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Show ·M.-jler'John Cottons .ARfwer cannOt· con!Htute a true Church? or if tl'ey doe, they are to be·feparated from ?Surdy not from the words of the Ttxt, nor from the lence, which I make ofit : nor from any fence, which himfelfe ,can give of it. How then~ Onely from his millake of my words . and ~h~t furdy either through a d~oufie .OG:itancy., or a !Ieight; ·PrtCipttancy. "What ( fa!th ~e) ~·v•_:JfPoken mor~ tb~n M•. ~tton bimfilfo •· bath uttmd tn-bwExplzcatJon and Appltcmon •f thu Scripture . A1 1. 'lhat _Ged!J per [om m•J become deftleJ, and unolean~, bJ hypo~riji: . and worldlmeffi. 1..-Whi/e tbq lye in fuch a conJition ofuncleannejfe aU thtir ojfe1 i•gt ptr[om; labour/ ar. UllCieane in the fight ofG<Jii, not;ithjlanding thti; 1 Churcb-ejlate. ~· 'Ibe Church tannnt be ronflituled 9j foch rl'oriiJ/y PerfonJ(tho~~gh otherwife t.•d!J and Cbrijlian. ) Or'!. Jfthe,y d~e, tbe:Pteplt ofGodmujl[epJt'atefro~tttbent. 1befo be ( fmh·he) ~.Cottons own _expreffe word1. Reply. He mrght as well fay~ thcfe be the <KpreiTe words of -Chrill, FfJng all the Law, and the Prophm, becaufe Chrill faith, (Mat. 19. 40.) up.m theft t<Po CommandementJ, •Hang aU the La'll> .and tbe Propbm, So thefe be my exprelfe word3 · 'Ihe true and genuine me.~ing oft be place, ·ifJOU dot appiJ to the Poi~t in hand, it wiU ·reacl! ~nthtng neere to your purpo[e. HypocrittJ in tlx ChUT'ch and god!J " C~rijlunJ tbemfelvv, whilejlthey attend to the world more then to the thmgJ of~od, their perf"", thdr IJbourJ, their CivUJ Ohlatio111 ar< #U Jt~cl,,me"' the{zght•JGod. Ergo. f{he Church d[Cbrijl cannot becon_ fl,'tuted 1if'focb:or if II doe conftjl offuch, the People ojGod mujl jiparate jromtbem. Whn teeth not that attendeth to what·he feeth that in rhefe words I <Xpreffe not mine own meaning or reafonlng, but his : .and that I expnpy fay,The true meaning of rhe 1ftxt will nothi~g nrere reach to hrs purpofe, and fo bring in his re~fon in forme of E311 Eothymemr, which he draws from it? But if I h:d made th•t : nth~~ meme the _< Xpre·"~' on o f mr' ne own mean·r ng, and o f rh e meanr; g -of the Ttxt, It had fully and clofely reached his own purpo<e, Til~ n<Xt u:ords following might alfo plainly have cleared my cmeanrug: to hrm: wh{l in !lead of that talfe -coll.Ction which he g.>rhe re<l, ----,;Mafler. Roger Williams. gathered, I tell him, yog might well have gathered: thmfo re the Church of Cbrijl, and the membm thmofmujl ftpa rate themftlverfrom their hypocrifie, and their inordinate love oft hi< W9Tid: Or dfe they and their dutieJ will be jlill unclean< in the fight of God, not~itbjlapding ·:~tir C.:hwch-efl•tr. · · ''Ihu Collelllq!l tendetb to rdification· l the other to the diffipation,, •and df] lrullion of tb, Flock , and wre}eth bloNd i~tjlwJ of milk£ from t/J< 'B1e.1jl1 of ho{y Scripture. Do~ 1 not here pl•inly exprelfe two f•Neull, and eontrary ColJea: io_ns from _the.'!" ext, the one·bis, the ot~er .n)ine own ; t~e on.e :(~~fflrg to edlfid~JOn, t~~ ~theHe delhullron _? A?d ~et th1s fa lie colltl':tion, aQd'rmfapphcatwn of me Text, wh1ch 1s lm own, and ~ ll)anifell Pervertip~ both of tbe 'f ex-t, and of my word,, he will pe!4s' force ~OQ me,•.contr~.ry to my meanin~?, _and contrary al~o !9 my 'e_ltpre~l'\ v/ords ~b9ye m1the cntr~nce of mme Anfwer to thiS · Tc~r. Wh~~·.l.f~y~ : · ' · '1'I'bur 'pllrpofi wizl'tttprove, 'If. at ~buf!ob<J cannot be conflituted hy ["fR f<r{onl a< are uncleane by l'l"tich~ijlian pollution/ :1 Qr if tb<) he [u · c01lj#tuted, they are not to be commumcated wltb, but [eptJrated from , " To~prove 'thp,}ou ~Qedge thi< place'W~Hre the f•ophet illif{yowlttigeth tho IJHotlfChu~c~ vf't/:Jc Jtwcs-tq be'unika11e •: '111Jdyetmilber denie.tb them · t~ be 'aChtlrch truelj C01i]lit,tted, nfJI' jlir.r<th upijimftlfe or oJhm to fc-f•'~" from them. ' • ' ' 1 • • • What by the w.ay h~ ilifcourfeth-ef the <Excommunication in ,\~• t:Jati?,~aJ1 ICI\tlt~h Ofeh~ Jewu? -~Mic!what _h_ath been fp?ke_n <-to ~t ao'i>ve, "\Wh)n 1\c'fatm; 'Jba/ ibttr Ck•tmOfll.iliillxc!JIJUDUUtcatton ~41 eithef p111ting to t!eat'h ~,:C antal'l1or Captivi:tieollt of Canaan. If ~J meane 1hi1 wa~ afh 'heir ExcommunicatJm\; I qnm>t aifent ) ?lt. cW~g V;;:;>:.~ll h ,was;)leidler r,u,t tO 4,eath iJt·G•naa?, nor car-nMca~ tiVe Olli of Dan,• an, arltl ·yet""hc'Wi! Excl;)lnmumcated both -troril'1'ern'p1'e' worlhlp, Synig\\gtie1woi fh1p; iitlthiiU'anlil~ar com- . munion of zhe S1iurs. ·•' '\ · -.;. l·. . Again\> <vheh·he,mJkem •it !a·n 1EXcOthmuni"'rion from .God, . in cat~ Gllil !~II his Chu rdl"inio'f'phit~all c . p!ivicie, to C<>r)fufed " ~•by1(mifh ·to~.d s;~rd\.ycr-fl:tip,_-and·t~•t ~;,· he• d •lvetl> them. out 9f ~iS 1\~'h t : 'fie l;n'igl) t 'n!IJ..ll!hlb' "; 'rb a! 'G_t<>.l•<~l\ltll im e ColrlJ. is : pcoJ\Ie t!A,d~r'Jh'elBmf!ta~~-of<ilJt?y!nnifu~~"Gr•-~'"l ,<\von. h rh <> Lu.ncl Of G,ati.t/Jn , (lfC:·4'J\ 9\ & zt2· Hi,'ll l n , ) .:i\t«! j!l:t '1-le i!,~d O','t 1\hight way ct. iven them out ofbis light. 0 o To |