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A83437	The casting down of the last and strongest hold of Satan. Or, A treatise against toleration and pretended liberty of conscience: wherein by Scripture, sound reason, fathers, schoolmen, casuists, Protestant divines of all nations, confessions of faith of the Reformed Churches, ecclesiastical histories, and constant practice of the most pious and wisest emperours, princes, states, the best writers of politicks, the experience of all ages; yea, by divers principles, testimonies and proceedings of sectaries themselves, as Donatists, Anabaptists, Brownists, Independents, the unlawfulnesse and mischeif [sic] in Christian commonwealths and kingdoms both of a vniversal toleration of all religions and consciences, and of a limited and bounded of some sects only, are clearly proved and demonstrated, with all the materiall grounds and reasons brought for such tolerations fully answered. / By Thomas Edvvards, Minister of the Gospel. The first part.; Casting down of the last and strongest hold of Satan. Part 1	Edwards, Thomas, 1599-1647.	1647 (1647)	Wing E225; Thomason E394_6; ESTC R201621	211,214	231

the taking away of the evill from amongst the people be an act of love to God and man a vindication of the glory of God then the punishing of Blasphemie Idolatry and such like for the taking away of the evill is an act of love to God and our neighbour The punishing of menbers of the Church under the Gospel by excommunication is held an act of zeale to the glory of God and love to the Church the Reasons why such a censure ought to bee in the Church are refer'd to those heads by Divines yea by the Separatists and Independents themselves as Mr. Robinson and others and those very reasons and ends spoken of in Deut. of putting away the evill from among you as the people shall heare and feare and doe no more presumptuously are in the new Testament by Paul given as the reasons of Excommunication 1 Cor. 5. 2. 13. 1 Tim. 5. 20. 1 Tim. 1. 20. Those very phrases there used by Paul being alluded unto and taken from those in Deut●ronomie and therefore if love to God and men stands in these sentences under the Gospel borrowed from the Law of putting away the evil of others fearing and doing no more so then certainly love to God and men is contained in those reasons and ends under the Law the originall and fountaine from whence the Gospell took them nay yet further excommunication which I have shewed is founded on the reasons expressed in Deut. 13. 17. is made by Christ an act of brotherly love Matth. 18. 15 16 17. compared with Levit. 19. 17. Secondly because those Kings Magistrates and Persons recorded in Scripture above others for loving God and the people for being most zealous of Gods honour and glory used most this coercive power against Idolaters Seducers Blasphemers c. of all others and more especially at such times when they were at best for grace and goodnesse and commended by the spirit of God for their zeale and forwardnesse as Moses in the businesse of the golden Calf as the children of Israel in the case of the two Tribes and a halfe building an Altar as Asa Jehoshaphat Hezekiah Josiah then spoken of especially for zeale courage perfect hearts when they most exercised the power of the sword against Idolatry Apostasie and all will-Wil-worship When Jehu and Jehoash were at best had most zeale they destroyed Baal and his worshippers Manasses upon his conversion in his first love and zeale commanded Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel and took away the strange gods and all the Altars and cast them out of the City Nebuchadnezar Darius upon their hearts affected by the sight of the great works of God make Lawes for Gods honour against Blasphemy c. Christ out of his zeale of his Fathers House and love to his glory used coercive power upon those who made his Fathers House a house of Merchandise though he never used it in matters of the second Table but declined it John 2. 15 16 17. compared with Psal 69. 9. of which I shall speak more in the 20. Thesis Paul out of love and zeale to the glory of God and the salvation of the Galathians prayes for corporall capitall punishment upon false Teachers Gal. 5. 