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Whereunto
is
added
a
Reply
to
Mr.
Matthew
Symmons
Hannah
Allen
Bloody
Tenet
Bloudy
Tenet
Mr.
Williams
The
answer
of
Mr.
professedly
maintaining
Persecution
for
cause
of
Conscience
.
That
no
man
is
to
be
persecuted
at
all
(
much
lesse
for
Conscience
sake
:
)
because
all
persecution
is
oppression
for
Righteousnesse
sake
.
I
Professe
further
,
That
none
is
to
be
punish●d
for
his
Conscience
sake
,
though
Erroneous
,
unlesse
his
Errors
be
Fundamentall
,
or
seditiously
,
and
turbulently
promoted
,
and
that
after
due
conviction
of
Conscience
:
That
it
may
appeare
,
he
is
not
punished
for
his
Conscience
,
but
for
sinning
against
his
Conscience
.
Luther
,
Calvine
,
Martyr
Bucer
,
Bloudy
Tenet
Lambe
,
who
washed
their
Robes
white
in
the
Bloud
of
the
Lambe
,
By
Persecution
for
cause
of
Conscience
,
I
conceive
you
meane
,
either
for
professing
some
point
of
Doctrine
,
which
you
beleive
in
Conscience
to
be
the
Truth
:
or
for
practising
some
worke
,
which
you
beleive
in
Conscience
to
be
a
Religious
duty
.
This
distinction
is
not
full
and
compleate
.
For
besides
both
these
,
a
man
may
be
persecuted
for
cause
of
Conscience
,
because
he
dare
not
be
constrained
to
yeild
obedience
to
such
Doctrines
and
worships
,
as
are
by
men
Invented
,
and
Appointed
;
As
the
three
famous
were
cast
into
the
fiery
Furnace
(
in
a
non-conformity
to
the
whole
conforming
world
)
before
the
(
I
said
in
my
Answer
to
the
Prisoners
Letter
)
some
are
Fundamentall
,
without
right
beleife
whereof
,
a
man
cannot
be
saved
:
others
are
circumstantiall
,
and
lesse
Principall
,
wherein
one
man
may
differ
from
another
in
judgement
,
without
prejudice
of
salvation
on
either
part
,
To
this
distinction
(
He
saith
)
Truth
dare
not
subscribe
,
for
then
thousands
ten
thousands
should
everlastingly
be
condemned
,
yea
the
whole
Generation
of
the
Righteous
,
who
since
the
falling
away
,
have
and
doe
erre
fundamently
concerning
the
true
matter
,
Constitution
,
Gathering
,
Governing
of
the
Church
.
And
yet
farre
be
it
from
any
pious
Breast
,
to
Imagine
that
they
are
not
saved
New
English
some
concerne
the
weightier
Duties
of
the
Law
,
as
what
God
we
worship
,
and
with
what
kinde
of
Worship
:
whether
it
be
such
,
as
if
it
be
right
,
Fellowship
with
God
is
held
:
If
false
,
Fellowship
with
God
is
lost
.
It
is
worth
the
Inquiry
,
what
kinde
of
worship
he
intendeth
,
whether
in
generall
acceptation
the
Rightnesse
or
Corruptnesse
of
the
Church
,
or
the
Ministery
of
the
Church
,
or
the
Ministrations
of
the
Word
,
Prayer
Seales
And
because
it
pleaseth
the
Spirit
of
God
to
make
the
Ministery
one
of
the
foundations
of
Christian
Religion
and
also
to
make
the
Ministery
of
the
Word
and
Prayer
,
in
the
Church
,
to
be
two
speciall
workes
(
even
of
the
Apostles
themselves
.
I
shall
desire
,
it
may
well
be
considered
in
the
feare
of
God
.
Concerning
the
Ministery
of
the
Word
,
If
their
new
Ministery
,
and
ordination
be
true
,
then
the
former
was
false
:
And
if
false
,
then
will
it
not
follow
according
to
this
distinction
,
that
fellowship
with
God
was
lost
?
Concerning
Prayer
,
the
Ministers
have
disclaimed
and
written
against
that
Worship
of
God
by
Common
or
set
formes
of
Prayer
,
which
yet
themselves
practised
in
And
though
they
were
faithfully
admonished
for
vseing
the
Common
Prayer
,
yet
at
that
time
they
satisfied
their
hearts
with
the
practise
of
the
Author
of
the
Councell
of
But
now
I
aske
,
whether
or
no
,
fellowship
with
God
in
such
Prayers
was
lost
?
&c.
Gods
People
may
live
and
die
in
such
kinde
of
worship
notwithstanding
light
presented
to
them
able
to
convince
yet
not
reaching
to
a
conviction
,
and
to
forsakeing
of
such
wayes
,
which
is
Contrary
to
his
Conclusion
,
That
Fundamentalls
are
so
cleare
,
that
a
man
cannot
but
be
convinced
in
Conscience
after
once
or
twice
Admonition
:
And
therefore
such
a
person
not
being
convinced
,
he
is
condemned
of
himselfe
,
and
may
be
persecuted
for
sinning
against
his
Conscience
.
I
Observe
here
that
Mr.
herein
measureth
to
others
,
that
which
himselfe
when
he
lived
in
such
practises
,
would
not
have
had
measured
to
himselfe
.
As
That
it
might
have
been
affirmed
of
him
,
that
in
such
practises
he
did
sin
against
his
Conscience
,
having
sufficient
light
shinning
about
him
.
That
he
should
or
might
have
been
cut
off
by
death
,
or
Banishment
,
as
an
Hereticke
sinning
against
his
Conscience
,
&c.
to
call
it
,
I
say
,
unpromised
,
or
to
be
beyond
a
word
,
or
promise
of
God
.
that
if
our
Ministery
,
and
Ordination
here
be
true
,
that
then
the
former
which
we
had
in
was
false
,
especially
so
false
,
as
that
according
to
visible
Rule
,
Fellowship
with
God
was
lost
.
New
English
England
,
Arguments
against
the
Common
Prayer
,
which
then
seemed
weake
,
but
now
are
acknowledged
to
be
sound
,
though
such
a
thing
possibly
may
be
true
,
howsoever
forgotten
.
But
this
I
am
perswaded
to
be
utterly
false
,
Practise
of
the
Author
of
the
Councell
of
who
used
to
read
some
of
the
choysest
select
Prayers
out
of
the
It
is
readily
graunted
,
(
that
which
is
observed
in
the
third
place
)
That
Gods
people
may
live
and
die
in
such
kindes
of
Worship
,
though
light
from
the
Word
,
whether
publickly
or
privately
hath
been
presented
to
them
able
to
convince
,
That
Fundamentalls
are
so
cleare
,
that
a
man
cannot
but
be
convinced
in
Conscience
of
the
Truth
of
them
after
two
or
three
Admonitions
:
and
that
therefore
such
a
Person
as
still
continueth
obstinate
,
is
condemned
of
himselfe
:
and
if
he
then
be
punished
,
He
is
not
punished
for
his
Conscience
,
but
for
sinning
against
his
owne
Conscience
.
yet
I
doe
not
herein
measure
to
others
,
that
which
my self
,
when
I
lived
in
such
practises
,
would
not
have
measured
to
my selfe
.
First
,
for
Civill
peace
,
what
is
it
,
saith
he
,
but
Pax
Civitatis
,
whether
No
matter
saith
the
though
they
doe
wholly
breake
up
into
peices
and
dissolve
into
nothing
.
For
neverthelesse
the
Peace
of
the
Citty
is
not
thereby
in
the
least
measure
impaired
or
disturbed
:
because
the
Essence
or
being
of
the
Citty
is
Essentially
distinct
from
those
particular
Societyes
&c.
The
Citty
was
before
them
,
and
standeth
absolute
and
Entire
,
when
they
are
taken
downe
&c.
to
say
that
in
the
breaking
up
and
dissolving
of
such
perticular
Societyes
,
the
Peace
of
the
Citty
or
Countrey
is
not
in
the
least
measure
impaired
,
or
disturbed
.
If
it
be
denyed
it
is
Easily
proved
:
where
the
Righteous
rejoyce
there
is
great
Glory
,
She
is
the
fairest
amongst
women
,
She
is
the
Citty
and
House
of
God
,
And
can
the
Church
then
breake
up
,
into
peices
,
and
dissolve
into
nothing
,
and
yet
the
Peace
and
wellfare
of
the
Citty
,
not
in
the
least
measure
impaired
or
disturbed
?
Many
glorious
and
flourishing
Cittyes
of
the
world
maintaine
their
Civill
Peace
:
yea
the
very
and
wildest
keep
the
Peace
of
their
Townes
,
and
Cittyes
,
though
neither
in
the
one
,
nor
in
the
other
can
any
man
prove
a
true
Church
of
God
in
these
places
.
The
times
of
Jgnorance
God
winketh
at
Act.
The
Peace
of
the
Church
(
whether
true
or
false
)
is
spirituall
,
and
so
of
an
higher
and
farre
different
nature
from
the
peace
of
the
Countrey
,
or
People
,
which
is
meerely
and
Essentially
Civill
and
humane
.
declared
what
this
Arrogant
and
impetuous
way
is
:
That
he
cannot
but
expresse
his
sad
and
sorrowfull
observation
,
how
it
pleaseth
God
to
leave
me
,
to
take
up
the
Common
Reproachfull
Accusation
of
the
Accuser
of
Gods
Children
,
That
they
are
arrogant
and
impetuous
.
That
the
Civill
Peace
may
be
broken
by
holding
forth
a
Doctrine
or
practise
,
with
rayling
or
reviling
,
daring
or
challenging
speeches
(
which
is
a
way
of
Arrogancy
:
)
or
with
force
of
Armes
,
Swords
,
Gunns
&c.
;
which
is
a
way
of
Impetuousnesse
.
The
Distinction
now
in
Discussion
concerneth
not
Truth
and
Error
,
but
the
manner
of
holding
forth
,
or
divulging
.
either
in
a
meeke
and
peaceable
way
,
or
with
such
Arrogance
and
Impetuousnesse
,
as
tendeth
and
reacheth
(
even
of
it selfe
)
to
the
disturbance
of
Civill
Peace
.
I
Acknowledge
such
may
be
the
way
,
and
manner
of
holding
forth
(
either
with
railing
or
reviling
,
daring
or
challenging
,
speeches
,
or
with
force
of
Armes
,
Swords
,
Gunns
,
Prisons
&c.
)
that
it
may
not
onely
tend
to
breake
,
but
may
actually
breake
the
Civill
Peace
.
Yet
those
instances
(
to
wit
those
6.
mentioned
in
Chap.
7.
)
are
Cases
of
great
Opposition
and
Spirituall
Hostility
,
and
Occasions
of
the
breach
of
the
Civill
Peace
:
yet
the
matter
and
manner
pure
,
holy
,
peaceable
and
inoffensive
.
Moreover
I
answer
,
That
it
is
possible
,
and
common
for
Persons
of
soft
and
gentle
nature
and
spirits
,
to
hold
out
falshood
with
more
seeming
meeknesse
,
and
Peaceablenesse
,
then
the
Lord
Jesus
or
his
servants
did
or
doe
hold
forth
the
everlasting
Gospel
;
So
that
the
Answerer
would
be
requested
to
explaine
,
what
he
meaneth
by
this
Arrogant
and
Impetuous
holding
forth
of
any
Doctrine
,
which
very
manner
of
holding
tendeth
to
break
the
Civill
Peace
,
and
cometh
under
the
Cognisance
,
and
Correction
of
the
Civill
Magistrate
&c.
Whence
then
arise
Civill
Dissensions
and
uprores
in
matters
of
Religion
?
I
Answer
,
When
a
State
liveth
and
lieth
in
the
guilt
of
a
false
God
,
false
Christ
,
false
Worship
:
then
no
wonder
,
if
soare
eyes
be
troubled
at
the
appearance
of
light
,
—
whereas
good
eyes
are
not
troubled
at
the
Light
.
Vigilant
and
watchfull
Persons
,
Loyall
and
Faithfull
are
not
so
troubled
at
the
true
,
no
nor
at
a
false
Religion
of
or
Gentile
vigilant
and
faithfull
Persons
are
not
so
troubled
,
no
not
at
the
false
Religion
of
Jew
or
Gentile
:
Galatia
,
Gal.
Breach
of
Civill
Peace
may
arise
when
false
and
Idolatrous
practises
are
held
forth
,
and
yet
no
Breach
of
Civill
Peace
from
the
Doctrine
,
or
Practise
,
or
the
manner
of
holding
them
forth
,
but
from
the
wrong
and
preposterous
way
of
Suppressing
,
and
preventing
and
extinguishing
such
Errors
by
weapons
of
wrath
and
Bloud
,
Whips
,
Stocks
,
Imprisonment
,
Banishment
,
Death
,
by
which
men
are
commonly
perswaded
to
convert
Heretickes
,
and
to
cast
out
uncleane
spirits
,
which
onely
the
finger
of
God
can
doe
,
that
is
,
the
mighty
Power
of
the
Spirit
of
the
Word
.
It
is
light
alone
that
is
able
to
dispell
and
scatter
such
mists
and
foggs
of
darknesse
in
the
soules
and
Consciences
of
men
.
Hence
the
Sonnes
of
men
disquiet
themselves
in
vaine
,
and
unmercifully
disquiet
others
.
Tarshish
,
Jonah
Mariners
,
Israelites
Pagan
Mariners
Object
.
Yea
,
but
it
is
light
alone
that
is
able
to
dispell
and
scatter
such
mists
and
foggs
of
darknesse
in
the
soules
and
Consciences
of
men
.
or
any
unmercifull
disquieting
of
others
.
the
Inhabitants
of
the
world
shall
learne
righteousnesse
,
Isai
.
PErsecution
for
Conscience
,
is
either
for
conscience
rightly
informed
,
or
a
blind
and
erroneous
conscience
.
Both
these
Consciences
are
indeed
persecuted
:
but
lamentably
blinde
and
erroneous
will
those
consciences
shortly
appeare
to
be
,
which
out
of
zeale
to
God
(
as
is
pretended
)
have
persecuted
either
,
AFter
explication
of
the
Point
in
these
former
Distinctions
,
the
Answerer
of
the
Letter
giveth
his
Resolution
to
the
Question
in
foure
particulars
.
It
is
not
lawfull
to
persecute
any
for
Conscience
sake
rightly
informed
,
for
in
persecuting
such
,
Christ
himselfe
is
persecuted
,
A
man
may
as
soone
finde
darkenesse
in
the
bright
Beames
of
the
Sunne
,
as
in
this
cleare
Beame
of
Truth
,
that
Christ
Jesus
in
his
Truth
must
not
be
persecuted
.
Yet
this
I
must
aske
,
(
for
it
will
be
admired
by
all
sober
men
)
what
should
be
the
Cause
or
Inducement
to
the
answerers
minde
to
lay
downe
such
a
as
this
is
,
It
is
not
lawfull
to
persecute
the
Lord
Jesus
.
Search
all
Scriptures
,
Histories
,
Records
,
Monuments
,
consult
with
all
experiences
;
Did
ever
the
bloudy
himselfe
professe
to
persecute
the
Sonne
of
God
,
Jesus
as
Jesus
,
Christ
as
Christ
,
without
Maske
or
Covering
?
lest
in
so
doing
,
ye
be
found
to
fight
against
God
,
Acts
This
is
the
Heire
,
come
let
us
kill
him
,
Matth.
One
thing
I
see
apparently
in
the
Lords
overruling
of
the
pen
of
this
Answerer
,
viz.
a
secret
whispering
from
Heaven
to
him
,
That
yet
he
hath
never
left
the
Tents
of
such
who
thinke
they
doe
God
good
service
in
killing
the
Lord
Jesus
in
his
servants
,
and
yet
say
if
we
had
been
in
the
dayes
of
our
Fathers
in
Queen
dayes
,
we
would
never
have
consented
to
such
Persecution
&c.
to
see
apparently
,
That
he
who
layeth
downe
this
for
a
Position
,
That
it
is
not
lawfull
to
persecute
any
for
Conscience
rightly
informed
,
hath
had
a
secret
whispering
from
Heaven
,
that
himselfe
never
yet
left
the
Tents
of
Persecutors
.
It
is
not
lawfull
to
persecute
an
Erroneous
and
blinde
Conscience
,
Even
in
Fundamentall
,
and
weighty
Points
,
till
after
Admonition
once
,
or
twice
And
then
such
Consciences
may
be
persecuted
;
because
the
Word
of
God
is
so
cleare
,
in
Fundamentall
and
weighty
Points
,
that
such
a
person
cannot
but
sinne
against
his
Conscience
,
and
so
being
condemned
of
himselfe
,
that
is
of
his
Conscience
,
he
may
be
persecuted
for
sinning
against
his
own
Conscience
.
Secondly
,
For
an
erroneous
and
blinde
Conscience
,
even
in
Fundamentall
and
weighty
Points
,
It
is
not
lawfull
to
persecute
any
,
till
after
Admonition
once
or
twice
.
And
so
the
Apostle
directeth
and
giveth
the
reason
,
That
in
Fundamentall
&
principall
Points
of
Doctrine
and
worship
,
The
Word
of
God
in
such
things
is
so
cleare
,
that
he
cannot
but
be
convinced
in
conscience
of
the
dangerous
Error
of
his
way
,
after
once
or
twice
Admonition
,
wisely
and
faithfully
dispenced
.
And
then
if
any
one
persist
,
It
is
not
out
of
Conscience
,
but
against
his
Conscience
,
as
the
Apostle
saith
,
that
is
,
of
his
owne
Conscience
,
so
that
if
such
a
man
after
such
Admonition
,
shall
still
persist
in
the
Error
of
his
way
,
and
be
therefore
punished
,
He
is
not
persecuted
for
cause
of
Conscience
,
but
for
sinning
against
his
Conscience
.
But
that
if
such
a
man
after
such
Admonition
shall
still
persist
in
the
Error
of
his
way
,
and
be
therefore
punished
,
He
is
not
persecuted
for
cause
of
Conscience
,
but
for
sinning
against
his
own
Conscience
.
This
third
of
which
through
fearefull
Prophanations
hath
so
many
hundred
yeares
bin
the
pretended
Bulwarke
of
all
the
bloudy
wolues
,
Dens
of
Lyons
,
Mountaines
of
Leopards
hunting
and
devouring
the
witnesses
of
Jesus
.
He
that
can
but
see
men
as
Trees
,
may
easily
discerne
,
It
shall
now
be
the
Refuge
and
Defence
(
as
I
hope
)
of
the
Lamb's
and
little
ones
of
Jesus
.
What
is
this
Heretick
?
I
find
him
commonly
defined
to
be
,
such
an
one
as
is
obstinate
in
Fundamentalls
.
And
so
the
Answerer
seemeth
to
Resent
him
,
saying
,
the
Apostle
rendereth
this
reason
,
why
after
once
or
twice
Admonition
,
he
ought
to
be
Persecuted
,
because
,
in
Fundament
ill
and
Principall
Points
of
Doctrine
and
Worship
,
the
Word
of
God
is
so
cleare
,
that
the
Heretick
cannot
but
be
convinced
in
his
owne
Conscience
.
But
of
this
Reason
I
find
not
one
Tittle
mentioned
in
this
Scripture
:
for
so
he
saith
,
such
an
one
is
condemned
of
himselfe
,
yet
he
saith
not
,
nor
will
it
follow
,
that
Fundamentalls
are
so
cleare
,
that
after
first
and
second
Admonition
,
a
Person
that
submitteth
not
to
them
,
Is
condemned
of
himselfe
,
more
then
in
lesser
Points
.
yea
and
against
such
as
erre
though
not
in
Fundamentalls
,
but
in
lesser
points
,
and
continue
obstinate
in
striving
about
unprofitable
Questions
,
and
Genealogies
.
for
an
obstinate
and
willfull
striver
or
contender
about
unprofitable
Questions
and
Genealogies
:
Subverted
is
not
here
intended
to
be
spoken
of
Heretickes
in
Fundamentalls
onely
,
but
of
men
obstinate
in
the
lesser
Questions
.
Crooked
,
a
word
opposite
to
rightnesse
or
streightnesse
.
He
sinneth
wandering
from
the
wayes
of
Truth
:
He
is
and
condemned
of
himself
,
that
is
,
by
the
secret
checks
and
whisperings
of
his
owne
Conscience
,
which
will
take
Gods
part
against
a
mans
selfe
,
in
accusing
,
smiting
&c.
That
he
saith
Gods
People
in
all
their
awakenings
acknowledge
how
sleightly
they
have
listned
to
the
checks
of
their
owne
Conscience
.
This
the
Answerer
pleaseth
to
call
sinning
against
Conscience
:
for
which
he
may
lawfully
be
persecuted
,
to
wit
,
for
sinning
against
his
owne
Conscience
.
That
he
saith
,
I
call
the
sleight
listnings
of
Gods
People
to
the
checks
of
their
Conscience
,
their
sinning
against
Conscience
.
He
addeth
,
howsoever
it
be
painted
over
with
vermillion
&c.
yet
he
hopeth
to
manifest
it
to
be
the
overturning
and
rooting
up
of
the
roote
of
all
true
Christianity
,
and
absolutely
denying
the
Lord
Jesus
to
be
come
in
the
flesh
.
THe
first
and
second
Admonitions
in
the
place
of
were
not
Civill
or
corporall
punishments
on
mens
persons
,
or
purses
:
But
they
were
the
reprehensions
,
convictions
,
exhortations
,
and
perswasions
of
the
word
of
the
Eternall
God
,
charged
home
to
the
Conscience
,
in
the
Name
and
Presence
of
the
Lord
Jesus
in
the
midst
of
his
Church
.
Which
being
despised
,
and
not
hearkened
unto
,
in
the
last
place
followeth
rejection
,
which
is
not
a
cutting
off
by
heading
,
hanging
,
burning
,
nor
an
expelling
out
of
the
Countrey
,
and
coasts
:
but
the
dreadfull
cutting
off
from
the
visible
head
and
body
,
Christ
Jesus
,
and
his
Church
—
Spirituall
cutting
off
by
Excommunication
.
(
even
in
Fundamentall
and
weighty
Points
)
It
is
not
lawfull
to
persecute
any
,
till
after
Admonition
once
or
twice
,
according
to
For
a
third
Position
,
or
Conclusion
,
the
Answerer
gave
this
,
that
in
things
of
lesse
moment
(
whether
Points
of
Doctrine
or
Worship
)
If
a
man
hold
them
forth
in
a
spirit
of
Christian
meeknesse
and
love
,
(
though
with
zeale
and
constancy
)
he
is
not
to
be
persecuted
,
but
tolerated
,
till
God
may
be
pleased
to
manifest
his
truth
to
him
.
This
conclusion
I
acknowledge
to
be
the
Truth
of
God
;
yet
things
are
very
observeable
in
the
manner
of
laying
it
downe
.
That
such
a
Person
may
be
tolerated
,
till
God
may
be
pleased
to
reveale
his
truth
to
him
:
upon
the
same
ground
the
Apostle
calleth
for
meeknesse
and
Gentlenesse
towards
all
men
,
and
towards
such
as
oppose
themselves
because
it
may
be
,
God
may
give
them
repentance
.
Hence
a
soule
that
is
lively
and
sensible
of
Gods
mercy
,
cannot
but
be
patient
,
and
gentle
towards
the
towards
the
yea
to
all
the
severall
sorts
of
Anti-Christians
,
yea
to
the
and
to
the
wildest
sort
of
the
Sonnes
of
men
,
who
have
not
heard
of
the
Father
and
of
the
Sonne
,
&c.
Yea
not
onely
be
patient
to
such
,
but
also
to
pray
for
such
,
yea
and
to
endeavour
their
participation
of
the
same
grace
and
mercy
.
Rome
.
Which
if
the
Discusser
shall
in
the
sequell
pluck
off
as
the
silken
covering
of
an
Image
(
as
he
calleth
it
)
I
observe
from
the
Scriptures
he
quoteth
for
this
Toleration
how
closely
(
yet
I
hope
unadvisedly
)
he
maketh
the
Churches
of
Christ
at
all
one
with
the
Cities
of
Rome
,
Paul
That
what
those
Churches
must
not
tolerate
in
their
holy
communion
,
that
the
Cities
of
must
not
tolerate
within
the
compasse
of
the
City
,
State
,
and
Jurisdiction
.
From
this
Toleration
of
persons
holding
but
lesser
errors
,
I
observe
the
unmercifulnesse
of
such
Doctrines
and
Hearts
,
that
he
,
that
is
sleightly
and
but
a
little
hurt
shall
be
suffered
,
&
meanes
vouchsafed
for
his
cure
:
but
the
deep-wounded
sinner
,
the
Leprous
,
and
Vlcerous
&c.
must
not
be
suffered
,
untill
peradventure
God
may
give
them
Repentance
It
is
said
by
the
Answerer
,
He
that
holdeth
forth
Error
with
a
boisterous
and
arrogant
spirit
to
the
disturbance
of
the
Civill
Peace
,
he
ought
to
be
punished
.
To
this
I
have
spoken
too
,
confessing
that
if
any
man
commit
ought
of
those
things
,
which
was
accused
of
He
ought
not
to
be
spared
:
yea
he
ought
not
in
such
cases
to
refuse
to
die
.
But
if
the
matter
be
of
a
Spirituall
and
Divine
nature
,
I
have
written
before
,
in
many
cases
,
and
might
in
many
more
,
that
the
worship
which
a
State
professeth
,
may
be
contradicted
and
preached
against
,
and
yet
no
breach
of
Civill
Peace
,
that
they
doe
break
the
Cities
or
Kingdomes
Peace
,
who
cry
out
for
Prisons
,
and
Swords
,
against
such
who
crosse
their
Judgements
,
or
Practise
in
Religion
:
such
onely
breake
the
Cities
or
Kingdomes
Peace
,
as
call
for
Prisons
and
Swords
against
Hereticks
.
Christ
Commaundeth
to
let
alone
the
Tares
,
to
grow
up
together
with
the
wheat
,
untill
the
Harvest
.
Vnto
which
he
Answereth
That
Tares
are
not
Bryars
and
Thornes
,
but
partly
Hypocrites
like
unto
the
Godly
,
but
indeed
carnall
(
as
the
Tares
are
like
to
the
wheat
,
but
are
not
wheat
)
or
partly
such
corrupt
Doctrines
and
Practises
,
as
are
indeed
unsound
,
but
yet
such
as
come
very
neere
the
Truth
(
as
Tares
doe
to
the
wheat
)
and
so
neere
that
good
men
may
be
taken
with
them
,
and
so
the
Persons
in
whom
they
grow
,
cannot
be
rooted
out
,
but
good
wheat
will
be
rooted
out
with
them
.
In
such
a
case
,
Christ
calleth
for
Peaceable
Toleration
,
not
for
poenall
Prosecution
according
to
the
third
Conclusion
.
But
alas
here
is
no
evidence
or
demonstration
of
the
Spirit
,
nor
argument
from
the
place
it selfe
,
or
from
the
Scriptures
of
Truth
,
to
prove
such
an
Interpretation
.
But
those
three
Persons
,
Doctrines
and
Practises
,
are
as
a
threefold
cord
,
and
so
a
threefold
strong
snare
to
catch
the
feet
of
some
or
other
.
That
the
Lord
intendeth
not
Doctrines
,
or
Practises
in
this
Parable
,
It
is
cleare
:
For
,
The
Lord
Jesus
expresly
interpreteth
the
good
seed
to
be
Persons
,
&
those
the
children
of
the
Kingdome
:
The
Tares
also
to
signify
men
,
and
those
the
children
of
the
wicked
one
for
can
we
thinke
(
saith
he
)
that
persons
must
be
now
tolerated
in
the
Church
,
in
the
superstitious
forbearing
or
forbidding
of
flesh
in
Popish
Lents
and
Fridayes
?
The
Originall
word
signifying
all
those
weeds
which
spring
up
with
the
Corne
,
as
cockle
darnell
,
Tares
&c.
seemeth
to
imply
such
a
kinde
of
people
,
as
are
commonly
and
generally
knowne
to
be
manifestly
differing
from
,
and
opposite
to
,
the
true
Worshipers
of
God
&c.
or
suspected
what
they
were
The
one
appeared
as
soone
as
the
other
,
and
when
the
wheat
put
forth
its
blade
,
and
fruite
,
the
Tares
were
as
early
,
they
put
forth
themselves
,
and
appeared
also
.
There
is
such
a
dissimilitude
and
unlikenesse
between
them
,
that
as
soone
as
Tares
and
wheat
sprung
up
to
blade
and
fruite
,
every
husbandman
could
tell
,
which
is
wheat
,
and
which
is
Tares
.
But
when
was
it
that
the
House-holder
gave
charge
to
let
them
alone
?
was
it
not
after
they
appeared
,
and
were
knowne
to
be
Tares
?
which
should
imply
by
this
interpretation
of
the
Answerer
,
that
when
men
are
discovered
and
knowne
to
be
Hypocrites
,
yet
still
such
a
generation
of
Hypocrites
in
the
Church
must
be
let
alone
,
and
tolerated
untill
the
Harvest
,
or
end
of
the
world
:
which
is
contrary
to
all
Piety
,
order
and
safety
in
the
Church
of
the
Lord
Jesus
,
as
doubtlesse
,
the
Answerer
will
graunt
.
The
Tares
cannot
signifie
hypocrites
in
the
Church
;
for
the
field
wherein
they
both
grow
is
interpreted
by
Christ
himselfe
to
be
the
world
,
which
lieth
in
wickednesse
,
and
is
a
wildernesse
of
wilde
Beasts
,
Fornicators
,
Covetous
,
Idolators
,
&c.
In
this
world
as
soone
as
the
Lord
Jesus
hath
sowen
the
good
seed
,
(
the
Children
of
the
Kingdome
,
true
Christianitie
,
or
the
true
Church
)
the
enemy
Satan
presently
in
the
night
of
Securitie
,
Ignorance
,
and
Error
,
soweth
the
Tares
,
which
are
Antichristians
,
or
false
Christians
.
Those
the
Ministers
and
Prophets
of
God
would
straight
runne
to
Heaven
for
fiery
Judgements
,
from
thence
to
consume
them
.
But
the
Sonne
of
man
commandeth
a
Permission
of
them
,
till
the
end
of
the
world
,
when
Goats
and
Sheep
,
Tares
and
Wheate
,
shall
be
eternally
separated
,
Sir
,
didst
not
thou
sow
good
seed
in
thy
field
?
from
whence
then
hath
it
Tares
?
