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Defender.

That I only quoted the Names of those blessed men of God, It was partly because it was enough to counterpoise the Names of Authors alleged by the Letter against the Truth, by the Names of greater and more holy men of God, for the Truth: partly also, because if I had quoted their grounds, I must have transcribed their whole Books of the Argument. Calvins discourse about it, against Servetus, is bound up in his Opuscula. Beza his. Book de Haceticis a Magistratù puniendis, is bound up also in his Opuscula: but both of them too large by me to be copied, and to strong and accurate, by them of the adverse part to be refuted. Aretius, a like solid writer, may sooner be shifted off, then sifted to Bran. But it seemeth, if Paul himself had joined with them in the like fullness of expressions, himself should rather have been accursed by the Discusser, then his Doctrine accepted. Which seemeth to me a strange both prejudice, and prefidence met together. For since God laid his charge upon Magistrates in the Old-Testament, to punish Seducers, & the Lord Jesus never took this charge off in the New-Testament, ⟨p. 182⟩who is this Discusser, that he should account Paul himself, or an Angel from Heaven accursed, that should leave this charge still upon Magistrates, which God laid on, and Christ never took off? That Argument from the Parable Let both grow together to the Harvest is not at all expounded in the Interpretation, Let Seducers be suffered to live in the world till the last Judgement. And how weak a Foundation that is, to cast a curse upon a chosen Apostle, or upon an holy Angel, I hope hath been cleared in discussing that Text.

That I onely quoted the Names of those blessed men of God, It was partly because it was enough to counterpoise the Names of Authors alledged by the Letter against the Truth, by the Names of greater and more holy men of God, for the Truth: partly also, because if I had quoted their grounds, I must have transcribed their whole Bookes of the Argument. Calvines discourse about it, against Servetus, is bound up in his Opuscula. Beza his. Booke de Haceticis a Magistratù puniendis, is bound up also in his Opuscula: but both of them too large by me to be coppyed, and to strong and accurate, by them of the adverse part to be refuted. Aretius, a like solid writer, may sooner be shifted off, then sifted to Branne. But it seemeth, if Paul himselfe had joyned with them in the like fulnesse of expressions, himselfe should rather have been accursed by the Discasser, then his Doctrine accepted. Which seemeth to me a strange both prejudice, and prefidence met together. For since God layd his charge upon Magistrates in the Old-Testament, to punish Seducers, & the Lord Jesus never tooke this charge off in the New-Testament,