12. which place that t is so ●o be understood I shall prove it in the 20. Thesis And I desire the Patrons of Teleration to answer this question whether in their consciences they think not those godly Magistrates under the Old Testament as Moses Josiah c. punished Idolaters c. out of love to God and their Brethren whether love and zeale set them not awork which if they did certainly they were to continue under the Gospel For I would willingly know what good reason can be given that Magistrates under the Gospel should not have as much zeale and love to God and the publike as they had under the Law and if under the Law it made them restraine Blasphemers Idolaters c. if their zeale and love workt so why not now also when the glory of God and the safety of the Church requires it the Magistrate after other remedies used in vaine should draw the sword against Hereticks Apostates and Blasphemers Ames Casus Consc lib. 4. cap. 4. do Haeresi Thirdly the Magistrates punishing with the sword Traytors murtherers theeves adulterers that so God may not be dishonoured by those sinnes nor the Common-wealth and our neighbours hurt is an act of love to God and men as is evident by the Office Rom. 13. verse 3 4. compared with 8 9 10. verses and by other reasons that might be given if it were needfull Bullinger in his fifth Book chapter 6. page 177. against the Anabaptists showes that the punishing of offenders is according to Christian love that the Magistrates punishing is not only profitable for one man but for the whole Common-wealth the punishment of one guilty person preserving many alive and that just punishment is not against love neither doth true love abrogate punishments Zanchi● in his Tractate De Magistrat● Quaest secunda writes to this effect that to punish offenders who are injurious to God and our neighbour is a work of charity which requires that we should defend the glory of God and the safety of our neighbour by all meanes that may be As when theeves robbers murtherers are by the Magistrate taken away lest the City and our neighbour should be hurt this certainly is a work of charity So doubtlesse those obstinate Hereticks who go on to blaspheme the name of God who overthrow religion and piety who corrupt the true and sound Doctrine who disturbe the peace of the Churches who steak from their neighbours the members of the Church not their estates neither kill their bodies but endeavour to destroy their soules doe most of all wrong God and their neighbour therefore to punish them is the greatest work of love to God and their neighbour Now if the restraining of those who spoyle men of their goods temporall lives outward dignities that corrupt and embase coyne bee a work of love to God and man then to hinder Blasphemies Treasons immediately against the Supreame Majesty of God and his Kingdome the ruining of immortall soules and the eternall lives of men the adulterating the truth of God and the Faith once delivered to the Saints is an act of higher love to Gods glory and our Brethren in as much as such offences immediately against God transcend any Treason against earthly Kings and the killing of soules is a greater evill then the killing of bodies and the corrupting the truth more dangerous then counterfeiting or mixing baser mettals with Gold or Silver Wolphius in Deut. 13. Si quis human at Tabulas depravatet magnum est quid de Divinis In a City if any one seeke to draw away persons from the Prince and government and to draw men to their side they are punished and should they escape unpunished for drawing men away from the King of

to performe the Covenant Fourthly he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to the Covenant and made all that were present in Israel to serve even to serve the Lord their God 2 Chron. 34. 32 33. that is all that were under his jurisdiction he kept them in such awe by his regall authority and penall lawes as they durst not but stand to the Covenant 10. THESIS As de facto 't is evident in the examples related besides divers others recorded in Scripture that good Magistrates did alwayes meddle for God and his truth against false worship and seducers so that they did it de jure and ought to do so is as clear from the approbations speciall testimonies promises rewards and blessings given by God of them made to them and bestowed by God on them for so doing There 's hardly any place mentioning what the Patriarchs Judges Kings Magistrates did in this kind but there 's some commendation some blessing some speciall testimony from God for so doing recorded in those places 2 Chron. 14. 2 3 4. Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God For he took away the Altars of the strange gods and the high places c. So 't is said of Jehosophat Hezekiah Josiah they did that which was right in the fight of the Lord are highly commended have many blessings upon themselves and their Kingdoms and all for commanding by their Princely power their subjects to good and removing all false worship and the means of it God will not hide from Abraham the thing that he was doing concerning Sodom and the reason is given because he will command his children and his houshold after him to keep the way of the Lord. Iacob took away the strange Gods from his houshold and all that were with him and God manifests his approbation of it the terror of God was upon the Cities round about Iacob and they did not pursue after the sonnes of Iacob yea God gives such testimony to Princes and Magistrates suppressing false Prophets and false worships that he hath rewarded with temporall blessings wicked Kings for so doing as is evident in Iehu who for destroying Baal out of Israel though he departed not from the finnes of Ieroboam yet his children of the fourth generation should sit on the throne of Israel 2 Kings 10. 