Revel.
Chap.
But
Christ
(
the
wisdome
of
the
Father
)
would
never
in
opening
this
Parable
,
so
farre
obscure
it
,
or
to
call
the
Church
,
the
world
:
Nor
doth
it
agree
with
the
nature
of
the
Church
,
or
Garden
of
Christ
,
to
be
styled
the
world
.
In
the
former
Parable
,
the
Lord
Jesus
compared
the
kingdome
of
Heaven
to
the
sowing
of
seed
.
The
true
Messengers
of
Christ
are
sowers
,
who
cast
the
seed
of
the
word
of
the
Kingdome
upon
sorts
of
ground
;
which
sorts
of
grounds
,
or
hearts
of
men
,
cannot
be
supposed
to
be
of
the
Church
;
nor
will
it
ever
be
proved
,
that
the
Church
consisteth
of
any
more
sorts
or
natures
of
ground
properly
,
but
one
,
to
wit
,
the
honest
and
good
ground
.
And
the
proper
work
of
the
Church
concerneth
the
prosperitie
and
flourishing
of
this
sort
of
ground
,
and
not
of
the
other
three
sorts
.
In
the
field
of
the
world
then
are
all
those
sorts
of
grounds
,
High-way-side
,
stony
,
thorney
Hearers
,
as
well
as
the
honest
and
good
ground
.
And
I
suppose
it
will
not
be
said
by
the
Answerer
,
that
these
three
sorts
of
bad
grounds
were
Hypocrites
or
Tares
in
the
Church
.
These
Tares
I
shall
evidently
prove
to
be
Idolaters
,
and
in
particular
,
properly
Antichristians
.
For
first
,
these
Tares
are
such
sinners
,
as
are
opposite
,
and
contrary
to
the
Children
of
the
Kingdome
,
visibly
so
declared
and
manifest
,
quorum
unum
uni
opponitur
These
Tares
are
the
Children
of
the
wicked
one
;
which
wicked
one
I
take
to
be
,
not
the
Devill
;
for
the
Lord
Jesus
seemeth
to
make
them
distinct
.
The
Tares
are
the
Children
of
the
wicked
one
,
or
wickednesse
:
the
Enemy
that
sowed
them
is
the
Devill
.
Though
all
Drunkards
,
Thieves
,
uncleane
Persons
,
&c.
be
opposite
to
Gods
Children
,
yet
the
opposition
of
the
Tares
here
against
the
Children
of
the
Kingdome
,
is
such
an
opposition
as
fights
against
the
religious
state
and
Kingdome
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
.
It
is
manifest
,
the
Lord
Jesus
intendeth
no
other
sort
of
sinners
in
this
Parable
,
(
then
Antichristians
)
unto
whom
here
he
saith
,
let
them
alone
,
in
Church
or
State
.
For
then
he
should
contradict
other
holy
and
blessed
Ordinances
,
for
the
punishment
of
Offenders
,
both
in
Christian
and
Civill
State
.
In
the
Civill
State
,
God
hath
armed
Parents
,
Masters
,
Magistrates
,
to
punish
evill
doers
,
Murderers
,
Quarrellers
,
uncleane
Persons
,
stealers
,
extortioners
:
such
ought
not
to
be
let
alone
,
neither
in
lesser
nor
greater
Families
,
Townes
,
Cities
,
Kingdomes
,
but
seasonably
supprest
In
the
Kingdome
of
Christ
,
(
whose
Officers
,
Lawes
,
punishments
,
weapons
,
are
all
Spirituall
and
of
a
Soule-nature
)
he
will
not
have
Antichristian
Idolaters
,
Extortioners
,
Covetous
,
&c.
to
be
let
alone
,
but
the
uncleane
Lepers
to
be
thrust
forth
,
&c.
Therefore
if
neither
the
Offenders
against
the
Civill
Lawes
,
State
,
and
Peace
,
ought
to
be
let
alone
,
nor
the
Spirituall
State
,
the
Church
ought
to
beare
with
them
that
are
evill
,
I
Conclude
,
that
these
Tares
are
sinners
of
another
nature
,
Idolaters
,
false
Worshippers
,
Antichristians
,
who
without
discouragement
to
true
Christians
,
must
be
let
alone
,
and
permitted
in
the
world
to
grow
up
untill
the
great
Harvest
.
Every
Brother
that
walketh
disorderly
is
to
be
with-drawen
;
and
separated
from
.
If
any
imagine
,
that
the
Antichristians
being
let
alone
may
doe
a
world
of
mischiefe
before
the
worlds
end
,
by
the
infection
of
others
.
I
Answer
The
Civill
State
keepeth
it selfe
with
a
Civill
sword
:
let
Civill
offences
be
punished
:
and
yet
let
their
worship
and
Consciences
be
tolerated
.
The
Church
hath
a
thousand
bucklers
and
weapons
,
able
to
break
downe
the
strongest
hould
and
so
to
defend
it selfe
against
the
gates
of
earth
or
hell
.
The
Lord
knoweth
who
are
his
:
his
chosen
cannot
finally
be
deceived
Lastly
the
Lord
Jesus
himselfe
in
this
Parable
giveth
Reasons
able
to
content
and
satisfie
our
hearts
.
First
,
least
the
good
wheat
be
pluckt
up
out
of
the
feild
of
the
world
.
Gods
People
,
the
good
wheat
are
generally
pluckt
,
and
persecuted
,
as
well
as
the
vilest
Idolaters
,
whether
or
Antichristians
,
which
the
Lord
Jesus
seemeth
here
to
foretell
.
Second
reason
is
,
when
the
world
is
ripe
in
sinne
,
in
the
sinnes
of
Antichristianisme
,
those
mighty
Angells
of
God
will
come
with
their
sharpe
sickles
,
and
downe
with
them
,
and
buildle
them
up
for
everlasting
burnings
,
then
shall
the
man
of
sin
be
consumed
by
the
breath
of
the
mouth
of
the
Lord
Jesus
If
it
be
objected
,
These
servants
,
whom
the
Householder
commaundeth
to
let
the
Tares
alone
,
seeme
to
be
Ministers
or
Messengers
of
the
Gospell
:
How
shall
it
belong
to
them
to
plucke
up
the
Tares
,
or
to
let
them
alone
,
if
by
the
Feild
be
meant
the
world
?
Ans.
The
Apostles
,
and
in
them
all
that
succeed
them
,
received
from
the
Lord
a
threefold
charge
.
To
let
them
alone
,
and
not
to
pluck
them
up
by
Prayer
to
God
for
their
present
temporall
destruction
.
Not
to
prophecy
or
denounce
a
present
destruction
,
or
extirpation
of
all
false
Professours
of
the
Name
of
Christ
.
T
is
true
many
soare
and
fearefull
plagues
are
powred
out
upon
the
Emperors
,
and
Popes
,
yet
not
to
their
utter
extirpation
untill
the
Harvest
.
Not
to
pluck
them
up
,
by
stirring
up
Civill
Magistrates
and
powers
,
to
punish
and
persecute
all
such
persons
out
of
their
dominions
,
as
worship
not
the
true
God
according
to
his
revealed
will
in
Christ
Jesus
.
T
is
true
thus
stirred
up
to
kill
all
the
Preists
and
Prophets
of
Baal
:
but
that
was
in
the
figurative
state
of
the
Land
of
not
to
be
matcht
or
paraled
by
any
other
State
,
(
but
the
Spirituall
State
,
or
Church
of
Christ
)
in
all
the
world
,
putting
the
false
Prophets
Spiritually
to
death
,
by
the
two-edged
sword
,
and
power
of
the
Lord
Jesus
,
as
that
Church
of
did
corporally
who
come
out
of
the
Temple
opened
in
Heaven
,
and
are
cloathed
with
pure
and
white
linnen
,
and
have
their
breasts
girded
with
golden
girdles
,
Yea
,
but
they
may
not
apply
,
or
denounce
them
to
their
present
destruction
or
extirpation
.
Elijahs
stirring
up
of
to
kill
all
the
Preists
and
Prophets
of
Baal
,
was
figurative
.
The
second
Scripture
brought
against
such
Persecution
for
Cause
of
Conscience
,
is
where
the
Disciples
being
troubled
at
the
Pharises
cariage
towards
the
Lord
Jesus
,
and
his
Doctrine
,
and
relating
how
they
were
offended
at
him
,
The
Lord
Jesus
commaundeth
his
Disciples
to
Let
them
alone
,
and
giveth
this
Reason
,
that
the
blinde
lead
the
blinde
,
and
both
should
fall
into
the
ditch
.
Christ
speaketh
not
there
to
publick
Officers
,
whether
in
Church
or
Common-wealth
,
but
to
his
private
Disciples
concerning
the
Pharises
,
over
whom
they
had
no
power
.
And
the
command
he
giveth
to
Let
them
alone
is
spoken
in
regard
of
troubling
themselves
,
or
regarding
the
offence
which
they
tooke
at
the
wholesome
Doctrine
of
the
Gospel
.
As
who
should
say
,
Though
they
be
offended
at
this
wholesome
saying
of
mine
,
yet
doe
not
you
feare
their
feare
,
nor
be
troubled
at
their
offence
,
which
they
take
at
my
Doctrine
,
not
out
of
sound
Judgement
,
but
out
of
blindnesse
.
But
this
maketh
nothing
to
the
cause
in
hand
.
To
passe
by
this
Assertion
of
the
privacy
of
the
Apostles
,
in
that
the
Lord
Jesus
,
commanded
to
Let
them
alone
,
that
is
,
not
onely
to
be
offended
themselves
,
but
not
to
meddle
with
them
,
It
appeareth
it
was
no
Ordinance
of
God
,
nor
of
Christ
,
for
his
Disciples
to
have
gone
further
,
and
have
complained
to
,
and
excited
,
the
Civill
Magistrate
to
his
duty
.
Which
if
it
had
been
an
Ordinance
of
God
,
and
Christ
,
either
for
the
vindicating
of
Christs
Doctrine
,
or
the
recovering
of
the
Pharises
,
or
the
preserving
of
others
from
infection
,
the
Lord
Jesus
would
never
have
commanded
them
to
omitt
that
,
which
should
have
tended
to
these
holy
ends
.
but
to
the
lost
sheepe
of
the
House
of
Israel
,
Matth.
I
send
you
forth
as
sheepe
among
wolves
:
Be
ye
therefore
wise
as
serpents
,
&
innocent
as
doves
,
Beware
of
men
,
&c.
IF
it
be
said
,
neither
the
knew
ought
of
the
true
God
,
or
of
Christ
:
and
it
had
been
in
vaine
to
have
made
complaint
to
them
,
who
were
not
fit
,
and
competent
,
but
ignorant
,
and
opposite
Judges
.
This
removeth
the
stumbling
blocke
of
appeale
to
which
since
he
could
not
doe
in
common
sence
,
as
to
a
competent
Judge
in
such
cases
,
It
must
needes
follow
,
his
appeale
was
meerely
in
respect
of
his
civill
wrongs
,
If
it
had
been
an
Ordinance
of
God
:
that
all
civill
Magistrates
were
bound
to
judge
in
causes
spirituall
,
and
Christian
,
(
as
to
suppresse
Heresies
,
to
defend
the
Faith
of
Jesus
:
)
although
that
were
ignorant
,
wicked
and
opposite
Judges
:
yet
Christ
and
his
Disciples
should
have
gone
as
farre
as
lay
in
their
power
for
redressing
of
evill
,
and
left
it
in
the
Magistrates
hands
.
If
it
had
been
the
holy
will
of
God
to
have
established
the
Doctrine
and
Kingdome
of
his
Sonne
this
way
,
he
would
have
furnished
Kingdomes
and
Common-wealths
with
many
good
and
gracious
Magistrates
,
to
have
fitted
them
for
it
.
Jewes
,
Acts
Civill
Magistrates
were
never
appointed
by
God
,
Defenders
of
the
Faith
of
Jesus
.
Every
one
is
bound
to
put
forth
himselfe
to
his
utmost
power
in
Gods
Businesse
:
Pontius
Pilate
to
be
wise
as
serpents
,
and
innocent
as
doves
,
Matth.
Herod
,
Pilate
,
Caesar
nursing
Fathers
to
his
Church
,
Isai
.
THat
place
of
will
appeare
to
be
farre
from
proving
such
Kings
and
Queenes
Judges
of
Ecclesiasticall
causes
.
And
if
not
Judges
,
they
may
not
punish
.
In
spirituall
things
,
themselves
are
subject
to
the
Church
,
shall
licke
the
dust
of
the
Churches
feet
,
as
is
there
exprest
.
How
then
shall
those
Kings
and
Queenes
be
Supreame
Governours
of
the
Church
?
of
old
being
earnest
for
a
King
,
an
Arme
of
flesh
,
God
gave
them
in
his
anger
,
and
tooke
him
away
in
his
wrath
.
So
God
will
take
away
such
Princes
in
his
wrath
;
that
so
as
so
Christ
Jesus
in
his
spirituall
Power
may
for
ever
be
advanced
.
Magistrates
are
not
Judges
of
Ecclesiasticall
causes
:
and
if
not
Judges
,
they
may
not
punish
.
a
spirituall
man
judgeth
all
things
,
Let
the
Prophets
judge
Christendome
,
Rev.
Judah
,
Gen.
THough
for
the
present
,
the
punishment
of
corrupt
Teachers
(
as
the
Scribes
and
Pharises
were
)
be
deferred
:
yet
their
waiteth
for
them
an
higher
pitch
of
punishment
,
then
any
Corporall
can
reach
unto
.
Starke
Blindnesse
Incurable
Blindnesse
Their
end
is
the
Ditch
The
Leaders
of
others
into
the
ditch
shall
find
their
owne
ruine
horrible
,
and
the
ruine
of
their
followers
eternally
galling
&
tormenting
.
That
it
is
the
like
case
of
all
sinners
,
and
of
all
malefactours
:
their
punishment
in
hell
will
be
more
horrible
and
full
of
torment
,
then
can
be
inflicted
in
this
world
.
And
yet
the
State
is
often
bound
to
punish
them
,
and
in
many
cases
by
death
it selfe
.
Be
it
so
:
But
what
is
this
to
a
blind
Pharisee
,
resisting
the
Doctrine
of
Christ
?
who
hapily
may
be
as
good
a
Subject
,
and
as
peaceable
,
and
profitable
to
the
civill
State
as
any
,
IT
is
truth
,
The
mischiefe
of
a
blind
Pharises
blind
guidance
,
is
greater
then
if
he
acted
treasons
,
murders
,
And
the
losse
of
one
soule
by
his
seduction
,
is
a
greater
mischiefe
,
then
if
he
blew
up
Parliaments
,
or
cut
the
throats
of
Kings
and
Emperours
,
And
therefore
a
firme
justice
,
that
requires
an
eye
for
an
eye
,
a
tooth
for
a
tooth
,
life
for
life
,
calleth
also
soule
for
soule
.
But
that
no
civill
sword
can
inflict
,
but
the
Lord
Jesus
onely
.
Laish
,
Judges
chap.
the
beginning
of
sinne
to
the
Daughter
of
Zion
,
Micah
Thine
eye
shall
not
spare
him
,
Deut.
But
dead
men
cannot
die
,
nor
be
infected
.
Naturall
men
,
the
civill
State
,
the
world
,
are
dead
in
sinne
,
two-fold
more
the
children
of
hell
then
before
,
Matth.
twice
dead
,
plucked
up
by
the
roots
?
Jude
ver.
that
such
as
being
in
a
naturall
state
,
are
dead
in
sinne
,
annot
be
infected
,
nor
die
againe
.
As
in
the
common
infection
of
the
plague
,
so
in
the
infection
of
heresie
,
none
can
be
strucke
deadly
,
but
whom
God
hath
thereunto
ordained
,
Pontius
Pilate
he
that
delivered
me
to
thee
,
hath
the
greater
sinne
,
John
That
though
in
a
common
plague
or
infection
,
none
are
smitten
,
or
die
,
but
such
as
are
ordained
thereunto
:
True
:
but
the
meanes
,
God
hath
appointed
for
preservation
from
spirituall
infection
and
perdition
,
are
spirituall
,
such
as
God
directeth
to
But
the
Lord
Jesus
never
appointed
the
civill
sword
for
either
Antidote
,
or
Remedy
,
as
an
addition
to
those
Spirituals
.
The
Remedy
which
God
prescribed
to
the
Angell
of
the
Church
of
It
were
a
confusion
to
interpret
it
,
as
sent
to
the
Governour
of
the
City
of
Constantius
;
Ingemuit
Orbis
Christianus
,
&
miratus
est
factum
se
esse
Arrianum
.
But
the
Lord
Jesus
never
appointed
the
civill
sword
for
an
or
Remedy
in
such
a
case
.
And
that
Angell
was
Christ
,
whom
they
tempted
in
the
wildernesse
,
Thou
shult
surely
kill
him
,
because
be
hath
sought
to
thrust
thee
away
from
the
Lord
thy
God
,
Deut.
And
Ministers
of
God
to
execute
vengeance
on
him
that
doeth
evill
,
Yea
but
such
an
evill
,
is
evill
onely
to
the
inner
man
,
not
to
the
civill
State
It
shall
not
rise
up
the
second
time
,
Nahum
But
the
eivill
Magistrate
hath
his
charge
of
the
bodies
and
goods
of
the
Subject
;
as
the
Spirituall-Officers
of
Christs
City
or
Kingdome
,
have
the
charge
of
their
soules
,
and
soule-safety
.
(
impunè
sheep
of
the
slaughter
,
your
Possessours
may
slay
you
,
and
plead
themselves
not
guilty
,
IF
it
were
the
Magistrates
duty
or
office
,
to
punish
Hereticks
,
then
is
he
both
a
Temporall
and
Ecclesiasticall
Officer
.
That
Doctrine
and
distinction
,
that
a
Magistrate
may
punish
an
Heretick
civilly
,
will
not
here
avayle
.
For
what
is
if
this
be
not
?
confusedly
to
punish
Corporall
,
or
Civill
offences
,
with
spirituall
,
or
Church-censures
(
the
offender
not
being
a
member
of
it
:
)
or
to
punish
soule
or
spirituall
offences
,
with
Corporall
or
Temporall
weapons
proper
to
Delinquents
against
the
Civill
State
.
Whatsoever
is
commanded
by
the
God
of
Heaven
for
the
House
of
God
,
let
it
bediligently
done
:
for
why
should
there
bewrath
against
the
King
and
his
Sonnes
?
Woe
were
it
with
the
Civill
Magistrate
,
if
together
with
the
common
care
and
charge
of
the
Common-wealth
,
the
bloud
of
every
soule
that
perisheth
,
should
cry
against
him
,
unlesse
he
should
say
with
I
acknowledge
the
Magistrate
ought
to
cherish
(
as
a
Foster
Father
)
the
Lord
Jesus
in
his
Truth
,
in
his
Saints
,
to
cleave
unto
them
himselfe
,
to
countenance
them
unto
the
Death
,
yea
also
to
breake
the
Teeth
of
the
Lyons
,
who
offer
civill
violence
and
injurie
unto
them
.
But
to
see
all
his
Subjects
,
Christians
,
to
keep
such
a
Church
,
or
Christians
in
the
purity
of
worship
,
and
see
them
doe
their
duty
,
this
belongeth
to
the
head
of
the
body
the
Lord
Jesus
,
and
such
spirituall
Officers
,
as
he
hath
to
this
purpose
deputed
.
Magistrates
,
to
see
that
the
Church
,
and
the
Christians
under
his
Government
,
should
walke
in
purity
of
worship
,
Jehosaphat
,
Hezekiah
Types
of
the
Lord
Jesus
,
to
whom
alone
it
belongeth
to
see
Churches
and
Christians
to
doe
their
duty
in
Purity
of
worship
.
Asa
,
Joash
Solomon
,
Asa
Jehosaphat
,
Joash
THe
next
Scripture
brought
by
the
Letter
against
such
Persecution
,
is
where
the
Lord
Jesus
reproved
his
Disciples
,
who
would
have
fire
come
downe
from
Heaven
,
to
have
devoured
those
Samaritans
,
that
would
not
receive
him
,
in
these
words
,
With
this
Scripture
Mr.
joyneth
the
next
,
and
answereth
both
in
one
,
which
is
this
,
proving
if
at
any
time
,
God
will
give
them
Repentance
,
&c.
unto
both
these
Scriptures
,
he
giveth
this
Answer
.
Both
these
are
directions
to
Ministers
of
the
Gospel
,
how
to
deale
,
(
not
with
obstinate
offenders
in
the
Church
,
but
)
either
with
men
without
,
as
the
Samaritans
were
,
and
many
unconverted
Christians
in
(
as
an
Evangelist
)
was
to
seeke
to
convert
.
Or
at
best
,
with
some
in
the
Church
,
who
though
carnall
,
yet
were
not
convinced
of
the
Errours
of
their
way
.
And
it
is
true
,
it
became
not
the
Spirit
of
the
Gospel
,
to
convert
Aliens
to
the
Faith
,
(
Such
as
the
Samaritans
were
)
by
Fire
and
Brimstone
,
nor
to
deale
harshly
in
publick
Ministry
,
or
private
conference
,
with
all
such
severall-minded
men
,
as
either
had
not
yet
entred
into
Church-fellowship
,
or
if
they
had
,
did
hitherto
sinne
of
Ignorance
,
not
against
Conscience
.
But
neither
of
both
these
Texts
,
doe
hinder
a
Minister
of
the
Gospel
to
proceed
in
a
Church
way
against
Church-members
,
when
they
become
scandalous
,
either
in
life
,
or
Doctrine
:
much
lesse
doe
they
speake
at
all
to
the
Civill
Magistrate
.
THis
perplexed
and
ravelled
Answer
,
wherein
so
many
things
,
and
so
doubtfull
are
wrapped
up
and
entangled
together
,
I
shall
take
in
pieces
.
That
the
Lord
Jesus
in
rebuking
his
Disciples
rash
and
bloudy
zeale
against
the
Samaritans
,
did
not
hereby
hinder
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospel
,
to
proceed
in
a
Church-way
against
scandalous
offenders
,
is
not
here
questioned
.
Secondly
,
when
the
Answerer
saith
,
much
lesse
doth
this
Text
speake
at
all
to
the
civill
Magistrate
:
here
I
observe
,
that
he
implyeth
,
that
beside
the
censure
of
the
Lord
Jesus
in
the
hands
of
his
spirituall
Governours
,
for
any
spirituall
evill
,
in
Life
or
Doctrine
,
the
civill
Magistrate
is
also
to
inflict
corporall
punishment
.
to
be
the
fiery
Judgements
and
persecutions
,
which
the
second
Beast
perswaded
the
civill
Powers
,
to
destroy
the
Saints
withall
,
as
if
they
were
Gods
just
Judgements
from
Heaven
upon
Hereticks
.
make
Fire
to
come
downe
from
Heaven
upon
Earth
in
the
sight
of
men
,
Power
to
cause
that
as
many
as
would
not
worship
the
Image
of
the
Beast
,
should
he
killed
.
Acknowledge
,
this
Instruction
,
to
be
meeke
and
patient
to
all
men
,
&c.
is
properly
an
Instruction
to
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospel
.
Yet
divers
Arguments
will
from
hence
be
truly
and
fairely
collected
,
to
manifest
and
evince
,
how
farre
the
civill
Magistrate
ought
to
be
,
from
dealing
with
the
civill
Sword
in
spirituall
cases
.
But
first
by
the
way
,
I
desire
to
aske
,
what
the
Answerer
meaneth
by
his
unconverted
Christian
in
An
unconverted
Christian
,
is
as
much
as
an
unconverted
Convert
,
untamed
tamed
,
unholy
holy
,
Christians
Antichristians
.
How
sad
an
evidence
is
this
,
that
the
soule
of
the
Answerer
,
hath
never
yet
heard
the
call
of
the
Lord
Jesus
to
come
out
from
those
unconverted
Churches
,
from
that
unconverted
Antichristian-Christian
world
?
&c.
what
I
should
meane
,
by
the
unconverted
Christian
in
Creete
?
Creete
,
Tit.
Yea
,
but
they
were
not
unconverted
Christians
,
for
it
is
as
much
,
as
unconverted
Converts
,
&c.
Judah
turned
unto
him
,
not
with
all
her
heart
,
but
fainedly
,
Ashdod
.
Jeremies
but
sad
experience
of
my
unconverted
estate
,
from
unconverted
Churches
,
and
that
the
Lord
Jesus
never
yet
called
me
to
come
out
of
them
,
because
I
speake
soule
hath
not
yet
heard
the
call
of
the
Lord
Jesus
to
come
out
of
unconverted
Churches
:
Againe
,
I
observe
the
haste
and
light
attention
of
the
Answerer
,
to
these
Scriptures
(
as
commonly
the
Spirits
of
Gods
children
in
matters
of
Gods
Kingdome
,
are
very
sleepy
:
)
for
these
persons
here
spoken
of
were
not
unconverted
Christians
in
as
an
Evnngelist
was
to
convert
,
but
they
were
such
Opposites
,
as
to
whom
writeth
this
Letter
at
should
not
meet
withall
Titus
,
Ephesus
alwayes
lyars
,
evill
Beasts
,
slow
bellies
,
Tit.
Tychicus
have
I
sent
to
thee
to
Ephesus
.
BVt
from
this
place
in
in
particular
,
I
argue
thus
If
the
Civill
Magistrates
be
Christians
or
Members
of
the
Church
,
able
to
prophesie
to
the
Church
of
Christ
;
then
they
are
bound
by
this
command
of
Christ
,
to
suffer
opposition
to
their
Doctrine
,
with
meeknesse
and
gentlenesse
,
waiting
if
God
peradventure
will
give
them
Repentance
.
So
also
it
pleaseth
the
Answerer
to
acknowledge
in
these
words
:
It
becometh
not
the
spirit
of
the
Gospel
to
convert
Aliens
to
the
Faith
(
such
as
the
Samaritans
and
unconverted
persons
,
whether
in
with
Fire
and
Sword
.
Secondly
,
if
the
Oppositions
be
within
,
and
the
Church-members
become
scandalous
in
Doctrine
(
I
speake
not
of
scandalls
in
the
Civill
State
,
which
the
civill
Magistrate
ought
to
punish
.
)
It
is
the
Lord
onely
as
the
Scripture
in
who
is
able
to
give
them
Repentance
,
and
to
recover
them
out
of
Satans
snare
,
&c.
It
is
true
,
the
civill
Sword
may
make
a
whole
Nation
of
Hypocrites
,
as
the
Lord
complaineth
,
and
as
befell
our
Native
Country
in
a
few
scores
of
yeares
,
in
the
severall
Reignes
of
under
whom
our
Nation
was
as
ready
to
change
the
fashion
of
their
Religions
,
as
of
their
Suits
of
Apparell
,
which
hath
been
their
sinfull
shame
.
Objection
of
any
weight
,
that
neither
the
Magistrate
,
nor
his
Sword
can
give
Repentance
unto
such
.
English
man
Hezekiah
,
Manasseh
BVt
it
hath
been
thought
and
said
,
shall
Oppositions
against
the
Truth
escape
unpunished
?
will
they
not
prove
mischievous
?
I
answer
as
before
,
concerning
the
blind
Guides
,
their
case
being
incurable
is
rather
to
be
lamented
,
since
none
but
the
right
hand
of
the
Lord
,
in
the
meeke
and
gentle
Dispensing
of
the
word
of
Truth
;
can
release
them
,
&c.
(
like
a
dead
man
shifted
into
severall
suites
of
Apparell
)
cannot
please
God
?
And
what
though
Faith
be
that
gift
,
which
proceedeth
alone
from
that
Father
of
Lights
?
I
adde
,
a
civill
Sword
hardneth
the
followers
of
false
Teachers
,
by
the
sufferings
of
their
false
and
Antichristian
Seducers
.
And
secondly
,
it
begetteth
in
them
an
Impression
of
the
falshood
of
that
Religion
,
which
cannot
uphold
it selfe
,
but
with
such
Instruments
of
violence
,
and
wanteth
the
soft
,
and
gentle
commiseration
of
the
blindnesse
of
others
.
the
Emperour
of
Rome
,
upon
this
occasion
,
wrote
to
all
the
Governours
of
his
Provinces
,
to
forbeare
the
Persecution
of
Christians
,
because
such
dealing
was
so
farre
from
converting
Christians
from
their
way
,
that
it
rather
begat
in
their
mindes
an
opinion
of
their
Cruelty
.
Antonius
Pius
Justin
Martyrs
THe
next
Scripture
against
Persecution
,
is
that
of
the
Prophet
together
with
They
shall
breake
their
Swords
into
Plowshares
,
and
their
Speares
into
pruning
hookes
:
And
There
shall
none
hurt
or
destroy
,
in
all
the
Mountaine
of
my
Holinesse
.
Vnto
which
Mr.
That
these
Predictions
doe
onely
shew
with
what
weapons
Christ
will
subdue
the
Nations
to
the
Faith
of
the
Gospel
.
They
shew
also
what
the
meeke
and
peaceable
temper
will
be
of
all
true
Converts
to
Christianity
:
not
Lions
,
nor
Leopards
,
nor
cruell
Oppressours
,
nor
Malignant
opposers
,
and
biters
one
of
another
:
but
doth
not
forbid
them
to
drive
ravenous
wolves
from
the
sheepfold
,
nor
to
restraine
them
from
devouring
the
sheep
of
Christ
.
This
first
Answer
is
truely
Christian
:
but
me
thinks
the
Answerer
might
heare
a
voyce
from
Heaven
,
out
of
thine
owne
mouth
will
I
judge
thee
:
for
that
which
he
addeth
is
as
evill
and
bitter
,
as
the
former
words
were
good
and
sweet
;
But
this
doth
not
forbid
them
to
drive
ravenous
wolves
from
the
sheepfold
,
and
to
restraine
them
from
devouring
the
sheep
of
Christ
.
But
this
fighteth
against
the
former
Truth
;
to
wit
,
that
Christ
by
spirituall
weapons
will
subdue
the
Nations
of
the
Earth
to
the
obedience
of
the
Gospel
.
