But not justly so. For it was an enemy that sowed the tares while men slept. And the direction given to the over zealous servants to let the tares alone until the time of harvest, lest they should pull up the wheat also, through their inability to discriminate accurately by the appearance of the blade, can fairly be understood only as a caution to the church not to attempt rashly what man cannot accomplish, the perfect separation of the unregenerate from the regenerate, already in the church. Nor