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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25655	Anti-Cotton answered who comes with five hundred questions against two and twenty of the Examiner examind and yet leaves it out of the question that the magistrate ought to suppresse idolatry &c.		1653 (1653)	Wing A3488; ESTC R26486	23,629	39

by two Witnesses should be punished with Death Whether he therein did lay a principle of Persecution or Murder whereby Jesabel by two false Witnesses might unjustly put Naboth to death Whether Paul commanding Christian Fathers to bring up their Children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord doe hereby lay a Principle whereupon Idolatrous Parents may bring up their Children in the nurture and Doctrine of Idolatry that is in the Doctrine of Devils The Summe of the severall Answers 1. The Examiner is not so void of reason as to imagine that corruptions and abuses are sufficient ground to overthrow a truly Christian constitution 2. Whether Parents may not doe that which Paul exhorts them to Eph. 5. except they force their Children to their own worship 3. By this rule the Child comming to be Magistrate must force his Father according to that Typicall example of Asa By this rule King Edward did well in forbidding his Sister Mary her conscience and Mary could doe no other then forbid her Sister Elizabeth the use of her conscience Reply Ad. 1. This Answerer that cannot imagine a Man so void of reason is so Irrationall himselfe for he brings the Magistrates frequent mistakes in Religion as an argument to overthrow his power about Spirituals 2 Abuses are to be taken away or else they wil overthrow a Christian Society but Idolatry Superstition c. are abuses of Gods workes according to this Authors Catalogue therefore Idolatry is to be taken away Ad. 2. 1. If a Father have Children that be Idolators he cannot fulfill the command of Paul except he bring them to the worship of the true God 2. What is this to the Question the Question is whether this command of Paul layes a principle for the brining up of Children in Idolatry The strength of this Question lyes in the Connexion against which nothing is said by this Answerer Ad. 3. I aske whether a Child comming to be Father over his Country may not judge his owne Father 2. King Edward did well in forbidding Mary the use of her conscience because she was an Idolator but this act of Edward to Mary doth not justifie Maries Act to Elizabeth For though it be good to be Zealous in a good cause yet not in a bad cause Zeale makes a good cause better Zeale makes a bad cause worse 3. I aske wherher Edwards forbidding Mary forced Mary to forbid Elizabeth the use of her conscience I aske whether the Shepheard driving Wolves from his Flocke forces the Wolves to devour his Sheepe I beleeve if the Shepheard should consent to make no use of his Dogges for the keeping of his Sheepe the Wolves would not desist from devouring his Sheepe 4. I aske whether it be lawfull to cease acting vigorously for God because we would not have the wicked act vigorously for the Devill and their Idols And whether upon such a cessation of the godly the wicked would be lesse wicked And whether this were not to make an agreement with iniquities Question 13. Idolatry being against the light of Nature Rom. 3.28 Rom. 1. and therefore punishable under the Law of Nature and so acknowledged by Job who lived before the Law of Moses Whether the Magistrate under the Gospel which gives more light to the discovery of the sinfulnesse and guilt of Idolatry may not also restraine and punish that sin The Summe of the severall Answers 1. Whether there be not divers interpretations of this place 1. the Septuagint renders it thus viz. this would have been judged a very great iniquity 2. Some interpret beholding the Sun and Moon c. Metaphorically for being pust up with Prosperity and Successe 2. Shall we follow Jobs example and erect New lands of Canaan 3. Gods People are commanded to disobey the civill power in Spirituals Col. 2.16 4. Is there not two sorts of Idolatry 1. Religious worshiping false gods 2. Morall as Covetousnesse 5. Is there not a fallacy in the terme Light of Nature 6. In Jobs time corporall now spirituall judgements re onely proper 7. Where lies the Harmony betweene these two Scirptures Rom. 2.1 Cor. 1. 8. Whether naturall wisdome can attaine to a true and saving knowledge of God 9. The civill Sword is to cut off all incivilities though masked under religious pretences and when Idolatry breaks forth into Whoredome and Murther i'ts to be punished Hence I honour that noble act of Augustus against Ovid and doubtlesse it is the duty of the civill Sword to cut off long Haire 10. If God had conceald the old Test from us I aske in what place of the New-Testament he hath commanded the Sword to be drawne in his quarrell 11. Whether such Nations as were wholly Idolatrous were punished by David 12. Whether Christ hath not lockt up the Magistrates hands saying let the Tares alone untill the Harvest Reply Ad. 1. 1. I aske whether the Septuagint being a translation be any further to be credited then it agrees with the Originall 2. Whether we may not justly suspect the Septuagints translation of verse 28. of this Chapter seeing that in vers 11. they omit wholly what they translate in vers 28. what they omit in one place we have ground to think they will safely translate in another place where it cannot be omitted 3. Whether Job 31.26 beholding the Sun is to be interpreted Metaphorically for being puft up with prosperity and successe It 's directly opposite to the scope of the place for 1. this Iniquity was not to be punished by the Judges 2. This Sentence viz. an iniquity to be punished by the Judges is annexed vers 11. unto the hainous crime of Adultery and is not annexed to any one sin besides in the whole Chapter but onely to this sin mentioned in this six and twentieth verse Therefore I Argue that beholding the Sun must be an iniquity of greater magnitude then to be puft up with successe 4. That this iniquity which was to be punished by the Judges is Idolatry I thus argue 1. Beholding the Sun and kissing the hand is interpreted to be a Religious worshipping the Sun For it was a custome in worshipping the gods to kisse them as appears from 1 King 19.18 Now the Sun being two farre distant they kissed their hands divers Authors witnesse that this was the manner of worshipping the Sun 2. Iniquity in the twenty eighth verse may be well put for Idolatry which is iniquity per eminentiam we have Iniquity put for Idolatry Josh 22.17 Numb 25.4 That Iniquity is to be thus taken in this place appears from the reason that is immediately subjoyned viz. for I should deny the God that is above Ad. 2. Whether the Magistrates in Jobs time who was by the concession of this Author before Moses punishing Idolatry did erect such a Canaan as that which the Jews erected in Moses time Ad. 3. Col. 2.16 is spoken of the Ceremoniall uncleannesse that some did put betweene Meats and Drinks c. which were indifferent in themselves