For
by
driving
away
these
Wolves
,
he
intendeth
not
onely
the
Resistance
or
violence
,
which
the
Shepheards
of
Christ
ought
spiritually
to
make
:
but
the
civill
Resistance
of
the
materiall
Swords
,
staves
,
Guns
,
&c.
whence
I
argue
,
that
same
power
forceth
the
evill
(
the
Wolves
)
out
,
forceth
the
good
(
the
sheep
)
in
:
for
of
the
same
things
,
is
the
like
and
same
Reason
,
&c.
Yes
,
saith
he
,
the
same
arme
that
with
a
staffe
beateth
off
the
Wolfe
,
with
a
rod
and
hooke
bringeth
in
the
sheep
:
the
same
Dogg
that
assaulteth
and
teareth
a
Wolfe
,
frighteth
and
forceth
in
the
stragling
sheep
.
What
Wolves
were
those
warneth
of
?
not
literally
meant
:
nor
Persecutors
of
the
Flock
,
such
as
the
Emperours
:
But
such
as
brought
in
other
Religions
and
Worships
,
such
as
amongst
themselves
should
speake
perverse
things
,
as
many
Antichrists
did
.
And
I
aske
whether
or
no
such
as
may
hold
forth
other
Worships
,
or
Religions
,
(
Jewes
,
Turkes
,
Antichristians
)
may
not
be
peaceable
and
quiet
Subjects
,
loving
and
helpfull
neighbours
,
faire
and
just
dealers
?
&c.
It
is
cleare
,
they
may
,
in
all
experience
,
and
yet
in
spirituall
and
Mysticall
Account
,
they
are
ravenous
,
and
greedy
Wolves
.
Members
may
goe
for
peaceable
and
quiet
Subjects
,
for
loving
and
helpfull
Neighbours
,
for
faire
and
just
dealers
,
for
true
and
Loyall
to
the
civill
Government
?
I
querie
secondly
,
to
whom
gave
this
charge
,
to
watch
against
them
?
They
were
not
the
Magistrates
of
the
City
of
but
the
Elders
of
the
Church
of
Many
of
these
charges
and
Exhortations
given
by
Christ
to
the
Shepheards
and
Ministers
of
the
Churches
,
be
commonly
attributed
and
directed
(
by
the
Answerer
in
this
Discourse
)
to
the
Civill
Magistrate
.
I
desire
it
may
be
inquired
into
,
whether
in
all
the
will
,
or
Testament
of
Christ
,
there
be
any
such
word
of
Christ
by
way
of
Command
,
Promise
,
or
Example
,
countenancing
the
Governours
of
the
Givill
State
to
meddle
with
these
wolves
,
if
in
civill
things
peaceable
and
obedient
.
What
Peace
Jehu
)
so
long
as
the
whoredomes
of
and
her
witchcrafts
are
so
many
,
If
God
had
given
charge
to
Magistrates
to
punish
evill
doers
in
matters
of
Religion
,
he
would
have
given
to
Magistrates
in
the
world
,
ability
to
discerne
,
and
determine
,
who
are
sheep
,
and
who
are
wolvish
oppressors
,
whom
he
is
bound
to
punish
and
suppresse
.
Yea
they
must
be
able
to
discerne
this
,
not
with
others
mens
eyes
,
but
with
their
owne
&c.
In
the
third
place
I
Quere
,
Whether
the
Father
who
gave
the
sheep
,
and
the
Sonne
who
keepeth
them
,
be
not
greater
then
all
?
And
who
can
plucke
the
Elect
out
of
his
hand
?
which
Answereth
the
common
objection
of
the
danger
of
devouring
soules
.
FOurthly
,
I
aske
;
were
not
these
Elders
and
Ministers
of
the
Church
of
Ephesus
sufficiently
furnished
from
the
Lord
Jesus
,
to
drive
away
these
spirituall
,
and
mysticall
wolves
?
Fiftly
,
lastly
I
Aske
,
whether
(
as
men
deale
with
wolves
)
these
wolves
at
Ephesus
were
intended
by
Paul
to
be
killed
,
their
braines
dasht
out
with
stones
,
staves
,
Halberts
,
Gunns
&c.
in
the
hands
of
the
Elders
of
Ephesus
?
But
comparing
spirituall
things
with
spirituall
things
,
spirituall
&
mysticall
wolves
,
should
be
spiritually
and
mystically
slaine
.
It
is
a
most
bloudy
Doctrine
,
The
wolves
(
Hereticks
)
are
to
be
drivenaway
,
their
braines
knockt
out
,
and
killed
,
the
poore
sheep
to
be
persecuted
for
whom
Christ
died
.
Is
not
this
to
take
Christ
,
and
to
make
him
a
temporal
King
by
force
?
Is
not
this
to
make
his
Kingdome
of
this
world
?
to
set
up
a
Civill
and
Temporall
to
bound
out
new
earthly
holy
lands
of
yea
and
to
set
up
a
Spanish
Inquisition
in
all
parts
of
the
world
,
to
the
speedy
destruction
of
millions
of
soules
,
and
to
the
frustrating
of
the
sweet
end
of
the
comming
of
the
Lord
Jesus
,
which
was
to
save
mens
soules
(
and
to
that
end
,
not
to
destroy
their
bodyes
)
by
his
owne
bloud
?
The
next
Scripture
produced
against
such
persecution
was
The
weapons
of
our
warfare
are
not
carnall
,
but
mighty
through
God
To
which
it
is
Answered
speaketh
of
the
weapons
of
Apostles
,
and
Church-Officers
,
which
are
not
carnall
,
but
spirituall
:
and
mighty
through
God
.
But
this
denieth
not
,
Civill
weapous
of
Justice
to
Civill
Magistrates
.
But
I
here
observe
,
that
the
Scripture
holdeth
forth
a
two-fold
State
,
a
Civill
State
,
and
a
Spirituall
:
Civill
Officers
,
and
spirituall
:
Civill
weapons
,
and
spirituall
:
Civill
vengeance
,
and
spirituall
:
though
the
Spirit
speaketh
not
here
expresly
of
Civill
Magistrates
,
and
their
Civill
weapons
:
yet
these
States
being
of
different
natures
and
considerations
(
as
farre
differing
as
flesh
and
spirit
)
therefore
Civill
weapons
are
most
improper
and
unfitting
in
matters
of
the
spirituall
Kingdome
and
State
,
though
in
the
Civill
State
most
proper
and
suitable
.
TO
Batter
and
take
a
strong
Hold
,
or
Fort
,
men
bring
not
a
first
and
second
Admonition
,
and
after
obstinacy
,
Excommunication
:
But
they
bring
Canons
,
Culverings
,
Sakers
,
Bullets
,
Powder
,
Musquets
,
Swords
,
Pikes
,
weapons
suitable
and
proportionable
.
On
the
other
side
,
to
batter
downe
Idolatry
,
false
worship
,
Heresy
out
of
the
soule
and
spirit
,
It
is
vaine
,
Improper
,
unsuitable
to
bring
the
usuall
weapons
of
persecutors
,
Stocks
,
Whips
,
Prisons
,
Swords
,
Gibbtts
,
Stakes
:
But
against
these
spirituall
sirong
holds
in
the
soules
of
men
,
spirituall
Artillery
,
and
weapons
are
proper
,
and
mighty
through
God
to
subdue
every
thought
to
obedience
.
But
though
these
weapons
were
proper
:
yet
they
are
unnecessary
.
For
if
spirituall
weapons
in
the
hand
of
Church
Officers
,
be
able
,
&
mighty
,
and
sufficient
,
and
ready
for
the
Lords
worke
,
either
to
save
,
or
to
kill
the
soule
&c.
How
doth
the
Magistrate
come
in
to
help
,
but
as
if
the
Lord
had
no
power
?
This
Scripture
which
it
pleaseth
the
Answerer
to
quote
,
how
hath
both
himselfe
,
and
many
excellent
servants
of
God
,
wrested
(
not
as
Peter
writeth
of
the
wicked
to
their
eternall
,
yet
)
to
their
owne
and
others
tempor
all
destruction
by
civill
warres
,
and
combustions
in
the
world
?
THere
be
excellent
and
precious
servants
of
God
in
their
time
,
who
have
absolutely
denyed
the
of
the
to
concerne
any
matter
of
the
first
Table
.
saith
,
this
whole
Discourse
concerneth
Civill
Magistrates
:
and
therefore
in
vaine
doe
they
who
exereise
Power
over
Consciences
,
goe
about
from
this
place
to
establish
their
sacrilegious
Tyranny
.
Heresies
at
Geneva
by
his
procurement
.
Hoe
uno
Non
frustra
ah
ipsis
Gladium
gestari
,
an
ad
speciem
unam
restringi
debet
?
Fatentur
isti
,
quibuscum
nunc
Discepto
ad
alia
crimina
plectenda
Judices
divini●ùs
esse
amatos
,
mo●●
â
Religione
abstineani
,
ut
libera
,
ipsis
tacentibus
,
Impietas
lasciviat
:
verirm
reclamat
innumeris
locis
Spiritus
Sanctus
,
&c.
This
one
thing
(
saith
he
)
sufficeth
me
,
that
by
the
coming
of
Christ
,
neither
was
the
State
of
Civill
Government
changed
:
nor
any
thing
taken
away
from
the
Magistrates
Office
.
Goe
to
then
,
that
which
that
he
beareth
not
the
Sword
in
vaine
,
ought
it
to
be
restrained
unto
one
kind
onely
?
they
themselves
confesse
with
whom
I
have
to
deale
,
the
Magistrates
are
armed
of
God
to
punish
other
crimes
,
so
that
they
abstaine
from
matter
of
Religion
,
that
so
ungodlynesse
may
runne
riot
by
their
connivance
.
But
the
Holy
Ghost
crieth
out
against
this
in
many
places
,
speaking
of
fulfilling
the
Law
by
Love
,
writeth
thus
on
the
same
place
,
hath
not
respect
vnto
the
whole
Law
,
he
speaketh
onely
of
those
duties
,
which
the
Law
commandeth
us
towards
our
neighbours
.
And
after
only
mentioneth
the
second
Table
And
that
he
repeateth
,
Love
is
the
fulfilling
of
the
Law
,
understand
it
as
before
,
of
that
part
of
the
Law
which
concerneth
humane
Society
:
for
the
former
Table
of
the
Law
,
which
is
of
the
worship
of
God
,
is
not
here
touched
.
upon
the
word
(
if
there
be
any
other
Commandement
,
it
is
summed
up
in
this
,
thou
shalt
love
thy
Neighbour
as
thy selfe
)
the
whole
Law
,
(
saith
he
)
commandeth
nothing
,
but
the
love
of
God
,
and
our
Neighbour
:
but
since
the
Apostle
in
this
place
discourseth
of
the
mutuall
Duties
of
men
one
to
another
,
I
thinke
this
Terme
,
Law
,
ought
to
be
restrained
to
the
second
Table
.
Paul
witnesseth
saith
he
,
that
the
Magistrate
is
.
Gods
Minister
,
who
beareth
the
Sword
to
take
vengeance
on
them
that
doe
evill
,
wherefore
one
of
these
two
must
needs
be
,
If
Magistrates
should
have
no
just
power
over
Hereticks
,
either
that
Hereticks
are
not
evill
doers
(
which
is
so
grosse
,
that
I
thinke
,
it
needs
no
Refutation
)
or
else
that
speech
is
to
be
restrained
to
a
certaine
sort
of
evill
deeds
,
to
wit
,
such
as
they
call
corporall
sinnes
:
of
which
distinction
of
evill
deeds
,
I
shall
dispute
more
largely
,
I
hope
in
his
due
place
hereafter
.
So
THe
higher
powers
in
this
were
(
amongst
others
)
the
Roman
Emperours
,
and
subordinate
Magistrates
under
them
.
But
they
all
were
strangers
from
the
life
of
God
,
yea
most
averse
and
opposite
,
yea
cruell
,
and
bloudy
Persecutors
of
the
Name
and
followers
of
Jesus
:
and
yet
unto
these
is
subjection
commanded
.
Now
then
I
argue
,
If
had
commanded
this
subjection
to
Magistrates
in
spirituall
causes
to
defend
the
Truth
,
to
punish
Hereticks
,
(
neither
of
which
they
could
discerne
nor
judge
of
,
but
by
Trust
from
others
,
as
condemned
Jesus
)
he
must
in
the
Judgement
of
all
men
,
have
put
out
the
eye
of
Faith
,
and
Reason
,
and
sense
at
once
.
Be
wise
now
therefore
ô
yee
Kings
:
be
instructed
yee
that
are
Judges
of
the
Earth
,
serve
the
Lord
with
feare
,
rejoyce
unto
him
with
trembling
.
Kisse
the
Sonne
least
he
be
angry
,
and
yee
perish
in
the
way
.
WHy
then
did
himselfe
appeale
to
unlesse
that
(
though
he
was
not
yet
,
yet
he
)
ought
to
have
been
a
fit
Judge
in
such
matters
?
appealed
to
not
to
judge
the
cause
of
his
Religion
:
but
to
defend
him
from
civill
violence
,
and
slanderous
accusations
about
sedition
,
mutiny
,
civill
Disobedience
,
&c.
From
which
(
as
a
supreme
civill
Magistrate
)
ought
to
defend
him
.
none
of
those
things
whereof
they
did
accuse
him
,
Caesar
,
ver
Caesar
,
ver
But
if
in
this
Appeale
to
had
submitted
his
Religion
(
which
was
the
cause
of
Christ
)
his
Ministery
,
and
Ministration
,
to
the
Romane
Emperours
Tribunall
,
he
had
sinned
.
First
,
against
the
light
of
Reason
.
Secondly
,
against
the
cause
of
Religion
.
Thirdly
,
against
the
holy
Calling
of
a
Christian
.
Fourthly
,
against
his
owne
calling
of
Apostleship
.
Fifthly
,
against
the
holy
name
of
God
,
I
come
now
to
the
third
Argument
,
taken
from
the
nature
of
the
Magistrates
weapons
:
he
hath
a
Sword
,
and
that
Sword
is
a
civill
Sword
,
a
Sword
of
civill
Justice
which
being
of
a
materiall
and
civill
nature
,
serveth
for
the
defence
of
Persons
,
Estates
,
Families
,
Liberties
of
a
City
,
or
civill
State
,
and
for
the
suppressing
of
uncivill
and
injurious
Persons
,
or
Actions
by
civill
punishment
.
And
therefore
this
Sword
cannot
extend
now
(
as
it
did
in
of
old
)
to
spirituall
and
soule
causes
,
to
spirituall
and
soule
punishments
.
(
Judges
Ego
(
dignatione
Divinâ
)
Deus
sum
not
so
in
the
New
.
Now
under
Christ
all
Nations
are
meerely
Civill
,
without
any
such
Typicall
holy
respect
upon
them
as
was
upon
a
Nationall
Church
Fourth
Argument
from
this
Scripture
I
take
(
in
which
is
a
meerely
civill
reward
for
the
Magistrates
worke
.
Now
as
the
wages
be
,
such
is
the
worke
,
but
the
wages
are
meerely
Civill
,
Custome
,
Tribute
,
not
the
contributions
of
the
Saints
or
Churches
of
Christ
,
Lastly
,
that
the
Spirit
of
God
never
intended
to
direct
or
warrant
the
Magistrate
,
to
use
his
power
in
spirituall
affaires
and
Religions
,
I
argue
from
the
Terme
,
or
Title
given
by
God
,
to
such
civill
Officers
,
to
wit
,
Gods
Ministers
,
But
at
the
very
first
blush
,
any
man
will
acknowledge
a
double
Ministery
:
the
one
appointed
by
Christ
in
his
Church
,
to
order
the
affaires
thereof
,
The
other
a
Civill
Ministery
or
office
,
meerely
humane
and
Civill
,
which
men
agree
to
constitute
,
(
therefore
called
an
humane
Creation
,
and
is
as
true
and
lawfull
in
those
Countries
,
that
never
heard
of
the
true
God
,
and
his
holy
Sonne
Jesus
,
as
in
any
part
of
the
world
,
where
the
Name
of
Christ
is
not
taken
up
.
Babell
,
Nebuchadnezzar
Artaxerxes
,
Ezra
Socrates
,
Theodorus
Protagoras
.
Socrates
Aristippus
.
Protagoras
de
Natura
Deorum
Lib.
MAny
object
out
of
that
the
Magistrate
is
to
avenge
evill
:
and
therefore
Heresies
,
false
Christs
,
&c.
But
I
answer
,
First
,
that
the
word
is
generally
opposed
to
civill
goodnesse
,
or
vertue
in
a
Common-wealth
,
and
not
to
spirituall
good
.
Secondly
,
I
have
proved
,
here
as
not
intended
evill
against
the
spirituall
or
Christian
State
handled
in
But
evill
against
the
Civill
State
,
handled
in
this
Interpreteth
more
fully
then
There
is
,
saith
he
,
a
foure-fold
evill
,
of
which
the
Magistrate
is
the
Avenger
:
contrary
to
the
foure-fold
good
,
whereof
the
Magistrate
is
the
Preserver
.
A
naturall
good
,
a
Morall
good
,
a
Civill
good
,
a
spirituall
good
.
A
naturall
good
,
as
Life
,
and
safety
of
our
bodies
:
A
morall
good
,
as
Temperance
,
Chastity
:
a
Civill
good
,
as
our
goods
and
Lands
,
and
civill
Liberties
:
A
spirituall
good
,
as
the
free
passage
of
the
Ordinances
of
God
,
and
pure
Religion
.
In
opposition
to
these
there
is
a
foure-fold
Evill
:
Naturall
,
as
the
killing
,
and
wounding
,
and
beating
of
our
bodies
:
morall
as
Drunkennesse
,
and
whoredome
:
Civill
,
as
stealth
,
and
robbery
,
and
oppression
:
Spirituall
,
as
Heresie
,
Idolatry
,
and
disturbance
of
the
free
passage
of
Gods
Ordinances
.
As
the
Magistrate
is
bound
by
his
office
to
preserve
the
good
of
the
Subject
in
all
these
kinds
:
so
is
he
to
avenge
the
evill
done
against
the
Subject
in
any
of
these
.
The
Elders
of
grant
,
the
Magistrate
may
not
punish
some
evill
,
as
the
secret
sinnes
of
the
Soule
:
nor
sinnes
handled
in
the
Church
in
a
private
way
:
nor
such
sinnes
as
are
private
in
Families
.
As
the
complaints
of
Children
against
Parents
,
Servants
against
Masters
,
Wives
against
Husbands
:
nor
such
sinnes
as
are
between
the
Members
,
and
Churches
themselves
.
From
whence
I
observe
,
That
the
Magistrate
is
not
to
punish
all
evill
.
I
observe
,
how
they
take
away
from
the
Magistrates
that
which
is
proper
to
his
cognizance
,
as
the
complaints
of
Children
,
servants
,
Wives
,
against
their
Parents
,
Masters
,
Husbands
,
&c.
The
distinction
of
secret
,
or
private
,
and
publick
evill
,
will
not
here
availe
:
because
such
as
urge
the
Terme
evill
that
the
Magistrate
is
to
punish
evill
they
urge
it
strictly
because
Heresie
,
Blasphemy
,
&c.
is
evill
,
&c.
doe
the
Elders
take
away
from
the
Magistrates
,
the
cognizance
of
the
complaints
of
Children
,
Servants
,
wives
,
against
Parents
,
Masters
,
Husbands
.
THe
Author
of
the
Letter
proceeded
to
a
last
Reason
from
Scripture
,
to
prove
that
the
Disciples
of
Christ
should
be
so
farre
from
persecuting
,
that
they
ought
to
blesse
them
that
curse
them
,
and
pray
for
them
that
persecute
them
:
and
that
because
of
the
freenesse
of
Gods
grace
,
and
deepnesse
of
his
Counsels
,
calling
home
them
that
be
Enemies
,
persecutors
,
no
people
,
yea
some
at
the
last
houre
.
Vnto
this
Reason
the
Answerer
is
pleased
thus
to
Reply
.
First
,
in
generall
,
we
must
not
doe
evill
that
good
may
come
thereof
.
Secondly
,
in
particular
,
he
affirmeth
that
it
is
evill
to
tolerate
seditious
evill
doers
,
seducing
Teachers
,
scandalous
livers
;
and
for
proofe
of
this
,
quoteth
Christs
Reproofe
of
the
Angels
of
for
tolerating
to
teach
,
and
seduce
First
,
when
Christ
commandeth
his
Disciples
to
blesse
them
that
curse
them
,
and
persecute
them
,
he
giveth
not
therein
a
Rule
to
publick
Officers
,
whether
in
Church
,
or
Common-wealth
,
to
suffer
notorious
sinners
,
either
in
Life
or
Doctrine
,
to
passe
away
with
a
Blessing
:
but
to
private
Christians
,
to
suffer
persecution
patiently
,
yea
and
to
pray
for
their
Persecutors
.
Againe
,
it
is
true
,
Christ
would
have
his
Disciples
to
be
farre
from
persecuting
,
(
for
persecution
is
a
wicked
oppression
of
men
for
Righteousnesse
sake
:
)
but
that
hindereth
not
,
but
that
he
would
have
them
execute
upon
all
Disobedience
,
the
Judgement
and
vengeance
required
in
the
Word
,
In
this
Proposition
,
[
that
it
is
evill
to
tolerate
notorious
evill
doers
,
seducing
Teachers
,
scandalous
livers
:
]
I
observe
two
evills
.
First
,
that
this
Proposition
is
too
large
and
generall
,
because
the
Rule
admitteth
of
exception
,
and
that
according
to
the
will
of
God
.
Thine
eye
shall
not
pity
him
,
neither
shalt
thou
spare
him
,
neither
shalt
thou
conceale
him
,
but
thou
shalt
surely
kill
him
.
Thou
shalt
put
him
to
death
,
because
he
sought
to
thrust
thee
away
from
the
Lord
thy
God
,
Come
now
to
the
second
Evill
,
which
I
observe
in
the
Answerers
former
Position
,
that
it
would
be
evill
to
tolerate
seducing
Teachers
,
scandalous
Livers
.
In
two
things
,
I
shall
discover
the
great
evill
of
this
joyning
and
coupling
seducing
Teachers
,
and
scandalous
Livers
,
as
the
proper
and
adaequate
object
of
the
Magistrates
care
and
worke
to
suppresse
and
punish
.
First
,
this
joyning
of
things
of
such
different
kindes
,
is
not
an
homogeneall
,
but
heterogeneall
commixture
of
things
most
different
in
kinds
.
Who
knoweth
not
,
that
many
seducing
Teachers
of
the
Paganish
,
Jewish
,
Turkish
,
or
Antichristian
Religion
,
may
be
cleare
and
free
from
scandalous
offences
in
their
lives
,
and
from
disobedience
to
the
civill
Lawes
of
the
State
?
man
goe
about
here
to
observe
a
great
evill
,
that
here
is
not
an
homogeneall
,
but
an
heterogeneall
commixture
of
things
most
different
in
kind
?
For
who
knoweth
not
that
there
are
many
Beasts
,
Lyons
,
Leopards
,
Wolves
,
Beares
,
that
never
were
men
,
but
are
cleare
and
free
from
all
humane
nature
?
Jewish
,
Paganish
,
Turkish
,
Antichristian
,
Pagans
,
Jewes
Again
,
who
knoweth
,
not
that
a
seducing
Teacher
properly
sinneth
against
the
Church
,
&
against
the
Spirituall
State
and
Lawes
of
it
?
and
therefore
ought
most
properly
and
onely
to
be
dealt
withall
in
such
a
way
.
A
second
evill
,
which
I
observe
in
coupling
seducing
Teachers
with
scandalous
livers
,
is
a
silent
and
implicit
Justification
of
all
unrighte
us
and
cruell
proceedings
of
against
all
the
Prophets
of
God
,
the
Lord
Jesus
himselfe
,
and
all
his
messingers
and
witnesses
,
whom
their
Accusers
,
have
ever
so
coupled
and
mixed
with
notorious
evill
doers
,
and
scandalous
livers
,
&c.
THe
Scripture
alleaged
by
the
Answerer
,
to
prove
that
it
would
be
an
evill
,
to
tolerate
notorious
evill
doers
,
whether
seducing
Teachers
,
or
scandalous
livers
,
is
written
,
Where
Christ
hath
something
against
the
Church
of
for
tolerating
them
that
hold
the
Doctrine
of
and
against
the
Church
of
for
tolerating
to
teach
and
seduce
Vnto
which
I
may
answer
with
some
admiration
and
astonishment
,
how
it
pleased
the
Father
of
Lights
,
and
most
Jealous
God
,
to
darken
and
vaile
the
eyes
of
such
a
man
,
as
not
to
seeke
out
,
and
propose
some
Scriptures
(
in
the
proofe
of
so
weighty
an
assertion
)
as
at
least
might
have
some
colour
for
the
influence
of
the
civill
Magistrate
in
such
cases
.
For
these
Texts
concerne
neither
the
City
,
nor
the
civill
Magistrates
of
but
the
Churches
,
and
Elders
,
&c.
But
if
the
Churches
and
Angels
thereof
had
sufficient
power
to
suppresse
then
all
power
of
Magistrates
and
Governours
in
(
though
they
had
been
Christian
)
must
needs
fall
to
the
ground
,
as
none
of
Christs
appointment
.
Lastly
,
from
this
perverse
wresting
of
what
is
writ
to
the
Church
,
and
the
Officers
thereof
,
as
if
it
were
writ
to
the
Civill
Officers
,
and
State
thereof
,
all
may
see
how
since
the
Apostacie
of
Antichrist
the
Christian
world
(
so
called
)
hath
swallowed
up
Christianity
,
how
the
Church
,
and
Civill
State
,
that
is
,
the
Church
and
the
world
are
now
become
one
flock
of
Jesus
Christ
,
&c.
Proceed
to
the
second
Head
of
Reasons
(
against
persecution
for
cause
of
Conscience
)
taken
from
the
profession
of
famous
Princes
,
King
King
of
Vnto
whom
the
Answerer
returneth
a
treble
Answer
.
Wee
willingly
acknowledge
that
none
is
to
be
persecuted
at
all
;
no
more
then
any
may
be
oppressed
for
righteousnesse
sake
.
Again
,
we
acknowledge
,
that
none
is
to
be
punished
for
his
Conscience
,
though
misinformed
,
unlesse
his
errour
be
fundamentall
,
or
seditiously
and
turbulently
promoted
,
and
that
after
due
conviction
of
his
Conscience
,
that
it
may
appeare
,
he
is
not
punished
for
his
Conscience
,
but
for
sinning
against
his
Conscience
.
Furthermore
,
we
acknowledge
,
none
is
to
be
constrained
,
to
believe
or
professe
the
true
Religion
,
till
he
be
convinced
in
Judgement
of
the
truth
of
it
:
but
yet
restrayned
he
may
be
from
blaspheming
the
Truth
,
and
from
seducing
any
into
pernicious
errours
.
This
first
Answer
,
I
believe
,
I
have
sufficiently
cleared
the
weaknesse
of
the
Foundations
thereof
in
the
former
discourse
.
His
second
Answer
is
this
,
what
Princes
professe
and
practise
is
not
a
Rule
of
Conscience
.
They
many
times
tolerate
that
in
State
Policy
,
which
cannot
justly
be
tolerated
in
point
of
true
Christianity
.
Againe
,
Princes
many
times
tolerate
Offendors
out
of
very
necessity
,
when
the
Offenders
are
too
many
,
or
too
mighty
for
them
to
punish
.
In
which
respect
and
his
murder
,
but
against
his
will
.
It
may
be
here
observed
,
how
the
Answerer
dealeth
with
Princes
,
one
while
,
they
are
nursing
Fathers
to
the
Church
,
not
onely
to
feed
,
but
also
to
correct
;
and
therefore
consequently
,
bound
to
judge
,
what
is
true
feeding
and
correcting
:
and
consequently
all
men
are
bound
to
submit
to
their
feeding
and
correcting
.
Another
while
,
when
Princes
crosse
Mr.
Judgement
,
and
Practise
,
then
it
matters
not
,
what
the
Profession
and
Practise
of
Princes
is
:
for
,
their
Profession
and
Practise
is
no
Rule
to
Conscience
.
I
aske
then
,
unto
what
Princes
or
Magistrates
,
will
themselves
,
or
any
so
perswaded
,
submit
to
,
as
unto
keepers
of
both
Tables
,
and
nursing
Fathers
,
and
Mothers
,
to
the
Church
?
First
will
it
not
evidently
follow
by
these
Tenents
,
That
they
ought
not
to
submit
to
any
Magistrates
in
the
world
,
in
these
cases
,
but
to
Magistrates
just
of
their
owne
Conscience
?
Secondly
,
will
it
not
also
follow
,
that
all
other
Consciences
in
the
world
,
(
except
their
owne
)
must
be
persecuted
by
such
their
Maistrates
?
And
Lastly
,
Is
not
this
to
make
Magistrates
,
but
stepps
,
and
stirrops
for
themselves
,
to
ascend
and
mounte
into
their
rich
,
and
honorable
Seats
,
and
Saddels
?
I
meane
,
great
and
setled
maintenances
,
which
neither
the
Lord
Jesus
,
nor
any
of
his
first
Messengers
,
the
true
Patterns
did
ever
know
.
IN
the
second
place
,
the
Answerer
saith
,
that
Princes
out
of
State-Policy
,
doe
sometime
Tolerate
,
what
suiteth
not
with
Christianity
:
and
out
of
State-necessity
Tolerate
against
their
wills
But
then
the
Answerer
must
acknowledge
with
me
,
That
there
is
a
necessity
sometime
of
State-Toleration
,
as
in
the
case
of
And
so
his
former
affirmation
,
generally
lay'd
downe
,
That
it
is
evill
to
Tolerate
seducing
Teachers
,
and
Scandalous
Lives
.
Was
not
duely
weighed
in
the
ballance
of
the
Sanctuary
,
and
is
too
light
.
I
affirme
Secondly
,
That
that
State-Policy
,
and
State-necessity
which
permitteth
Consciences
of
men
,
will
be
found
to
agree
most
punctually
with
the
Rules
of
the
best
Politition
,
that
ever
the
world
saw
,
the
Lord
Jesus
himselfe
,
who
commanded
the
permitting
of
the
Tares
,
to
wit
,
Antichristians
,
or
false
Christians
with
true
Christians
,
as
I
have
discoursed
above
.
