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Show them whom they could not beare, (Rev.%. 2.) as well as Creet 11ad :mongll them fuch as were •lwayes_ !Jars, evill •Beaj!s, fluw bellies, Tit, 1. 12. . • 4. The Difcu.ffir,that obfe~v;eth h~fle, and ltght attmtto?, and lltepindfe.in another, one would thtnke, would be more v1g!l.m~, and ammive himfelte .. H<tha{ faah (as the Difcufferdoth m h11 rarenthelis) that Paul wrote thii Leete~, (to wil, b1s fecond ~pi· pi file) to Timothy at Ephefo«, taketh It for granted, rhat wh•ch without [orne ha>lly lightnclfe, even the fame, whrch be blameth in my klfr, he cannot beleive, th.u Pautwr:ote his fccon_d toT•matbya! Ephifm. ··Thereis no word i!l theEpr!Ue, that lpeake~h of . 'Iimothies being ai Ephef!K, when Paul wr_ot•. that fecond•Epr~le. . .His calling of an Evaogelill: did not permit hrm to tarry long m a j>lace: and thefirfrEpHHe to-Timothy, is thought'~y the Learned to have been written one of the 6rft of all Pauls Epr!Ues, next af· terthofe.of the The.ffalonians. But the fecond Epillle to 'Iimoth] wa&written !aft of all theEpill:les, when Pauli time of departure wasat•hand, 2 Tim. 4· 6. And whenP~ul wri.teth 2 Timothy 4• 12. that he had fent 1ychicur to EphtJUf ,It rs not hkely, he would have written fo to 'Iimothy, if Timotb] then had been at Ephejm • For 'Iimotby would have knowne, that '{ychycm had bee_n at Eph;Jw.: or if TjcbiCUf had been then but on his way to Ephef."' ( which IS a narrow point of time) it is more then propable, tf Tzmothy had <been then at Epbtfm, -he wpuld have faid, Tjchicm have 1 font" thee to EpbtfUI. CHAp, 39· A 'l{Jply tohts 39 .. Chap. Difcu!fer. BVtfromthis p/;ce in Timothy ( 1 Tim. 2.25.) in particu/41', I arguethur · 1. If the Civi/1 MgaifrrateJ beChrijfiani or Membm of tb,Cburcb, able to prnphrfie to tht Churcb o{'Chrij! ;' th_en they _ar<.~n:'nd by tht; c.,mand of Chrijl, to fojfer oppafition to tbetr D~rzn_e, wtth meek?:;.D_ dnd gentleneffi, waitiqg if ~od J'<ra4pemure w•ll gtvc tbem Rep.tn ;ta-~:·alfo itpleafttb th< Anfrverer to ac~owledgj in tbcfl worth: It beb· conut wmth not the JPirit of tbe Gojpelto convert Alkns to the F Jith ([uch "'the Sam.ritan1 a~d unconverted per [om, rl'hetber in Ephefus, or Creete)with Fire and-Sword. D4ender. The Anfwerer is llill of the fame mind, thcugh he might llrike in upon the advantage, that if the Magilhate- be alfo a Prophet, · he may doe [orne things as a M•gill:rate, which he-may not -doe as a Prophet: yet he willingly acknowledgeth, th~t if a Magifirate be alfo a Prophet (yea, wlmhcr he be a Prophet, or no) 'he ought not to fetke to fubdue, and convert Aliens to the Faith, bf Fire and Sword • Dlfcu!fer . Second!f, if tbtOppv}itions be withi11, and the"Church-membm be· •ome fcandaloUI in DolJrine ( ·I jpeaf<! not · of fcandaUs in tke Civill State, which the civi/1 Magij!rate oughtto punifh,) lt1Hhe Lordone(y ( aJ tbeSoripture in Timothl implye~h) rl'bo is able togiV: tbem'R.tpentaRce, aRd to recover them out of Satans{izar<, &c. It u trll<, thecivilt Sword may makt a wholt Nation of-Hypocrites, as the 1-ordcomplaineth, I fay ·10, and as b,feU our Native Country in afiw fcom of yeares, in the fever•ll Reignes of Henry 7· Henry 8. -King Edward, !fl..t!.een Mary, !ft..t!.eene Eliz.beth; unckr whom our N.ti· on was as ready to change the fafhion oft heir Religion!, 61 of their Suits of .A;parell• which hath been their Jinfu/1 fhame. Defeoder. , . . If Oppofition· rile from within, from the Members of the Church, I doc not beleive it to -be lawfull for the Magiftrate t0 feeke to fubdue , and convert them to be of his mind by the civill Sword: But rather to ufe all fpirituall meanes for their convittion, andconverfion. But if the Opppfition llill continue in Dottrine and Worlliip, and that a!!ain It the vitals , and F undamenralls of Religion (whether by Herefie of Dottrine, or Idolatry in Worlliip) and fhall proceed EO feekethe Sedull:ion of o· thers, I doebeleive the Magifhate is not to tolerate luch oppofion againft the Truth in Church-members, or in any Profe!fo11r5 of theT,uth after dueconvittion from the word ofT, uth. Nur is it awObjeE1ion of auy n>cight, tb31 neither tbe M8gipratt, """'hi.Sword can give Repenta!l ce rmto jiiCb. . For neither cJn he give Repentance unto fuch perfons as are M fcJndllous |