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Show 10'! Mafler John Cottons Anfwer ambngft ~r ~ had pt~ivate and publique agit::Ztiurl~ ~onctrning f1llr eftatt at~d cnndrmn, and at l•ft fojfered for [uch A~manman tow, the mifery •J n WinterJ Bamjhme1ll among!/ the Barbarzam l Rep~. As if every man in fellowth.ip with. u~,:n Officer amongfl 11s, oo~< tha< h•d pnvate a~td pubhque aj?,tt•uons wah us, mull needs know wh~t our members prqfetfed in their ad millions to the Church, or whut cur Elders confdfed in their dayes of fulemne Humiliation , when him!elfe was generally abfent, both on the Lordsdayes,and on the dayes offolemo\efaflin!l? Or as if the private and pubPque agitations that he had with m, ,were tcken up about our Communion with a:. N•tiuna.ll Church.? l am, yet, to learne, what Arguments he dtd propound t9 us 111 r.hat caufe: what conviCtions helefttrpon m. When he is llill fo full of the miferies of his winters banifhment amongll the Barb.nianJ, it maketh me ca11 to minde a grave and god! y fpeech of a bleffed Saint not~ with God, (reverend ~··.Dad) Where Jinne lyeth heavy, ,a/JM1wnsly~ th ltght: where afjlt8zon l;eth hea'!)l,jinne /yJtb light' To CHAp, X X. THe. m~ine Objeaion which M'.Willimits m~e agal~ll·th~ Ell ate of our Church-members, was chiefly this; That tl;t.ough he acknO\vled.~eth them to be godly, yet not fufficiendy feparate from Anuchnfl. And that he endeavoured to prove, 1 • From the Texts that call for feperation from Babylon, I fa. 52. 2 Cor. 6, f\-ev. 18. 2. From the confeffion of lin pes made by!Ju)mJ Di!Cipie~:.Mat. :;.and·che Profelyte Gentile~, Al1s !9• To buth thefe we ha~e J~- turned Anfwer alre>dy. · Hos <hird O:,jeCtion followe th from H~ggai 2.13, 1 4,,). wl1<;; the Ptophet telleth the Church of the '}!we~, Thar if a Fvfo~l'r.cleane by • .d,.d body,d,;e_t~uqb bol;~hJn~J, t hn{e bvly thing; beCi'm; unclea: u. to hun. And {o ( f•tth he) i< tbi< NJtion, pnd ji1 ;. every worke •fmmh•ndJ, and thJt rvbtcb tbRy nffir here;. u~tck•~te. And ffom henc~ he ar~ue1b; ThJt evm Cburch-.C11r;enant1 mad& and OrdinanctJ pra8ifcd by ptrfom poL'ut>thbro¥gbfpiri/~J~U d,.dmffi and JilrbimJfo ofCnm,.uninn,rml b.tc.me tt!"&•ne 1~ 1he\n~andare pr•ph•ntdbj ti;ern;; J;i:b,,_b-bef,~nu;..!fu:/,ft.ut(?.mi.gbt 'i~ ridvi'edly wel•hed · l h • .. J b • v\·hcreto to Mafler Roger Williams. Whereto my Anfwer was; 'that if he had well weighed tl;u place himfolfe, he would mver have aUedged it to hu purp.,ft. Hi! purpafe was ttJ ptovt, tbat ChurcbeJ cannot beconftitmed of foch membtri, M are. Ull ... cleane by A:tticbriflia11 pollutions: or if they be fo canjlituted,they are not to be Cam,.unicated with, but ftperal<d from. 'to prove tbif,yau aUedge ( Jaid I) thu place, where the Prophet acft.t!ow/edgeth the whole Church to be uncleane, and yet neither denictb them to be a Church truely confli; tNted, nor jlimth uphimjilfe,or otberJ to ftparate frnm thrm. lf y a:~py, -~~,but they were utzcltane, · I anfwered 1 Be it Jo. Rut wm they therefore no Church truely Conjlituted? Or to be ftparattd from? Did not Haggai,and Z1chary them· [elvu Communicate with them l 4nd did they /tot call others alja to came out of Babel to Communicate wit/, tlmn, even whilejl Jufhua the High ·Priej!'was jlill polluted with hi< tmcleane Garmenul Z1ch. 2. 6, 7· with Chapt. 3· 8. Whereupon I cooke occafion to c'eare up to him the occafion, and !cope, and true fence of the "!ords at lar~e, as may appeare in the Letter which having gathered up I Caid-, That if be did apply it to the Poin:.in hand, it would reach nothing neere to hi< purpafe. Hypocrite/ in the Chu.,h,yea and godly Jincere Chrijlians themft lveJ, wbilefi they· attend to the world more then to the tl>ing' of God, ("'at that time the ]ewes did )bath their perfmJ, and tbeir labourJ,andtheir Chill Db· lations are uncleane in the fight nfGod: . <Jhmfore the Chwcb of Chrz{l CJnnot be conjlitltled offoch : or if it Joe can fiji of [uch, the People of God mujl ftpJratefrom them. You migl>t wellhavegathmd . , · 'thertfore the Church of Cbri{l,and the member I thmof mujl [eparate themftlveJ from their hypocri fie and inordin"te lo'lJt nf t bu world, or elf' they and their dutiei wilt Jlill be uncleane in tbejigbt ofGud, 1lot>rith - panding their C~urcb--Ejlate. . . . . . 'thu Col/e[/ioll tmdeth tn edijic-atton; the other to dijfipJtwn,and d;flru[/ ivn nfthe Church, and wrefteth Blaud i11jlead nf M,/k.!_ from tbe llrufii of holy Scriptwe. . ~ · This Text is ro evident, and pregnant,and full agamfl h•mfelfe, that I could not but marvell, why he fhould alledg;e ir, and efpecially why he fhculd drjire it might be throHghly weighed, and the Lo~d to bald the Jcalei himfelfe. How doe you then thmke, ~hat he wrll hence inferre hi! Condufion; That Godly perfons, •f unde•nr, canooG |