FOr
those
three
Princes
named
by
you
,
who
Tolerated
false
Religion
,
wee
can
name
more
and
greater
,
who
have
not
Tolerated
Hereticks
and
Schismaticks
,
notwithstanding
their
pretence
of
Conscience
,
and
Arrogating
the
crowne
of
Martyrdome
to
their
sufferings
.
the
great
at
the
Request
of
the
generall
Councel
of
with
some
of
his
fellowes
,
Ecclesiast.
The
same
made
a
severe
Law
,
against
the
&
the
like
proceedings
against
them
were
used
by
reporteth
in
the
Apostate
graunted
liberty
to
Hereticks
as
well
as
to
Pagans
,
that
he
might
by
Tolerating
all
weeds
to
grow
,
choake
the
vitalls
of
Christianity
:
Which
was
also
the
practise
and
sinne
of
as
famous
for
her
government
,
as
most
of
the
former
,
It
is
well
knowne
what
Lawes
she
made
,
and
executed
against
Papists
:
Yea
and
King
(
one
of
your
owne
Witnesses
)
though
he
was
slow
in
proceeding
against
Papists
(
as
you
say
)
for
Conscience
sake
;
yet
you
are
not
ignorant
,
how
sharply
and
severely
he
punished
those
,
whom
the
Malignant
world
calleth
Puritans
,
men
of
more
Conscience
&
better
Faith
,
then
the
Papists
,
whom
he
Tolerated
.
First
,
for
mine
owne
part
,
I
would
not
use
an
Argument
from
the
number
of
Princes
,
witnessing
in
profession
,
or
practise
,
against
persecution
for
cause
of
Conscience
,
&c.
Truth
,
and
Faith
,
must
not
be
received
with
respect
of
persons
:
pretious
pearles
are
found
in
muddy
shells
.
The
most
High
chooseth
the
poore
of
this
world
,
to
be
witnesses
to
his
Truth
:
and
dying
was
going
thither
,
whether
few
Kings
were
comming
.
Secondly
,
I
observe
,
how
inconsiderately
(
I
hope
not
willingly
)
the
Answerer
passeth
by
the
reasons
and
grounds
,
urged
by
these
three
Princes
.
In
King
his
speech
,
he
passeth
by
that
golden
Maxime
,
that
God
never
loved
to
plant
his
Church
by
bloud
.
Secondly
,
That
civill
obedience
may
be
performed
by
Papists
:
this
was
another
reason
of
King
passed
over
by
the
Answerer
Thirdly
,
The
Kings
third
ground
is
his
observation
in
That
persecution
is
a
true
&
certaine
note
of
a
false
Church
:
The
wicked
are
Beseigers
,
the
faithfull
Beseiged
.
In
King
Stephens
speech
of
he
passeth
by
the
true
difference
,
between
a
civill
,
and
a
spirituall
Government
.
I
am
a
civill
Magistrate
over
the
bodyes
of
men
,
not
a
spirituall
over
their
soules
.
To
confound
these
,
is
and
Jewish
to
seeke
for
and
bring
him
from
his
Grave
,
&c.
But
Christ
hath
abolished
a
Nationall
State
,
or
Church
,
which
Moses
set
up
in
Canaan
In
the
King
of
Bohemias
speech
,
the
Answerer
passeth
by
that
Foundation
in
grace
and
Nature
,
that
Conscienee
ought
not
to
be
violated
,
and
forced
,
it
is
a
spirituall
Rape
.
till
the
Conscience
of
the
offendor
,
be
first
convinced
(
out
of
the
word
of
God
)
of
the
dangerous
error
of
his
way
,
and
then
if
he
still
persist
,
It
is
not
out
of
Conscience
,
but
against
his
Conscience
(
as
the
Apostle
saith
&
so
he
is
not
persecuted
for
cause
of
Conscience
,
but
punished
for
sinning
against
his
Conscience
.
The
King
observeth
that
most
lamentably
true
experience
of
all
ages
,
That
persecution
for
cause
of
Conscience
,
hath
ever
proved
pernicious
,
&c.
Lastly
,
the
Kings
observation
of
his
owne
time
,
that
Persecution
for
cause
of
Conscience
,
was
practised
most
in
and
such
places
,
where
Popery
reigned
:
Implying
(
as
I
conceive
)
such
practises
commonly
proceed
from
the
great
Whore
,
whose
Daughters
are
like
their
Mother
,
all
of
a
bloudy
nature
,
as
commonly
all
wolves
be
.
and
of
a
bloudy
nature
,
like
her
Mother
:
he
speaketh
as
some
other
of
the
rigid
Seperation
have
done
before
him
.
But
I
could
never
yet
see
awarrant
NOw
Thirdly
,
In
that
the
Answerer
observeth
,
that
amongst
the
Emperors
,
they
that
did
not
persecute
were
the
Apostate
,
and
the
Arian
:
Whereas
the
good
Emperors
,
they
did
persecute
the
Let
it
be
for
an
Answer
,
It
is
no
new
thing
for
godly
,
and
eminently
godly
men
to
performe
ungodly
actions
:
nor
for
ungodly
persons
,
for
wicked
ends
,
to
act
what
in
it selfe
is
good
and
righteous
,
&c.
THe
unknowing
zeale
of
and
other
Emperors
did
more
hurt
to
Christ
Jesus
,
his
Church
and
Kingdome
,
then
the
raging
fury
of
the
most
bloudy
Neroes
.
In
the
persecution
of
those
wicked
Emperors
,
Christians
were
sweet
and
fragrant
,
like
spice
pounded
in
Morters
:
But
those
good
Emperors
persecuting
some
erroneous
persons
,
and
advancing
the
Professors
of
some
truthes
,
and
maintaining
their
Religion
by
the
materiall
Sword
,
by
this
meanes
Christianity
was
eclipsed
,
The
Professors
of
it
fell
asleepe
was
usher'd
in
,
and
by
degrees
the
Churches
of
the
Saints
were
turned
into
the
Wildernesse
of
whole
Nations
,
untill
the
whole
world
,
became
Christian
,
or
Christendome
.
Those
good
Emperors
intending
to
exalt
Christ
,
but
not
attending
to
the
command
of
Christ
Jesus
,
to
permit
the
Tares
to
grow
in
the
Field
of
the
world
,
they
made
the
Garden
of
the
Church
,
and
Field
of
the
world
,
all
one
&c.
Error
Amoris
and
the
Field
of
the
world
became
all
one
,
because
the
zeale
of
Christian
Emperors
intending
to
exalt
Christ
,
did
not
attend
to
the
command
of
Christ
,
to
permit
the
Tares
to
grow
in
the
Field
of
the
world
.
I
Desire
you
to
glance
your
eye
on
this
not
unworthy
observation
,
how
fully
this
Answere
hath
learned
the
Language
of
Lyon
like
Persecution
&c.
for
thus
he
writeth
,
more
and
greater
Princes
then
these
you
mention
,
have
not
Tolerated
Hereticks
,
and
Schismatiks
,
notwithstanding
their
pretence
of
Conscience
,
and
their
Arrogating
the
Crowne
of
Martyrdome
to
their
sufferings
.
T
is
true
,
these
termes
Hereticks
(
or
wilfully
obstinate
)
and
Schismaticks
,
are
used
in
holy
writ
:
t
is
true
also
,
that
such
pretend
Conscience
,
and
Arrogate
the
Crowne
of
Martyrdome
to
their
sufferings
.
But
this
is
the
common
clamour
of
Persecutors
against
the
witnesses
of
Jesus
in
all
ages
,
you
are
Hereticks
,
Schismaticks
,
factious
,
Seditious
,
rebellious
.
Pharoah
:
Pharoah
Titus
,
The
Cretians
are
alwayes
liars
,
evill
beasts
,
and
flow
bellyes
Tit.
Ob
it
is
hard
for
Gods
Children
to
fall
to
Opinion
and
practise
of
Persecution
,
without
ready
learning
the
Language
thereof
.
And
doubtlesse
that
soule
,
that
can
so
readily
learne
Language
,
hath
cause
to
feare
that
he
hath
not
yet
in
Point
of
Worship
left
the
gates
or
suburbs
of
it
.
Againe
in
blaming
the
Apostate
,
and
for
Tolerating
all
weeds
to
grow
,
he
noteth
their
sinfull
end
,
that
thereby
they
might
choake
the
vitalls
of
Christianity
:
and
seemeth
herein
to
consent
(
on
a
speech
of
That
the
weeds
of
false
Religions
tolerated
,
have
a
Power
to
kill
true
Christianity
in
the
Church
.
But
when
Christianity
began
to
be
choaked
,
It
was
not
when
Christians
lodged
in
cold
Prisons
,
but
Downe-Beds
of
ease
,
and
Persecuted
others
.
when
the
Temples
to
Divells
;
thinking
by
this
meanes
,
the
Christian
Name
might
perish
from
the
earth
,
if
he
should
envy
that
unity
to
the
Church
,
from
which
himselfe
fell
,
and
permit
Sacrilegious
Dissensions
to
enjoy
their
liberty
.
that
Christiaaity
began
to
be
choaked
,
not
when
Christians
lay
in
cold
Prisons
,
but
Beds
of
ease
,
and
persecuted
others
:
Their
persecuting
of
others
was
a
meanes
of
choaking
Christianity
:
did
more
hunt
to
Christs
Church
and
Kingdome
,
then
the
raging
fury
of
the
most
bloudy
Neroes
.
HE
ends
this
passage
with
approbation
of
Queene
for
Persecutiag
the
Papists
,
and
a
reproofe
to
King
for
Persecuting
the
Puritans
Res
gestas
But
if
Queene
Elizabeth
did
well
to
persecute
the
Papists
according
to
her
Conscience
:
King
did
not
ill
in
persecuting
others
according
to
his
.
But
then
must
graunt
,
that
if
King
did
ill
in
persecuting
Puritans
according
to
his
Conscience
,
then
either
King
was
not
fit
to
be
King
,
and
had
not
the
essentiall
qualifications
of
a
King
(
in
not
being
able
rightly
to
judge
,
who
are
to
be
pers●cuted
,
who
not
:
)
or
else
,
He
must
confesse
,
that
King
and
all
Magistrates
must
persecute
such
,
whom
in
their
Conscience
they
judge
worthy
to
be
pe●secut●d
,
IN
the
second
place
,
I
aske
,
what
glory
to
God
,
what
good
to
the
soules
and
bodies
of
their
Subjects
,
did
these
Princes
bring
,
in
persecuting
?
Christians
,
more
sweet
,
and
fragrant
like
pounded
Spices
.
But
such
Executions
in
Queen
dayes
had
raysed
almost
all
Europe
in
combustion
;
the
warres
of
the
Spanish
Invasion
had
speciall
respect
to
this
.
And
had
not
the
Lord
borne
witnesse
to
his
owne
Law
,
and
to
his
people
herein
,
(
by
defeating
the
Intendments
of
their
Enemies
)
it
might
have
been
the
ruine
,
both
of
and
the
which
are
the
words
of
Mr.
himselfe
on
the
third
Viall
It
is
no
Argument
that
God
bare
witnesse
to
his
people
in
such
Deliverancies
and
Victories
:
For
,
Events
and
Successes
come
alike
to
all
,
and
are
no
Arguments
of
Love
,
or
Hatred
.
Secondly
,
Papists
in
their
warres
have
ever
yet
had
both
in
Peace
and
warre
,
victory
and
Dominion
.
And
therefore
(
if
successe
be
the
measure
)
God
hath
borne
witnesse
to
them
:
as
in
the
Warres
between
the
fift
:
and
some
Germane
Princes
,
where
the
successe
was
various
,
between
and
the
the
King
of
and
his
Protestant
Subjects
,
sometimes
winning
,
sometimes
loosing
.
But
most
memorable
is
the
History
of
the
who
fought
many
Battles
against
three
succeeding
Popes
,
with
various
successe
:
But
the
finall
successe
and
Victory
fell
to
the
Popedome
,
and
Romish
Church
,
in
the
utter
extirpation
of
those
Waldensian
witnesses
.
cannot
excuse
from
contradiction
,
that
the
Papists
in
their
Warres
ever
had
the
Victory
:
and
yet
have
often
fought
with
various
successe
,
sometime
winning
,
sometime
loosing
.
in
the
Lord
.
Neither
is
it
true
,
that
the
finall
successe
of
the
Victory
fell
to
the
Romish
Church
to
the
utter
extirpation
of
those
It
is
most
true
,
what
in
his
Chapters
,
and
Chapters
,
write
of
the
great
successe
of
Antichrist
against
Christ
Jesus
for
a
time
appointed
.
Gods
servants
are
all
Conquerours
,
when
they
warre
with
Gods
weapons
in
Gods
cause
and
worship
:
as
in
Chapters
,
and
in
they
overcome
the
Dragon
in
the
Romane
Emperours
by
three
weapons
,
the
bloud
of
the
Lamb
,
the
word
of
their
Testimony
,
and
not
loving
their
lives
unto
the
death
.
THe
last
Head
of
Arguments
produced
by
the
Author
against
persecution
,
was
from
the
Judgement
of
Antient
and
later
Writers
:
to
some
of
which
,
the
Answerer
pleaseth
to
answer
.
If
it
be
a
marke
of
the
Christian
Church
to
be
persecuted
,
and
of
the
Antichristian
or
false
Church
,
to
persecute
,
then
the
Churches
cannot
be
truly
Christian
(
according
to
the
first
Institution
)
which
either
actually
themselves
,
or
by
the
civill
Power
of
Kings
and
Princes
given
to
them
(
or
procured
by
them
to
fight
for
them
)
doe
persecute
such
as
discent
from
them
,
or
be
opposite
against
them
.
Samaria
,
Acts
New
Jerusalem
Churches
cannot
be
truly
Christian
,
who
by
themselves
,
or
by
the
Civill
power
of
Kings
,
doe
punish
such
as
dissent
from
them
or
are
opposite
against
them
.
(
which
is
not
yet
proved
)
that
it
is
a
marke
of
no
true
Christian
Church
to
procure
the
civill
punishment
of
incurable
obstinate
Hereticks
and
Seducers
.
When
the
Answerer
saith
,
that
to
Excommunicate
an
Heretick
is
not
to
persecute
.
I
answer
,
If
the
Answerer
were
throughly
awaked
from
the
Spouses
spirituall
slumber
and
had
recovered
from
the
Drunkennesse
of
the
great
Whore
(
who
intoxicateth
the
Nations
,
It
is
impossible
,
that
he
should
so
answer
.
For
who
questioneth
,
whether
to
excommunicate
an
Heretick
be
to
persecute
?
Excommunication
being
of
a
spirituall
nature
,
a
sentence
denounced
by
the
word
of
Christ
Jesus
(
the
spirituall
King
of
the
Chureh
:
)
and
a
spirituall
killing
by
the
two
edged
Sword
of
the
Spirit
,
in
delivering
up
the
person
Excommunicate
unto
Satan
.
Therefore
who
seeth
not
this
Answer
cometh
not
neere
the
Question
?
his
spirituall
slumber
,
and
from
the
Drunkennesse
of
the
great
Whore
,
it
had
been
impossible
,
he
should
have
accounted
Excommunication
a
persecution
?
his
complaynt
,
speaketh
not
to
Excommunications
,
but
to
civill
censures
.
following
reacheth
both
:
for
to
persecute
is
to
punish
an
Innocent
:
But
an
Heretick
is
not
an
Innocent
,
but
a
culpable
and
damnable
person
.
Hilaries
meaning
,
it
is
true
,
what
saith
,
neither
did
the
Apostles
,
nor
may
wee
propogate
Christian
Religion
by
the
Sword
,
&c.
But
a
Christian
Church
doth
no
more
persecute
,
then
a
Lilly
doth
scratch
thornes
,
or
a
Lamb
pursue
and
teare
the
Wolves
,
or
a
Turtle
Dove
doth
hunt
the
Hawkes
,
or
Eagles
,
or
a
chast
modest
virgin
fight
,
and
scratch
like
Whores
and
Harlots
.
discussed
.
It
is
true
speaketh
,
that
neither
the
Apostles
,
nor
we
,
may
propagate
Christian
Religion
by
the
Sword
:
But
if
Pagans
cannot
be
wonne
by
the
word
,
they
are
not
to
be
compelled
by
the
Sword
.
Neverthelesse
this
hindreth
not
,
but
if
they
,
or
any
other
should
blaspheme
the
true
God
,
and
his
true
Religion
,
they
ought
to
be
severely
punished
:
and
no
lesse
doe
they
deserve
who
seduce
from
the
Truth
to
damnable
Heresie
and
Idolatrie
.
In
which
Answer
,
I
observe
,
First
,
his
Agreement
with
that
Christian
Religion
may
not
be
propagated
by
the
civill
Sword
.
Vnto
which
I
what
meaneth
then
this
passage
in
his
first
Answer
to
the
former
speeches
of
the
Kings
,
We
acknowledge
,
that
none
is
to
be
constrained
to
believe
or
professe
the
true
Religion
,
till
he
be
convinced
in
Judgement
of
the
Truth
of
it
.
such
persecution
for
cause
of
Conscience
,
as
is
condemned
by
the
Ancient
Writers
.
Of
whom
is
named
for
one
,
and
for
the
first
:
that
none
was
to
be
constrained
to
beleive
,
or
professe
the
true
Religion
,
till
he
be
convinced
of
the
Truth
of
it
.
That
Answer
to
the
speech
of
the
Kings
implyeth
two
things
.
That
the
civill
Magistrate
,
who
is
to
constraine
,
must
judge
of
all
the
Consciences
of
their
Subjects
,
whether
they
be
convinced
or
no.
That
when
the
civill
Magistrate
discerneth
that
his
Subjects
Consciences
are
convinced
,
then
he
may
constraine
them
hostilely
.
And
accordingly
,
who
knoweth
not
what
constraint
lyeth
upon
all
Consciences
in
Old
and
to
come
to
Church
,
and
to
pay
Church-Duties
?
which
is
upon
the
point
(
though
with
a
Sword
of
a
finer
gilt
and
trim
in
nothing
else
,
but
that
which
he
confesseth
,
saith
,
should
not
be
done
,
to
wit
,
a
Propagation
of
Religion
by
the
Sword
.
Againe
,
although
he
confesseth
,
that
Propagation
of
Religion
ought
not
to
be
by
the
Sword
;
yet
he
maintaineth
the
use
of
the
Sword
,
when
persons
(
in
the
Judgment
of
the
Civill
State
,
for
that
is
implyed
)
shall
blaspheme
the
true
God
,
and
the
true
Religion
,
and
also
seduce
others
to
damnable
Heresie
and
Idolatry
.
the
Answerer
giveth
the
like
Answer
.
Intent
(
saith
he
)
is
onely
to
restraine
the
Romane
Governour
of
from
persecuting
the
Christians
,
for
not
offering
Sacrifice
to
their
Heathen
Gods
:
and
for
that
end
fetcheth
an
Argument
from
the
Law
of
Naturall
Equity
,
not
to
compell
any
to
any
Religion
,
but
to
permit
them
to
beleive
,
or
not
to
beleive
at
all
.
Which
we
acknowledge
:
we
judge
,
the
may
permit
the
to
continue
in
their
unbeliefe
.
Neverthelesse
,
it
will
not
therefore
be
lawfull
to
tolerate
the
publick
worship
of
Devils
,
or
Idols
,
in
a
Christian
State
,
or
the
seduction
of
any
from
the
Truth
.
In
this
passage
,
he
agreeth
with
but
it
is
well
known
,
that
in
they
not
onely
permit
the
to
continue
in
their
unbeleife
,
(
which
they
cannot
help
)
but
they
also
permit
or
tolerate
them
in
their
Paganish
worship
,
which
cannot
be
denyed
to
be
a
worshipping
of
Devils
.
And
therefore
consequently
according
to
the
same
practise
,
did
they
walke
by
Rule
,
and
impartially
,
not
on●●
the
but
their
Countrymen
should
also
be
permitted
in
their
Worships
,
if
correspondent
in
civill
obedience
.
randome
,
when
he
intimateth
,
that
we
walke
not
by
Rule
but
partially
,
as
if
we
permitted
not
the
like
liberty
of
worship
to
our
Country-men
,
nor
to
the
which
wee
doe
to
the
Persians
,
Turkes
The
Answerer
addeth
a
further
Answer
to
for
whereas
had
said
,
that
one
mans
Religion
doth
neither
hurt
,
nor
profit
another
:
the
Answerer
saith
,
it
must
be
understood
of
private
Worship
,
or
of
Religion
professed
in
private
.
Otherwise
a
false
Religion
professed
in
publick
,
by
the
Members
of
the
Church
,
or
by
such
as
have
given
their
Names
to
Christ
,
will
be
the
ruine
and
Desolation
of
the
Churches
,
Whereto
I
Answer
Those
that
are
Members
of
the
Church
,
and
those
that
have
given
their
names
to
Christ
,
are
all
one
:
the
distinction
therefore
is
unsound
.
I
answer
secondly
,
that
doth
not
there
speake
of
private
,
but
of
publick
worship
,
and
Religion
,
Christ
,
that
a
false
Religion
,
or
Worship
permitted
will
doe
hurt
according
to
those
Threats
of
Christ
,
yet
in
two
cases
,
I
beleive
a
false
Religion
will
not
hurt
(
which
is
most
like
to
have
been
meaning
.
A
false
Religion
out
of
the
Church
will
not
hurt
the
Church
:
no
more
then
weeds
in
the
Wildernesse
will
hurt
the
inclosed
Gardens
:
nor
poyson
hurt
the
body
,
when
it
is
not
touched
,
or
taken
,
yea
and
Antidotes
are
received
against
it
.
A
false
Religion
and
worship
will
not
hurt
a
Civill
State
,
in
case
the
worshippers
breake
no
civill
Law
.
And
the
Answerer
elsewhere
acknowledgeth
,
that
the
civill
Peace
is
not
broken
,
where
the
civill
Lawes
are
not
broken
.
And
this
onely
is
the
point
in
Question
.
Israel
,
Judg.
spoken
to
his
second
case
first
(
wherein
he
saith
,
a
false
Religion
will
not
hurt
a
civill
State
.
)
Religion
will
not
hurt
,
if
it
be
out
of
the
Church
,
no
more
then
weeds
in
the
wildernesse
will
hurt
the
inclosed
Garden
.
not
hurt
the
body
,
unlesse
it
be
taken
,
or
touched
,
yea
and
Antidotes
taken
against
it
.
which
the
saith
(
is
most
likely
)
that
meant
one
of
these
two
cases
.
Religion
will
not
hurt
another
,
it
is
Argumentum
ad
hominem
,
(
saith
the
Answerer
)
confesseth
not
the
Truth
,
nor
advantageth
your
cause
:
for
wee
graunt
,
what
he
saith
,
That
Heresie
must
be
cut
off
by
the
Sword
of
the
Spirit
,
which
is
the
Word
of
God
.
But
this
hindereth
not
,
but
that
being
so
cut
downe
,
if
the
Hereticke
doe
still
persist
in
his
Heresie
to
the
seduction
of
others
,
he
may
be
cut
off
also
by
the
civill
Sword
,
to
prevent
the
perdition
of
others
.
And
that
to
be
meaning
,
appeareth
by
his
Note
upon
that
of
the
Apostle
A
little
Leaven
leaveneth
the
whole
lumpe
.
Therefore
saith
he
,
a
sparke
,
as
soone
as
it
appeareth
,
is
to
be
extinguished
,
and
the
Leaven
to
be
removed
from
the
rest
of
the
dough
:
Rotten
pieces
of
flesh
are
to
be
cut
off
,
and
a
scabbed
Beast
is
to
be
driven
from
the
sheepfold
:
least
the
whole
house
,
body
,
masse
of
dough
,
and
Flock
,
be
set
on
fire
with
the
sp●rke
,
be
putrified
with
the
rotten
flesh
,
sowred
with
the
Leaven
,
perish
with
the
scabbed
Beast
.
But
to
this
I
Answer
He
granteth
to
that
Heresie
must
be
cut
off
with
the
Sword
of
the
Spirit
:
yet
with
all
he
maintaineth
a
cutting
off
by
the
second
Sword
,
the
Sword
of
the
Magistrate
,
and
conceiveth
that
so
meaneth
,
because
he
quoteth
that
of
the
Apostle
,
a
little
Leaven
leaveneth
the
whole
lumpe
.
It
is
no
Argument
to
proue
that
meant
a
civill
Sword
,
by
alledging
,
which
properly
and
onely
approve
a
cutting
off
by
the
Sword
of
the
Spirit
,
and
purging
out
of
leaven
in
the
Church
.
And
if
should
so
meane
,
as
the
Answerer
doth
:
yet
The
cutting
off
of
Heresie
by
the
Sword
of
the
Spirit
implyeth
an
absolute
sufficiency
in
the
Sword
of
the
Spirit
to
cut
it
downe
,
according
to
It
is
cleare
to
be
the
meaning
of
the
holy
Spirit
and
of
the
Apostle
in
the
words
alledged
by
him
,
a
little
Leaven
&c.
Hieroms
Proaeme
Timothy
,
he
observeth
the
hast
,
and
light
attention
,
and
sleepinesse
of
the
Answerer
.
Te
tullian
(
lerome
I
would
they
were
cut
off
that
trouble
you
.
That
Heresie
must
be
cut
off
with
the
Sword
of
the
spirit
,
doth
imply
an
absolute
sufficiency
in
the
Sword
of
the
Spirit
to
cut
it
downe
,
according
to
But
the
eye
of
this
Answerer
could
never
be
so
obscured
,
as
to
run
to
a
for
a
Sword
of
Iron
,
and
steele
,
to
help
the
Sword
of
the
Spirit
,
if
the
Sunne
of
righteousnesse
had
once
been
pleased
to
shew
him
;
That
a
Nationall
Church
(
which
elswhere
he
professeth
against
)
a
State-Church
,
(
whether
explicite
,
as
in
Old
or
implicite
,
as
in
is
not
the
Institution
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
.
The
Nationall
Typicall-State-Church
of
the
necessarily
called
for
such
weapons
:
But
the
particular
Churches
of
Christ
in
all
parts
of
the
world
,
consisting
of
is
powerfully
able
to
defend
it selfe
,
and
offend
men
,
and
Divells
,
although
the
State
and
Kingdome
(
wherein
the
Churches
be
)
had
neither
carnall
Sword
,
nor
Speare
,
as
once
it
was
in
the
Nationall
Church
in
the
Land
of
Why
not
I
pray
you
?
Because
particular
Churches
are
powerfully
able
,
by
the
Sword
of
the
Spirit
,
to
defend
themselves
,
and
to
offend
men
,
or
Divells
?
BRentius
upon
saith
,
no
man
hath
power
to
make
or
give
Lawes
to
Christians
,
whereby
to
binde
their
Consciences
.
For
willingly
,
freely
,
and
uncompelled
,
with
a
ready
desire
,
and
chearfull
minde
,
must
those
that
come
,
run
unto
Christ
.
To
this
the
Answerer
returneth
(
saith
he
)
speaketh
not
to
your
cause
.
Wee
willingly
graunt
you
,
that
man
hath
no
power
to
binde
Conscience
:
but
this
hindereth
not
,
that
men
may
see
the
Lawes
of
God
observed
,
which
doe
binde
Conscience
.
But
the
graunting
this
,
That
men
have
no
power
to
make
Lawes
to
binde
Conscience
,
overthroweth
such
his
Tenent
,
and
practise
as
restraine
men
from
their
worship
,
according
to
their
Conscience
,
and
beleife
,
and
constraine
them
to
such
worships
,
which
their
own
soules
tell
them
,
they
have
no
satifaction
,
nor
faith
in
.
Againe
,
where
as
the
Answerer
affirmeth
,
That
men
may
make
Lawes
to
see
the
Lawes
of
God
observed
.
I
Answer
,
As
God
needs
not
the
help
of
a
materiall
Sword
of
Steele
to
assist
the
Sword
of
the
Spirit
in
the
affairs
of
Conscience
:
so
those
men
,
those
Magistrates
,
yea
the
Common-wealth
which
makes
such
Magistrates
must
needs
have
power
and
Authority
from
Christ
Iesus
to
sit
Iudge
,
and
to
determine
in
all
the
great
Controversies
concerning
Doctrine
,
Worship
,
Government
&c.
or
the
Common-wealth
that
chooseth
them
,
must
needs
have
power
,
and
Authority
from
Christ
,
to
sit
Iudge
,
and
to
determine
in
all
great
controversies
of
Religion
,
in
Doctrine
,
Discipline
and
Government
:
But
then
I
aske
,
whether
upon
this
ground
,
it
must
not
evidently
follow
,
that
then
either
there
is
no
Common-wealth
,
nor
Civill
State
of
men
in
the
world
,
that
is
not
qualified
with
this
discerning
:
(
and
then
the
Common-wealth
hath
more
light
concerning
the
Church
,
then
the
Church
it selfe
:
)
Or
that
the
Common-wealth
and
Magistrates
thereof
must
judge
and
punish
as
they
are
perswaded
in
their
owne
beleife
and
Conscience
(
be
their
Conscience
,
Paganish
,
Turkish
,
or
Antichristian
:
)
And
what
is
this
,
but
to
confound
Heaven
and
Earth
together
?
and
to
take
away
not
onely
the
being
of
Christianity
out
of
the
world
,
but
all
civility
,
yea
the
world
out
of
the
world
,
and
to
lay
all
upon
heaps
of
confusion
?
That
then
there
is
no
law
full
Commonwealth
nor
Civill
State
of
men
in
the
world
,
which
is
not
qualified
with
this
spirituall
discerning
.
that
the
very
Common-wealth
hath
then
more
light
concerning
the
Church
of
Christ
,
then
the
Church
it selfe
.
Testimony
,
saith
the
Answerer
,
reacheth
to
two
things
,
neither
of
which
we
deny
.
First
,
that
the
Government
of
the
civill
Magistrate
reacheth
no
further
,
then
to
the
bodies
and
goods
of
their
Subjects
,
not
over
their
soules
:
and
therefore
they
may
not
undertake
to
give
Lawes
to
the
soules
and
Consciences
of
men
.
Secondly
,
that
the
Church
of
Christ
doth
not
use
the
Arme
of
secular
power
,
to
compell
men
to
the
true
profession
of
the
Truth
.
For
this
is
to
be
done
with
spirituall
weapons
,
whereby
Christians
are
to
be
exhorted
,
and
compelled
.
