C u A P.2. Ep Jlle to the T hegalonia4S. V E R.12. idle then defiroying heretic. To murther Kings fuppofed heretical' or Tyrannous, is not berefie, but Sacrilegious cruelty. But to teach or belieue it iawfull or meritorious to doe violence to the Lords aunointed, is curfedly hereti- cal!, &c. You may in foolifh, or rather cruell pitie, promiíe life to impenitent Papifis ; Ì meane, that repent not their Pa- païfine, 6efades all their other fnnes ; nor revoke their er- rours : for my part I belieue Saint 'Paul, their errours in faith are fuch as _Iliad damne them. Saint John, that the r Teat andfalfe `Prophet with all their. impenitent fec`laries Gall 6e cal into the Lake of fire. I aduife as Saint Iohn,f Come out ofher;keepe out of her al ye the Lords people that loue -your foules;Saueyourfelues from that vntoward,that curfedgeneration. if Papifis may be faued, we haue needlefly feparated : if they hold the head, the foundation in fuch fort and degree as to be ca- pable of falnation, Antichrifi may be as Chrifi, a Ie- fur to Gods people. Their end, if `Paul fay true, is dam- nation. 4 The raufe is euident, and the crime's of that high na- ture, that Iutlice of God in infiieling fuch vengeance, is eafely difccrned : for they belieue not the ?ruth. a Haue pleafure in vnrighteoufieffe. De prinoo : who believed not theTruth. Truth to which beliefe is denied,vnderfiand not euery Truth. What if a man held as eaxagorae,that the Snow is blacke;could he not be induced to belieue it white : or as Copernicus, that the heauens (land Rill without motion; the earth moues, and were refract ary to all contrary perfwafion.Heretiques or Infidels you might cali loch in Philofophy ;. howbeit difcredence of fuch truths loth not prejudice any in his faluation. Truth vndertiand as maul interprets the Gof- pelf : the word oftruth which is thee Cef ell,Eph. t. t ;. fo fiiled either rtao' c'grepcXrr, as the moti excellent,eximious, comfortable truth God ever reuealed to man ; elfe in op- ` pofirion to thofe fhadowie refemblances wherein God prefented .Chrifis merits and benefits to the faith of Lewes r Apoc.Y9.2o. fApoct8.4,- 2. ,C01 ; ;. it!
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