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Show ' v~ •• , -- · •· · . ,;- . . The pra8ifes of princes dij'cujjed. nf it· For may it not jullly be conceived. That the Lord therefore uid the placeofhis buriall, !call the Children of ![rae/ know. ing ir, mightgoe a whoring after his s , pulchre, and it may be offerfweet inccn(e upon it: and fo fuch fa lie worlhip again it the law of Mo{ti might come to be Tolerated, for honur to the body of MofoJ l But Chrijl bJtb abolifoed aNationJ/1 StAte,or Church, n:bicb Mo[et fnup in Canaan Though Chrill abolifhed a Nationall Church-St•te,and inilead thereof fct up a Congregationall ChUtch: yet ChrHI never abolifhed, a Nationall Civil! State, northe J udicial! Lawes of M oji1, which were of Moral! equity,'f>ut eilabJilhed them rather, in their place and ordcr.He that lhed his own bloud to plant his Church, did never abolilh that law, whichenaCl:ed, that his bloud 010uld benpon him, who fhould fupplam his Church. If Chrifis bloud goe to plant it, let the falfe Chriils bloud goe for fttpplanting it. . Difcu!fer. lntlu King of Bobemiar fPeech, the Anfwer" p>jleth by tbJtFou•I· datioll in grace and Nature, that Con[ci:11ee ought not to be violated, and forced, it it a fPiritllal! Rap,. D<fend,r, This was not pa!fed by, but prevented in llating the Q!!elli· on, where it wasfaid, it is notl•wfiJII to cenlureany, no not for error in FuPdamentall points of Dotlrinc or Worlhip,tilltbe Con· fcience of the ojfendor, be jirjl conflinced (out of the word of Gud) iftht danger.,u error of hi< ~a), and then if he jli/1 perji(f , It if ••1 oHI of Co•Jcience,bttt again ]I hi< {onfcie•ce ( aJ tbe .Apojlle faith Ti r.3. 11.) & fo bl is not perflcuted for caufe o(Cunfcience,but punijbedfor jinning againjl hi.! Coufcience, Dilcu!fer. · The King ob[ervetb that wzujllamentabfJ trueexperience of aft ag11, That p~r[ecHtion forcatifeof(onfcience, h#hever pro11ed pemicioul, &c. Defender. The praBifes of Princes difcuffed. ous to Gene'ff> l or the jul'c execution of many pnpilh Preilh to Q_ueene 8/iz•betb, or to the cnglifh State l But the Kings f peech may palfe, if it be meant of perfecntion properly fo called, to wit, Oppreffion of the faithfull, for the Truths fake: yea ifit be the punifhment of any for error, If not Fundamentally pernicious either to Religion, or Church-order, and that after coRvil:tion of Conicience, perfifted in with obfiinacy. Difcu!fer, L•ftiJ, the King1 ob{ervation ofhu o<Pne time, that Perjecu·tion for taH(t ofCon[cience, wa1 praflifod moft in Engllnd, and Juch placet, wbere Poperreig~ed: Implyi•z ( a1 l conceive) (uchpr~[iifei c"mnoon· IJ prm<dfrom th' great Whore, whofe P augh1er1 arelik$ their ()l{o. tb,., all ofA hloHdpwure, a1 common!J 111/ wolve~ h • . Deftnder, . It is no marvell, ifi pa!fed by this obfervation in the Kings fpeech: For there is no fuch obfervation there to be found. If tbc Ditcu!fer had well obferved it himfclfe , he would have fou"d, it was not the fpeech of the King, but of the Prifoner. And the perfccution,hc fpeaketh of, was not of Ancichroflians, or Hereticks, or Idolatcrs,bm andy offuch as the world nickRimed Puritans, or the lik~, and of them too, without convill:ionofthe cr~or of their way. But in that the Difcu!fer maketh E"7.lmda Daughter of the great Whore, and of a biaudy nature, lik< her Motb,r: he !pM'<!th at fo'me olhtr •ftbe rid~id Seperatio 't b 1velone before him. But 1 w•ld •rver Jet fee a warrant (from the ruk either ofT ruth, or L·,vc) for fuch a fpeech. D1d ever rhc holy Scripture,c .• ll an C~urch an whore , that worfhipped the erne God, onely in theN .me of Jefus, and depended on him alone for rigbteoufne{fe and lalv.;tiOn l Is it not the parr of a bafe childe, or at leal!, a bafe p 1 rr of achilde,tocallhisMather whore, who bred him,, ndbr,d h m to know no other Fatherbutherl•wfull Husband, the Lord Jefus Chrifi l , No experience in any age did ever prove it pernicious, to punilh (educing Apofiates J after due convitliori of the enor. of their way. Wherein did the burning of Ser'IJetUI prove peroiC15' ' 'i ou Chap. 6o. |