A Reply to his Chap. 43.
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CHAP. 43. A Reply to his Chap. 43.
Discusser.
Fourthly, I ask; were not these Elders and Ministers of the Church of Ephesus sufficiently furnished from the Lord Jesus, to drive away these spiritual, and mystical wolves?
FOurthly, I aske; were not these Elders and Ministers of the Church of Ephesus sufficiently furnished from the Lord Jesus, to drive away these spirituall, and mysticall wolves?
Defender.
They were furnished with sufficient power to cast them out of the Church, but being cast out, they had not sufficient power to drive them away from conferring with, and corrupting the members of the Church, or other Godly ones out of the Church. It is no dishonour to Christ, nor impeachment to the sufficiency of the Ordinances left by Christ, that in such a case, his Ministers of Justice in the Civill State, should assist his Ministers of the Gospel in the Church-State
They were furnished with sufficient power to cast them out of the Church, but being cast out, they had not sufficient power to drive them away from conferring with, and corrupting the members of the Church, or other Godly ones out of the Church. It is no dishonor to Christ, nor impeachment to th sufficiency of the Ordinances left by Christ, that in such a case, his Ministers of Justice in the Civill State, should assist his Ministers of the Gospel in the Church-State