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Show 7'he Teftimonies al!edged from ·-t-oaff-i,fl-t'h-e-Of!icen of the Church in tbe Lords worke: the one to lay in Amidotesco prcventinfel.tiun: the other to weed out infel.tious noylom' weedes, which the fheep of Chrif\' will be touohing and raking, when they will (omerime neglel.t their Anrid ore~. Ids a very unlikely thif g which the Difcu!Ter Jaitb (i< moj! li~ly) that T enullian me.nt one ofth'fe rwo cafe!. Fur dou~dcfE: his meaning was , to plead for the Innocency and impunity of his owne Religion, which was indeed the Ttmh of God. And he might fafdy p!tad, that if the Pagan Religion did not hurt their civill Government , ( u the Runune Govcrnours doubted not of chat) he biddeth them 10 be li:cure of the ChriUi· an Religion, itwill never hurt them at all. Whcnthercforehe fpe•kes of Religion indefiniteiy, that one mans Religion will not h11rt another, it ir Arptmemum ad hominem, let not Scapula fufpel\ hurt from Chriflian Religion to the RomaCie S!ate. If the Rom~ne Re1igion be the prefervation of the Romane Empire ( as Scapula thought) Chriflian Religion( though tolerated,yea though recei· ved,and advanced )will never be their deftrut9:iou,nor di!lurbance. CHAP. 68. A 'l(,ep!ytohisChap. 71. Difcujfing the 7 eflimony of Ierome. Difcu!fer. l Erome (faith the Anfwtrer) confejfith notthe Truth, Nor advAn• tagetloynr" cmft for -wu graunt,rvhathe faith, That Herefiemujlb< cut 'ffby the Sw•rd oft I.e Spirit, -which u the Word of God. 'IIut rbu hinder.!h ~ot, but that beingfocut downe, if the Hmtick_e doe j!ill perft~ ~n ha Here fie to the feduflion of othm, he may b.cut offolfo PJ 11Nctvrll Strorrl, to prev<ntth · p'fdition of other~. And tbat Jo6e Jeromes mealring, appellret/, by his Note upontbJt of tbe Apojl/e (Gal. 5.) A little LMven let~veneth the wbole lump<. r:herrfort faith he, a !p~rk._e, at (oone a! it appeoreth, it to 6e tX· tmgrt~fh•d, and the Leav.n to 6e removed from the r<jl of the Jau;,h: Rotten !'i,ca of fl·'fh ore tnbe c~t njf, andajcabb,dBeafli; ro6e dri· ven f. om tl>e /hc~p(o/J :.lurft the whole houft, body, maJfe of dough. a•J Fleck_, be /<ton fire -wuh the jparb,e, be putrijied wir/nhe rotren ft•/h, fowred witb the Leuven,perrfo-with tbefc•b6ed'1ieajl. Bit . JJ?rtlr. lhisl . .:Anfriier, I. He granteth to Tertuflian 1 that .Here- , fo ihnft he ciit~Jfwith the Swnrdqf the Spirit: 1Jil .,it halt he mJintainrth 4 &lilting nffb; the(tcond Sword ,the Sword ofth~ Magiftratt, iVfd C~ne<~Vtt~ th.lt. 'Pt'rtullian,fo "''""eth, becaufehe 'fUOteth that of tbe .il£Pfi,~• a tzf~le-L~Jtienle'1entthihe whole lr~mp~. ) Mnft'J.· 'lt f4 no Arg_ume•t to I''""' that Ter~ulhan meant a~ivili Strorrl, by a'lltdging, 1'€-or. 5.11r Gat '1- which proplrlJand onrly apfrove 11 cmtingolfby the Sw'ord ofthe Spil"ir,and purging""' •fleavm , it< the ChurC/7. Uml ifTettuH i~nfoottld fo meaHt, 111 tbt An(wmr doth: yet I. 1'/ie Cllttiirg offofHer!Jr< uy'rbe S.wer.d oftht Spirit impl,eth .an abfolitkJfljfttitlicJ iu t'he Sword •fibt Spi>#to c~t it:iiJrflne, according to• ~Cor, I 'O. 4.' ~. lt is ckare,to lu1ht meaning ef the hal] Spirit and oft he Apoftle irhht"if'ords ~11111~•d by h~m la little LtAven &c. · .,,. · ,,") .. Deji.Jdo!>', > • · · fi:eply 1. 'l'h& .:fe!limoliy<of Jmmt1which die Authour'of the Le'tt~ altedgecb ag~ml\lt*Piecur~oWfofCoofci~llce,I might jufr•, 1\1" terure co lpencf-titrie about it)Jt\11 either the Autbor or the ~ifc~ffer doe make' \t appeare co be the words of Jerome. For tholl'~h 1· at fhftg'aW'AnfWer to it; a' prefuming the Lett~r ·had' MHB~tedlt'':i)ie't dow lo~kiilg'inrolhl!plpcc. ot.,J.erom,, whC1JI:e\ lt,iS qu9fea·, ~ I linde'nb' futh tn'J«er, •·' ' TtheiT:.biter qudteth It! l>ut of Plieroms Pro!eme upon the fourth Bboke of his Oom• mentaryes 'tlpdn JerefnJ• Bar peiilfing the place, I.finde no fuclt ~ord~, nefther'in thai Pfo~me on his·faorllh.Booke:on Jtrr!mJ, ndr .in ~y '6\:her Pra.eini ofoi!ly?ther ufhia.' ~kes bn leremj I~Mch a're fix in :Ill · ' 1 · · , • • . '· ·' '· l , Reply. 2 . l h'light here obfer've, (iff fhould d'eale with him ; a' he doth with 'me,in his Chap. 3 8 ) the lik'e failings in the Dift~ l!cr ,Jn P?ttitlg 'IJttHIIiknfoure tifOes in this paffage infiead· of · li~o"!',"wh"Opl he harh in hat1i!. When I hod once named TltuJ fo~· 7imJthj, he ob[trvfth /he haft, and light attellfipn, and fleepinef!e of the Aufwerer. ' But I will not make fuch an obfcrvacion upoa hismilr,aming of an Author,which migbteafi!yflip from ~is pen, or from !its Scribe',or from the error ofrhcPnnter. " 1 Re\lfy ~·: 'fn this 'fie d<itllmc wrbng, ro puc 11pon me that fora R~fon,whichhathno ?eafon in ir~co wit, that Hhou1d conceive, X that |