A Reply to his Eighteenth Chapter, Examining the first Argument for Toleration from Mat. 13.30, 38.
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CHAP. 18. A Reply to his Eighteenth Chapter, Examining the first Argument for Toleration from Mat. 13.30, 38.
Discusser.
First, Mat. 13.30, 38. Christ Commandeth to let alone the Tares, to grow up together with the wheat, until the Harvest.
First, Mat. 13.30, 38. Christ Commaundeth to let alone the Tares, to grow up together with the wheat, untill the Harvest.
Unto which he Answereth,
Ʋnto which he Answereth,
That Tares are not Briars and Thorns, but partly Hypocrites like unto the Godly, but indeed carnal (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 near the Truth (as Tares do to the wheat) and so near 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 penal Prosecution according to the third Conclusion.