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Show The pratlifes, of Prir~ces difcujJed. For it never came to an utter Extirpation of them, but only to a-difpedion into fundry Countries ofJ,.urope,as Bilh~p_V.Jher lhew· eth in the Ia ft words of his Booke De fucce§wne Chrifhanarum Eccleftarum. But difperfion is one thing; utter exrerpation is a noother. Seed is difperfed, and the more multiplyed·: but exterpa· tio~ tendeth to withering, and detirutl:ion· Certaine it is, the Waldenfu long after thofe warres,~nd that difperfion , .wrote Let· ters to Luther, and Calvin, which are extant to this day. Difcu!ler. ll.u mojl true,what Daniel i(J hn ~. u,and xz.Chaptm,O!ld John Rev. I 1, 12, and 13. Chapters, write of the great fucceffi of Anti· cbrijl again ft. Chrijl Jefm for a time-appointed. • Defiuder. Not againll Chrill Jefus: for who ever .warred-again!\: him,aml prevailed? Job. 9· 4· But true it is, again!\: his fervams Antichrijt prevailed.for.a tim#.appointed : but it.was-when either:the'Sainu fuffered for the Truth : (and then the Saints were the true Con· querours : ) or elfe when they complyed with the corruptions of the times, and tben.though their cau{e was g90d, y~t they,hand•' !edit ill. . , · , Difcu!ler. • .• Gods fervants are all Conquersurs, when the}: warre with <iods we~· P~~nsinGodscaufe andworfbip: iH in Rev. 2 . a~il 3· Chapters, and in R.ev.lz. they OverCIJme the Dragon in the Ram•n• Emperours bJ. thrre ~eapont1 !he bloud ohhe ~amb, the·wortl of their 'Iiftimon)) ~nd not loving their livu unto the.death. · Dtfender. It is true,thofe are the weapons of the MinHl:ers of the Gofpe!, and tho!earealfothe weapons of private Chri!l:ians : but if the MagHlrate be theMiniller of G.>d in bearing his fword, then t~e Sword alfoisa weapon of God, which when it is drawne ounn Gods caufe and worlhip, ~ccording to God1with confidence, noG In the arme of !lelh, but in the L'Jrd of Hofls, it goeth forth Conqqeringto conquer,Rev.I7•1 4, withRev. I9·14·19,2o. Gilk' 1n1, Sword.was the Sword of the.. Lord, J!Ylg. 7· 20. The Tejlimony of f.Ancient and late writers difcuffed. C H A p, 65· A '1\.fP/y to his Chap. 68: Difcujfing the Teftimomes altedged.from Arment and later w riters : and Jirft, that of Hilary. Difculfer. THe lajl Head of Argumenll prodHCed by the Author agJinfr per[e• cution, WIH from the Judgement of Antient and later Writers ;. u[ome of which, the Anfwerer pkafetb to anfwer. . Defender. Some of which? as if any of them were omitted ? or aeif all or them were not anfwered? · compare the P.rifoners Lette~., and• my Anfwer together,.and fee if }nave bllked any.one of them; Difcu!ler. · Ifitbe a mar~ of the Chrifli~n Church to b~ per{ecuted, and of th• Ami<hriftian or falfo Ch~<rcb, t~ per{ecute, then the ChHrcbu cannot be tru~Cbriflian (according to the firjl lnjl'itution) which either allu· .Ji}tbem{elvet1.or bJ. til< civiU Pow" of.Kingt and Prinw given to them · .(orprocured by them to fight for tbem) doe per[ect1te fucb Dl difomt f rom tbem,or he.oppaftte againjl'them; D<fender. I fay againe, if perfecution be properly taken fof' the puni!h· mentofthe Innoce·nt-forT ruth, .or Righteoufneffefake, .it ought not to be found in-a Chri!l:ian Church,.hu&is ufuallv found in a lalfe and Antichrillian Church, but I cannot( as the Difcuffirdoth) make it a marke of the Chd!l:ian Church, to be perlecmed, and amarke of a falfe Church to perfccute. For a Marke is fuch a figne as belongeth, omni,foli, & femper, as·a muke of the Church muft agree to every Church, and at all tinJ>s to the Church , and onely to the Church. But to be perfecured, is not-found in every trueChurch,a-tleall not at all times : For after the converfion of Paul unto the Faith of Chrifl, the Churches had rell throughom aU Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, A[fs 9· 3 r. l11all we f•y they werethenno trueChrillian Churches. becaufethey wanted this markeof the Church, to be perfecmed ? Againc, wee read, that dter the dell.ruaion of Andchrift, the Churches of the Sair.u lh•ll |