The liz;tary of >./.04 artars. 373 Chrift is led by himfelf theLamb of God, and his Minifters mutt go before withhim, and attend him in the conduE ; and the Maaiftrate mutt come le- hind and drive ; and it is the hindtrmofl, and not thofebefere that muff be driven. Paflors fhould be-fo far from calling out for the help ofviolence ( unlefs it be to keep the peace) that they should rather íhew their love and tendernefs, by fcek= ing as far as they may to mitigate it : And they Ihould defire that no fuch ungrateful work be at all irnpofed uponthem, as to feem the affli&ers of their flocks : becaufe when once they have loft their love, they have loft their opportunity and advantage of edifying them. And it is not Pil4tc's hypocritical waffling of his hands, that will excufe him : Nor the Ro- mifh Clergies d.ifclaiming to meddle in a judge- ment of blood, which will reconcile the minds of fufferers to them , as long as they are Mailers of the Inquifition , or deliver them up to the fecular power, and excommunicate and depofe the temporal Lords who will not du fuch execu- tion as they require. Though I have fome where elfe mentioned it, I will again requeft the ReverendPaf}ors of the Church, to perufe the f}ory of ldacim and Mr- tin in St,T1pititse Severau. The fum of it is this. Prifcillian and many others ( forme Bifhops anc force Presbyters and force private perfume) wet e. zealous in religion , but heretical (Gneftickt. faith SNlpitins :) Ithaciass and ldacisss were twt Orthodox Bilhops who were very hct againf thofehereticks Both of them men of rafh and haughty fpirits, and one of them at leaf} ( faint Dd 3
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