A Reply to his Chap. 21. What is meant by the world; and more of the Tares.A Reply to his Chap. 21. VVhat is meant by the world; and more of the Tares.

CHAP. 21. A Reply to his Chap. 21. What is meant by the world; and more of the Tares.

CHAP. 21. A Reply to his Chap. 21. VVhat is meant by the world; and more of the Tares.

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2. The Tares cannot signify hypocrites in the Church; for the field wherein they both grow is interpreted by Christ himself to be the world, which lieth in wickedness, and is a wilderness of wild Beasts, Fornicators, Covetous, Idolaters, &c. In this world as soon as the Lord Jesus hath sown the good seed, (the Children of the Kingdom, true Christianity, or the true Church) the enemy Satan presently in the night of Security, Ignorance, and Error, soweth the Tares, which are Antichristians, or false Christians. Those the Ministers and Prophets of God would straight run to Heaven for fiery Judgements, from thence to consume them. But the Son of man commandeth a Permission of them, till the end of the world, when Goats and Sheep, Tares and Wheat, shall be eternally separated, &c.

2. 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, &c.