Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	everlasting_a	soul_n	6,796	5	5.1983	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80614	The controversie concerning liberty of conscience in matters of religion, truly stated, and distinctly and plainly handled, by Mr. John Cotton of Boston in New-England. By way of answer to some arguments to the contrary sent unto him, vvherein you have, against all cavils of turbulent spirits, clearly manifested, wherein liberty of conscience in matters of religion ought to be permitted, and in what cases it ought not, by the said Mr. Cotton.	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.	1646 (1646)	Wing C6420; Thomason E364_10; ESTC R201241	11,124	16

a sparke assoone as it appeareth is to be extinguished and the leaven to be removed from the rest of the dough rotten pieces of flesh are to be cut off and a scabbed beast is to be driven from the sheep-fold least the whole house masse of dough body and flock be set on fire with the spark be sowred with the leaven be putrified with the rotten flesh perish with the scabbed beast Brentius whom you quote next speaketh not to your cause we willingly grant him and you that man hath no power to make Lawes to bind the conscience out this hindreth not but that men may see the Lawes of God observed which do bind conscience The like answer may be returned to Luther whom you next alledge First The government of the civill Magistrate reacheth no further then over the bodies and goods of their subjects not over their soules and therefore they may not undertake to give lawes to the soules and consciences of men Secondly That the Church of Christ doth not use the Arms of secular power to compell men to the faith or profession of the truth for this is to be done by spirituall weapons whereby Christians are to be exhorted not compelled But this hindreth not that Christians sinning against light of faith and conscience may justly be censured by the Church by excommunication and by the civill sword also in case they shall corrupt others to the perdition of their soules As for the testimony of the Popish book we weigh it not as knowing whatsoever they speak for toleration of Religion where themselves are under the hatches when they come to sit at Sterne they judge and practise quite contrary as both their writing and judiciall proceedings have testified to the world these many years To shut up this Argument from testimony of Writers It is well known that Augustine retracted this opinion of yours which in his younger times he had held but after in riper age reversed and refuted as appears in his second book of retractations cap. 5. and in his Epistles 48.50 and in his first book against Parmenianus cap. 17. he sheweth that if the Donatists were punished with death they were justly punished and in his 1. Tractate upon John they murther saith he soules and themselves are afflicted in body they put men to everlasting death and yet they complain when themselves are put to suffer temporall death Opta●●s in his third book justifieth Macharius who had put some Heretiques to death that he had done no more herein then what Moses Phineas and Elias had done before him Bernard in his 66. Sermon in Cantica out of doubt saith he it is better they should be restrained by the sword of him who beareth not the sword in vain then that they should be suffered to draw many others into their error for be is the Minister of God for wrath to every evill doer Calvins judgment is well known who procured the death of Michaell Servetus for pertinacie in heresie and defended his fact by a book written of that Argument Beza also writ a book de Haereticis morte plectendis that Heretiques are to be punished with death Arelius likewise took the like course about the death of Valentius Gentilis and justified the Magistrates proceeding against him in a history written of that Argument Finally you come to answer an objection that it is no prejudice to the Common-wealth if liberty of conscience were suffered to such as fear God indeed which you prove by the example of the Patriarches and others But we readily grant you libertie of conscience is to be granted to men that fear God indeed as knowing they will not persist in heresie or turbulent schisme when they are convinced in conscience of the sinfulnesse thereof But the question is whether an Heretique after once or twice admonition and so after conviction or any other scandalous or heinous offender may be tolerated either in the Church without excommunication or in the Common-wealth without such punishment as way preserve others from dangerous and damnable infection Thus much I thought needfull to be spoken for avoiding the grounds of your Errour I forbear adding reasons to justify the contrary because you may find that done to your hand in a Treatise sent to some of the brethren late of Salem who doubted as you doe The Lord Jesus lead you by a spirit of truth in all truth JOHN COTTON FINIS