A Reply to his Chap. 71. Discussing the Testimony of Jerome.A Reply to his Chap. 71. Discussing the Testimony of Ierome.
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CHAP. 68. A Reply to his Chap. 71. Discussing the Testimony of Jerome.
CHAP. 68. A Reply to his Chap. 71. Discussing the Testimony of Ierome.
Discusser.
I Jerome (saith the Answerer) confesseth not the Truth, nor advantageth your cause: for we grant, what he saith, That Heresy must be cut off by the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. But this hindereth not, but that being so cut down, if the Heretic do still persist in his Heresy to the seduction of others, he may be cut off also by the civill Sword, to prevent the perdition of others.
I Erome (saith the Answerer) confesseth not the Truth, nor advantageth your cause: for wee graunt, what he saith, That Heresie must be cut off by the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. But this hindereth not, but that being so cut downe, if the Hereticke doe still persist in his Heresie to the seduction of others, he may be cut off also by the civill Sword, to prevent the perdition of others.
And that to be Jeromes meaning, appeareth by his Note upon that of the Apostle (Gal. 5.) A little Leaven leaveneth the whole lump. Therefore saith he, a spark, as soon as it appeareth, is to be extinguished, and the Leaven to be removed from the rest of the dough: Rotten pieces of flesh are to be cut off, and a scabbed Beast is to be driven from the sheepfold: least the whole house, body, mass of dough, and Flock, be set on fire with the spark, be putrefied with the rotten flesh, soured with the Leaven, perish with the scabbed Beast.