A Reply to his 27. Chap. Discussing a doubt, how Ministers may be bidden to let Antichristians alone in the Civill State.
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CHAP. 27. A Reply to his 27. Chap. Discussing a doubt, how Ministers may be bidden to let Antichristians alone in the Civill State.
Discusser.
If it be objected, These servants, whom the Householder commandeth to let the Tares alone, seem to be Ministers or Messengers of the Gospel: How shall it belong to them to pluck up the Tares, or to let them alone, if by the Field be meant the world?
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.
1. To let them alone, and not to pluck them up by Prayer to God for their present temporal destruction.
1. To let them alone, and not to pluck them up by Prayer to God for their present temporall destruction.