Baxter - BV649 B3 1670

What it( xece f 4ry, andwho is Fudge, 36 itt ment, and the other would have no fubjets to be governed. Seeing therefore bounds and limits there muif be, we may reckon them as the third fort of difrra&ed perfons, who think that the bounds are fo undifcoverable, that the mention of them is invain; and therefore either 411 or None muff be tollerated according as Rulers are difpofed, or their interefi feemeth to require : And there- fore they fay, ffhàt points be they that are neccffary, and ghat unnicelary ? what errours are tollerable,and rhat are intollerable ? Ctn )ou name and number them? Or, -rho mufi be the judge ? To which I an- fwer, Firfl, Let it be ñrfl fuppofed that God harhgi- ven tee a Law to judge by, and then we [hall quick- ly tell you who fha.11 be the Judge (A queflion which the confuted world doth further their con- fufon by, whenthey are a thoufand times anfwe- redpaíf all rational contradiáion) judgement is private or publick: The judicium privatum di/cre- tionrs , which is but the guide of rational acts, be- longeth to every private man ( which none that is a mandid ever yet-deny) The judiciumpublican is either in foro civili determining in order to cor- poral coaílion, and this belongetb only to the Ma- giflrates ; Or it is in foro Ecclefie determining in order to Church- communion or Excommunication; and this belongeth only to the Church; ( but un der the coa6tive Government of the Magifírate: the Paftorrs being the Governors, and the people inpart the executioners.)He that requireth more underfaands not this. Secondly, And what if there be a difficulty what points are neceffary and what errours are intone., i

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