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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86009	VVholesome severity reconciled with Christian liberty. Or, the true resolution of a present controversie concerning liberty of conscience. Here you have the question stated, the middle way betwixt popish tyrannie and schismatizing liberty approved, and also confirmed from Scripture, and the testimonies of divines, yea of whole churches: the chiefe arguments and exceptions used in The bloudy tenent, The compassionate samaritane, M.S. to A.S. &c. examined. Eight distinctions added for qualifying and clearing the whole matter. And in conclusion a parænetick to the five apologists for choosing accommodation rather then toleration. Imprimatur. Ia. Cranford. Decemb 16. 1644.	Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.	1645 (1645)	Wing G765; Thomason E24_5; ESTC R21730	38,275	48

with a spirit of meeknesse and such as ought not to separate betwixt brethren others not to be tolerated but to be suppressed with a certaine degree of severity a third sort so abominable and pestiferous that they are to be cut off by the highest punishments And lest it be thought that this is but the opinion of some few that the magistrate ought thus by a strong hand and by civill punishments suppresse Hereticks and Sectaries let it be observed what is held forth and professed concerning this businesse by the Reformed Churches in their publicke Confessions of Faith In the latter Confession of Helvetia cap. 30. it is said that the magistrate ought to root out lies and all superstition with all impiety and idolatry And after Let him suppresse stubborne Hereticks In the French Confession art 39. Therefore he hath also delivered the sword into the hands of the Magistrates to wit that offences may be repressed not only those which are committed against the second Table but also against the first In the Belgick Confession art 36. Therefore hath he armed the Magistrate with the sword for punishing them that doe evill and for defending such as doe well Moreover it is their duty not only to be carefull and watchfull for the preservation of the civill government but also to defend the holy Ministery and to abolish and overthrow all Idolatry and counterfeit worship of God Beza de haeret à magistr. puniend. tells us in the beginning that the Ministers of Helvetia had declared themselves to be of the same judgement in a booke published of that Argument And toward the end he citeth the Saxon Confession Luther Melancthon Brentius Bucerus Wolsangus Capito and Bullinger The Synod of Dort Ses 138. in their sentence against the Remonstrants doth not only interdict them of all their Ecclesiasticall and Academicall functions but also beseech the States Generall by the secular power further to suppresse and restrain them The Arguments whereby this third or middle opinion is confirmed that we may not build upon humane authority are these First the law Deut. 13. 6 7 8 9. concerning the stoning and killing of him who shall secretly intice people saying Let us go after other gods If it be said that this law did bind the Jews only and is not morall nor perpetuall I answer Jacobus Acontius though he be of another opinion concerning this question then I am yet he candidly and freely confesseth that he seeth nothing in that law which doth not belong to the New Testament as well as the Old for saith he the reason and ground of the law the use and end of it is morall and perpetuall ver. 11. All Israel shall hear and fear and shall doe no more any such wickednesse as this is among you But yet saith Acont●us this law doth not concern Hereticks who beleeve and teach errors concerning the true God or his worship but only Apostates who fall away to other gods * In this I shall not much contend with him only thus far if Apostates are to be stoned and killed according to that law then surely seducing Hereticks are also to receive their measure and proportion of punishment The morall equity of the law requireth thus much at least that if we compare Heresy and Apostasy together look how much lesse the evill of sin is in Heresy so much and no more is to be remitted of the evill of punishment especially the danger of contagion and seducement being as much or rather more in Heresy then in Apostasy yea that which is called Heresy being oftentimes a reall following after other gods But the Law Deut. 13. for punishing with death as well whole Cities as particular persons for falling away to other gods is not the only law for punishing even capitally grosse sins against the first Table See Exod. 22. 20. He that sacrificeth unto any god save unto the Lord only he shall be utterly destroyed Exod. 31. ●4 Every one that defileth the Sabbath shall surely be ●ut to death Levit. 24. 16. And he that blasphemeth the Name of the Lord he shall surely be put to death Deut. 17. 2 3 4. 5. If there be found among you within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee man or woman that hath wrought wickednesse in the sight of the Lord thy God in transgressing his Covenant and hath gone and served other gods and worshipped them c. Thou shalt bring forth that man or that woman unto thy gates even that man or that woman and shalt stone them with stones till they die It will be asked But how doth it appear that these or any other Judiciall Laws of Moses doe at all appertain to us as rules to guide us in like cases I shall wish him who scrupleth this to read Piscator his Appendix to his Observations upon the 21 22 23. Chapters of Exodus where he excellently disputeth this question Whether the Christian Magistrate be bound to observe the Judicial laws of Moses as well as the Jewish Magistrate was He answereth by the common distinction he is obliged to those things in the Judiciall law which are unchangeable common to all Nations but not to those things which are mutable or proper to the Jewish Republike But then he explaineth this distinction that by things mutable and proper to the Jews he understandeth the emancipation of an Hebrew servant or handmaid in the seventh year a mans marying his brothers wife and raising up seed to his brother the forgiving of debts at the Jubilee marying with one of the same Tribe and if there be any other like to these also Ceremoniall trespasses as touching a dead body c. But things immutable and common to all Nations are the laws concerning Morall trespasses Sins against the Morall law as murther adultery theft enticing away from God blasphemy striking of Parents Now that the Christian Magistrate is bound to observe these Judiciall lawes of Moses which appoint the punishments of sins against the Morall law he proveth by these reasons 1. If it were not so then it is free and arbitrary to the Magistrate to appoint what punishments himself pleaseth But this is not arbitrary to him for he is the Minister of God Rom. 13. 4. and the judgement is the Lords Deut. 1. 7. 2 Chron. 19. 6. And if the Magistrate be Keeper of both Tables he must keep them in such manner as God hath delivered them to him 2. Christs words Mat. 5. 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the Law or the Prophets I am not come to destroy but to fulfill are comprehensive of the Judiciall law it being a part of the law of Moses Now he could not fulfill the Judiciall law except either by his practice or by teaching others still to observe it not by his own practice for he would not condemn the Adulteresse Joh. 8. 11. nor divide the Inheritance Luke 12. 13 14. Therefore it must be by his