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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70887	The Quakers vindicated from the calumnies of those that falsly accuse them as if they denyed magistrates, and disowned government; and as if both in principle and practice they were inconsistant with either. In which is shewed, that the true and sincere Quakers (so called, for of them I write) are in the spirit and principle in which the justice of magistrates is obeyed, and in which magistrates are to administer their government, and that by their practice in good works they fulfill all just and good government. And that they have God's authority for their meeting together to worship Him, ... And that people in matters of religion and the worship of God, should rather be instructed and led by the Spirit of the Lord in Gods authority, ... Also, several objections answered, as to the exercise of secular force and compulsion over the conscience in matters of faith, religion, and the worship of God. By Edward Pyot.	Pyot, Edward, d. 1670.	1667 (1667)	Wing P4316A; ESTC R25210	46,417	48

Law of God compel any of his true worshipers to worship him by the force of Secular penalties punishments or is that worship acceptable to God which is by compulsion and force And to that which perhaps by some may be said That the penalties and punishments herein mentioned are the judgments and executions of the Law of the King I say are God's true Worshippers by the Laws and Prescriptions of men to worship God after that manner which is contrary to that which by the Law of God is prescribed for his Worship or are they by penalties and punishments to be forc'd as to the Worship of God contrary to their Faith and to what they believe to be the true Worship of God and against their Consciences And was not the Law of God then the Law of the King also when the King by his Decree had established it as his Law to be administred in their Judicature Is not therefore that part of the King's Decree which in Ezra 7. 25 26. is contained intended by the King of the exercise of his Civil Power for his reforming of the Magistracy and outward Judicature in the Province of Judah for the Civil Government of the Jews according to the Law of God as to their outward man as in the Wisdom of God Ezra should be guided to direct it and not for his reforming of the Church as to the Worship of God for as to what in his Decree related to the House of God and his Worship and to the Ministers thereof did not his Decree end as to the before-mentioned with the end of the 24th verse of that chapter or did the King at all reform the Church as to the Worship of God otherwise than as by his Decree he submitted the reformation of it to the Commandments of God himself and by his ordering that to be diligently done for the House of the God of Heaven which either was or should be commanded by the God of Heaven as in ver 23. and also as by his Decree he protected the Jews in the free exercise of their Liberty as to their Consciences in their obedience to the Commands of God as to his own Worship and Service And as to that which perhaps by some may be objected That these penalties and punishments may be executed as to the matters of Religion and Worship because the Law of God is as well there mentioned as the Law of the King viz. Whosoever will not do the Law of thy God and the Law of the King c. To which I answer Was not the Law of God by the Law of the King established to be administred in the outward Government of the Jews as to the things of their outward man and to be executed upon Offenders in their Civil Judicature according to the nature and degree of each transgression as by the judgement of the Judicature they were sentenced whether unto Death or to Banishment or to Confiscation of Goods or Imprisonment for were not the Jews in their liberty from Captivity to be judged and governed according to the Law of God even as to the things of the outward man and by Magistrates and Judges that knew the Law of God And were not the Kings of Israel therefore to have ●ut 17. 19 20 a Book of the Law of God and therein to read all the dayes of their lives that they might learn the fear of the Lord their God and keep the words of his Law and his Statutes to do them and that their hearts might not be lifted up above their Brethren nor they turn aside from the Command of God neither to the right-hand nor to the left And in order to the administration and execution of the Law of God in their Civil Judicature was not Ezra therefore after the wisdom of God as his guide by the King's Decree to settle Magistrates and Judges that knew the Law of God and to teach them that knew it not for had not Ezra prepared his heart to seek the Law of the Lord to do it and to teach in Israel Statutes and Judgments And did not the King direct his Commission to Ezra as to a Scribe of the ●ra 7. 11 12. Law of God and a Teacher of the words of the Commandments of God and of his Statutes to Israel And do not Statutes there relate to State-Government and Civil Judicature And was not Ezra by the King and his seven Counsellors sent to enquire concerning Judah and Ierusalem according to the Law of his God were not therefore these penalties and punishments in the administration of the Law of God by Magistrates and Judges which knew the Law of God to be executed upon malefactors for their capital or criminal offences against the Law of God rather than upon Innocent and regular people for the exercise of their Faith and Consciences to God in his Worship and Service And may not these penalties and punishments be annexed by the King to inforce his Decree and accordingly to be executed upon any of the Jews adversaries that at any time should oppose this his new Constitution of the Magistracy for the Government of the Jews according to the Law of God for had not the Jews many potent Adversaries nigh them who waited opportunities to mischieve them as in the case of the building of the Temple were not many exasperated against the Jews lest by it their Idolatrous High-Places should be clouded So in time might not their potent Adversaries be exasperated at this new Reformation of the Magistracy for their Civil Government according to the Law of God in which they had not the same opportunity as Lords of their own Rule to tyrannize over the Jews as formerly And withall may not these executions viz. unto Death or to Banishment or to Confiscation of Goods or to Imprisonment the rather be thus particularly signified and expressed thereby to demonstrate the greatness of their Authority by the King's Commission for the administration of the Law of God in their Civil Government and the ample Power which by the King's Decree was given them for the execution of Judgement in their Judicature as to the things of the outward man Which Power here thus largely extended was afterwards denied them by the Romans when under their Dominion it was not lawful for the Jews to put any man to death Iohn 18. 31. And as to that which in this kind is objected by some of the examples of the Kings of Israel and Iudah viz. That they exercised Authority in the matters of Religion c. and that therefore Christian Magistrates may now yea and that they ought so to exercise their Power and Dominion over Christians as even to force and compel them as to the maner of the Worship of God though it be contrary to their Faith and against their Consciences To which I answer first Do not the Statutes of several Kingdoms in Christendom differ as to the matters of Religion and their manners and