But
this
hindereth
not
That
Christians
sinning
against
the
Light
of
Faith
,
and
Conscience
,
may
justly
be
censured
of
the
Church
,
by
Excommunication
,
and
of
the
civill
Magistrate
also
,
in
case
they
shall
corrupt
others
to
the
perdition
of
their
soules
.
This
Joynt-confession
of
the
Answerer
with
(
to
wit
,
that
the
Government
of
the
civill
Magistrate
extendeth
no
further
then
over
the
bodyes
and
goods
of
their
Subjects
,
not
over
their
soules
)
who
seeth
not
,
that
hereby
is
given
a
cleare
Testimony
,
that
either
the
spirituall
and
Church
Estate
,
the
preaching
of
the
word
,
Baptisme
,
Ministery
,
Government
thereof
,
belongeth
to
the
civill
body
of
the
Common-wealth
,
(
that
is
,
to
the
bodies
and
goods
of
men
,
which
seemeth
monstrous
to
Imagine
:
)
or
else
,
that
the
civill
Magistrate
cannot
(
without
exceeding
the
bounds
of
his
Office
)
meddle
with
those
spirituall
Affaires
.
Againe
necessarily
it
must
follow
that
these
two
are
contradictory
to
themselves
(
which
yet
both
of
them
are
Mr.
the
Magistrates
Power
extends
no
further
then
to
the
bodyes
and
goods
of
the
Subject
:
and
yet
.
The
Magistrate
must
punish
Christians
for
sinning
against
the
Light
of
Faith
and
Conscience
,
and
for
corrupting
the
soules
of
men
.
Magistrates
power
extendeth
no
further
then
the
bodies
and
Goods
of
his
Subjects
.
Againe
,
in
the
Answerers
Joynt-confession
with
that
the
Church
doth
not
use
the
secular
power
to
compell
men
to
the
Faith
,
and
Profession
of
the
Truth
,
he
condemneth
(
as
before
I
have
observed
.
)
His
former
implication
,
that
they
may
be
compelled
,
when
they
are
convinced
of
the
Truth
of
it
.
He
condemneth
their
owne
Practise
,
who
suffer
no
man
of
any
different
Conscience
and
worship
to
live
in
their
Jurisdiction
,
unlesse
he
depart
from
the
Exercise
of
his
owne
Religion
,
and
worship
,
differing
from
that
allowed
of
in
their
civill
Estate
,
yea
and
also
actually
submit
to
come
to
their
Church
.
saith
,
wee
permit
and
tolerate
the
in
their
Paganish
worship
,
which
wee
might
restraine
.
Yet
here
he
saith
,
we
suffer
no
man
of
any
different
Conscience
,
or
worship
to
live
in
our
Jurisdiction
.
Yea
saith
the
but
they
must
actually
submit
to
come
to
our
Church
.
Howsoever
they
cover
the
matter
with
this
varnish
,
that
none
are
compelled
further
unto
their
Churches
,
then
unto
the
hearing
of
the
word
,
unto
which
all
men
are
bound
:
yet
it
will
appeare
,
that
Teaching
,
and
being
taught
in
a
Church
Estate
is
a
Church-worship
,
as
true-and
proper
a
Church-worship
,
as
is
the
Supper
of
the
Lord
,
Secondly
,
all
persons
(
Papist
,
and
Protestant
)
that
are
Conscientious
have
alwayes
suffered
upon
this
ground
especially
,
that
they
have
refused
to
come
to
each
others
Church
,
or
meeting
.
AS
for
the
Testimony
of
the
Popish
Booke
(
saith
the
Answerer
)
wee
veigh
it
not
:
as
knowing
what
ever
they
speake
for
toleration
of
Religion
,
where
themselves
are
under
Hatches
:
yet
when
themselves
come
to
sit
at
Sterne
,
they
Judge
and
practise
quite
contrary
:
as
both
their
writings
,
and
judiciall
proceedings
have
testified
to
the
world
these
many
yeares
.
But
(
for
Answer
to
him
)
though
both
their
writings
and
practises
have
been
such
:
yet
the
Scriptures
,
and
expressions
of
Truth
alledged
by
them
,
doe
speake
loudly
and
fully
for
them
,
that
where
they
are
under
the
Hatches
they
should
not
be
smothered
,
but
suffered
to
breath
and
walk
upon
the
Decks
in
the
aire
of
civill
Liberty
.
That
Christ
sent
his
Apostles
as
sheep
into
the
midst
of
Wolves
:
He
did
not
send
Wolves
amongst
sheep
,
to
kill
,
imprison
,
spoyle
,
&c.
Elymas
,
Acts
People
(
whom
they
are
sent
to
convert
)
unto
Councels
,
or
Prisons
,
or
to
make
their
Religion
Felony
,
or
Treason
.
of
verse
When
ye
enter
into
an
House
Christ
had
them
salute
it
,
saying
,
Peace
be
to
the
House
;
he
doth
not
say
,
send
Pursevants
,
to
ransack
and
spoile
it
.
former
.
The
Pastor
giveth
his
Life
for
the
sheep
:
he
cometh
not
to
kill
,
or
to
destroy
the
sheep
.
But
what
if
he
see
the
Wolfe
coming
?
may
lead
a
quiet
,
and
peaceable
Life
in
all
Godlinesse
and
Honesty
?
saith
,
speake
loudly
,
and
fully
for
their
Toleration
:
but
how
But
Protestants
herein
shew
themselves
partiall
,
and
practise
that
themselves
which
they
taxe
in
Papists
.
For
though
they
cry
out
of
Persecution
when
themselves
are
under
Hatches
,
yet
when
they
come
to
sit
at
Helme
,
they
runne
the
same
course
both
in
Doctrine
and
Practise
.
When
Mr.
and
others
have
formerly
been
under
Hatches
,
what
sad
and
true
complaints
have
they
poured
out
against
Persecution
?
But
coming
to
the
Helme
,
how
doe
they
themselves
both
by
Preaching
,
Writing
,
Printing
,
practise
unnaturally
,
and
partially
expresse
towards
other
,
the
cruell
Nature
of
such
Lyons
,
and
Leopards
,
as
some
of
them
have
opened
out
of
Yea
,
but
it
is
not
confidence
of
being
in
the
Truth
(
which
they
judge
the
Papists
and
others
are
not
in
)
no
nor
the
Truth
it selfe
that
can
priviledge
them
to
persecute
others
,
and
to
exempt
themselves
from
persecution
,
for
three
Considerations
.
First
,
because
it
is
against
the
nature
of
true
sheep
,
to
persecute
,
or
hunt
the
Beasts
of
the
Forrest
,
no
not
the
Wolves
,
who
have
persecuted
themselves
.
Secondly
,
if
it
be
a
Duty
and
charge
upon
all
Magistrates
in
all
parts
of
the
world
to
judge
and
persecute
,
in
,
and
for
spirituall
Causes
,
then
either
they
are
no
Magistrates
,
who
are
not
able
to
judge
in
such
cases
:
or
else
they
must
judge
according
to
their
Consciences
,
whether
Pagan
,
Turkish
,
or
Antichristian
.
in
sensu
composite
Thirdly
,
the
Experience
of
our
Fathers
errours
,
and
of
our
owne
mistakes
and
ignorance
,
the
sense
of
our
owne
weaknesses
,
and
blindnesse
in
the
depths
of
the
Prophecies
and
mysteries
of
the
Kingdome
of
Christ
,
and
the
great
professed
Expectation
of
the
Light
to
come
,
which
wee
are
not
now
able
to
comprehend
,
may
abate
the
edge
and
sheath
up
the
Sword
of
Persecution
against
any
,
especially
such
as
differ
not
from
them
in
Doctrines
of
Repentance
,
or
Faith
,
or
Holynesse
of
heart
,
and
life
,
but
onely
in
the
way
,
and
manner
of
the
Administration
of
Jesus
Christ
.
TO
begin
with
They
murther
Soules
,
and
themselves
are
afflicted
in
Body
.
They
put
men
to
everlasting
Death
,
and
yet
they
complaine
when
themselves
are
put
to
a
temporall
Death
.
This
Rhetoricall
perswasion
of
humane
wisdome
seemeth
very
reasonable
in
the
Eye
of
flesh
,
and
bloud
:
but
one
Scripture
more
prevaileth
with
faithfull
and
obedient
soules
,
then
thousands
of
plausible
,
and
Eloquent
speeches
.
is
too
hard
for
Christ
at
Votes
,
and
Numbers
.
From
the
large
extent
of
soule-killing
,
which
may
reach
to
many
sinnes
,
that
are
not
capitall
,
From
the
dissimilitude
of
bodily
,
and
spirituall
Death
.
A
body
being
killed
can
dye
but
once
:
but
a
soule
killed
may
recover
.
From
the
different
punishment
,
which
Christ
hath
provided
for
soule-killers
:
to
wit
the
two
edged
Sword
,
which
cometh
out
of
his
mouth
,
which
is
able
to
cut
downe
Heresie
,
and
to
kill
the
soules
of
Hereticks
everlastingly
.
From
the
toleration
,
which
Christ
himselfe
giveth
to
such
soule-killers
,
or
soule-wounders
,
in
the
Parable
of
Tares
,
From
the
impossibility
of
killing
any
soule
by
any
Heretick
:
not
the
soules
of
naturall
men
:
for
they
are
dead
already
:
nor
can
false
Teachers
so
much
prevent
the
meanes
of
spirituall
Life
,
as
doth
the
force
of
a
materiall
Sword
,
either
imprisoning
the
soules
of
men
in
a
Nationall-State-Religion
:
or
cutting
them
off
immediately
without
any
longer
meanes
of
Repentance
.
Nor
can
there
be
a
killing
of
the
soules
of
men
alive
in
Christ
,
partly
by
reason
of
the
sufficiency
and
power
of
Spirituall
Ordinances
to
preserve
that
Life
in
them
against
all
Enemies
.
Partly
,
from
the
Immortality
of
the
spirituall
Life
in
Christ
,
which
can
no
more
dye
then
Christ
himselfe
who
is
alive
for
ever
.
From
the
possbility
of
a
false
Teachers
,
and
a
Wolves
recovery
from
the
Estate
of
a
soule-killer
,
to
become
a
soule-saver
,
as
it
was
in
the
case
of
For
he
that
hateth
his
brother
is
a
man-slayer
,
or
murderer
Thine
eye
shall
not
spare
him
,
because
he
hath
sought
to
thrust
thee
away
from
the
Lord
thy
God
,
Though
hee
did
not
thrust
thee
away
,
yet
because
he
sought
to
doe
it
hee
shall
dye
.
naturall
man
,
dead
in
sinne
already
,
and
then
no
man
can
kill
him
:
or
else
he
is
in
Christ
,
and
then
his
Life
is
immortall
,
and
Christ
hath
provided
Ordinances
powerfully
sufficient
to
prevent
or
heale
such
deadly
Dangers
,
Hereticks
with
the
materiall
Sword
,
is
the
imprisoning
of
the
soules
of
will
cut
off
men
immediately
without
any
longer
meanes
of
Repentance
:
THe
Answerer
alledgeth
from
his
third
Booke
,
that
he
justified
who
had
put
some
Hereticks
to
death
,
for
that
he
had
done
no
more
herein
,
then
what
had
done
before
him
But
these
are
shafts
usually
drawen
from
the
Quiver
of
the
Ceremoniall
and
Typicall
State
of
the
Nationall
Church
of
the
which
vanished
at
the
appearing
of
the
Body
,
and
substance
of
the
Sun
of
Righteousnesse
,
who
set
up
another
Kingdome
,
or
Church
Ministery
,
and
Worship
:
In
which
wee
finde
no
such
Ordinance
,
Precept
,
or
Precedent
of
killing
men
for
Religion
sake
.
More
particularly
,
concerning
I
Querie
what
Commandement
,
or
practise
of
or
the
Answerer
here
intend●th
.
Probably
that
of
If
so
I
shall
particularly
Reply
to
that
,
in
Answer
to
the
reasons
here
under
mentioned
.
his
zealous
Act.
His
flaying
the
man
and
woman
of
was
not
for
spirituall
,
but
corporall
filthynesse
.
Baal
Peor
No
man
will
produce
this
fact
as
Precedentiall
to
any
Minister
of
the
Gospel
,
so
to
act
in
any
Civill
State
&c.
There
were
two
famous
acts
of
of
a
killing
nature
That
of
slaying
of
Baals
Prophets
Of
the
two
Captaines
,
and
their
fiftyes
by
Fyre
.
For
the
first
,
It
cannot
figure
or
Type
out
any
materiall
slaughter
of
the
many
thousands
of
false
Prophets
in
the
world
by
any
materiall
Sword
of
Iron
,
or
steele
:
for
as
that
passage
was
miraculous
:
so
wee
finde
not
any
such
Commission
given
by
the
Lord
Jesus
to
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospel
.
Lastly
,
such
a
slaughter
must
not
onely
extend
to
all
the
false
Prophets
in
the
world
,
but
(
according
to
the
Answerers
grounds
)
to
the
many
thousands
of
thousands
of
Idolaters
,
and
false
worshippers
in
the
Kingdomes
and
Nations
of
the
world
:
Augustine
,
before
,
and
to
here
,
That
if
were
now
living
,
he
would
be
of
his
minde
,
and
and
the
Answerer
himselfe
might
rest
satisfied
.
AS
for
mine
Answer
is
,
since
matter
of
fact
and
opinion
are
barely
related
by
the
Answerer
without
their
grounds
,
(
whose
grounds
notwithstanding
,
in
this
Booke
are
Answered
)
If
himselfe
were
joyned
with
them
,
yea
or
an
Angel
from
Heaven
,
bringing
any
other
Rule
,
then
what
the
Lord
Jesus
hath
once
delivered
,
wee
have
Conclusion
,
and
Resolution
,
peremptory
,
and
dreadfull
,
Opuscula
.
Beza
his
.
Booke
de
Haceticis
a
Magistratù
puniendis
,
Let
me
finish
the
whole
,
by
proposing
one
Conclusion
of
the
Author
of
the
arguments
in
the
Letter
,
viz.
It
is
no
prejudice
to
the
Common-wealth
,
if
Liberty
of
Conscience
were
suffered
to
such
,
as
feare
God
indeed
.
abode
a
long
time
amongst
the
though
contrary
to
them
in
Religion
&c.
So
did
so
did
twentie
yeares
with
his
Vncle
So
the
People
of
were
about
foure
and
thirty
yeares
in
and
afterwards
seventie
in
differing
from
Religion
in
both
States
.
Come
to
the
time
of
Christ
,
lived
under
the
and
divers
Sects
in
besides
Christ
,
and
his
Apostles
&c.
All
these
lived
under
Government
,
being
nothing
hurtfull
to
the
Common-wealth
,
giving
to
that
which
was
his
.
And
for
their
Religion
,
he
left
them
to
themselves
,
as
having
no
Dominion
over
their
soules
and
Consciences
.
And
when
the
enemies
of
the
Truth
raised
up
any
tumults
,
the
wisdome
of
the
Magistrates
most
wisely
appeased
them
,
Vnto
this
,
the
Answerer
returneth
thus
much
:
It
is
true
,
That
without
prejudice
to
the
Common-wealth
,
Liberty
of
Conscience
may
be
suffered
to
such
as
feare
God
indeed
:
as
knowing
they
will
not
persist
in
Heresie
,
or
turbulent
Schisme
,
when
they
are
convinced
in
Conscience
of
the
sinfulnesse
thereof
But
the
Question
is
whether
an
Heretick
after
once
or
twice
Admonition
(
and
so
after
conviction
)
or
any
other
scandalous
and
heynous
Offender
,
may
be
Tolerated
either
in
the
Church
,
without
Excommunication
:
or
in
the
Common-wealth
without
such
punishment
,
as
may
preserve
others
from
dangerous
and
damnable
infection
BVt
here
I
observe
the
Answerers
partiality
,
That
none
but
such
as
truly
feare
God
should
enjoy
Liberty
of
Conscience
&c.
It
is
no
prejudice
to
a
Common-wealth
if
Liberty
of
Conscience
were
suffered
to
such
as
feare
God
indeed
:
whereto
I
subjoyne
my
Attestation
,
It
is
true
,
that
without
prejudice
to
the
Common-wealth
,
Liberty
of
Conscience
may
be
suffered
to
men
that
feare
God
indeed
.
Divers
weights
,
and
divers
measures
are
abomination
to
the
Lord
,
Prov.
None
but
such
as
truly
feare
God
should
injoy
Liberty
of
Conscience
.
I
say
no
more
then
the
Letter
saith
:
It
saith
,
That
it
is
no
prejudice
to
the
Common-wealth
,
if
Liberty
of
Conscience
were
suffered
to
such
as
feare
God
indeed
.
That
none
but
such
as
truly
feare
God
should
injoy
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
as
if
I
should
drive
the
world
out
of
the
world
,
or
turne
the
world
upside
downe
,
or
leave
it
to
men
that
have
not
Gods
feare
,
to
judge
who
feare
God
,
and
who
not
,
Heare
(
saith
he
)
O
Heavens
,
and
give
eare
O
Earth
,
yea
let
the
Heavens
be
astonished
,
and
the
Earth
tremble
at
such
an
Answer
.
is
that
which
he
calleth
a
wonderfull
Answer
,
which
the
Ministers
of
gave
to
the
third
Question
sent
to
them
by
some
Ministers
of
to
wit
,
that
although
they
confessed
them
to
be
such
persons
whom
they
approved
of
,
farre
above
themselves
,
yea
who
were
in
their
hearts
to
live
and
die
together
:
yet
if
they
or
other
godly
people
with
them
,
comming
over
to
them
,
should
differ
in
Church-Constitution
,
they
then
could
not
approve
their
civill
Cohabitation
with
them
and
consequently
could
not
advise
their
Magistrates
,
to
suffer
them
to
injoy
a
civill
being
within
their
jurisdiction
.
Yea
,
but
say
they
,
they
doubt
not
if
those
Ministers
of
should
come
over
to
them
,
and
were
here
with
them
,
they
should
agree
.
For
,
say
they
,
either
you
will
come
to
us
,
or
shew
us
light
to
come
to
you
:
for
wee
are
but
weake
men
,
and
dreame
not
of
perfection
in
this
life
.
Alas
who
knoweth
not
what
lamentable
differences
have
been
betweene
the
same
Ministers
of
the
Church
of
Let
none
now
thinke
,
that
the
passage
to
by
Sea
,
or
the
nature
of
the
Countrie
can
doe
,
what
onely
the
Key
of
can
doe
,
to
wit
,
open
and
shut
the
Consciences
of
men
.
Old
England
Besides
,
how
can
this
be
a
faithfull
and
upright
acknowledgement
of
their
weaknesse
,
and
imperfection
,
when
they
Preach
,
Print
,
and
practise
such
violence
to
the
soules
and
bodyes
of
others
?
And
by
their
Rules
and
grounds
ought
to
proceed
to
the
killing
of
those
,
whom
they
judge
so
deare
unto
them
,
and
in
respect
of
godlynesse
farre
above
themselves
?
Si
Accusasse
fufficiat
,
quis
innocens
exit
?
Meane
while
we
may
well
stand
and
wonder
,
what
rules
and
Grounds
of
ours
those
be
,
by
which
wee
ought
to
proceed
even
to
the
killing
of
those
,
whom
wee
judge
so
deare
unto
us
,
and
in
respect
of
Godlynesse
far
above
us
?
WHat
though
,
they
say
,
the
Godly
will
not
persist
in
Heresie
,
or
turbulent
Schisme
,
when
they
are
convinced
thereof
in
Conscience
?
If
the
civill
Court
and
Magistrates
must
judge
,
and
those
civill
Courts
,
are
as
lawfull
,
consisting
of
naturall
men
,
as
of
Godly
persons
,
then
what
consequences
will
follow
,
I
have
before
mentioned
.
And
I
adde
,
according
to
this
Conclusion
it
must
follow
,
that
if
the
most
godly
persons
yeeld
not
to
once
or
twice
Admonition
(
as
is
mainteyned
by
the
Answerer
)
they
must
necessarily
be
esteemed
obstinate
persons
:
for
if
they
were
godly
,
they
would
yeeld
.
The
godly
will
not
persist
in
Heresie
or
turbulent
Schisme
,
when
they
are
convinced
in
Conscience
of
the
sinfulnesse
thereof
.
concludeth
with
a
consident
perswasion
,
of
having
removed
the
grounds
of
that
great
Error
,
viz.
that
persons
are
not
to
be
persecuted
for
cause
of
Conscience
.
Thus
much
I
thought
needfull
to
be
spoken
for
the
avoyding
of
the
grounds
of
your
Error
.
This
to
be
that
great
Error
,
That
persons
are
not
to
be
persecuted
for
cause
of
Conscience
.
But
I
beleive
it
shall
appeare
,
That
the
charge
of
Error
Reboundeth
backc
,
even
such
an
Error
as
may
be
called
the
That
the
God
,
the
Spirit
,
and
Prince
,
the
Angells
of
peace
,
and
that
all
the
true
awaked
sonnes
of
peace
will
call
the
Truth
(
be
meaneth
this
Doctrine
of
Toleration
held
forth
by
himselfe
)
blessed
:
That
the
contemplations
thereof
are
sweet
and
pretious
:
but
Ob
how
sweet
the
actions
,
and
Fruitions
!
That
these
lips
of
Truth
(
to
wit
,
distilling
in
his
Pen
)
drop
as
the
honey
Combe
:
Honey
and
milke
are
under
her
Tongue
:
and
oh
that
these
drops
,
these
streames
might
flow
without
interruption
?
Were
I
(
saith
he
)
beleived
in
this
,
That
Christ
is
not
delighted
with
the
bloud
of
men
,
(
but
shed
his
owne
bloud
for
his
bloudyest
enemies
:
)
That
by
the
word
of
Christ
,
No
man
for
gainsaying
Christ
,
or
joyning
with
his
enemy
Antichrist
,
should
be
molested
with
the
Civill
sword
:
were
this
foundation
laid
,
and
the
of
highest
Liberties
,
and
good
security
given
on
all
hands
for
the
preservation
of
it
,
How
soone
would
every
Brow
and
House
be
stuck
with
Olive
Branches
?
It
is
true
,
that
Christ
delighteth
not
in
the
bloud
of
men
,
but
shed
his
owne
for
his
bloudiest
enemies
,
and
gainsayers
:
Father
forgive
them
,
they
know
not
what
they
doe
,
whilest
wee
were
enemies
Christ
died
for
us
,
Those
mine
enemies
,
that
would
not
that
I
should
reigne
over
them
,
bring
them
hither
and
slay
them
before
my
face
,
What
peace
(
what
hast
thou
to
doe
with
peace
)
so
long
as
the
whor
domes
of
thy
Mother
and
her
witchcrafts
are
so
many
?
That
soone
shall
every
Brow
and
house
be
stucke
with
O
live
branches
?
That
the
Modell
awakeneth
from
his
unknowne
Grave
:
and
denyeth
Jesus
yet
to
have
seen
the
earth
.
Moses
,
Mat.
If
(
saith
he
)
the
civill
Magistrate
(
even
the
highest
)
being
a
Member
of
the
Church
,
be
subject
to
Church-Censure
,
how
can
this
stand
with
their
common
Tenent
,
that
he
must
keepe
the
first
Table
,
Reforme
the
Church
,
be
Judge
and
Governor
in
all
causes
,
as
well
ecclesiasticall
as
Civill
?
Secondly
,
how
can
a
Magistrate
both
sit
on
the
Bench
,
and
stand
at
the
Bar
of
Christ
Jesus
?
Is
it
not
as
impossible
,
as
to
reconcile
east
and
west
together
?
Yea
,
is
not
the
Text
in
Reforme
the
Church
,
&
judge
in
causes
Ecclesiasticall
,
He
that
is
a
governor
may
be
also
a
Subject
.
Amen
,
Even
So
,
Come
Lord
Jesus
.
Sabine
Staresmore
Bloudy
Tenent
New-England
,
Salem
but
that
God
sometimes
stirreth
up
one
Elijah
against
eight
hundred
of
Baals
Priests
,
one
Micajah
against
foure
hundred
of
Ahabs
Prophets
;
one
Athanasius
against
many
hundreths
of
Arrian
Bishops
;
one
John
Hus
against
the
whole
Councell
of
Constance
;
Luther
and
the
two
witnesses
against
many
thousands
,
As
if
I
wrote
upon
occasion
of
the
griefe
,
which
some
friends
conceived
,
That
such
an
one
as
himselfe
(
publickly
acknowledged
to
be
godly
,
and
dearely
beloved
)
should
be
exposed
to
the
mercy
of
an
howling
Wildernesse
,
in
frost
and
snow
,
And
that
my
intent
in
writing
was
,
to
take
off
the
edge
of
Censure
from
my selfe
,
by
professing
in
speech
,
and
writing
,
That
I
was
no
procurer
of
his
sorrowes
,
publickly
acknowledged
to
be
godly
,
and
dearely
beloved
.
When
he
maketh
it
an
occasion
of
my
excuse
of
my selfe
,
(
from
having
an
hand
in
his
sufferings
)
that
some
friends
were
much
grieved
that
such
an
one
should
be
exposed
to
such
sufferings
.
But
he
doth
not
well
to
say
,
that
some
friends
were
grieved
,
that
one
so
publickly
acknowledged
,
should
be
exposed
to
such
sufferings
Gorton
.
Gorton
That
Christ
was
Incarnate
when
Adam
was
made
after
Gods
Image
:
For
God
had
but
one
Image
,
and
that
Image
was
Christ
.
And
this
making
of
Adam
in
that
Image
,
was
the
exinanition
of
Christ
.
That
Christ
dyed
when
the
Image
of
God
dyed
:
and
the
Image
of
God
dyed
in
Adams
fall
.
I
was
in
the
Isle
of
Patmos
for
the
Testimony
of
Jesus
.
That
he
was
,
onely
for
the
holy
Truth
of
Christ
Jesus
,
denied
the
common
ayre
to
breath
in
,
and
a
civill
cohabitation
upon
the
same
common
earth
,
yea
and
without
mercy
,
and
humane
compassion
exposed
to
winter
miseries
in
an
howling
Wildernesse
,
in
frost
,
and
snow
,
and
that
amongst
Barbarians
.
He
was
exposed
to
the
mercies
of
an
howling
Wildernesse
in
frost
and
snow
,
That
my selfe
profest
in
speech
and
writing
,
that
I
was
no
procurer
of
his
sorrowes
.
That
in
Letters
past
between
him
,
and
me
,
he
proved
,
and
exprest
,
that
if
he
had
perished
in
that
sorrowfull
winters
flight
,
onely
the
bloud
of
Christ
could
have
washed
me
from
the
guilt
of
his
.
That
had
he
perished
in
his
flight
,
his
bloud
had
been
upon
his
own
head
:
It
was
his
sinne
to
procure
it
,
and
his
sorrow
to
suffer
it
.
as
an
unmercifull
speech
,
of
a
mercifull
man
.
When
a
Fountaine
is
opened
to
Hierusalem
for
sinne
,
and
for
uncleannesse
,
thus
was
I
wounded
in
the
house
of
my
Friends
,
It
cannot
now
be
justly
offensive
,
that
finding
this
Letter
publick
,
(
by
whose
procurement
I
know
not
)
I
now
present
to
publick
view
my
formerly
intended
Answer
.
That
he
rejoyceth
in
the
goodnesse
,
and
wisedome
of
him
,
who
is
the
Father
of
lights
,
and
mercies
,
in
ordering
the
season
of
his
own
present
opportunitie
of
Answer
.
He
that
shall
breake
one
of
the
least
Commandements
,
and
shall
Teach
men
so
to
doe
,
he
shall
be
called
the
least
in
the
kingdome
of
Heaven
.
Beloved
in
Christ
Account
him
not
as
an
enemy
,
but
Admonish
him
as
a
Brother
,
Williams
)
how
can
it
be
well-pleasing
to
Christ
,
that
one
beloved
in
Christ
,
should
be
so
afflicted
,
and
persecuted
by
himselfe
,
and
others
,
(
for
such
causes
)
as
to
be
denyed
the
common
ayre
to
breath
in
,
and
a
civill
cohabitation
upon
the
same
common
earth
,
yea
and
also
without
mercy
,
and
humane
compassion
,
be
exposed
to
winter
miseries
in
an
howling
Wildernesse
?
One
witnesse
shall
not
rise
up
against
a
man
for
any
Iniquity
,
or
for
any
sinne
:
at
the
mouth
of
two
witnesses
,
or
at
the
mouth
of
three
witnesses
,
shall
every
word
be
established
,
That
it
is
a
monstrous
Paradox
,
that
Gods
children
should
Persecute
Gods
children
,
and
they
that
hope
to
live
eternally
with
Christ
Jesus
in
Heaven
,
should
not
suffer
each
other
to
live
in
this
common
ayre
together
.
(
What
Christ
Persecute
Christ
in
New-England
?
)
expecteth
farre
greater
light
then
yet
shineth
)
whether
upon
the
same
grounds
,
and
practise
,
if
Christ
Jesus
in
any
of
his
servants
shall
be
pleased
to
hold
forth
a
farther
light
,
shall
he
himselfe
find
the
mercy
,
and
humanitie
of
a
Civill
,
and
temporall
life
,
and
being
with
them
?
Williams
?
Hath
he
therefore
not
found
the
mercy
,
and
humanity
of
Civill
,
and
temporall
life
,
and
being
amongst
us
,
because
Christ
Jesus
held
forth
by
him
a
further
light
unto
us
?
expecting
more
light
,
must
(
according
to
his
way
of
Persecution
)
Persecute
Christ
Jesus
,
if
he
bring
it
.
The
Bloudy
Tenent
That
it
is
not
lawfull
to
persecute
any
for
Conscience
sake
rightly
informed
[
that
is
to
say
,
bringing
more
,
and
true
light
.
]
For
an
erroneous
and
blind
Conscience
,
(
even
in
fundamentall
,
and
weighty
Points
)
it
is
not
lawfull
to
persecute
any
,
till
after
Admonition
once
or
twice
,
according
to
the
Apostles
direction
,
That
so
such
a
man
being
convinced
of
the
dangerous
error
of
his
way
;
if
he
still
persist
(
being
condemned
of
himselfe
,
it
may
appeare
,
he
is
not
persecuted
for
Cause
of
Conscience
,
but
for
sinning
against
his
own
Conscience
.