28 29 30. 11. THESIS Those Magistrates Judges and Princes even the dear servants of God who being in place of authority and power that out of carnall respects to wives children and other interests have suffered and tolerated Idolatry and other evils though they in their owne persons never practised much lesse commanded any such things nay disswaded from them and not used their power to restraine and hinder them have been both sharply reproved and severely punished by God for it King Solomon having power to hinder his wives from Idolatry and not doing it but suffering them God is provoked to bring wrath upon him and his family 1 King 11. 4 5 6 7 8 9. 10 11 12. to rend the Kingdome from him to stirr up an adversary unto Solomon Hadad the Edomite T is the opinion of many good Divines and that upon the first of Kings ch 11. and in answer to the Arminians upon that Article of falling from Grace that Solomon did not bring or admit Idols into the house of God neither did he command the people that either they should forsake the true worship of God or worship Idols neither can it be proved that he did in his owne person worship Idols This is only certaine that being bewitched by his Idolatrous wives he suffered them to build Altars and high places or at most commanded them to be built and this the word in the Hebrew vers 11. with thee not of thee implies as much for as much as this is done with thee implying done in his Kingdom and neer Ierusalem though not by Solomon himselfe Eli being a Judge because when his sonnes made themselves vile ht restrained them not redressed not their corruptions and abuses about the Sacrifices though he reproved and disswaded them from their wayes by many strong arguments therefore God brought fearfull ruine upon him and his house cutting off his arme and the arme of his fathers house c. as in 1 Sam. 2 3 4. chap. 't is laid down at large 12. THESIS Whereas the Patrons of Toleration except against the instances of the Judges Magistrates and Kings of Iudah and Israel as no sufficient proof for Magistrates power in suppressing falshood and commanding men to receive the truth because they were typicall Kings types of Christ as King of his Church and the Land of Canaan a typicall Land which no other Magistrates or Land beside ever were or are I desire that it may be remembred that other Magistrates Judges and Princes who were before the common wealth of Israel was erected and the judiciall lawes given and of other Common-wealths and Kingdoms did take away and punish Idolatry Blasphemy and command men under their power to worship God and some such examples are not only barely related in the Scripture but approved of Abraham Jacob and Job were before the time of Moses and Aaron before the judiciall Lawes or the Leviticall Priesthood for the Government and worship of the Jewish Church and Common-wealth were given For Abraham and Jacob that 's evident by the Book of Genesis and for Job that he lived in the time between Abraham and Moses is the judgement of many good Divines and Interpreters upon Job and that upon severall reasons given by them of which the Reader may read more in Bucolcerus Pineda Junius and Tremellius Mercerus Master Carylls Expositions on Job and divers others Now of Abraham and Iacobs commanding their children servants and all that were with them to keep the way of the Lord I have spoken of in the tenth Thesis And that in Iobs time and that out of the Land of Canam in the Land of Vz no typicall Land Idolatry and false worship were to be punished by the Magistrates is apparent by Iob 31 26 27 28. where Iob speaks of himselfe If I beheld the Sun when it shined or the Moon walking in brightnesse And my heart hath been secretly intised or my mouth hath kissed my band This also were an iniquity to be punished by the Iudge for I should have denied the God that is above the meaning of which place according to the judgement of the best Interpreters Mercer Merlinus Iunius Pineda and others is that Idolatry and worshiping the creatures as Sun Moon and the Heavens a worship much in use in the East where Iob lived was an iniquity worthy to be taken notice of and punished by the Judges so Mercer reads it digna est it deserves and ought to be punished by the Judges and then observe the reason for I should have denied the Lord that is above So that all false