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") • • ~~-... ... "" ... .,.1 ,..__ ' .. :-.. • ... . matter of jul\ wondermenthen a~ i nvrant P•.;•n, when the one . vounin the Dijci'Jlerb~yesl and m~keth farremore waile of the . h.reth Cbrift more 'ftc/?n then doth the other. Incbtcaufe . Church, and S•tnu 0 · "~ ' b l'z• with Ancichrifl chen with hi& owne S;Jirit ?o;h .mo;e 1m ti~~ ~ben in open pcrfecuti~1·g the Cli![ar? -Etatherm ·~cret .upp Chrii\'l Churches and Ordmanc7, "'~bat i~is a part o! the Magifrrates<lu­' F.eply. 3· We doe_nar ay bcome Chriftians, if they were P•­ty, 10 fee all his Sub)< 5 to 1.' . • his Dutv to neP!tB: no good gaM bec,o re: th ou gh wee d. • y, htt tks nowltda' e and t"a.u h o fCh ' ·tn meanesto h I them onwar to t e "' f h M • e P h he Dif:uOer !hake this duty ouc o . t e • Jcfus. 'But why dot h t ChPrch . and the Chrij!ianl under hu Gove.n­giprates, to foe that_ 1 ' • :Varfhi at !taft not (o farre t:> dcj.\<· ment, fbuuldwal~mpurztyof ·k PCtuiltrodepart from theml tmatcand apo!late1;"\,t~h~~~~fan:\\ill.be faithful! and loyall t_o Can he hope that uc r I to arow falfe and difioya\1 to thetr the.t r p rm· ce, wh om hed tefe t ' ,. (' d 1, lrhou~hit hadfomepecu 1aran God? Surely th~Lan ° ;"'"' if et no other then what did and typic• \I Hoh~t<~ be}oclt~~b~o d :, ~hich i• as [,o'y to Chrift, prefigure the Hulme ~ 0 to us ., the Land oi Ifrael was to rh_em. a-ndouj.\ht to be as hu Y f Jl >j: b"t H1 ze~iab , •nd lfmh' If therefore it was ;''• 1~? ;; ft 0~~·t~ir backfiidinj.\s, becaufe they to reduce the peop e "< c' ''h·· 19 A ) Surely the like Dmy lyeth h I n<•le 2 .an. . .... b t.n d' were an o y pel-r Ch ' fl' Princes to reduce their aCtu•l mg upon all God y :". t~n ric . ' Churches to th;:-r p,~m~~~·;!Hofy Land of -Ifrael, was a Type of Let no man ay, 1 at 'p 1 ces were Typts of the Lord Je(U<' " Holy Chur~:t : So thhefeji 'c'~urches -and Chriflians to doe their dH· ,.,bam alone It be lange: to ee IJ ;,. Purity of ';;'fh!fJ" d Sol·JmoTJ were Types of Chrift, .C a·fld fa For ~houghh ladvr hanh m forth:) yet the Scriprure gtveth no the Scnpture 0 et 1 e Ifr 1 Judah were Types. hint, that the other fings ei~:;e;.~!ft;~;8',0~0r of Judah, for!£ Not of lfrae l, for t·hey were a d h owit in refpeB: of their the Kin~s of Judah (has~~ngs ~)f J•:h:/;ere all of them Types of Rega\1 Ef\ate overt e urc . T es of Chri!l. For Cbrift then ApoftatesfromChnAfl, w;re lp Chriilaswell!! many ~f the Kings of J.udah were po ates rom Yu, .t.hc Kin!jl of lfr•el. mAy pumjh Htretzcks. 73 ------------------ Yea, it they were all Types of Chrift, then Chrilt is the Anti-tYI"'> and by accomplilhing fuch types, hath abolithed them all : fo that now it were facrjLegi,ous. and Antichrifli•n ufurpation for any Kings to be fet lilVer Chriflians, or the people of God. For the Body being come, Types and lhadowes vanifh, But what if they were all types of Chrif\ in refpeB: of their ·Kingly office over the Churcb alone ? were they therefore ~:)'pet of Cbri.ll i(l all the .Kingly Qfiic~s which they performed? T:beo it was ty.picaH in So/~,~9,. tGl•flOO Joab a Murderer to de•th, aolil A.donij~ha Tra.ycor. And then it wU·l be unlawfull for Chri­ftian Princes to !lUt Murde~us or Trakors to death. Or if y.ou fay nhefe wece-civill crimes : But Idolatry and Hertfie, which Afo, Joafh, and l•frah puniilied-with death, werefpim9aU coim~ and,th~r«ore:rne -EiiQgs of Judah in punifhtng thefe lat­ter,. wel!Ct)lpes.of.Chrilt; nqt;foin the.former: this is fpoken gr•­ai. r • . F9l',whatfoe.veNhe Kjngs of Judah did, as types of Chrifr, •.Q.beift,beiog-ehe AnfiGype, might more full, and lively pe~forme it in his owne perfon. But certaine it-is; he put no111an to death in his owne.pe..Ciiln, "ILthe dayet of ·h~ifleili.· Why ther • ."ore may ic potll'ather be faid, [hat whiufoever the •Kings of 'jHdah l~wfully did, whether again it the T ranfgrelfours of the firft qr fecond ·Ta­: bfe,they did -it not any!"'& ofChrilt,but·'!S fervanu of Chrift, be­tru! led ·with•thecare of the welfare both of Church and Com­mon, w;ealtb, and ~her~fore at pa!ternes and examples to Chrifti-an Mlgllhates ? " ·' ' And indeed many of the Kings of If at!, as they were Kings over a ·Common-wealth, which was alfo a Church, Co they were Xings-al(o over fundry Pagan N•tinns round a!>out them, as were D,n~id<i!rul Solomon, A fa -and Jebofaphat, Joafh and Jofi•h. Aqd ~bough none of..them compellt-d the Pagan Nations, co become Jlro!j,lites -to the Church of lfrael (no more then Chriflian Kings may compel! Pagans to become Chrilli•ns, or men -without to become Church-members) yet Ahab, thou~h Kinr; over an Apo­fl~ te Church, having gotten Pagan Benhad~d by con quell und er 'hta Dominion, becaufe he put him not to de•th for his hl•fphe· Illy., forfeited his ownelife for his, 1 Kings 20. 23. wi:h 42 . L