In
things
of
lesse
moment
,
whether
Points
of
Doctrine
or
worship
,
if
a
man
hold
them
forth
in
a
spirit
of
Christian
meeknesse
and
love
,
(
though
with
zeale
and
constancy
)
he
is
not
to
be
persecuted
,
but
tolerated
,
till
God
may
be
pleased
to
manifest
his
Truth
to
him
,
But
if
a
man
hold
forth
or
professe
any
error
,
or
false
way
,
with
a
boysterous
,
and
arrogant
spirit
,
to
the
disturbance
of
Civill
Peace
,
he
may
justly
be
punished
according
to
the
measure
of
the
disturbance
caused
by
him
.
That
I
doe
professedly
maintaine
Persecution
for
Cause
of
Conscience
.
an
holy
Character
of
an
heavenly
Spirit
,
to
make
an
ingenuous
,
and
true
acknowledgement
of
an
uncircumcised
lip
.
Yet
that
discerning
Spirit
,
which
God
graciously
vouchsafeth
to
them
that
tremble
at
his
Word
,
shall
finde
,
that
not
onely
the
will-worships
of
men
may
be
painted
,
and
varnished
over
with
the
glittering
shew
of
Humilitie
,
but
even
Gods
dearest
servants
(
eminent
for
humility
,
and
meeknesse
)
may
yet
be
troubled
with
a
swelling
of
spirituall
pride
,
out
of
the
very
sence
of
their
humilitie
,
&c.
Humilitie
is
never
in
season
to
set
up
superstition
,
or
persecute
Gods
children
.
Humilitie
is
never
in
season
to
set
up
superstition
,
or
to
persecute
Gods
children
.
He
should
vouchsafe
to
hearken
to
my
voyce
,
who
had
refused
to
hearken
both
to
the
voyce
of
the
body
of
the
whole
Church
of
Salem
and
to
the
voyces
of
so
many
Elders
,
and
brethren
of
other
Churches
.
For
neglect
of
the
former
,
he
excuseth
himselfe
by
the
charge
of
his
Office
,
which
lay
upon
him
,
on
a
Fast-day
to
discover
to
them
eleven
publick
sinnes
,
as
causes
of
the
present
,
and
publick
calamities
.
Which
most
of
the
Church
seemed
at
first
to
assent
unto
,
untill
afterwards
,
the
greater
part
of
the
Church
(
whether
for
feare
of
Persecution
,
or
otherwise
)
was
swayed
,
and
bowed
to
practise
such
things
,
which
with
sighes
and
groanes
many
of
them
mourned
under
.
are
bowed
,
and
swayed
for
feare
of
Persecution
,
to
slip
,
and
slide
,
and
to
say
and
practise
that
,
which
with
sighes
and
groanes
they
mourned
under
?
He
that
is
an
Hireling
,
and
not
the
Shepheard
,
whose
own
the
sheepe
are
not
,
he
seeth
the
Wolfe
coming
,
and
leaveth
the
sheepe
,
and
fleeth
,
and
the
Wolfe
catcheth
them
,
and
scattereth
the
sheepe
,
Joh.
Salem
.
Paul
I
desire
to
be
present
with
you
now
,
and
to
change
my
voyce
,
for
I
stand
in
doubt
of
you
,
That
the
Church
of
Colosse
might
say
to
Archippus
;
Take
heed
to
thy
Ministery
,
and
that
Archippus
might
negligently
,
and
proudly
refuse
to
hearken
to
them
:
but
for
his
case
,
his
faithfulnesse
,
and
uprightnesse
to
God
,
and
the
soules
of
the
people
will
witnesse
for
him
,
when
his
soule
shall
come
to
case
on
his
death-bed
,
and
in
the
great
day
approaching
.
For
his
neglect
of
hearkening
to
the
second
voyce
,
the
voyce
and
testimony
of
so
many
Elders
,
and
Brethren
of
other
Churches
;
He
saith
(
because
he
truely
esteemeth
the
Persons
)
he
will
not
answer
the
Argument
of
numbers
,
and
multitudes
against
one
,
as
our
men
are
wont
to
answer
the
Popish
universalitie
,
that
God
stirreth
up
sometimes
one
against
eight
hundred
of
Priests
,
&c.
But
this
he
saith
that
himselfe
,
and
the
Princes
of
carrying
up
the
Arke
,
were
not
to
be
hearkened
unto
in
their
holy
intentions
of
rejoycings
,
and
triumphs
,
when
the
due
order
of
the
Lord
was
wanting
to
them
.
In
which
case
one
Scripture
in
the
mouth
of
a
Mechanick
,
is
to
be
preferred
before
a
whole
Councell
.
Bloudy
Tenent
What
,
came
the
word
of
God
out
from
you
?
or
came
it
unto
you
onely
?
Perez
Vzzah
I
endeavoured
to
shew
him
the
sandinesse
of
those
grounds
,
upon
which
he
had
banished
himselfe
from
the
fellowship
of
all
the
Churches
in
this
Countrey
.
That
his
grounds
were
the
firme
rocke
of
the
Truth
of
Jesus
,
and
that
my
endeavours
to
prove
them
sandy
,
are
but
the
weake
,
and
uncertain
sand
of
mans
Invention
,
which
shall
therefore
perish
,
and
burne
like
hay
,
or
stubble
;
And
the
Rocky
strength
of
his
grounds
shall
appeare
in
the
Lords
season
,
and
that
my selfe
also
may
yet
confesse
so
much
,
as
I
have
since
I
came
to
confest
the
sandinesse
of
the
grounds
of
many
of
my
Practises
in
and
the
rockinesse
of
their
grounds
that
witnessed
against
me
,
and
them
:
for
Instance
,
that
himselfe
had
discovered
to
me
,
and
other
servants
of
God
,
his
grounds
against
the
use
of
the
Common
Prayer
Booke
:
which
though
they
then
seemed
sandy
to
me
,
yet
since
I
have
acknowledged
to
be
rocky
,
and
have
seene
cause
so
to
publish
to
the
world
in
my
Discourse
to
Mr.
against
set
formes
of
Prayer
I
have
seene
cause
to
publish
to
the
world
,
the
rockinesse
of
his
grounds
in
a
Discourse
to
Mr.
against
set
Formes
of
Prayer
that
I
published
that
Discourse
,
and
that
I
saw
cause
to
publish
it
:
I
published
that
Discourse
to
the
world
,
and
saw
cause
to
doe
it
.
That
himselfe
discovered
to
me
,
and
to
other
servants
of
God
,
his
grounds
against
our
using
of
the
Common
Prayer
;
which
then
seemed
sandy
to
us
,
but
now
in
I
have
acknowledged
to
be
rocky
in
my
Discourse
to
Mr.
He
saith
I
am
pleased
to
discusse
in
the
Letter
,
and
others
not
to
mention
;
He
saith
were
rightly
summed
up
by
one
of
the
Magistrates
after
his
publick
Tryall
,
and
Answers
.
(
said
that
publick
Person
)
holdeth
forth
these
foure
particulars
.
That
we
have
not
our
Land
by
Patent
from
the
King
,
but
that
the
Natives
are
the
true
owners
of
it
;
and
that
we
ought
to
repent
of
such
a
receiving
it
by
Patent
.
That
it
is
not
lawfull
to
call
a
wicked
Person
to
sweare
,
to
pray
,
as
being
actions
of
Gods
worship
.
That
it
is
not
lawfull
to
heare
any
of
the
Ministers
of
the
Parish-Assemblies
in
That
the
Civill
Magistrates
Power
extends
onely
to
the
bodies
,
and
goods
,
and
outward
state
of
men
,
&c.
These
particulars
he
hopeth
,
that
as
he
maintained
the
rockie
strength
of
them
to
his
own
,
and
other
Consciences
satisfaction
:
So
(
through
the
Lords
assistance
,
)
he
shall
be
ready
not
onely
to
be
bound
,
and
banished
,
but
to
dye
also
in
as
for
most
holy
Truths
of
God
in
Christ
Jesus
.
to
shew
him
the
sandinesse
of
those
grounds
,
upon
which
he
had
banished
himselfe
,
&c.
I
endeavour
to
shew
you
the
sandinesse
of
those
grounds
,
upon
which
you
have
banished
your selfe
from
the
fellowship
of
all
the
Churches
in
these
Countreyes
.
That
it
is
not
lawfull
to
heare
any
of
the
Ministers
of
the
Parish-Assemblies
in
and
that
the
Civill
Magistrates
power
extendeth
onely
to
the
bodies
,
and
goods
,
and
outward
estates
of
men
:
That
we
have
not
our
Land
,
meerly
by
right
of
Patent
from
the
King
,
but
that
the
Natives
are
true
owners
of
all
that
they
possesse
,
or
improve
.
That
it
is
not
lawfull
to
call
a
wicked
Person
to
sweare
,
or
pray
.
not
onely
to
be
bound
,
and
banished
,
but
also
to
dye
in
he
did
in
open
Court
maintaine
the
rocky
strength
of
his
grounds
,
to
the
satisfaction
of
his
own
,
and
(
as
he
saith
)
of
other
mens
Consciences
.
the
sandinesse
of
those
grounds
upon
which
he
banished
himselfe
from
the
society
(
not
of
the
Common-wealth
,
but
)
of
all
the
Churches
in
these
Countreyes
.
If
Mr
my
own
voluntary
withdrawing
from
all
these
Churches
resolved
to
continue
in
those
evills
,
and
in
persecuting
the
witnesses
of
the
Lord
,
presenting
light
unto
them
.
I
confesse
it
was
mine
own
voluntary
act
:
yea
I
hope
the
act
of
the
Lord
Jesus
sounding
forth
in
me
(
a
poore
despised
Rams-horne
)
the
blast
which
shall
in
his
own
holy
season
cast
down
the
strength
,
and
confidence
of
the
Inventions
of
men
in
the
worship
of
God
:
and
lastly
his
act
in
inabling
me
to
be
faithfull
in
any
measure
to
suffer
such
great
,
and
mightie
Tryalls
for
his
Names
sake
.
He
had
banished
himselfe
from
the
society
of
all
the
Churches
in
this
Countrey
.
He
confesseth
it
was
his
own
voluntary
act
;
and
professeth
also
,
it
was
a
double
act
of
the
Lord
Jesus
in
him
.
was
because
these
Churches
were
resolved
to
continue
in
those
evills
,
and
persecuting
the
witnesses
of
the
Lord
Jesus
,
presenting
light
to
them
.
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
Mat.
persecuting
the
witnesses
of
the
Lord
,
presenting
light
to
us
That
his
withdrawing
was
the
act
of
the
Lord
Jesus
in
him
,
sounding
forth
that
Blast
,
which
shall
one
day
cast
downe
the
strength
,
and
confidence
of
the
Inventions
of
men
in
the
worship
of
God
.
Is
thy
servant
a
dog
,
that
he
should
doe
this
great
thing
?
He
looketh
at
it
,
as
an
act
of
Christ
enabling
him
to
be
faithfull
in
any
measure
,
to
suffer
such
great
and
mightie
Tryalls
for
his
Names
sake
.
That
if
by
banishing
himselfe
I
meant
his
Civill
Banishment
,
then
He
discerneth
the
language
of
the
Dragon
in
a
Lambes
lip
;
to
put
the
sufferings
of
the
Saints
upon
themselves
,
and
the
Devill
.
That
I
silently
confesse
,
that
the
frame
and
constitution
of
our
Churches
is
implicitly
Nationall
.
Else
if
the
Common-wealth
,
and
Church
were
not
one
,
how
could
he
that
is
banished
from
the
one
,
be
necessarily
banished
from
the
other
also
?
I
know
who
thou
art
,
the
holy
One
of
God
,
I
told
him
,
I
had
not
hasted
forward
the
sentence
of
his
Civill
Banishment
:
and
that
what
was
done
by
the
Magistrates
in
that
kinde
,
was
neither
done
by
my
Counsell
,
nor
consent
.
That
he
observeth
,
I
cannot
but
confesse
,
that
it
is
hard
for
any
man
to
doe
good
,
or
to
speake
effectually
to
the
soule
,
or
Conscience
of
any
,
whose
body
he
afflicteth
,
and
persecuteth
,
and
that
onely
for
their
soule
and
Conscience
sake
.
as
if
I
had
afflicted
,
and
persecuted
his
body
,
and
that
onely
for
his
soule
,
and
Conscience
sake
.
I
have
sought
to
deliver
him
who
without
cause
reproacheth
me
.
That
what
Mr.
and
others
did
in
procuring
his
sorrowes
,
was
not
without
some
regret
,
and
reluctancy
of
Conscience
,
and
affection
,
(
as
in
procuring
death
,
or
in
imprisoning
the
Prophet
For
what
need
was
there
of
that
,
being
not
one
of
the
Civill
Court
?
He
will
produce
a
double
,
and
unanswerable
Testimony
for
it
.
First
,
That
I
publickly
taught
,
(
and
still
doe
Teach
,
except
lately
Christ
hath
taught
me
better
)
that
body-killing
,
soule-killing
,
and
State-killing
Doctrine
of
Persecuting
all
other
Consciences
,
and
wayes
of
worship
but
mine
own
,
in
the
Civill
State
,
and
consequently
in
the
whole
world
,
if
the
Power
,
or
Empire
thereof
were
in
mine
hand
.
To
teach
the
killing
of
the
bodies
of
all
such
Consciences
,
and
wayes
of
worship
,
as
are
not
mine
own
,
Bloudy
Tenent
unanswerable
Testimony
That
some
Gentlemen
that
did
consent
to
his
Sentence
,
have
solemnly
testified
,
and
with
teares
since
confessed
to
himselfe
,
that
they
could
not
in
their
soules
have
been
brought
to
have
consented
to
the
Sentence
of
his
Banishment
,
had
not
Mr.
in
private
given
them
advice
,
and
counsell
,
proving
it
just
,
and
warrantable
to
their
Consciences
.
That
wee
were
deceived
in
him
,
if
we
thought
he
would
condescend
to
learne
of
any
of
us
:
And
what
will
you
doe
when
you
have
run
your
course
,
and
found
all
your
labour
lost
?
That
I
had
sought
to
deliver
him
,
who
without
cause
reproached
mee
.
I
pitie
the
man
,
and
have
already
interceded
for
him
,
whilest
there
was
any
hope
of
doing
good
.
But
now
he
having
refused
to
heare
both
his
own
Church
,
and
us
,
and
having
rejected
us
all
,
as
no
Churches
of
Christ
before
any
conviction
,
we
have
now
no
more
to
say
in
his
behalfe
,
nor
hope
to
prevaile
for
him
.
Wee
have
told
the
Governour
,
and
Magistrates
before
,
that
if
our
labour
was
in
vaine
,
wee
could
not
helpe
it
,
but
must
fit
downe
.
And
you
know
they
are
generally
so
much
incensed
against
his
course
,
that
it
is
not
your
voyce
,
nor
the
voyces
of
two
,
or
three
more
,
that
can
suspend
the
Sentence
.
Some
further
speech
I
had
with
him
of
mine
own
marvell
at
the
weaknesse
,
and
slendernesse
of
the
grounds
of
his
opinions
,
motions
,
and
courses
,
and
yet
carried
on
with
such
vehemency
,
and
impetuousnesse
,
and
prefidence
of
Spirit
.
out
of
some
reluctation
;
or
that
I
meant
it
,
I
neither
counselled
nor
consented
in
the
very
time
of
the
sentence
passing
:
(
He
that
withholdeth
the
Corne
,
from
the
people
,
the
multitude
shall
curse
him
:
)
I
alledged
to
prove
that
the
people
had
much
more
cause
to
separate
such
from
amongst
them
,
(
whether
by
Civill
,
or
Church-Censure
,
as
doe
withhold
,
or
separate
them
from
the
Ordinances
,
or
the
Ordinances
from
them
,
which
are
(
in
Christ
)
the
bread
of
life
.
What
though
neither
corporall
nor
spirituall
food
may
lawfully
be
sold
or
bought
,
but
with
the
good
will
,
and
consent
,
and
authoritie
of
the
owner
?
&c.
What
though
the
Apostles
were
to
turne
away
,
and
to
shake
off
the
dust
of
their
feete
,
against
scorners
,
contradictors
,
despisers
,
persecutors
?
What
though
the
Apostles
were
forbidden
to
Preach
to
some
places
?
What
if
Mr.
saw
just
cause
to
refuse
to
sell
spirituall
Corne
in
a
mis-hallowed
Surplice
?
What
if
Mr.
forbeare
to
administer
the
Lords
Supper
to
all
beleevers
,
or
Baptisme
unto
their
children
,
untill
the
beleevers
professe
their
Faith
,
and
Repentance
before
the
Church
?
What
though
in
all
Civill
Transactions
,
and
in
all
the
present
disturbances
of
principall
respect
is
had
unto
a
right
Commission
,
and
right
Order
?
I
judge
it
not
seasonable
here
,
to
entertaine
the
Dispute
of
the
true
Power
,
and
call
of
Christs
Ministery
.
all
Israel
might
heare
,
and
feare
,
and
doe
no
more
presumptuously
,
The
withholding
of
the
Corne
presumptuously
to
be
death
in
Israel
:
but
not
so
in
every
State
of
the
world
:
much
lesse
the
pleading
against
a
false
Ministery
to
be
a
capitall
crime
:
for
as
for
Banishment
never
such
a
course
was
heard
of
in
Israel
.
Solomons
Proverbs
Solomon
)
He
that
withholdeth
the
Corne
,
the
people
shall
curse
him
,
Let
Judgement
be
executed
to
death
,
or
to
Banishment
,
Let
all
his
substance
be
forfeited
,
and
himselfe
separated
from
the
Congregation
of
those
that
had
been
carried
away
.
Cutting
off
from
the
people
The
gates
of
Hell
shall
never
prevaile
against
it
?
As
for
those
many
excellent
,
and
worthy
Gentlemen
,
Lawyers
,
Physicians
,
and
others
,
whom
the
Examiner
commendeth
to
be
as
well
gifted
in
the
knowledge
of
the
Scripture
,
and
furnished
with
gifts
,
of
tongues
,
and
utterance
,
as
most
that
professe
the
Ministery
,
and
yet
are
not
perswaded
to
sell
spirituall
Corne
,
as
questioning
their
true
calling
,
and
Commission
.
the
selling
,
or
withholding
of
spirituall
Corne
,
are
both
of
a
spirituall
nature
:
and
therefore
must
necessarily
in
a
true
Paralell
beare
Relation
to
a
spirituall
Curse
.
a
Pari
That
it
may
be
the
Court
passed
that
sentence
against
Mr.
not
upon
that
ground
,
(
from
but
for
ought
I
know
,
for
his
other
corrupt
Doctrines
(
suitable
to
his
Practises
)
tending
to
the
disturbance
of
Civill
,
and
holy
Peace
:
the
sandinesse
of
such
a
ground
(
as
that
place
of
Seripture
)
to
warrant
such
proceedings
;
nor
doe
I
therein
confsesse
that
my selfe
had
no
distinct
knowledge
of
the
causes
of
his
Banishment
.
Where
was
my
waking
care
in
his
behalfe
What
though
in
this
Letter
I
did
not
name
his
other
corrupt
Doctrines
and
Practises
,
nor
any
Scriptures
to
prove
them
corrupt
?
were
my
soule
in
his
soules
stead
,
I
should
accept
it
as
a
mercy
of
God
,
to
banish
me
from
the
Civill
Society
of
such
a
Common-wealth
,
where
I
could
not
enjoy
holy
Fellowship
with
any
Church
of
God
amongst
them
without
sinne
.
For
what
should
the
daughter
of
Zion
doe
in
Babel
?
Why
should
shee
not
hasten
to
flee
from
thence
?
though
his
love
bids
him
to
hope
,
that
Mr.
herein
intended
him
a
Cordiall
,
yet
if
the
Ingredients
be
examined
,
there
will
appeare
no
lesse
then
dishonour
to
the
Name
of
God
,
danger
to
every
Civill
State
,
a
miserable
comfort
to
him
,
and
a
contradiction
within
it selfe
.
that
I
speake
of
the
daughter
of
Zion
in
Babel
:
If
he
call
the
Land
Babel
,
how
can
it
be
Babel
,
and
the
Church
of
Christ
also
?
a
misery
to
live
in
that
State
where
a
Christian
cannot
enjoy
the
fellowship
of
the
publick
Churches
of
God
without
sinne
.
Woe
is
me
,
that
I
am
constrained
to
dwell
in
Meshek
,
What
if
there
be
many
famous
States
,
wherein
no
Church
of
Jesus
Christ
is
knowne
?
What
if
God
commanded
his
people
to
Pray
for
the
Peace
of
materiall
Babel
,
whilest
they
were
forced
to
abide
in
it
?
What
if
Sodom
,
Aegypt
,
Babel
,
What
if
there
were
a
true
Church
in
materiall
Babel
?
That
if
I
speake
not
of
Babel
mystically
,
I
speake
not
to
the
Point
:
his
being
driven
into
the
miseries
of
an
howling
Wildernesse
?
It
is
better
to
live
in
a
Wildernesse
,
then
with
a
contentious
,
and
angry
woman
,
himselfe
would
have
counted
it
a
mercy
,
if
he
might
have
Practised
in
what
he
doth
in
with
the
enjoyment
of
Civill
Peace
,
&c.
But
further
what
if
Mr.
should
dissent
from
the
new
English-Churches
,
and
joyne
in
worship
with
some
other
,
(
as
some
few
yeares
since
,
he
was
upon
the
Point
to
doe
,
in
a
separation
from
the
Churches
there
,
as
Legall
)
would
he
count
it
a
mercy
to
be
pluckt
up
by
the
rootes
,
him
,
and
his
,
and
to
endure
the
losses
,
distractions
,
miseries
,
that
doe
attend
such
a
condition
?
I
was
about
to
separate
some
few
yeares
since
from
the
new
English
Churches
as
Legall
.
New
Haven
In
the
time
of
this
Difference
,
would
I
count
it
a
mercy
to
be
pluckt
up
by
the
rovtes
,
me
,
and
mine
,
and
to
endure
the
losses
,
distractions
,
and
miseries
,
that
doe
attend
such
a
condition
?
Whether
if
the
Inhabitants
in
were
permitted
to
enjoy
in
their
Congregationall
way
,
whether
then
Mr.
himselfe
(
if
be
were
seated
in
againe
)
would
count
it
a
mercy
to
be
banished
from
the
Civill
State
?
Neither
yet
doe
I
make
God
the
Author
of
such
cruell
mercy
,
in
them
that
were
the
causes
of
our
casting
out
,
as
he
calumniateth
.
if
I
had
been
exposed
to
the
miseries
,
poverties
,
necessities
,
wants
,
debts
,
hardships
of
Sea
and
Land
,
in
a
banished
Condition
,
he
presumeth
I
would
reach
forth
a
more
mercifull
Cordiall
to
the
afflicted
;
and
therefore
looketh
at
himselfe
afflicted
,
as
a
Lampe
despised
in
the
eyes
of
him
that
is
at
ease
,
that
it
pleased
the
Lord
Jesus
to
fight
against
his
corrupt
wayes
with
the
sword
of
his
mouth
,
in
the
mouths
and
testimonies
of
the
Churches
,
and
Brethren
.
Against
whom
,
when
Mr.
over-heated
himselfe
in
reasoning
,
and
disputing
against
the
light
of
his
Truth
,
it
pleased
the
Lord
to
stop
his
mouth
,
by
a
sodaine
disease
,
and
to
threaten
to
take
his
breath
from
him
.
But
he
in
stead
of
recoyling
(
as
even
offered
to
doe
in
the
like
case
)
chose
rather
to
persist
in
his
way
,
and
to
protest
against
all
the
Churches
,
and
Brethren
that
stood
in
his
way
,
&c.
an
humble
,
and
discerning
Spirit
may
espie
,
first
,
a
glorious
justification
,
and
boasting
of
my selfe
,
and
others
concurring
with
me
:
secondly
,
an
unrighteous
,
and
uncharitable
Censure
of
the
afflicted
.
an
humble
,
and
discerning
Spirit
,
In
the
Lord
shall
all
the
seed
of
Israel
be
justified
,
and
shall
glory
.
But
is
it
not
a
glorious
boasting
of
our selves
,
when
as
wee
make
the
sword
in
our
mouths
,
and
testimonies
,
to
be
the
sword
of
the
mouth
of
Christ
;
when
as
the
holy
Scripture
putteth
the
sword
of
Christ
in
the
mouths
of
such
witnesses
,
as
himselfe
,
and
some
others
,
who
in
meeknesse
,
and
patience
,
testifie
the
truth
of
Jesus
against
Antichrist
,
and
against
all
false
Callings
of
Ministers
?
And
whether
is
Mr.
swimming
with
the
streame
of
outward
credit
,
and
profit
,
and
smiting
with
the
fist
,
and
sword
of
Persecution
:
or
himselfe
,
and
such
other
the
witnesses
of
Christ
,
most
like
unto
Balaam
?
Cotton
,
as
swimming
with
the
streame
of
outward
credit
,
and
profit
,
and
smiting
with
the
fist
,
and
sword
of
Persecution
of
such
as
doe
not
joyne
in
worship
with
him
.
holy
,
and
beloved
the
Censure
which
he
calleth
unrighteous
,
and
uncharitable
;
He
confesseth
,
it
pleased
God
to
bring
him
neere
unto
death
:
By
deriving
the
cause
of
his
sicknesse
,
not
from
his
excessive
heate
in
disputing
against
the
testimonies
,
and
writings
of
the
Churches
,
and
Elders
,
but
from
his
excessive
Labours
on
the
Lords
dayes
,
and
thrice
a
weeke
at
by
labours
day
and
night
in
the
field
with
his
own
hands
,
by
travels
day
and
night
also
to
goe
,
and
returne
from
the
Court.
All
things
fall
alike
to
all
:
Officer
of
Justice
,
by
whom
in
this
time
he
was
unmercifully
driven
from
his
Chamber
to
a
winters
flight
.
in
this
time
That
after
the
first
manifestation
of
the
countenance
of
God
,
reconciled
in
the
bloud
of
Christ
unto
his
soule
,
it
hath
been
with
him
,
as
with
one
whom
he
saith
,
I
told
him
off
,
his
Questions
,
and
Troubles
have
not
been
concerning
his
Reconciliation
,
and
Peace
with
God
,
but
concerning
Sanctification
,
&c.
God
tooke
him
for
his
enemy
,
he
was
cut
off
from
before
Gods
eyes
,
hid
his
face
from
him
sore
vexed
hot
displeasure
whatsoever
Mr.
Temptations
,
and
Falls
have
been
:
yet
that
opinion
of
Mr.
or
any
,
is
most
grievous
to
God
,
and
man
,
and
not
comparable
to
any
that
ever
Mr.
could
be
charged
withall
:
nor
is
any
sinne
comparably
so
grievous
in
Gods
as
a
treacherous
slaughter
of
the
faithfull
,
whom
wee
are
forced
to
call
,
That
Mr.
is
of
opinion
,
that
it
is
lawfull
to
commit
a
treacherous
slaughter
of
the
Saints
,
whom
we
are
forced
to
call
,
Beloved
in
Christ
we
wanted
godly
persons
to
be
the
visible
members
of
our
Churches
,
(
for
with
joy
,
he
acknowledgeth
that
:
)
but
in
this
,
that
all
godly
persons
are
not
matter
fit
to
constitute
a
Church
,
no
more
then
Trees
,
or
Quarries
are
fit
matter
proportioned
to
a
Building
.
for
if
the
matter
of
our
Churches
were
(
such
as
himselfe
acknowledged
)
godly
persons
,
they
were
not
then
as
Trees
unfeld
,
nor
as
stones
in
the
Quarry
unhewen
:
for
godlinesse
cutteth
men
downe
from
their
former
roote
,
and
heweth
them
out
of
the
Pit
of
corrupt
Nature
,
and
fitteth
them
for
fellowship
with
Christ
,
and
with
his
People
.
In
which
case
in
their
drunkennesse
,
lying
,
whoredomes
,
cursings
,
murders
,
Perjuries
,
though
they
were
godly
persons
:
yet
not
fit
members
for
Church
estate
.
And
so
our
Church-members
,
howsoever
godly
otherwise
,
yet
through
ignorance
,
and
negligence
,
lying
under
Antichristian
pollutions
,
ever
since
the
Apostasie
,
are
not
fit
members
for
Church-estate
.
words
were
very
unproper
,
to
account
godly
Persons
fallen
into
any
actuall
Pollution
,
to
be
matter
fitted
for
a
Church
,
no
more
then
Trees
or
Quarries
are
fit
matter
proportioned
to
a
Building
.
And
therefore
the
Examiner
mistook
himselfe
,
and
me
too
,
when
he
writeth
,
that
I
affirmed
,
that
godly
persons
cannot
be
so
enthralled
to
Antichrist
,
as
to
separate
them
from
Christ
.
Noah
,
Abraham
,
Lot
,
Sampson
,
Job
,
David
,
Peter
,
a
necessitie
lieth
upon
godly
men
,
before
they
can
be
fit
matter
for
Church-fellowship
,
to
see
,
bewaile
,
repent
,
and
come
out
of
the
false
Churches
,
worship
,
Ministery
,
Government
,
according
to
Scriptures
And
this
to
be
done
,
not
by
a
locall
remoovall
,
but
by
a
deliverance
of
the
soule
,
understanding
,
will
,
judgement
and
affection
,
&c.
We
grant
,
that
it
is
not
locall
remoovall
from
former
pollution
,
nor
contrary
practise
,
that
fitteth
us
for
fellowship
with
Christ
,
and
his
Church
:
but
that
it
is
necessary
also
,
that
we
doe
repent
of
such
former
Pollutions
,
wherewith
we
have
been
defiled
and
enthralled
.
We
grant
further
,
that
it
is
necessary
to
Church-fellowship
,
that
we
shou'd
see
and
discerne
all
such
pollutions
,
as
doe
so
farre
enthrall
us
to
Antichrist
,
as
to
separate
us
from
Christ
.
But
this
we
professe
unto
you
,
that
wherein
we
have
reformed
our
practise
,
therein
we
have
endeavoured
unfainedly
to
humble
our
soules
for
our
former
contrary
walking
.
If
any
through
hypocrisie
are
wanting
herein
,
the
hidden
hypocrisie
of
some
will
not
prejudice
the
sinceritie
,
and
faithfulnesse
of
others
,
nor
the
Church-estate
of
all
.
