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Show I ~ 1. • • ..... 4 • .. " It tf;l. • • ~ • - . . Mafter John Cet~ops Ao{w.er - ,. jfU jf.i.tillull Corne, q< q<~<]iiqning their true caUzng, and. Comm~· fion. . . f I '{\) ,. In fuch a cafe I would l1rf\ fee~~( b.y. the ~c.lpe o. C lfl . • tore· move the fcruplea upQn_ wll\e:h tl;ley que!hqn t"es.r ~~llsng_, ~nd C.on1miffio.o~ . S1c,i11dly, I won.ld tbtl\ke i~. l'le~t~ to, pt\1 ~ dlffer~nce b~tw;e~ fu.ch as uevcr received a lalt"fnll c~tling_ and commiffion tq theMi· ;ul\ety, atld ~hero th~~ 1\~VIt recciv<fl i~, But if an>J o~ ti¥:t? b.av_e r1· .ce.ived a !awfu)l caJHng !(Ito the Mtmllery, ~nd yeq . W,lll netthe1 Pre.ch 1hemfelvee,nor fitff,~ them that w,ou\d,~ fu!i'P,Gfe ~hat ~ot~ Church, and Common.· wealth, m"<)) jq(tlz acccun~ tq~m unw.or1 1 hy otany Cb~i!Uan focicty; and as luch unprofit~b}e ferv~.ts re· ·fu{e to.uJioifler themfelveF, or to fuffi:rothers to mtndttr fpmtuall things . fo others {hould rcfufi: to mil)illec tOjth~ ca, nall things. ' But ( fa~~h lw,) ""felling, or wif/Jbolpin(JcfJP~it"_JOCorne, arebptp of a JPidJN ,y naJI(f.< : and therefore mJfft ntpeff('r!b. zn a, true P arq/ell bem,RdaJipn JO a fpirituall Curfo. , .A,;f.cv. If: cbey that rninil1:er fpiritua)l good• things may duely reapecarnall good tbingE,( 1 Cor. 2.· II.) then they that hinder the.miniJl:cing.o~ fpirituall good things1.may, ju,~ly reape the hiQ· de.raoceofenjoyment of carnall 11,00d things. What if fpir.irnall, and.carnall·p.ood things,bc not paralcll ? Are there no Arguments btita.Pari? hit not .Jawftlll rc;tfoningamajori adminru-llfrr,~;n hinder the enjoyment of (piriqu)J good things, may they not be hindrcd from tqe enjoyment of tha.t which. is le!fe, carnall good rhinos? It would weary a (pbcr mjnde to purfue. fuch windy fan· cies~th< ugh [hope the Lord will helpe me not to count it 1~carir fome,elther to fatisfic a tender Confcience, or co convince a Gain· ·fayer. To CHAp. VI. TH JU!(h my Letter rxp,-clfet h, Tbat i( ''"J be the Cowt piJJid that Jmtcnce againft M.'. Wjlha,ms, notup?rt tbat f!,!Ound, (F•m .P·,·iw. 1 1, 26. ) b~t for OIIJ,h! I ~nm;v., forlJif other corrupt VoUrmfl ;-( fuitJbt. tohif PrJEii[et) te11tling to tbe diftrvb;ne< of Civil!, andhafJ J'eace: Y ct I dQe not thertfore qtlcfHon (as he f~ith I feeme-!0. · doe) to Majler Roger Williams. do~) the f;11di~effi ofjidJ a ground~"' that place of Scripture) t• nmra; zt fuch proceedm;,t; 1lOr t/o.e J tbertill confejf' th•t my folfo bad 110 di· Jimll kf!owledge of the canfoJ of hi< Banifbmmt. · Fo;· I did not alledge that place of Scripture, as a ground upon which the Court proceeded to his B1mlhment : and therefore I faid in my Letter, it may be they pa!kd Sentence not upon that ground. But I alledged it as a reafon,-which provoked the Lord co moove the Court to proceed again{\ M'.William~,for fi1ch mher olfenfive, and diflurbant Doctrines, and PractiCes againll the Pa· t~nr,and again{\ the oath of fidelitie, and agajnfl the Magiflrates delay of the Petition of Salem, which he himfelfe knoweth, I had · difiintl: knowledge ofb.efore, which maketh me the more co mu· vel! at his wonder,Where rvas my wak_ingcarein hi< bebalfo; Where- · a1 ~e knoweth I fp.ent a great part of the Sum(Jler in f~eking by word apa "Vritil'g to faclsfie hie fcmples_in the former particulars: untill he rejected both our ca\li!Jgs, and Ol)r Churc~es. And even t11en I ceafed not to follow him Hill t with li1ch meanes of con· vil.\jon, aod fatisfattjon in that Point alfe>, as God brought to my ~and: whereof this very Letter, C which heex.tminech, and an• fivereth) is~ pregnal\t, and evl<lent demonflration. What though in t.hi1 Letter I did not name bif oth<r oorrupt Doflrinu and PraBi.Jet,nor a~y Scripturet to prove th'm corrupt?His heart know· eth full well both the Points, ~nd the Scriptu re~,that were charged upon him all that Summer. 1\nd to have r~hcaried th.em againc in this Let~er, it had been but af1um agere, neither was it the worke in ~and. For having done it before, wee looked for fome farisfatl:ory anfwer: but in ftead thereof wee rcdved onely a rejdtion of om callings, and Churches: fo that there was r.othing now lefr, but· to endeavour to fatisfie his Confcience in the.fJpdine!fc of thofe gro!md1, upon which he rejected communio11 with us. To C H A p. V-I I. IN the 7'" qha~trr M'. WiUiamJ <xamineth rhofe words of my• . Letter, wherein I !ay, that were my(oule in hi.t fo11let jleJd, I pJOttld ""'Pt it iU a mercy of God, to banifo me {rem the Civill Soci1ty offucb" Common.wealtb,wherelcoHid not enjcy boly FeUowfhip n•ith any Ch11rcb •fGo4 amongfltbem wit bout fin% For wh•t Jhort!d 1he d•Hglmr of ZiarJ · 47 |