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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80608	The bloudy tenent, washed, and made white in the bloud of the Lambe: being discussed and discharged of bloud-guiltinesse by just defence. Wherein the great questions of this present time are handled, viz. how farre liberty of conscience ought to be given to those that truly feare God? And how farre restrained to turbulent and pestilent persons, that not onely raze the foundation of godlinesse, but disturb the civill peace where they live? Also how farre the magistrate may proceed in the duties of the first table? And that all magistrates ought to study the word and will of God, that they may frame their government according to it. Discussed. As they are alledged from divers Scriptures, out of the Old and New Testament. Wherein also the practise of princes is debated, together with the judgement of ancient and late writers of most precious esteeme. Whereunto is added a reply to Mr. Williams answer, to Mr. Cottons letter. / By John Cotton Batchelor in Divinity, and teacher of the church of Christ at Boston in New England.	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.	1647 (1647)	Wing C6409; Thomason E387_7; ESTC R836	257,083	342

those words Come out of Babel my People locall separation be intended yet when he addeth Lest yee be partakers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 her sinnes I beleeve spirituall separation is much more required and locall separation as a meanes the better to attaine that end of spirituall separation from partaking in her sinnes Which may also cleare the meaning of the Text and the fraud of the Examiner For the words are not as he alledgeth them Come out of Babel my people Partake not of her sinnes For so the latter part might be an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or explanation of the former Coming out of Babel might be all one with Partake not of her sinnes But the words of the Text be Come out of her my People that yee be not partaker of her sinnes Which plainly argueth that coming out of Babel locally is a meanes to prevent partaking in her sinnes spiritually It is true which he saith The Lord Jesus hath broken downe all difference of Places Joh. 4. and all difference of Persons Acts 10. To wit in regard of ceremoniall pollution or ceremoniall holinesse But if he thinke there is no difference between one Citie or Countrey more then another in morall pollutions of Idolatry superstition unrighteousnesse and uncleannesse he maketh himselfe a greater stranger both to the Word and to the world then I did thinke he had been The two causes of Gods Indignation against England which he suggesteth are worthy due consideration and attention I would rather say Amen to them then weaken the weight of them Onely I should so assent to the latter as not to moove for a Toleration of all Dissenters Dissenters in Fundamentalls and that out of obstinacy against conscience and Seducers to the perdition of soules and to the disturbance of Civill and Church-Peace but onely of such Dissenters as vary either in matters of lesse weight or of fundamentall yet not out of wilfull obstinacy but out of tendernesse of Conscience As for the Controversie which the Examiner saith He hath with me Whether false worship be not onely locall but a spirituall Guilt and not onely a Guilt but also an Habit c. I doe acknowledge no such controversie between us I wholly consent with him in the Point Onely I doe not beleeve all that to be either a Guilt or an Habit of false worship which he doth imagine but in his termes I accord TO CHAP. XVI HIs 16th Chapter is taken up in Examining and Answering the Exposition which my Letter gave of that Text formerly alledged 2 Cor. 6.14 15 16. Of which I said 1. That the Text onely requireth Coming out from Idolaters in the fellowship of their Idolatry No Marriages were they to make with them No Feasts were they to hold with them in the Idolls Temples No intimate Familiaritie were they to maintaine with them Nor any Fellowship were they to keepe with them in the unfruitfull workes of Darknesse And this is all which the place requireth But what maketh all this to proove that we may not receive such Persons to Church-fellowship as our selves confesse to be godly and who doe professedly bewaile and renounce all knowne sinne and would renounce more if they knew more Although it may be they doe not see the utmost skirts of all that pollution they have sometimes been defiled with as the Patriarchs saw not the pollution of their Polygamy In Answer to this the Examiner telleth us 1. That if the regenerate and prepenting English did come thus farre forth it would availe much to the sanctifying of the Name of the Lord Jesus to the pacifying of his jealousie c. Reply But this is no Answer at all unlesse he did assume that our repenting English did not come thus farre forth Therefore he giveth for another Answer that which is indeed but a part of this That according to the former Distinction of Godly Persons who possibly may live in ungodly practises especially of false worship And then according to Mr. Cottons Interpretation they come not forth Reply That former Distinction hath been considered above and weighed but hath been found impertinent to the case in hand The Examiner neither doth nor ever will make it good That the Godly persons amongst us doe live in any ungodly practises of false worship Nor doe they take his Affirmation without any mention of Scripture-ground for a sufficient conviction But saith he if there be any voyce of Christ in the mouths of his witnesses against these sinnes they are not then of ignorance but negligence and spirituall hardnesse against the wayes of Gods seare Isai 63. c. Reply If there be saith he any voyce of Christ in the mouths of his witnesses against these sinnes c. If there be he doth not say there be And if there were how doth it appeare that their voyce is the voyce of Christ or that they be the witnesses of Christ in whose mouths this voyce is How easie had it been for the Examiner if he himselfe knew any such voyce of Christ in the mouths of any of his witnesses against these sinnes of false worship which our godly Brethren doe live in to have alledged the same and the word of Christ which might have been witnesse to the voyce of those witnesses But these Ifs and Overtures will neither convince nor edifie others nor justifie himselfe Besides what if there be some witnesses have testified against the false worship in England and against the hearing of those Ministers by reason of that false worship What if the Godly Persons of whom he speaketh here are not so ignorant but they know what those witnesses have said nor so negligent but they have duly considered and pondered the same and weighing it in the Ballance of the Scriptures have found it too light Is it spirituall hardnesse to choose rather to feare God and his Word then to feare the false Interpretations and Applications of it by the spirit of Error The word of the Lord wee reverence and acknowledge Come not yee to Gilgall neither goe yee up to Bethaven But doe wee come to Gilgall or goe up to Bethaven when we heare the word of the Lord from the godly Preachers in the Parishes in England If such alledgements of Scripture may goe for the voyce of Christ in the mouths of his witnesses we shall soone forget the Counsell of Solomon Cease my Sonne to heare the Instruction which causeth to erre from the words of knowledge Pro. 19.27 The Apostle John hath long since directed us Hereby know we the spirit of Truth and the spirit of Error He that knoweth God heareth us that is the Apostles and those that preach their Doctrine He that is not of God heareth us not 1 Joh. 4.6 But for another Answer the Examiner proceedeth Moreover saith he the Question is not of the utmost skirts of pollution but the substance of a true and false Bed of worship Cant. 1.16 In respect of coming out of the false before the entrance