That
a
necessitie
lyeth
upon
godly
men
,
before
they
can
be
fit
matter
for
Church-fellowship
,
truely
to
see
and
humbly
to
bewaile
their
spirituall
bondage
under
Antichristian
pollution
,
and
withall
to
obtaine
some
power
and
strength
from
Jesus
Christ
to
bring
them
out
of
it
.
Necessitas
medij
ad
finem
In
that
I
doe
not
receive
all
Persons
,
eminent
for
Grace
and
godlinesse
,
forthwith
to
the
fellowship
of
the
Lords
Supper
,
till
upon
their
entrance
into
Covenant
,
with
a
Confession
of
faith
,
&c.
famous
Passage
of
a
solemne
Question
put
to
me
,
and
to
the
other
New-English
Elders
,
unto
which
I
with
the
rest
did
answer
Negatively
,
That
if
godly
persons
coming
over
hither
did
refuse
to
submit
to
our
way
of
worship
and
Government
,
that
then
they
could
not
onely
not
enjoy
Church-fellowship
together
,
but
not
be
permitted
to
breath
and
live
in
the
same
common
ayre
and
Common-wealth
together
.
that
denieth
permission
to
such
godly
persons
to
live
and
breath
in
the
same
ayre
of
the
Common-wealth
.
he
doubteth
not
but
that
we
and
all
the
godly
Ministers
in
should
accord
(
if
they
were
here
;
)
as
beleeving
,
that
either
we
should
satisfie
them
in
our
way
,
or
they
us
in
theirs
;
so
as
there
would
never
be
Question
,
whether
we
should
embrace
one
another
as
Sister-Churches
.
Placide
ferre
aliud
sentientes
not
to
be
permitted
to
live
and
breath
in
the
same
ayre
and
Common-wealth
,
though
Mr.
and
others
,
most
incensed
,
gave
him
a
testimony
of
godlinesse
,
&c.
I
gave
him
a
Testimony
of
godlinesse
.
Agur
,
Truely
I
am
more
foolish
then
any
man
,
That
godly
persons
are
not
so
enthralled
to
Antichrist
,
as
to
separate
from
Christ
:
Else
they
could
not
be
godly
persons
.
That
this
cometh
not
neere
the
Question
,
which
is
not
concernign
personall
godlinesse
,
or
Grace
in
Christ
,
but
the
godlinesse
or
Christianitie
of
worship
.
Personally
,
as
God-man
,
&c.
As
Head
of
his
Church
.
In
the
former
sence
(
he
acknowledgeth
)
they
cannot
be
so
enthralled
to
Antichrist
,
as
to
be
separate
from
Christ
:
in
the
latter
they
may
.
(
Where
was
your
Church
before
Luther
?
)
The
Question
is
thus
well
answered
That
since
the
Apostasie
of
Antichrist
,
Truth
,
and
the
holy
Citie
,
(
according
to
the
Prophecy
,
have
been
troden
under-foot
,
and
the
whole
Earth
hath
wandered
after
the
Beast
;
yet
God
hath
stirred
up
witnesses
to
Prophecy
in
sackcloth
against
the
Beast
,
during
his
moneths
Reigne
.
Neverthelesse
,
these
witnesses
have
in
their
times
more
or
lesse
submitted
to
Antichrist
,
and
his
Church
,
Worship
,
Ministery
,
&c.
And
so
consequently
have
been
ignorant
of
the
true
Church
,
that
is
,
Christ
taken
for
the
Church
in
the
true
Profession
of
that
holy
way
of
worship
,
which
he
himselfe
at
first
appointed
.
Where
was
your
Church
before
Luther
?
Gates
of
Hell
shall
not
be
able
to
prevaile
,
The
Altar
,
and
the
Temple
,
and
was
there
nourished
for
a
time
,
and
times
,
and
halfe
a
time
,
trod
downe
the
holy
Citie
under-foote
,
Secondly
,
we
deny
that
it
is
necessary
to
Church-fellowship
,
(
that
is
so
necessary
,
that
without
it
a
Church
cannot
be
)
That
the
members
admitted
thereunto
,
should
all
of
them
see
,
and
expresly
bewaile
all
the
pollutions
which
they
have
been
defiled
with
in
their
former
Church-fellowship
,
Ministery
worship
,
Government
,
&c.
If
they
see
and
bewaile
so
much
of
their
former
pollutions
,
as
did
enthrall
them
to
Antichrist
,
so
,
as
to
separate
them
from
Christ
:
and
withall
be
ready
in
preparation
of
heart
,
as
they
shall
see
more
light
,
so
to
hate
more
and
more
every
false
way
.
This
we
conceive
to
be
as
much
,
as
is
necessarily
required
to
separate
them
from
Antichrist
unto
fellowship
with
Christ
,
and
his
Churches
,
&c.
own
Confession
of
that
two-fold
Church-estate
,
worship
,
&c.
The
former
false
:
or
else
why
to
be
so
bewailed
and
forsaken
?
The
second
true
,
to
be
embraced
and
submitted
to
.
That
Gods
People
may
be
so
farre
enthralled
to
Antichrist
,
as
to
separate
them
from
Christ
.
If
they
see
and
bewaile
so
much
of
their
former
pollutions
,
as
did
enthrall
them
to
Antichrist
,
so
as
to
separate
them
from
Christ
.
that
he
speaking
of
godly
persons
,
no
lesse
unfit
for
Church-fellowship
,
then
Trees
and
Quarries
unfit
for
a
Building
.
That
I
would
have
made
it
odious
in
him
,
to
say
that
godly
persons
cannot
be
so
enthralled
to
Antichrist
,
as
to-separate
them
from
Christ
.
How
easily
a
soule
may
wander
in
his
generalls
:
for
thus
I
write
,
though
they
see
not
all
the
pollutions
,
wherewith
they
have
been
defiled
in
their
former
Church-fellowship
:
Againe
,
if
they
did
see
so
much
as
did
enthrall
them
to
Antichrist
,
and
separate
them
from
Christ
.
And
yet
he
expresseth
nothing
of
that
,
all
the
pollutions
,
nor
what
so
much
is
,
as
will
separate
them
from
Christ
.
Whether
the
hearing
of
the
Ministers
of
the
Parishes
in
was
such
an
Antichristian
pollution
,
as
either
to
cut
off
such
persons
from
Church-fellowship
,
or
the
Churches
themselves
from
Christ
.
That
a
necessitie
lay
upon
,
godly
men
,
before
they
can
be
fit
matter
for
Church
fellowship
,
to
see
,
bewaile
,
repent
,
come
out
of
the
false
Churches
,
Worship
,
Ministery
,
Government
.
Whether
if
a
godly
person
remaine
a
member
of
a
salsely
constituted
Church
,
and
so
consequently
(
in
that
respect
)
of
a
false
Christ
,
whether
in
visible
worship
he
be
not
separate
from
the
true
Christ
?
by
a
falsely
constituted
Church
Whether
it
be
not
absolutely
necessary
to
a
godly
persons
uniting
with
the
true
Church
,
(
that
is
,
with
Christ
in
true
Christian
worship
)
that
he
see
and
bewaile
,
and
absolutely
come
out
from
that
former
false
Church
,
or
Christ
,
and
his
Ministery
,
Worship
,
&c.
before
he
can
be
united
to
the
true
Israel
?
Whether
it
be
not
absolutely
necessary
unto
uniting
with
a
true
Church
,
to
see
,
and
bewaile
,
and
come
out
absolutely
from
the
false
Church
,
or
Christ
,
or
Ministery
,
or
Worship
,
&c.
Hierusalem
?
Ezra
The
Church
of
Christ
received
many
thousand
who
beleeved
on
the
Name
of
Christ
,
although
they
were
still
zealous
of
the
Law
,
and
saw
not
the
beggarly
emptinesse
of
his
Ceremonies
And
the
Apostle
directeth
the
to
receive
such
unto
them
,
as
were
weake
in
the
faith
,
and
saw
not
their
liberty
from
the
servile
difference
of
Meats
and
Dayes
,
but
still
lay
under
the
bondage
of
the
Law
.
Yea
he
wished
them
to
receive
such
upon
this
ground
,
because
Christ
had
received
them
,
And
lest
it
should
be
objected
,
there
was
not
the
like
danger
of
lying
under
bondage
to
as
to
Antichrist
;
It
was
said
,
that
even
the
bondage
under
was
such
,
as
that
if
it
were
continued
in
,
after
instruction
and
conviction
,
it
would
separate
them
from
Christ
,
and
bondage
under
Antichrist
could
doe
no
more
.
That
the
Ordinances
of
were
sometimes
the
Ordinances
of
God
:
and
when
they
were
to
vanish
,
they
were
to
be
taken
away
with
solemnity
.
The
Ordinances
of
Antichrist
were
the
Inventions
of
Satan
,
and
from
first
to
last
never
to
be
received
,
nor
submitted
to
,
no
not
for
a
moment
.
He
would
have
the
difference
of
times
to
be
observed
,
(
which
saith
he
,
Mr.
himselfe
confesseth
)
after
instruction
and
conviction
,
Law
was
deadly
,
and
would
separate
from
Christ
.
Therefore
there
was
a
time
,
when
they
were
not
deadly
,
and
did
not
separate
from
Christ
,
to
wit
,
untill
was
honorably
fallen
asleep
,
&c.
To
apply
then
,
observed
a
vow
,
and
the
Ceremonies
of
it
,
Circumcised
&c.
May
therefore
a
Messenger
of
Christ
now
(
as
goe
to
Masse
,
Pray
to
Saints
,
performe
Pennance
,
keepe
Christmasse
,
and
other
Popish
Feasts
,
and
Fasts
?
&c.
It
is
a
vaine
thing
now
to
alledge
,
that
the
Ordinances
of
were
sometimes
the
Ordinances
of
God
,
but
so
the
inventions
of
Antichrist
never
were
:
and
there
is
not
the
like
honourable
respect
and
tendernesse
to
be
shewed
to
the
inventions
of
Antichrist
,
as
to
the
vanishing
Ordinances
of
God
absolute
necessitie
,
that
godly
persons
before
they
doe
joyne
to
a
true
Church
,
and
Ministery
,
should
see
and
bewaile
so
much
as
may
amount
to
cut
off
the
soule
from
a
false
Church
,
(
whether
Nationall
,
Parishionall
,
or
any
other
falsly
constituted
Church
)
Ministery
,
Worship
,
and
Government
of
it
.
in
that
they
doe
not
cut
off
themselves
from
a
false
Ministery
.
Yee
have
alwayes
been
rebellious
against
the
Lord
,
since
the
day
that
I
knew
you
,
They
had
alwayes
wont
to
resist
the
Holy
Ghost
,
they
and
their
fathers
,
The
Gentiles
they
did
tread
downe
the
Holy
City
,
They
did
tread
it
downe
Tread
it
under-foote
for
himselfe
disliketh
it
in
me
,
to
wander
in
Generalities
.
Dens
of
Lyons
,
Mountaines
of
Leopards
,
He
beleeveth
it
is
absolutely
necessary
to
see
and
bewaile
so
much
as
may
amount
to
cut
off
the
soule
from
a
false
Church
,
(
whether
Nationall
,
or
Parishionall
,
or
any
other
falsly
constituted
Church
)
together
with
the
Ministery
,
Worship
,
and
Government
of
it
.
That
two
of
them
made
nothing
to
his
purpose
.
For
that
of
and
the
other
of
the
speake
of
locall
separation
,
which
he
knew
we
had
made
:
and
which
neither
he
,
nor
indeed
our selves
apprehended
to
be
sufficient
,
though
sufficient
to
answer
,
in
part
,
the
literall
sence
of
those
Places
.
That
he
could
not
well
have
beleeved
that
Mr.
or
any
other
,
would
have
made
that
coming
forth
of
Babel
in
the
Antitype
,
to
be
locall
and
materiall
also
.
For
what
Civill
State
,
or
Nation
,
or
Countrey
in
the
world
,
in
the
Antitype
could
now
be
called
Babel
?
If
any
,
then
surely
Babel
it selfe
properly
so
called
:
but
there
we
finde
a
true
Church
of
Jesus
Christ
,
If
Babel
be
locall
now
,
whence
Gods
People
are
called
,
then
must
there
be
a
locall
a
Land
of
also
,
into
which
they
are
called
,
&c.
What
Civill
State
,
or
Nation
,
or
Countrey
in
the
world
shall
be
called
Babel
now
?
Peter
,
(
Babel
saith
he
,
If
Babel
be
locall
now
,
then
there
must
be
a
locall
a
Land
of
also
,
into
which
the
Saints
are
called
.
Whether
Mr.
can
satisfie
his
own
soule
,
or
the
soules
of
other
men
,
in
making
a
locall
departure
from
old
to
New
,
as
if
therein
we
had
obeyed
that
voyce
of
the
Angel
,
Come
out
of
Babylon
my
People
,
partake
not
of
her
sinnes
,
&c.
Come
out
of
Babel
my
People
,
Lest
yee
be
partakers
her
sinnes
Come
out
of
Babel
,
my
people
,
Partake
not
of
her
sinnes
:
Partake
not
of
her
sinnes
Come
out
of
her
,
my
People
,
that
yee
be
not
partaker
of
her
sinnes
.
The
Lord
Jesus
hath
broken
downe
all
difference
of
Places
,
and
all
difference
of
Persons
He
hath
with
me
,
Whether
false
worship
be
not
onely
locall
,
but
a
spirituall
Guilt
,
and
not
onely
a
Guilt
,
but
also
an
Habit
,
&c.
That
the
Text
onely
requireth
Coming
out
from
Idolaters
in
the
fellowship
of
their
Idolatry
:
No
Marriages
were
they
to
make
with
them
:
No
Feasts
were
they
to
hold
with
them
in
the
Idolls
Temples
:
No
intimate
Familiaritie
were
they
to
maintaine
with
them
:
Nor
any
Fellowship
were
they
to
keepe
with
them
in
the
unfruitfull
workes
of
Darknesse
.
And
this
is
all
which
the
place
requireth
.
But
what
maketh
all
this
to
proove
,
that
we
may
not
receive
such
Persons
to
Church-fellowship
as
our selves
confesse
to
be
godly
,
and
who
doe
professedly
bewaile
and
renounce
all
knowne
sinne
,
and
would
renounce
more
,
if
they
knew
more
?
Although
,
it
may
be
,
they
doe
not
see
the
utmost
skirts
of
all
that
pollution
they
have
sometimes
been
defiled
with
:
as
the
Patriarchs
saw
not
the
pollution
of
their
Polygamy
?
That
if
the
regenerate
and
prepenting
English
did
come
thus
farre
forth
,
it
would
availe
much
to
the
sanctifying
of
the
Name
of
the
Lord
Jesus
,
to
the
pacifying
of
his
jealousie
,
&c.
That
according
to
the
former
Distinction
of
Godly
Persons
,
who
possibly
may
live
in
ungodly
practises
(
especially
of
false
worship
:
)
And
then
according
to
Mr.
Interpretation
,
they
come
not
forth
.
if
there
be
any
voyce
of
Christ
in
the
mouths
of
his
witnesses
against
these
sinnes
,
they
are
not
then
of
ignorance
,
but
negligence
,
and
spirituall
hardnesse
against
the
wayes
of
Gods
seare
,
Reply
.
If
there
be
any
voyce
of
Christ
in
the
mouths
of
his
witnesses
against
these
sinnes
,
&c.
Come
not
yee
to
Gilgall
,
neither
goe
yee
up
to
Bethaven
:
Solomon
;
Cease
my
Sonne
to
heare
the
Instruction
,
which
causeth
to
erre
from
the
words
of
knowledge
,
Hereby
know
we
the
spirit
of
Truth
,
and
the
spirit
of
Error
:
He
that
knoweth
God
,
heareth
us
,
He
that
is
not
of
God
,
heareth
us
not
,
the
Question
is
not
of
the
utmost
skirts
of
pollution
,
but
the
substance
of
a
true
and
false
Bed
of
worship
,
In
respect
of
coming
out
of
the
false
,
before
the
entrance
into
the
true
.
Godly
Persons
repenting
of
all
knowne
sinnes
,
may
be
received
to
Church-fellowship
,
although
they
doe
not
see
the
utmost
skirts
of
all
the
pollution
they
have
sometimes
been
defiled
with
.
the
Question
is
not
of
utmost
skirts
,
but
of
the
substance
of
a
true
and
false
Bed
of
worship
.
Bed
of
worship
That
if
there
were
but
filthinesse
in
the
skirts
of
an
Harlot
,
he
beleeveth
Mr.
would
not
receive
an
Harlot
,
infamous
for
corporall
whoredome
,
without
sound
repentance
,
not
onely
for
her
actuall
whoredomes
,
but
also
for
her
whorish
speeches
,
gestures
,
appearances
,
provocations
.
And
why
should
there
be
a
greater
strictnesse
for
the
skirts
of
common
whoredome
,
then
for
spirituall
and
soule-whoredome
,
against
the
chastitie
of
Gods
worship
?
By
observing
what
great
sinnes
Godly
Persons
may
be
subject
to
,
notwithstanding
Godlinesse
in
the
Roote
.
If
any
godly
Persons
should
now
beleeve
,
and
maintaine
,
that
he
ought
to
have
many
wives
,
and
accordingly
did
so
Practise
,
whether
Mr.
would
receive
such
a
godly
Person
to
Church-fellowship
?
Yea
whether
the
Church
of
the
(
if
they
had
seene
the
evill
of
it
)
would
ever
have
received
such
a
Proselyte
into
fellowship
with
them
?
what
was
this
personall
sinne
of
Polygamy
in
the
godly
Patriarchs
?
Was
it
any
matter
of
Gods
worship
,
any
joyning
with
a
false
Church
,
Ministery
,
Worship
,
Government
,
from
whence
they
were
to
come
,
before
they
could
constitute
his
true
Church
,
and
enjoy
his
Worship
,
Ministery
,
Government
,
&c.
That
the
place
was
wrested
besides
the
Apostles
scope
,
when
Mr.
argued
from
it
,
That
such
Persons
are
not
fit
matter
for
Church-fellowship
,
as
are
defiled
with
any
remnants
of
Antichristian
Pollution
:
nor
such
Churches
any
more
to
be
counted
Churches
,
as
doe
receive
such
amongst
them
:
For
were
there
not
at
that
time
in
the
Church
of
such
as
partaked
with
Idolaters
in
their
Idolls
Temples
?
And
was
not
this
the
touching
of
an
uncleane
thing
?
And
did
this
sinne
reject
members
from
Church-fellowship
before
Conviction
?
Or
did
it
evacuate
their
Church-estate
for
not
casting
out
such
members
?
This
was
indeed
an
uncleane
thing
,
from
which
God
calleth
his
People
:
and
Mr.
confesseth
,
that
after
conviction
any
member
obstinate
in
these
uncleane
Touches
ought
to
be
rejected
.
Vpon
the
same
ground
that
one
obstinate
Person
ought
to
be
rejected
out
of
Church-estate
,
upon
the
same
ground
,
if
a
greater
company
or
a
Church
were
obstinate
in
such
uncleane
touches
,
ought
every
sound
Christian
Church
to
reject
them
,
and
every
sound
member
to
withdraw
from
them
.
it
is
cleare
,
that
if
such
uncleane
Touches
obstinately
maintained
,
(
as
Mr.
professeth
and
practiseth
)
be
a
ground
of
a
rejection
of
a
Person
in
a
Church
,
questionlesse
,
it
is
a
ground
of
rejection
when
such
Persons
are
to
joyne
unto
the
Church
.
And
if
obstinacy
in
the
whole
Church
after
Conviction
be
a
ground
for
such
a
Churches
rejection
,
questionlesse
,
such
a
Church
or
number
of
persons
obstinate
in
such
evills
,
cannot
congregate
,
nor
become
a
true
constituted
Church
of
Christ
.
The
greatest
Question
here
would
be
whether
the
in
their
first
Constitution
were
separate
or
no
from
such
Idols
Temples
?
And
this
Mr.
neither
doth
nor
can
deny
;
A
Church
estate
being
a
state
of
marriage
unto
Christ
Jesus
;
and
so
professedly
saith
,
He
had
espoused
them
as
a
chaste
Virgin
unto
Christ
,
Now
if
he
thinke
that
Mr.
neither
doth
nor
can
deny
,
that
in
their
first
constitution
they
were
thus
separate
from
Idolls
Temples
.
He
had
espoused
them
as
a
chaste
Virgin
to
Jesus
Christ
?
Necessitie
lying
upon
Godly
men
,
before
they
can
be
fit
matter
for
Church
fellowship
,
to
see
,
bewaile
,
repent
,
and
come
out
of
false
Churches
,
Ministery
,
Worship
,
and
Government
.
Confession
made
by
Disciples
,
and
the
Proselyte
Gentiles
before
admission
into
Church-fellowship
,
Whence
he
gathered
,
That
Christian
Churcher
are
constituted
of
such
members
,
as
make
open
and
plaine
confession
of
their
sinnes
:
and
if
any
s●●●es
be
to
be
confessed
and
lamented
(
Jewish
or
Paganish
)
then
Antichristian
drunkennesse
and
whoredome
much
more
,
&c.
Yea
every
sipping
of
the
Wh●res
Cup.
That
it
was
not
necessary
to
the
Admission
of
members
,
that
they
should
see
,
and
bewaile
the
sinfulnesse
of
every
sipping
of
the
whores
Cup
,
(
as
he
called
it
)
(
though
the
Whores
cup
doe
more
intoxicate
the
minde
,
then
the
drunkards
Cup
doth
the
Body
:
)
because
bodily
drunkennesse
and
whoredome
are
such
notorious
and
grosse
sinnes
,
that
no
man
having
true
Repentance
in
him
,
cannot
but
be
convinced
of
the
sinfulnesse
of
them
,
and
of
the
necessitie
of
repentance
of
them
in
particular
,
if
he
doe
remember
them
.
But
the
whores
Cup
being
a
mystery
of
Iniquitie
,
the
sinfulnesse
of
every
sipping
of
it
,
is
nothing
so
evident
and
notorious
,
as
that
every
repentant
soule
doth
at
first
discerne
it
.
And
therefore
as
the
were
admitted
into
the
first
Christian
Church
,
upon
the
Profession
of
their
repentance
of
the
murther
of
Christ
,
though
they
neither
saw
nor
confessed
all
the
superstitious
leavenings
wherewith
the
Pharisees
had
bewitched
them
:
so
here
,
&c.
Yea
and
the
Disciples
of
(
whom
he
instanceth
in
)
though
they
did
confesse
their
sinnes
,
(
the
Publicans
theirs
,
the
Souldiers
theirs
,
the
People
theirs
:
)
to
wit
,
the
notorious
sinnes
incident
to
their
callings
:
yet
it
doth
not
appeare
that
they
confessed
their
Pharisaicall
pollutions
.
And
the
Gentiles
in
Though
they
confessed
their
curious
Arts
,
and
burnt
their
conjuring
Bookes
,
yet
it
doth
not
appeare
,
that
they
confessed
all
their
deeds
.
That
spirituall
whoredome
and
drunkennesse
is
not
indeed
so
easily
discerned
as
corporall
:
but
yet
not
the
lesse
sinfull
,
but
infinitely
transeendent
,
as
much
as
spirituall
sobriety
exceedeth
corporall
;
and
the
bed
of
the
most
High
God
exceedeth
the
beds
of
men
,
who
are
but
dust
and
ashes
.
dealeth
not
with
us
after
our
sinnes
,
nor
rewardeth
us
according
to
our
Iniquities
,
That
though
the
converted
Jewes
did
not
see
all
the
leavenings
of
the
Pharisees
,
yet
they
mourned
for
killing
of
Christ
,
and
embraced
him
in
his
Worship
,
Ministery
,
Government
,
&c.
and
thereupon
necessarily
followeth
a
withdrawing
from
the
Church
,
Ministery
,
and
Worship
of
the
false
Christ
,
&c.
That
it
is
absolutely
necessary
unto
Church-fellowship
,
to
see
and
bewaile
,
not
onely
actuall
whoredomes
,
but
also
whorish
speeches
,
gestures
,
appearances
,
provocations
.
the
converted
Jewes
did
not
see
all
the
leavenings
of
the
Pharisees
,
which
yet
were
such
,
implyeth
they
had
deteined
them
under
a
false
Christ
.
they
by
embracing
Christ
,
in
his
Worship
and
Ministery
,
there
necessarily
followed
a
withdrawing
from
the
Church
,
Ministery
,
and
worship
of
the
false
Christ
.
John
Baptist
if
both
these
confest
their
notorious
sinnes
,
why
not
as
well
their
notorious
sinnes
against
God
,
their
Idolatries
,
superstitions
,
worships
,
&
c
?
Surely
throughout
the
whole
Scripture
,
the
matters
of
God
,
and
his
worship
,
are
first
and
most
tenderly
handled
,
&c.
a
necessitie
lying
upon
godly
men
to
see
and
bewaile
their
pollutions
in
a
former
Church-fellowship
,
before
they
can
be
fit
matter
for
a
new
.
That
the
body
of
our
members
doe
in
generall
Professe
,
that
the
reason
of
their
coming
over
to
us
,
was
that
they
might
be
freed
from
the
bondage
of
humane
Inventions
and
Ordinances
,
under
which
as
their
soule
groaned
there
,
so
they
have
professed
their
sorrow
,
so
farre
as
through
ignorance
or
infirmitie
they
have
been
defiled
there
.
That
in
our
daily
meetings
,
especially
in
the
times
of
our
solemne
Humiliations
,
we
doe
generally
all
of
us
bewaile
all
our
former
Pollutious
,
wherewith
we
have
defiled
our selves
,
and
the
holy
things
of
God
in
our
former
Administrations
,
and
Communions
:
the
which
we
have
rather
chosen
to
doe
,
then
to
talke
of
,
and
therefore
doe
marvell
,
that
he
should
so
resolutely
renounce
us
for
that
,
which
he
knew
not
whether
we
had
neglected
or
no
,
and
before
he
had
admonished
us
of
our
sinfulnesse
in
such
neglect
,
if
it
had
been
found
amongst
us
.
That
we
make
no
mention
,
what
such
Inventions
,
and
Ordinances
,
what
such
Administrations
and
Communions
were
,
which
we
confessed
and
bewailed
.
That
we
have
borne
witnesse
against
Bishops
,
and
Ceremonies
,
and
doe
constitute
onely
particular
and
Independent
Churches
,
and
have
therefore
so
farre
at
least
seene
the
evill
of
a
Nationall
Church
.
That
we
doe
not
fully
see
the
evill
of
a
Nationall
Church
By
our
constant
Practise
in
still
joyning
with
such
Churches
and
Ministery
in
the
Ordinances
of
the
Word
and
Prayer
:
and
by
our
Persecuting
of
him
for
his
humble
,
faithfull
,
and
constant
admonishing
of
us
for
such
an
uncleane
walking
,
between
a
particular
Church
,
and
a
Nationall
.
That
we
see
not
the
evill
of
a
Nationall
Church
,
from
our
Persecuting
of
him
,
&c.
That
we
Persecuted
him
for
his
humble
,
and
faithfull
,
and
constant
admonishing
of
us
of
such
uncleane
walking
,
between
a
particular
Church
and
a
Nationall
.
He
knew
not
what
Professions
we
had
made
in
our
Churches
of
our
Humiliations
for
former
Pollutions
,
nor
had
he
admonished
us
of
our
defects
therein
:
He
demandeth
how
be
could
possibly
be
ignorant
of
our
estate
,
who
had
been
from
first
to
last
in
fellowship
with
us
,
an
Officer
amongst
us
,
had
private
and
publique
agitations
concerning
our
estate
and
condition
,
and
at
last
suffered
for
such
Admonition
to
us
,
the
misery
of
a
Winters
Banishment
amongst
the
Barbarians
?
Dod
)
Where
sinne
lyeth
heavy
,
afflictions
lyeth
light
:
where
affliction
lyeth
heavy
,
sinne
lyeth
light
.
Jewes
,
That
if
a
Person
uncleane
by
a
dead
body
,
doe
touch
holy
things
,
those
holy
things
become
uncleane
to
him
.
And
so
is
this
Nation
,
and
so
is
every
worke
of
their
hands
,
and
that
which
they
offer
here
is
uncleane
.
That
even
Church-Covenants
made
and
Ordinances
practised
by
persons
polluted
through
spirituall
deadnesse
,
and
filthinesse
of
Communion
,
they
become
uncleane
to
them
,
and
are
prophaned
by
them
:
which
he
solemnely
desireth
might
be
advisedly
weighed
.
That
if
he
had
well
weighed
this
place
himselfe
,
he
would
never
have
alledged
it
to
his
purpose
.
His
purpose
was
to
prove
,
that
Churches
cannot
be
constituted
of
such
members
,
as
are
uncleane
by
Antichristian
pollutions
:
or
if
they
be
so
constituted
,
they
are
not
to
be
Communicated
with
,
but
separated
from
.
To
prove
this
,
you
alledge
(
said
I
)
this
place
,
where
the
Prophet
acknowledgeth
the
whole
Church
to
be
uncleane
,
and
yet
neither
denieth
them
to
be
a
Church
truely
constituted
,
nor
stirreth
up
himselfe
,
or
others
to
separate
from
them
.
If
you
say
,
why
,
but
they
were
uncleane
.
Be
it
so
.
But
were
they
therefore
no
Church
truely
Constituted
?
Or
to
be
separated
from
?
Did
not
themselves
Communicate
with
them
?
And
did
they
not
call
others
also
to
come
out
of
Babel
to
Communicate
with
them
,
even
whilest
the
High
Priest
was
still
polluted
with
his
uncleane
Garments
?
That
if
he
did
apply
it
to
the
Point
in
hand
,
it
would
reach
nothing
neere
to
his
purpose
.
Hypocrites
in
the
Church
,
yea
and
godly
sincere
Christians
themselves
,
whilest
they
attend
to
the
world
more
then
to
the
things
of
God
,
(
as
at
that
time
the
both
their
persons
,
and
their
labours
,
and
their
Civill
Oblations
are
uncleane
in
the
sight
of
God
:
Therefore
the
Church
of
Christ
cannot
be
constituted
of
such
:
or
if
it
doe
consist
of
such
,
the
People
of
God
must
separate
from
them
.
You
might
well
have
gathered
Therefore
the
Church
of
Christ
,
and
the
members
thereof
must
separate
themselves
from
their
hypocrisie
and
inordinate
love
of
this
world
,
or
else
they
and
their
duties
will
still
be
uncleane
in
the
sight
of
God
,
notwithstanding
their
Church-Estate
.
