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Show ---- Further Teftimonies aUedged from a Rule (which derogateth from the perfeaion of Scripture:) or elie they mufl fete~ their mles of Right~ouU.elfe from the Law of cMo{er, and from the Prophets, who have expounded him inthe Old-Tcftament. Difi:uffer. ' More parti~ll/arly, con&erning Moles, I ~erie what Command,. ment, or praEli[e ofMofes,either Optatus, or tht Ail{,.,erer here i•tin• d.tb, Proh,b!J that ofMofes, D' ut. I 3 .I/ J• I fhall particlllariJ'R.tpl} to th,t, in AD[.,..Ir t• tbereafonr bert llnderrmntioned, 'Defmder. When Optatus fpeakcth, that M•cariusin putting Hereticks to de~ th had ~one no more, then Mofrr had done before him:lt appeareth he meant not that p.tlf•geof7Jeul. '3: but of Ex1J, 3l .whe•e he put to death Idolate,-s:and that of Lt'llit. :4.where be pm the Blafphemer to death. ForOp•atutfpeaketh of what Mofor had done, not what Mo~s had commanded to be done.But llh•ll (God willing) confid:;r his Anfwer., if it come i~ my way. . Ditculfer, . Concerni.1g Phinehas hi! ze4/ous A{}. J· Hi! ft'Ji"g the J fraelttirh man and ''"'"'w •f Midian 1r11 111orfir JPirituaU, but torpor a// fti•h]ntfft. ' V'[mder. Was it fo~ oodlly or corporal lilthindfel Surely for fpiritual. for the Jfr.,/ztuthatcommitced whoredome with the daugl11m <:~f the t.and, they w< re invited to the Sacrilicei of their God: Andbcing invited they did-eat and boweddowne to their~ods, "Jnd-CJ joy ned themfdvcs to Battl Pear :this is plaine in the rext Nr~mt. 2-5. ~- z, 3· NO!>V I doe not know·, that corpora !I filthynclfe betwecne :tyoung, man and lingle woman was any Capital! Crime, bydJe I:.aw oft.Mofos.Bot r he Difcu!fer contenteth bimfclf if any thing be b.ia)_it m3y goe for an Anfwer.. ' Difculfer. 1 2'. No man will prodflce tbiJ j.tfl as Prmdentillll to a") Minifl~ oft& GJJ{£<1,[D 1o ~a in an} Civil/ Statt &c. V•fender. · · ·It is true,itis no PrecedeAt for Mir.ifiers:but th~ faa focleare. ly ac~nowledqtd, and approved, and rewarded ofGod,is doubrIelfo a,n atl: ofu~;hteou!i1dfeto have been done by fome in their ord!nary ~alling ftowil,by Mofer and the Princes of i[rael :) whrch Phtneh" dtd by an extraordinary motion. 6od is not wont to approve ~ny aaof~olyneffe,or righteoufnelfo (though neyer [o exrraordmary) whtcb do<th not fall under the ordinary Ruleofholy.~elfe, and righreoultlelfe,inthe ordir.ary c. \ling of fome ·orothtr FunCtion, which himfelfc bath ordained. Therefore though .Phinehas his faCl: be no Pr~cedeot for Minificrs of the Gofpel: yet it is Preccd· miall to fuch as be are not the Sword in vaine,;but for the. punifhnt,·m of evill doers. , , ' . Difculfer. C?nurning Eli;an, Thm wire ,.,.,o(amous ails of Elijah of a ~~- ling nature. ; ; - · ' I.,ThAtojfl1Jing 8~o.ofB •AlJ.Prophm, IKiQgs.t8. , 2· Ofth<tWO Caprai~u, anrl theirftftyes by F1"· ~F.;. thr'ftrft, It c•no:ol jiglfr< or T JP' out 11ny mareriAil jlJUgh•er of tl!e "''"1 tbouj:mds of f•lfo- Prophets j,. dtt world by any m;teriall Stfl!>'d 1jJron, or fr"le ." furnl thttt p•jfJJ!,f w•s m rAcu/oUI: (o 21'e< finde not any Jucb c~mmiffion gifJen h)' I he Lord Jejlll tO the Minij!ert •Nl.GofPd. ' • 1 • Vef'nder • .It will doe theDifculf,r no hurt to take notice, that he tim is forward to tJke hold o!any ll pofPen,ormemory, is fubj ca to the likdlips himfe!I.The number of the falfe Prophet•,which he fai:h, werdLyncby Elijabexceederh the Truth by halfe in halfe: the Textnurobreththem45o. and he numbreth them 8so. Againe, it is a vaine thing to inquire what this faa of Eli jab fhouldfigu ·eorTy peout. A8:sofMorall '! ·,fiice, though they may [om< times be extr Jnrdinary : ytt they are never accounted Typicall,or Fign;ative: but by fuch as woulduao;formcali the Scripture into an AlltW"Y· Betides, whv (hou1d he call the fal:t Miracu\onsl r, it a mi-racle for 8/ijah with the aide offo many thoufand p~op ' e of l(r~tl •o put to deJCh 4)0. men, whofe fpirirs were diicouNg"d being convinced of their forgery and l dolatry? A a 2 Moreover~ |