theAngells, that powred out their vials upon the Amichriflian State, it is not credible , that none of them fhould be Melfengcrs oft he Gofpell. And when the ten King! fhall borne the City of Rome, and leave itdefolareand naked, Ids not credible that they will doe it without fame excitement from cthe Angells, no more then the Angells P:Jtllred Out their vialls, till they were flirred QP by a great voice out of the Temple,Revelatiom, 16o It · It is an evafion asgroundlelf.: as the former, that Eliia!JJ fiil'rir~g up of Aha~ to 4j_ll all the Preijl; and Prophet; of B. aJ, Wdi figt~ra· . tive. For alll.1igures in the!(Jid Tellament have their Accomplilhment .in theNew. Now evident it i~, .Ah.ab(an Apofbte ldo!ater)was no Type of Chri!l : nor was Ifr.,/(• ftertheir Apoflacy )a Type of ·the tr,u~ Church of Ghrifl• .A T~bemacle it wa!, bu~ not a Taber· nadt n~~j~ of Cfiri,ll: Abal.h &it no{'Aboliva/i.. To rnake thi~_aa in lfra,'l a Type ofChrifl'sacHn Chrrllian_Srare,orChurcl>olll til maRe darknelfe <t"typeof-light. Ceremomalll..awes were gen.erally Trpicall : not Co MofoJ his Ju~i~ialls, efpec1ally thofe whtchhad m them morall equity. ' It.hi'Mor. ,n !lqlllty, 'hhat.Blaf~~emers, and ARofrare !dolale~!, [educing others to Ictolarry, (houtd be puttu death,_ f.evzr. 24. 16. ]Jeut. 13. S· Ahab forfitcd his owne life.becauCe he d1d nor put Ben· haJadw.death for his blafphemy. I Kzng;, 20.23,28. and ver.42. yet 1/enbad~d was no Jfraelite, nor was hisblafphemy blcched our • in the Land oflfr•rl:but the extern all equity of that Judici..!l Law of Mofil wa&ofmorallforce, and bit.tdeth all Princ;s to exprdfe that zeale, and indignation, both agamfl blafphemy,1~ fuch as fa!l under their jull,power, which .Ahab negletted;an~. agatnfl fedulh· on co Idolatry, which Ahabexecuted, or ~lfe Eizph , or lome~- thers, by hi! confent. . But before I leave this difpute, touching the meamng of thofe words~Let them alone, let me add anot~er Incerpretation,which I fee doth rather more fatisfic others,and It nuy wei !land. Let thetn" alone. is. oat a ward of precept by. WolJ of Oc<Jinance ::Bu~ ~ wo~· of pormi!lion by way. of ,P'rovidence. God rn'_his !"rov.tdence ~Ill permit fome or other Tares e«er co· be found 10 h!s Church to the lafl}udg~ment. Whic.n.yet he,w9.uld n?t hav,e h11; fe~vants·offin-' dcd at: Foe them he will pludhipby Ins Angclls at thelall Har-veft-: l · · 11 · CHAp. 28. ~ 'Rep!y,tohis -t8<hC/1apur: VVhich is, ~Recap itufatian of ,.bat Points t&e Iiif'cuffcr fuppofrtb~ He h!tth ~ro-ved-tn opening this P ara61e. · · V efemA:r • : Tp~,;Q;foNjter in this Chapter, 1• oi)ely a R~he',r.~er of~b'at ~~ concei!leth himfelfe to have evidently dem.on !lratd:l to ~he C~n~cl~ ence 3 from Chap. eighteene, to thts Chapter .rwentieJght · F1~ Poi11U Negatively : and Five Poin\S Affirmdt!Vely. But bea u e what |