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Show Further Tejli1nonies all edged from M0reover 1 Though Chrifl g'ive no fuch Commillhn to Mini. l!ers of the Gofpel ro put falfe Prophets rodeJth. as Elij ,h did : yet rhe fame Anfwer holderh hare which w.as given rot he faa of Pbimb41: though th hand which executed J uf!ice w~s ex ,ra. ordimry: ycr thea~ ofJullice, was an ordinary dory ofMoraU ltighreoufndl'\ belonging to fuch aJ beare the Sword. Difculfer. L•flly, (ucb "fo!ugbter mufi not on•ly extend to all the folft Pre. pbets in th< 'JIIOtld, but ( 11ccordin_g to th6 Anfwererr gro~~nds) to tbt"''" l thau{antls of tboufoNds nf Idolatm, anJfalje.wor(bippm in tbt Kingdomtl and N~ti411• •f tbt170rld: Dtjellder; Such a lhughter being onely madcofthefalfe Prophets in Ifrae/ (a people in Covenant with the rrue and living God) the example of. it will onely. extend to the like execution of aU rhc falfc Prophets in tht Church of God, who h 1ve turned the hcaru of the Pcoplcof.God from 7ehoMhto an Idol. .What ham any Officer in the Church<, or M>'~g<lhate in the Common-wulih ro d<>e, ro ccnfuFe• or punifh alhh~ falreProphefs in the world, when- many· hund•cds o~ them (H not •thou[andO ar~ exempt from their ju•i rdtlt lon• ? muchlefie will rh1H~ample rxtend to the Rwghrcr of many rhoufands·of rhor1fands ofldolarers, and f,J[e wor!hippers in the Kngdomes and N I[ ions oft he world. For 1. many cho~{and thou!and~.of them Greexcrnptfrom thi · rivill Maj<illuoy of Chr.i{lians; z, They wrre ne\•cr in Covenant wirh God to whom onel~ tb,c. Law. of Mifes ( conc~rning, ch~ punithmcnt of· Idolaters) extcndrth. ~ ' Though •h·, lfAelittr were IdolJters,yet EUjJb fpmdrh<m, as having b;n le.rd a fide from rh-, daycs of cbdr Fachm, in rheit fimphcity, and lgnor.wcr,by rhefc fa I.e Teachers. And for6ns ofTgnor•nc< God hath appointed other tx·p;awry SJcrifices,then the Hllrghter of the df. ndcrs, Nor hath the Anlwerer any gr.ounds, rr thoug~t < to thecon•n •y. As for the other fait of Etijah in fl~ying the Captaincs of rheir fifcy,es,a• it is not pertinent r., the pu~ifhm , nroftal(, Propherr, nor of Idolatm (as fuch :) fo I doe notfir,dcit allcdg dby ~ny in ,tbis c<.,ufe,but ~nly by tbe Difculfcr,to~akebimltliwo~kt. - ,.,ul A ncum and late Wrtl t rs dtjCIIljed. · But VI hen thc 'Dif~r<ffir isp' <ated ~" g,lory in his Anrwers to A•gujl'ine,b.fore, •nd loVptd!usl""• TIJJI if Augulline "''"' """' living,he 'Wortld,b•. of bu m inde,~ndOpt ttus, and the A ~fwerer bimfolfe might ref/ J Jtl!jietl • Let the Di(e,.ffir revife againe what be hath woimn, •ml fee if be can fatb6ehim(elfe (muchlclfe che Anfwerer, an1 kaltof all Auguftint, cmd Optatut) in fuch Cobweb Evalions. .--· --- C H A p, 74• A 'R;JpfJ,to·bis ChJP·77· Difculfer. ft.\ Sfor Calvinc, Bezt,andArerius,mine Anfwtrit,fi~<cemAI• .[lrer Df{•U aod opinion art bare!J r<!Jttd bJ tbt AnfJPmr with· 1uttheir :rounds ,(whofe grounds~'' withjlanding, -in tbir B~okt "'~ An{q>emJ) If Paul hitt~fil{ewerej')'ntdwiththem,ye-aor an A•tgd from Heaven, bringing dnyotherRHie,tbm.,.~at the Lord Jt(Ht · jw~ once Jelivtred, wee have Paules Conclujion, a•nJ R~[oiutta111 iuempforJ,.~nJ.dr~adfHII,Gal.t. 8-. D•fmder, That I ·onr•ly. quottd the Names oftho'e bldfed m2n of God; It-< was partly, bec•ufe it was enough to counte1 poi!e theN Im(s--· o( Alltbors alledged by. th<> Vtter ag•inl\ the Trurh , by the Names of gr•:arer and more holy men of God, for the Truth: pa'tly· alfo, becaufc if! had <]Uflted their grounds, 1 mnfH·ave tranfcribed th i.r whole Boeke, of tht· Argumem. C •lvdnn d,f- . coiu!e about •t; againft Servtrur, ;,bound up i ' his Opu(cu!J, lkza his 'B on f?! de H.~-'eticir aM rgiffrJtkpuniendi•, is lwlll'd up alro in his OpufcH!a: but both of them ro ~ large by m ~ to Se c• ,p· pycd, and ro ft ron<> and ar.curJrc, by th<m of th a Jve• fe pa t to befurtd. _A,-.,;~r, alik' lohd writer, m;v foon~r be fhi fted · off,, then lifted to Bra nne. B•1t it lccmcth, il p _,.l him(e1f ~ r:v.J·. i•'7fted with rhem in tile like fu ' nc!Tc o' cxpr, ffi ms, him(el fe · lhouH ra cher hJVe been accur(ed ~y the Difc•JJ<r, d1en· hi~·-. D;tt<ine accepted. Wni<h fcemcth r" me a {ban~e beth prejudice, and prdidc.,re m:r Ngcti,cr. For Iince G )d lavd ,his thug' up ;n Magiflrltes in the O'd-Teflament, t~ puo ilh _Se-~ IIC(fs,&-the Lord JefuJnevcr toJke this th.;rgeo ffin the· N~w- Tc!laJlleW, . |