which is contrary to his, then his argument had no
sure ground for it; yea, that which I said was to prove that his
consequence, drawn from those scriptures, did contradict both the apostle
Paul's doctrine and his own profession, which still lieth upon him since
it is not answered.

Page 14, He citeth 1 Cor. x. 32, "Give none offence, neither to the Jews,
nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God," to prove that all
government is either a Jewish government, or a church government, or a
heathenish government, and that _there is no third._ Yes, Sir, yourself
hath given a third (for you have told three), but _transeat cum caeteris
erroribus_. To the matter. This is a perverting of scripture to prove an
untruth; for the government of generals, admirals, majors, sheriffs, is
neither a Jewish government nor a church government, nor a heathenish
government. Neither doth the Apostle speak anything of government in that
place. He maketh a distribution of all men who are in danger to be
scandalised--not of governments; and if he had applied the place rightly to
the Parliament of England, he had said, They are either of the Jews, or of
the Gentiles, or of the church of God: and this needeth not an answer. But
when he saith, "The English Parliament is either a Jewish government, or a
church government, or a heathenish government," I answer, It is none of
these, but it is a civil government.

Page 15, Declaring his opinion of church government he citeth Rom. xiii.
4, "To execute wrath upon him that doeth evil," to prove that the punitive
part belongs to the Christian magistrate. But what is this to the punitive
part which is in controversy,--spiritual censures, suspension from the
sacraments, deposition from the ministry, excommunication? The punitive
part spoken of, Rom. xiii., belongeth to all civil magistrates, whether
Christian or infidel.

Page 18. He maketh this reply to 1 Thess. v. 12; 1 Tim. xvii.; Heb. xiii.
7, 17: "Why, man, I have found these an hundred and an hundred times twice
told, and yet am I as I was." Why, Sir, was the argument so ridiculous? I
had brought those places to prove another government (and, if you will,
the institution of another government) beside magistracy, which he said he
did not find in Scripture. Here are some who are no civil magistrates set
over the Thessalonians in the Lord, 1 Thess. v. 12; Paul writeth to
Timothy of elders that rule well, 1 Tim. v. 17; the churches of the
Hebrews had s