A Reply to his Chap. 37.
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CHAP. 37. A Reply to his Chap. 37.
Discusser.
This perplexed and ravelled Answer, wherein so many things, and so doubtful are wrapped up and entangled together, I shall take in pieces.
THis perplexed and ravelled Answer, wherein so many things, and so doubtfull are wrapped up and entangled together, I shall take in pieces.
1. That the Lord Jesus in rebuking his Disciples rash and bloody zeal 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.
1. 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.
Defender.
Well then, this Point is none of those many doubtful things here wrapped: much less is it perplexed, or ravelled, but a plain, and confessed Truth. But whether the Author of that Letter sent to me, did take it for a certain and unquestioned Truth, I did not know: nor do I yet know, unless the Discusser speak his mind herein, as well as his own. Sure I am, Prosecution in a Churchway, (if the cause be not just) is as odious and dreadful a Persecution, as Prosecution in a Court of civill Justice, as hath been proved above.