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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49510	The matching of the magistrates authority and the Christians true liberty in matters if religion wherein is clearly stated, how farre the magistrate may impose or restrain in matters of faith and worship, and how far forth the Christian may challenge freedome and exemption : in a sermon preached at the Assizes at Dorchester, Jul. 17. 1651. / by William Lyford ...	Lyford, William, 1598-1653.	1654 (1654)	Wing L3549; ESTC R32907	15,979	27

Wives Children and dearest friends to be seduced into wayes which wee thinke will undoe their soules to eternity and not be able to helpe them no way left to help our selves or them unlesse we can perswade the seducer to desist or aske them why they do so and intreate them to forbear A third sort to be restrained are makers of Sects and Divisions among the people because this is directly opposite to the Magistrates proper end viz. publike Peace and Quiet The setting up of divisions Church against Church Ordinance against Ordinance does in its owne nature tend to the disturbance of publik peace and humane society See the danger of it Gal. 5.15 If yee bite and devour one another Take heed yee be not consumed one of another if the Church of Christ which should be as a City at unity within it selfe shall nourish within its bowells contrary Sects and Divisions there will be biting and devouring one of another and the Churches divisions do prove the Churches consumptions A fourth sort to be restrained by the Magistrate are vicious livers to the scandall of the Gospell Though the loving of vice be worse than living in vice yet the Magistrate cannot take notice of the affection but of the action to restraine open sins yea though they be not peace-disturbing enormities For the Magistrates power is not limited to preservation of Peace and Justice onely as its adequate Object but is extended to other evill workes and open enormities As for example he is to restraine the polluting of the Sabbath by buying and selling as Nehemiah did cap. 13.15 16. He is to punish and restraine Drunkenesse Deut. 21.10 though it be a harmelesse and quiet drunkard fornication also and vaine swearing comes within his compass though the publick peace be not thereby disturbed It is very much you see that the civill power has to do in the things of God But against the Magistrates restraining power 3. things are objected 1 Ob. May the Magistrate restraine me of that liberty which Christ hath purchased Sol. No but Christ has not purchased a liberty for you to be an Idolater or an Heretick or a maker of Sects or a vicious Liver Christ has not purchased a liberty for Arrius to deny his Godhead nor for a Papist to worship the creature nor for Husbandmen and keepers of cattell to be Prophets nor for any man to endanger the salvation of others Christ has not purchased a liberty for every man to hold what hee lift Nor to serve God in his own way for then some should be authorized by Christ to blaspheme God and to serve God by sinning against him Therefore this restraint is just and not against christian liberty 2. Ob. But as good have no Religion as no liberty to practise it Sol. 1. Not so neither in some kinde of things that of Paul Rom. 14.22 takes place hast thou faith have it to thy selfe that is art thou certainly perswaded concerning thy liberty in these things content thy selfe with knowing it and with being freed from such scruples yet forbeare the practise in case of offence q d. Let no man be carried out upon particular perswasion of his conscience to doe any thing to the hurt of others restraint in practise may stand with Christian liberty 1 Cor. 8 8.13 Sol. 2. It is a sweet priviledge for men of a different minde to enjoy their owne private judgement under the civil Power without having it drawne forth and then punished when it is made known It is a sweet Priviledge though my forme and way be denyed me yet that I shall not be forced to a positive acting in a way that is contrary to my judgement for so I enjoy both my civill Quiet and my inward Peace Sol. 3. There is no just complaint for want of Liberty when men may have free accesse unto the use of all establisht Ordinances which by their own confession are the power of God unto salvation Againe no man is cast out of our Communion for his dissenting judgement unlesse he cast himselfe out If I were in New-England in France or Germanie I would communicate with any Congregation that holds Christ the Head and Faith the Foundation that holds and believes the Articles of the Creed and professe Repentance towards God And any of those Nations should communicate with me upon the same termes My reason is because Communion with Christ the Head and with the Catholique Church the Body is the root of Communion with particular Congregations 1. There is but One Church in the World One Christ One Faith One Baptisme One Lord over all and in all 2. Ministers of Christ are Ministers of the Church where ever they come we are not Ministers so to one Congregation as that we cannot exercise ministeriall Acts in another Congregation 3. The Members also of the Church are all baptised into that one Body not into this or that Congregation and so we are all Members one of another 4. Lastly All the Members by vertue of their Communion with the Church-Catholique have a right to the Ordinances all the world over and in the Ministers where ever they come if they come where Cephas is Pastor they have a right in him if where Paul and Apollos doe officiate they have a right in them and why so 1 Cor 3. 12 23. because you are Christs so that the roote of Communion is because I am Christs and from that Head I have a right in Apollo's and Cephas c. Look what makes one a Member of the Universall Visible Church the same serves to make one a Member of any particular Congregation and such a man hath right to the Ordinances every where So then our Brethren are not straightned by us but in their owne bowels And for them to make their owne Conceptions the rule and condition of holding Communion with us is in effect to impose upon the Magistrate a necessity of receding from the approved and publiquely owned Establishments 3. Obj. But we are freed by the late Act to serve God in our owne way Why then should wee bee Restrained by the Magistrate Sol. That Act frees your Purses from Penalties indeed but not your Consciences from Sin Moses allowed a Bill of Divorcement if any had put away his Wife and married another without giving such a Bill it had been death But now though that Law did exempt the party from punishment yet not from sinne and so our Saviour told the Pharisees from the Beginning it was not so Thus our Statute of Usury allowing 8. per cent if the Question be Is that Uusury legall We say Yes But if the Question be Is it lawfull before God We tell you Nay So in this case you will not sanctifie the Sabbath in the publique Assemblies if the Question be Is this separation punishable That Act tells you Nay But if the Question be Is the Sabbath duly sanctified and do men sin in forsaking the Assemblyes We tell you Yea The