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Show t.Mafter John Cottons Anfwer For 1 , There is no word at all in that Anfwcr, that dwieth permiffio10 to fuch godly per[ons to live and bre•th '" the jJm' ayre of :In Common-wealth. Let the Anfwcr be peruled.; lc is too long for me to tranfcribe; the Book ispubliquely extant, and obvious: and fee if there be .a Cyllable !ounding that W>Y· . 2. In that Anfwer he difiingui!heth (out of M'.Cartw•·zght,,nd M'. P.srker) touching matters of Church Difcipline, and maket~ fame to be the fubll:antiall and immutable, others of a more aCCI• dental! and circumll:antiall nature. In the former,h' doubwhn.t but that n·e and all the godly MiniJim i" England fi:o~ld accor_d (if th') were here ; ) M ~e/eevmg, that ei.Jher we fhould {awfte them zn our way, or they uun tbt.rs; fo M the~e would never be ~ejlion, whether we fhould embrace one another"' St· Jler- Churches. In· the lmer,to wit, in matters circum!lantiall, we are all taught of God, Placitlt firre aiiud fontientes. 3· When the Examiner maketh it his own cafe, not to be p<r· mitted to live and breath in the fame ayre andCommm·wtaltb, though M'. Cotton, lllld others, mof! i•mnfed, gave him a tejlimony of godli· nejfe, &c. Let him be plea fed to look back, to what hath been form:rly laid open, and he will Iinde this In !lance of himfelfe wholly tm· pertinent. For the calling of him out of the Common~1~v_ealth, fprung not from his difference in matters of Church Dt.cophne. It was wdl knowne that whilell: he lived at Salem, he neither ad, mit ted, nor permitted any Church-members, but fuch ~s rej,~ed all Communion with the Parifh Affcmblies, fo much as1t1 hearmg of the Word amonr,ll: them. And this libertie he did ufe and might have ufed to this day, without aoy diflurbance to his Civill or Church· Peace, ( fave on ely in a way of brotherly difquiiitio~ _;) but it was his Dclfhines and Prattif<s which tended to the Covoll difiurbance of the Common-wealth, together with his heady and bufie purluite of the fame, even to the rejeCtion of all Churches here. Thefe they were that made him unfit for enjoying Commu· nion either in th_eone !late, or in the mher. \Vhen he redwneth me, and me onely by name, (as one of the moll: incc ,led Jgainfl him) I reckon it as one of his ufital! ex orbit• nc Hyperboles: w~leffe by lncer.fed, he meane one that with fome others, were mofl kondd· lc, to Mafier Roger Williams. led, and !lirred up to endeavour his fatisfattion: And then his wme Incmfod, though it be not an Hyperbole, yet it is an Acu- •roiQ~· Neither doe I remember, that he hath any caufe to f•y, tlv.it 1 ·g..Vtbim a Tejlimony ofgodlin•Jje. For hi1 godline!fe, lleav< it to him who is the fearcher of ·hearts: I ntither attelled it, nor denied it. Every brother in the Church, though he may be called a brothcr inChrifl, as Chrifl is the Head ofthevifibleChurch: and be· ingcall: out of the Church, though he may be admonifhed au Brother, and •fo h:wlo fome reference flill to Chrifl, yet godline!fe rtquireth a Participation oftheUivine Nature, (I fpeakein Petert fence, 2Pet. ·I· 4·) by the power of the Spirit of Grace, conform· ing usto fellowlhip with Chrift, and his Charche1 : the whtch thirigs have not fo evidently appeared to me,(llpeak it with griefe) either in his fpirit: or in his way thefe m•ny ye~m. And yet I de· ny not,others may difcerne more Power of Godline!fe in him,then I doe, and may fpea-ke of him accordingly. Buc it was no uncha· ritable fpeech of Paul, to tell theGalatianl, and that before all the 1 Churches, that he !lood in feare of them,· Gal. 4• xo. The life af uith{from whence fpringeth both the troth, and che Power of God!ine!fe )is very repugnant to Self·fulne!fe, .:ull.:l'tt<t; Faith emptieth a man of felf·confidence, and maketh hom apt to acknow• ledge with Agur, Truely I am more foolifbthenan) m•n, Prov. 30. 2. But 'the Lord help us to tremble before him: If he leave us (though but a while) to our felves, we can Coone learne to reigne as Kingt, ( like the Corinthians) without Church·Officert, or the Ordinan· ca of Chri!l, 1 Cor. 4· 8. To C a A P. X I I. His 12th Chapter is tJken up in Ex 1mining and t\nfi;etin~ _a fpcech of mine, That godly perfms ar< n"t Jo emhralled to Anll· chrijl, 111 to Jiparate from Chrijl .: Elfo tbey could IJOt b, g':dly per{oni._ Hos Anfwer is Tbat tbi< cometh not mere th' fj(_"Jlm>, wbtch H not concerning perfon;/1 godlim.Jfe, or Grace i" Chrift, b"t the g.,dlinejj< o~ Cbriftianitie ofworjhip. .,. I i dherc· |