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Show Further Teftimonies al~edged frorn cl(J{er might fiand, it would make the Argume~t of the Apoftle ot none dt,a. For either this weake Brother IS a ndturaO m.w, dead in Jinne already, and then no man can kJ.U bU. : or clfo heir i• CbriJI, and then hir L!~ if im171urtaO, and Chr~fl h.rh provided o, dinancet po-,,full; fufficrent to prevent or healt fucb deadly Dawgm, •It is an high pretul)lptuous tempting of God , and wanton t~eading under foote thc.precious foules of men fur whom ChriR dyed, to wound and ( as much as in us lyeth ) to kill the foules of men, upon pretence, the Lord can fave them , and raife them a· gaine by his all·fufficient Grace. It is a putting of feare, where none is, that the punil'hment of obllinate feducing Huetic/;f "'itb the materia/J Sword, ;, the imprifoni'lg of the foules nf men to a Nati· ooall Religion : for if tho Religion of the Nation be good, it it no Imprifonment : if naught, there lhould be no punilbment. And it is a like cauil:lfe F eare, that, the cutting off of Hereticb, wiU cut off men immediate If withiiHt any longer meanes of Rtpentallll: for if they belong to God, God will give them Repentance bdOR they goe hence: but whether they belong to God, or no, the rr vealed will of God is fulfilled in their jufl Execution. The lafi Anfwerfalleth as lhortof 1\rength, as a11y of the former. Forif men befuch Wolves, and Blafphemers as Paulwa\ before his Converfion, neither the Law of God or man would Jill fuch an one to Death, who finned ol ignorance, and walked ( u himfelfe profelfeth )with all good Confcience, even in his former evi.ll times,Alls ~3· I· But as for fuch as Apofiate from theknowa Truth of Religion , and freke to fubvert the Foundation of u, and to draw away others from it, to plead for their Toleration il hope of theirConver!ion, isas much as to proclaime a generall panlon for all malefattors, ( fave fuch onely as Iinne againfi r~ Holy Ghol\:) for he that is a wil.full murderer , and Adnlrem now, may coroe tO be converted and dye a martyr hereafter· CH A p. 71· ..AReply tobisChap. 76. difcu j f ing :l1e Tejlimor.y of 0 p[atus. Difwcrel THt ~•frmer .,/!e.dgerh f rom O ~t a 't i S his tbird 71oofey , that h, : l 1"ftifitd M~cAti!l', ~·h· h4d f.'" follle_H.. ret i.c ~J ,. ''"''')' r.- thJI beb•d done no morehereon, theu W<«. Mvlts, l' h,nta>, .md Eli~ s bJd -J.ne before him, _ . Bpt tbt.Je art fhaft J><jH.lli} drJtf'W {Mn the !2.!J i ~e .. ef .h, Cere• •lfidil an4 1Jpicall 'Stale ~f the ::f.:;tiOifali Cbt •. <-h uf tJ,, J wos, r»hi&b VlJni/htd "'the an eallng of tbe 'Body ,~nd f~tbf/ """ ·fti e Sun df 'Bigb'~'llfu•[fl, whd (<t up Anotktt K'in;gdome, or Chu ch (He· •. u .) ?-1-lt#flery, an.1 Wor{hip: l11 whicb-,ee fi''"' "" Jucb Q, JinJ, ~•, "Pre· ·"ft, "P~e~dtnt ofkJ.lling men for 'Rtligio.•J•k•· . 'D·finder. Whether thefe lh Jts b< taken f, om the (Qivcr of t h ~ Ccr~moni .U and T;•pic.t l Srate ofthL Nation•ll t..llu, ch ul chcJ !j'.r, or no: Su r ~ thi> Amwer is cake11 !rom no Law ' fG d, nucany Scripcure.grou.td.:but from the f-opidcsoi humme inventhin. · l>·d ever any Apoft le •>r EvJngili!l:.m .lc~ th~j .,dici< ll L .wes of Mofos concernin11 lif~ and d.:ath, Cc:r.:monia ' 1, or Typ icJ!l? Time wJS, when hnmmc inve:Jthms in Gods Worihip, wereaccounr ·ed Sll ; c !li rion: but now h111nm ~ invenciom i11 Dotlrine, ftay ,ptffe for cum nt Evl ngelica II Divinity. ' It h true the ~un n o o f Ri gh teouCneff~ hath fet up another Ohutc~ , M in ift~r y , and Wnrl ~ i l' ' l\ut did h~ ever fct up 3nother civi\1 Righter ulodf" 1 or aM gil\ racy to walkeby anoth,r rule ol Rigbteou(ncff<·, then th-'t which Cud gave by M o[n ? I fi t be true;th. t Ch• ill gave .,.,o exp: elf, Q, dinan c<!, l' recepr, or Pa ce· ikncof,1<-illil!g men hy m.oterial(SworJs for Relig ion f• ke: It is is true thJt n,irhor did he for any b>reJch of civ il! J nf\ice , no not for murder, nor adu ' t<y. I,V .. ich makcth ic t r.cret.;ro ~ vi d ,n c, that fee ing hell <th ex prd l 1 auchur' zecl civil\ M1 gift r2c" in 'he New-Tdb •nem, anrl hath given no expreff,, Lawes or Rnksof Ri~htcou(ne ff~ lor 1 h~ m ro 'walke by in AJmi:ff\ nri·on ot civ ill .Jul\j~.c . therefore ~ithc r he l c ~v cth thefu tO aa and rule\\ ir ~ouc A a a |