This
Collection
tendeth
to
edification
;
the
other
to
dissipation
,
and
destruction
of
the
Church
,
and
wresteth
Bloud
instead
of
Milke
from
the
Breasts
of
holy
Scripture
.
desire
it
might
be
throughly
weighed
,
and
the
Lord
to
hold
the
scales
himselfe
.
have
I
spoken
more
then
Mr.
himselfe
hath
uttered
in
his
Explication
and
Application
of
this
Scripture
;
As
,
That
Godly
persons
may
become
defiled
,
and
uncleane
,
by
hypocrisie
and
worldlinesse
.
While
they
lye
in
such
a
condition
of
uncleannesse
,
all
their
offerings
,
persons
,
labours
are
uncleane
in
the
sight
of
God
,
notwithstanding
their
Church-estate
.
The
Church
cannot
be
constituted
of
such
worldly
Persons
(
though
otherwise
godly
and
Christian
.
)
If
they
doe
,
the
People
of
God
must
separate
from
them
.
These
be
own
expresse
words
Hang
all
the
Law
,
and
the
Prophets
,
upon
these
two
Commandements
,
Hang
all
the
Law
and
the
Prophets
.
The
true
and
genuine
meaning
of
the
place
,
if
you
doe
apply
to
the
Point
in
hand
,
it
will
reach
nothing
neere
to
your
purpose
.
Hypocrites
in
the
Church
and
godly
Christians
themselves
,
whilest
they
attend
to
the
world
more
then
to
the
things
of
God
,
their
persons
,
their
labours
,
their
Civill
Oblations
are
all
uncleane
in
the
sight
of
God
.
The
Church
of
Christ
cannot
be
constituted
of
such
:
or
if
it
doe
consist
of
such
,
the
People
of
God
must
separate
from
them
.
therefore
the
Church
of
Christ
,
and
the
members
thereof
must
separate
themselves
from
their
hypocrisie
,
and
their
inordinate
love
of
this
world
:
Or
else
they
and
their
duties
will
he
still
uncleane
in
the
sight
of
God
,
notwithstanding
their
Church-estate
.
This
Collection
tendeth
to
edification
:
the
other
to
the
dissipation
,
and
destruction
of
the
Flock
,
and
wresteth
bloud
instead
of
milke
from
the
Breasts
of
holy
Scripture
.
Your
purpose
was
to
prove
,
That
Churches
cannot
be
constituted
by
such
persons
as
are
uncleane
by
Antichristian
pollutions
:
or
if
they
be
so
constituted
,
they
are
not
to
be
communicated
with
,
but
separated
from
.
To
prove
this
,
you
alledge
this
place
where
the
Prophet
acknowledgeth
the
whole
Church
of
the
to
be
uncleane
:
and
yet
neither
denieth
them
to
be
a
Church
truely
constituted
,
nor
stirreth
up
himselfe
or
others
to
separate
from
them
.
That
their
Ceremoniall
Excommunication
was
either
putting
to
death
in
or
Captivitie
out
of
The
want
of
fit
matter
of
our
Churches
:
Our
dis-respect
to
the
separate
Churches
in
under
affliction
,
when
neverthelesse
our selves
practise
separation
in
peace
.
That
we
walke
between
Christ
and
Antichrist
.
In
practising
separation
here
,
and
not
repenting
of
our
preaching
,
and
printing
against
it
in
our
own
Countrey
.
In
reproaching
himselfe
at
and
others
,
for
separation
In
particular
,
that
my selfe
have
conceived
and
spoken
,
That
separation
is
a
way
,
which
God
hath
not
prospered
:
as
if
the
truth
of
the
Churches
depended
upon
the
countenance
of
men
,
or
upon
outward
peace
and
libertie
.
That
in
stead
of
halting
betwixt
Christ
,
and
Antichrist
,
the
Lord
hath
guided
us
to
walke
with
an
even
foote
between
two
extreames
:
so
that
we
neither
defile
our selves
with
the
remnants
of
pollution
in
other
Churches
;
nor
doe
we
for
the
remnants
of
pollution
,
renounce
the
Churches
themselves
,
nor
the
holy
things
of
God
amongst
them
,
which
our selves
have
found
powerfull
to
salvation
.
This
moderation
so
farre
as
we
have
kept
it
in
preaching
or
printing
,
we
have
seene
no
cause
to
repent
of
it
;
But
if
any
shall
shew
us
cause
,
why
we
should
repent
of
it
,
we
shall
desire
to
repent
of
it
,
yea
and
to
repent
,
that
we
repented
no
sooner
.
middle
walking
to
be
no
lesse
then-halting
,
of
which
we
have
cause
to
repent
.
himselfe
confesseth
,
that
no
Nationall
,
Provinciall
,
Diocesan
,
or
Parish
Church
,
wherein
some
truely
godly
are
not
,
are
true
Churches
.
He
practiseth
no
Church-estate
,
but
such
as
is
constituted
onely
of
godly
persons
,
nor
admitteth
any
unregenerate
,
or
ungodly
persons
.
He
confesseth
,
that
a
Church
of
Christ
cannot
be
constituted
of
such
godly
persons
,
who
are
in
bondage
to
the
inordinate
love
of
the
world
.
That
if
a
Church
consist
of
such
,
Gods
people
ought
to
separate
from
them
.
Shall
their
unbeliefe
make
the
faith
of
God
of
none
effect
?
God
forbid
?
That
a
Church
of
Christ
cannot
be
constituted
of
godly
persons
,
taken
with
the
inordinate
love
of
the
world
:
or
that
a
Church
consisting
of
such
,
ought
to
be
separated
from
:
Parish
Churches
to
be
separated
from
,
for
the
remnants
of
pollutions
,
I
mean
onely
,
Ceremonies
,
and
Bishops
:
neither
let
him
say
,
that
I
doe
extenuate
and
mince
the
roote
,
masse
,
and
substance
of
the
matter
of
Nationall
Churches
,
(
though
for
the
greater
part
unregenerate
)
by
naming
onely
a
remnant
of
pollutions
.
Was
the
reproach
of
himselfe
and
others
at
for
their
separation
That
I
knew
no
man
who
reproached
for
their
separation
,
nor
did
I
beleeve
,
that
they
did
separate
.
Howsoever
,
if
any
did
reproach
them
for
it
,
I
did
thinke
it
a
sinne
meete
to
be
Censured
,
but
not
with
so
deepe
a
Censure
,
as
to
excommunicate
all
the
Churches
,
or
to
separate
from
them
,
before
it
doth
appeare
,
that
they
doe
tolerate
their
members
in
such
their
causlesse
reproachings
.
The
errors
of
men
are
to
be
contended
against
,
not
with
reproaches
,
but
with
the
sword
of
the
Spirit
.
But
on
the
other
side
,
the
failings
of
the
Churches
are
not
forthwith
to
be
healed
by
separation
.
It
is
not
Chirurgery
,
but
Butchery
,
to
heale
every
sore
in
a
member
,
with
no
other
but
Abscission
from
the
body
.
That
the
Church
of
was
knowne
to
professe
separation
,
and
publickly
reproached
(
yea
he
could
mention
a
Case
wherein
shee
was
punished
)
for
it
,
implicitely
.
I
knew
no
man
that
reproached
for
their
separation
:
nor
did
I
beleeve
,
that
they
did
separate
.
That
the
Church
of
was
knowne
to
professe
separation
That
I
say
,
if
any
reproach
them
for
Seperation
,
it
is
a
sinne
meete
to
be
Censured
.
That
Churches
themselves
may
be
separated
from
,
who
tolerate
their
members
in
such
causelesse
reproachings
.
That
the
Churches
themselves
may
be
separated
from
,
who
tolerate
their
members
in
such
causelesse
reproachings
.
that
a
causelesse
reproach
is
a
sinne
meete
to
be
censured
:
But
I
said
withall
,
it
is
not
to
be
censured
with
so
deepe
a
Censure
,
as
excommunication
,
especially
of
all
the
Churches
,
and
that
too
,
before
that
it
doe
appeare
,
that
they
doe
tolerate
their
members
in
such
their
causelesse
reproachings
.
That
then
there
were
a
lawfull
separation
from
the
Church
that
doth
but
tolerate
her
member
in
a
causelesse
reproach
,
yea
and
from
all
other
Churches
too
,
that
hold
Communion
with
that
Church
.
That
it
is
not
Chirurgery
but
Butchery
,
to
heale
every
sore
with
no
other
medicine
,
but
with
Abscission
from
the
body
:
That
Churches
of
godly
persons
must
be
separated
from
,
for
inordinate
worldlinesse
.
That
Churches
may
be
separated
from
,
when
they
tolerate
their
members
in
their
causelesse
reproaches
.
It
is
not
every
sore
of
infirmitie
,
or
ignorance
,
but
an
Vlcer
or
Gangreene
of
obstinacy
,
for
which
I
maintained
,
that
a
person
ought
to
be
cut
off
,
or
a
Church
separated
from
.
He
separated
Conscientiously
and
peaceably
if
it
be
Butchery
to
separate
conscientiously
and
peaceably
from
the
spirituall
communion
of
a
Church
,
or
Saints
,
what
shall
it
be
called
by
the
Lord
Jesus
,
to
cut
off
persons
,
them
,
and
theirs
,
branch
,
and
roote
,
from
any
Civill
being
in
their
Territories
,
&c.
Because
their
Consciences
dare
not
how
domne
to
any
worship
,
but
what
the
Lord
Jesus
hath
appointed
,
and
being
also
otherwise
subject
to
the
Civill
estate
,
and
Lawes
thereof
?
wherein
he
chargeth
Mr.
to
be
deeply
guilty
of
Cruelty
,
both
against
Consciences
and
bodies
,
in
persecuting
of
them
.
That
God
had
not
prospered
the
way
of
Separation
:
which
least
it
should
be
mistaken
,
I
interpreted
,
not
in
respect
of
outward
prosperitie
:
for
they
found
more
favour
in
our
native
Countrey
,
then
those
who
walked
in
the
way
of
Reformation
,
which
is
commonly
reproached
by
the
name
of
The
meetings
of
the
might
be
knowne
to
the
Officers
in
the
Courts
,
and
winked
at
,
when
the
Conventicles
of
the
(
as
they
call
them
)
are
hunted
out
with
all
diligence
,
and
pursued
with
more
violence
,
then
any
Law
can
justifie
.
But
I
said
,
that
God
had
not
prospered
the
way
of
Separation
,
in
that
he
had
not
blessed
it
,
either
with
peace
amongst
themselves
,
or
with
growth
of
grace
,
such
as
erring
through
simplicitie
,
and
tendernesse
of
Conscience
,
have
growne
in
grace
,
have
growne
also
to
discerne
their
lawfull
libertie
,
to
returne
to
the
hearing
of
the
Word
from
English
Preachers
.
That
doubtlesse
the
Lord
hath
a
great
Controversie
with
the
Land
for
their
such
violent
pursuit
and
persecution
of
both
.
For
both
of
them
have
borne
witnesse
to
severall
truths
of
the
Lord
Jesus
.
The
Puritans
have
not
suffered
comparatively
to
the
other
,
(
as
but
seldome
Congregating
in
separate
Assemblies
from
the
common
:
)
And
none
of
them
suffering
unto
death
for
the
way
of
Non-Conformitie
.
Indeed
the
worthy
witnesse
Mr.
was
neere
unto
death
for
his
witnesse
against
Bishops
,
and
Ceremonies
;
But
Mr.
followed
the
Lord
Jesus
,
with
their
Gibbets
,
and
were
hanged
with
him
,
and
for
him
,
in
the
way
of
separation
.
Many
more
have
been
condemned
in
dye
,
banished
,
and
choaked
in
Prisans
,
whom
I
could
produce
upon
occasion
.
Reply
.
Paul
Their
witnesses
against
Bishops
and
Ceremonies
,
(
whom
he
calleth
Puritans
)
have
seldome
met
in
separate
Assemblies
from
the
common
:
Northamptonshire
,
Suffolk
,
Essex
,
London
,
Cambridge
,
Dangerous
Positions
and
practises
against
Religion
and
State
None
of
them
suffered
unto
death
,
That
the
bloud
of
still
speaketh
Randall
Bates
None
of
them
suffered
unto
death
.
Martin
Marprelate
deserved
death
at
the
Queenes
hand
,
for
that
he
had
seduced
many
of
her
loyall
Subjects
to
a
separation
from
hearing
the
Word
of
life
in
the
Parish
Churches
.
Which
though
himselfe
had
learned
to
discerne
the
evill
thereof
,
yet
he
could
never
prevaile
to
recover
divers
of
her
Subjects
,
whom
he
had
seduced
:
and
therefore
the
bloud
of
their
soules
,
was
now
justly
required
at
his
hands
.
Barrow
,
God
is
not
wont
to
make
choice
of
men
,
infamous
for
grosse
vices
before
their
calling
,
to
make
them
any
notable
instruments
of
Reformation
after
their
Calling
.
Mr.
whilest
he
lived
in
Court
,
was
wont
to
be
a
great
Gamster
,
and
Dicer
,
and
often
getting
much
by
play
,
would
boast
,
nothing
ashamed
to
boast
of
his
hopes
of
his
nights
lodgings
in
the
bosomes
of
his
Courtizens
.
As
his
spirit
was
high
and
rough
before
his
reformation
,
so
was
it
after
,
even
to
his
death
.
When
he
stood
under
the
Gibbet
,
he
lift
up
his
eyes
,
and
Lord
if
I
be
deceived
,
thou
hast
deceived
me
:
And
so
being
stopt
by
the
hand
of
God
,
he
was
not
able
to
proceed
to
speake
any
thing
to
purpose
more
,
either
to
the
glory
of
God
,
or
to
the
edification
of
the
people
.
a
Minori
Cartwright
,
Parker
,
Ames
That
he
beleeveth
there
hath
hardly
ever
been
a
Conscientious
Separatist
,
who
was
not
first
a
Puritan
.
For
(
as
Mr.
hath
unanswerably
proved
)
the
grounds
and
principles
of
the
Puritans
against
Bishops
,
and
Ceremonies
,
and
prophanesse
of
people
professing
Christ
:
and
the
necessitie
of
Christs
flock
and
discipline
,
must
necessarily
(
if
truly
followed
)
lead
on
to
,
and
enforce
a
separation
.
What
should
be
the
Reason
,
why
the
Separatist
(
who
witnesseth
against
the
Roote
of
the
Constitution
it selfe
)
should
finde
more
favour
then
the
Puritan
,
or
Non-conformist
?
Doubtlesse
the
reasons
are
evident
Because
most
of
the
Separatists
have
been
poore
and
low
,
and
not
such
gainfull
Customers
to
the
Bishops
,
their
Courts
,
and
Officers
.
Mr.
himselfe
(
though
a
worthy
instrument
of
Gods
praise
)
lived
upon
nine
pence
in
the
weeke
with
roots
boyled
,
&c.
That
it
is
a
principle
in
nature
to
preferre
a
professed
enemy
,
before
a
pretended
friend
.
The
Separatists
have
been
looked
at
by
the
Bishops
,
and
their
adherents
,
as
knowne
and
professed
enemies
:
whereas
the
Puritans
have
professed
subjection
,
and
submitted
to
the
Bishops
,
their
Courts
,
their
Officers
,
their
Common
Prayer
,
and
worships
:
And
yet
(
the
Bishops
have
well
knowne
)
with
no
greater
affection
,
then
the
bore
the
cruell
task-masters
God
hath
not
prospered
the
way
of
Separation
,
neither
with
peace
amongst
themselves
,
nor
with
growth
of
grace
.
That
want
of
peace
may
befall
the
truest
Churches
of
the
Lord
Jesus
,
as
them
at
that
it
is
a
common
Character
of
a
false
Church
(
maintained
by
the
Smiths
and
Cutlers
shop
)
to
enjoy
peace
,
none
daring
for
feare
of
civill
punishment
to
question
,
or
differ
,
&c.
That
Gods
people
in
that
way
have
sometimes
long
enjoyed
sweet
peace
,
and
soule
contentment
,
in
and
other
places
,
&c.
Soloman
,
The
back
slider
in
heart
shall
be
filled
with
his
owne
wayes
.
of
the
Separation
,
as
not
with
peace
amongst
themselves
,
so
neither
with
growth
of
Grace
,
brethren
have
crept
in
,
yet
Satan
himselfe
cannot
but
confesse
that
multitudes
of
Gods
witnesses
(
reproached
with
the
names
of
have
kept
themselves
from
the
errours
of
the
wicked
,
and
doe
grow
in
Grace
,
and
knowledge
of
our
Lord
Jesus
,
&c.
Ephesus
,
Revel
That
such
(
of
the
Separation
)
as
erring
through
simplicity
and
tendernesse
,
have
growne
in
Grace
,
have
growne
also
to
discerne
their
lawfull
Liberty
for
the
hearing
of
the
word
from
the
English
Preachers
.
foure
sorts
of
Backsliders
from
sundry
Truthes
of
God
,
whom
he
hath
observed
to
be
left
of
God
to
sad
and
exemplary
spirituall
Judgements
.
have
growne
in
Grace
,
they
have
growne
in
discerning
their
lawfull
Liberty
to
heare
the
word
from
the
English
Preachers
.
he
might
here
engage
himselfe
in
a
controversie
with
me
,
but
that
neither
the
Treatise
will
permit
:
nor
is
there
need
,
since
it
hath
pleased
the
Father
of
Lights
to
stirre
up
the
spirit
of
a
faithfull
witnesse
of
his
Truth
,
in
this
particular
,
Mr.
to
make
a
large
and
faithfull
Reply
to
a
Booke
printed
in
Mr.
name
,
tending
to
prove
such
a
lawfull
Liberty
.
The
first
in
(
this
chapter
)
concerning
this
title
,
Preachers
.
Secondly
,
concerning
hearing
them
in
chapter
First
,
that
Mr.
acknowledgeth
,
the
ordinary
Ministers
of
the
Gospel
,
to
Pastors
,
Teachers
,
Bishops
,
Overseers
,
Elders
:
and
that
their
proper
worke
is
,
to
feed
and
governe
,
a
truly
converted
,
holy
,
and
godly
people
,
gathered
into
a
flock
or
Church-Estate
.
And
not
properly
Preachers
,
to
convert
,
beget
,
make
Disciples
,
which
the
Apostles
,
and
Evangelists
properly
were
:
so
that
according
to
Mr.
Preachers
are
not
Pastors
,
Teachers
,
Bishops
,
Elders
,
but
Preachers
of
glad
newes
(
Evangelists
)
men
sent
to
convert
and
gather
Churches
,
(
Apostles
,
)
&c.
feeding
his
flock
,
and
at
the
Prophets
prophecying
in
the
Church
,
an
unbeleiver
coming
in
may
be
convinced
,
&c.
but
this
is
accidentall
,
&c.
to
worke
personall
Repentance
in
the
hearts
of
thousands
in
Yea
,
and
who
knoweth
but
in
also
,
&c.
but
all
this
hath
been
under
the
notion
of
Ministers
feeding
their
flocks
,
not
of
Preachers
sent
to
convert
the
unconverted
,
and
unbeleiving
.
in
season
and
out
of
season
,
the
Lord
hath
ordained
,
that
they
who
preach
the
Gospel
should
live
of
the
Gospel
,
preach
the
word
of
Pastors
,
and
Teachers
,
to
preach
for
conversion
,
but
accidentall
onely
,
and
counteth
and
calleth
it
a
most
preposterous
worke
for
ordinary
Ministers
to
preach
for
conversion
,
&c.
Faith
cometh
by
hearing
,
and
hearing
by
a
Preacher
,
and
him
sent
.
for
he
worketh
all
things
according
to
the
Counsell
of
his
owne
will
,
Ephes.
passage
.
First
,
because
so
many
excellent
and
worthy
persons
mainly
preach
for
Conversion
,
and
yet
account
themselves
fixed
and
constant
Ministers
to
particular
Congregations
,
&c.
Secondly
,
that
in
these
great
Earth-quakes
of
all
Estates
civill
and
spirituall
,
such
a
Ministry
might
be
sought
after
,
whose
proper
worke
might
be
preaching
for
converting
of
soules
to
Christ
.
he
would
not
engage
himselfe
in
this
Controversie
:
himselfe
maintaineth
,
that
the
dispensing
of
the
word
in
a
Church-state
,
is
Christs
feeding
of
his
flock
,
Christs
kissing
of
his
Spouse
Christs
embracing
of
his
Spouse
in
the
marriage
bed
,
Christs
nursing
of
his
Children
at
his
wives
breasts
,
And
is
there
no
communion
between
the
Shepheard
and
his
sheep
?
the
Husband
and
the
wife
in
chaste
kisses
and
embraces
?
the
Mother
and
the
child
at
the
breasts
?
confesseth
,
that
the
fellowship
in
the
Gospel
,
is
a
fellowship
or
Communion
in
the
Apostles
doctrine
,
Community
,
breaking
of
bread
,
and
prayer
,
in
which
the
first
Church
continued
,
All
which
overthroweth
the
doctrine
of
lawfull
participation
of
the
word
and
prayer
in
a
Church-state
,
where
it
is
not
lawfull
to
communicate
,
in
the
breaking
of
bread
,
or
seales
.
and
others
most
eminent
in
have
freely
confest
That
notwithstanding
their
profession
of
Ministery
in
yet
in
(
till
they
received
a
Calling
from
a
particular
Church
)
that
they
were
but
private
Christians
.
That
Christ
Jesus
hath
appointed
no
other
Calling
to
the
Ministery
,
but
such
as
they
practise
in
and
therefore
consequently
,
that
all
other
,
which
is
not
from
a
particular
Congregation
of
godly
persons
,
is
none
of
Christs
.
As
first
,
a
Calling
and
Commission
from
the
Bishops
.
From
a
Parish
of
naturall
and
unregenerate
persons
.
From
some
few
godly
persons
,
yet
remaining
in
Church-fellowship
after
the
Parish
way
.
That
eminent
gifts
and
abilities
are
but
qualifications
fitting
or
preparing
for
a
Call
to
an
Office
,
All
which
premises
duly
considered
,
he
desireth
that
Mr.
and
all
that
feare
God
,
might
try
what
will
abide
the
fiery
Triall
in
this
particular
,
when
the
Lord
Jesus
shall
be
revealed
in
flaming
fire
,
&c.
That
notwithstanding
our
former
profession
of
Ministery
in
yet
(
till
we
received
a
Calling
from
a
particular
Church
)
we
were
but
private
Christians
.
Old
England
Old
England
Wee
hold
and
freely
confesse
,
that
Christ
Jesus
hath
appointed
no
other
Calling
to
the
Ministery
,
but
such
as
we
practise
in
And
that
any
other
Calling
to
the
Ministery
,
which
is
not
from
a
particular
Congregation
of
godly
persons
,
is
none
of
Christs
.
That
Christ
Jesus
hath
appointed
no
other
Calling
to
the
Ministery
,
but
such
as
we
practise
in
That
a
Calling
or
Commission
received
from
the
Bishops
is
none
of
Christs
.
That
a
Calling
from
a
Parish
of
naturall
and
unregenerate
persons
,
is
none
of
Christs
.
That
a
Calling
from
some
few
godly
persons
,
yet
remaining
in
Church
fellowship
after
the
Parish
way
,
is
not
of
Christ
.
the
Lord
of
Hosts
had
left
us
a
very
small
Remnant
,
wee
should
have
been
as
Sodom
,
wee
should
have
been
like
unto
Gomorrah
That
eminent
gifts
and
abilities
,
are
but
qualifications
fitting
and
preparing
for
a
Call
,
or
Office
,
according
to
That
I
have
not
duly
considered
sundry
particulars
:
The
necessitie
of
Separation
between
the
garden
of
the
Church
,
and
the
wildernesse
of
the
world
:
As
the
Church
of
the
under
the
old
Testament
was
separate
from
the
world
;
so
ought
the
Church
of
the
New
Testament
to
be
.
have
made
the
world
have
redeemed
us
from
this
present
evill
world
,
The
world
loveth
his
own
And
the
whole
world
lyeth
in
wickednesse
,
The
lusts
of
the
world
Love
not
the
world
I
wrote
unto
you
in
an
Epistle
,
not
to
company
with
fornicators
:
yet
not
altogether
with
the
fornicators
of
this
world
,
or
with
the
covetous
,
or
extortioners
,
or
with
Idolaters
,
for
then
must
yee
needs
goe
out
of
the
world
.
But
if
any
man
that
is
called
a
brother
,
be
a
fornicator
,
or
covetous
,
or
an
Idolater
,
with
such
an
one
,
no
not
to
eate
,
That
all
the
grounds
and
principles
leading
to
oppose
Bishops
,
Ceremonies
,
Common
Prayer
,
prostitution
of
the
Ordinances
of
brist
to
the
ungodly
,
and
the
true
practise
of
Christs
own
Ordinances
,
doe
necessarily
conclude
a
separation
of
holy
from
unholy
,
penitent
from
impenitent
,
godly
from
ungodly
.
And
that
to
frame
any
other
building
upon
such
grounds
and
foundations
,
is
no
other
then
to
raise
the
forme
of
a
square
house
upon
the
keele
of
a
Ship
,
which
will
never
prove
a
soule
saving
true
Arke
or
Church
of
Christ
Jesus
according
to
the
patterne
.
that
I
have
not
duely
considered
,
that
all
the
grounds
and
principles
leading
to
oppose
Bishops
,
and
Ceremonies
,
&c.
doe
necessarily
conclude
a
separation
of
holy
from
unholy
,
&c.
is
the
raising
up
of
a
square
house
upon
the
keele
of
a
Ship
,
The
multitudes
of
holy
and
faithfull
men
and
women
,
who
have
witnessed
this
truth
from
Queene
dayes
,
by
writing
,
disputing
,
and
suffering
,
farre
above
what
the
Non-conformists
have
done
,
&c.
Is
our
own
practise
,
and
profession
.
Our
practise
,
in
constituting
our
Churches
of
none
but
godly
persons
,
and
uniting
them
into
a
body
by
voluntary
mutuall
Covenant
,
and
adding
none
to
them
,
but
persons
carefully
examined
and
approved
,
and
entering
by
way
of
confession
,
both
of
their
sinnes
,
and
of
their
faith
.
Our
practise
also
,
in
suppressing
other
who
have
attempted
to
set
up
a
Congregation
in
a
Parishionall
way
.
Our
profession
in
the
late
Answer
we
gave
to
many
worthy
persons
,
(
whom
yet
we
account
godly
Ministers
and
people
)
that
we
could
not
permit
them
to
live
in
the
same
Common-wealth
together
with
us
,
if
they
should
set
up
any
other
Church
and
Worship
,
then
what
our selves
practise
.
answer
many
worthy
Ministers
and
people
in
that
wee
could
not
permit
them
to
live
in
the
same
Common-wealth
with
us
,
if
they
varied
from
us
.
that
we
persecute
the
Parishes
in
and
yet
frequent
the
Parishes
in
That
in
the
Parishes
(
which
Mr
holdeth
but
inventions
of
men
)
how
ever
they
would
have
liberty
to
frequent
the
worship
of
the
Word
,
yet
they
separate
from
the
Sacraments
:
And
yet
(
according
to
our
own
Principles
)
there
is
as
true
Communion
in
the
ministration
of
the
Word
,
as
in
the
Seales
.
What
mystery
should
be
in
this
,
but
that
here
,
(
to
wit
,
in
the
Crosse
of
Christ
may
be
avoyded
,
if
persons
come
to
Church
?
is
as
true
Communion
in
the
ministration
of
the
Word
in
a
Church-estate
(
to
wit
,
to
such
as
are
in
Church-estate
)
with
the
Minister
of
the
Word
,
as
in
the
Seales
.
That
how
ever
Mr.
saith
,
He
hath
not
found
such
presence
of
Christ
and
evidence
of
the
Spirit
in
such
(
separate
)
Churches
,
as
in
the
Parishes
:
What
should
be
the
reason
of
their
great
rejoycings
and
boastings
of
their
own
separations
in
in
so
much
,
that
some
of
the
most
eminent
amongst
them
have
affirmed
,
that
even
the
Apostles
Churches
were
not
so
pure
?
Surely
if
the
same
new
Churches
were
in
they
could
not
meete
in
without
persecution
:
which
therefore
in
they
avoyde
,
by
frequenting
the
way
of
Church-worship
in
the
Parishes
,
which
in
they
persecute
Old
England
the
Lord
Jesus
never
delivered
,
nor
any
of
his
Apostles
after
him
,
nor
any
of
his
Prophets
before
him
.
We
boast
of
our
separations
in
yea
so
farre
,
as
that
some
of
our
most
eminent
have
said
,
that
even
the
Apostles
Churches
were
not
so
pure
.
That
of
all
the
Churches
of
Christ
in
the
world
,
the
new
were
the
most
pure
,
and
of
all
the
new
the
Church
of
that
wee
in
doe
persecute
the
way
of
separation
,
whether
the
one
kinde
of
separation
,
or
the
other
.
that
we
frequent
the
Parish-Churches
in
to
avoyd
persecution
That
he
in
withdrawing
the
people
of
God
from
hearing
the
voyce
of
Christ
in
so
many
Congregations
,
both
in
and
in
Old
,
did
not
helpe
Jehovah
against
the
mighty
,
but
Satan
against
Jehovah
,
and
against
the
mighty
Ordinances
of
his
Word
,
and
Ministry
.
he
helpeth
the
zealous
soules
of
the
Separati●n
,
and
he
helpeth
us
to
seeke
the
Lord
Jesus
without
halting
.
That
whosoever
will
not
kisse
the
Sonne
,
shall
perish
in
their
way
to
every
soule
seriously
to
consider
,
in
this
Controversie
,
if
the
Lord
Jesus
were
himselfe
in
person
in
Old
,
or
what
Church
,
what
Ministery
,
what
Worship
,
what
Government
he
would
set
up
,
and
what
persecution
he
would
practise
toward
them
that
would
not
receive
him
.
What
persecution
the
Lord
Jesus
if
he
were
on
earth
,
would
practise
against
those
who
would
not
receive
him
.
Those
mine
enemies
which
would
not
that
I
should
reigne
over
them
,
bring
them
hither
,
and
slay
them
before
my
face
,
Luk.
Bloudy
Tenent