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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85419	Thirty queries, modestly propounded in order to a discovery of the truth, and mind of God, in that question, or case of conscience; whether the civil magistrate stands bound by way of duty to interpose his power or authority in matters of religion, or worship of God. By John Goodvvin, minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing G1208; Thomason E689_4; ESTC R206926	10,649	16

Thirty Queries Modestly propounded in order to a Discovery of the Truth and Mind of GOD in that Question or Case of Conscience Whether the Civil Magistrate stands bound by way of Duty to interpose his Power or Authority in matters of Religion or Worship of God By JOHN GOODVVIN Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ The servants said unto him Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up But he said Nay lest while ye gather up the tares ye root up also the Wheat with them Let both grow together until the Harvest c. Matth. 13. 28 29 30. Man who hath made me a Judg or Divider over you Luke 12. 14. Let them alone they be blind leaders of the blind Matth. 15. 14. Dei lex nos docuit quid sequamur humanae leges hoc docere non possunt Extorquere solent timidis commutationem fidem inspirare non possunt Ambros. Epist. 13. LONDON Printed by J. M. for Henry Cripps and Lodowick Lloyd 1653. Some Queries concerning the Duty of the Civil Magistrate in and about his publique Interposure in matters of Faith the Worship of God and the promoting Christian Religion I. WHether any thing be incumbent by way of Duty upon the Civil Magistrate being Christian simply in respect of his Office or place of Magistracy because of his being Christian which would not have been matter of Duty to him in cafe he had been Pagan and not Christian Or whether the Office and Work of the Civil Magistrate as such be not entire within it self and consisting within its own appropriate bounds and limits so that nothing more accrues unto him by way of Duty in his Office by his being Christian nor is any thing which is matter of Duty unto him as a Magistrate diminished or taken off from him by his being or turning Pagan And if so whether doth God require of a Pagan Magistrate that according to his present Judgment and Conscience he should interpose and umpire with his Authority in matters of Christian Belief or in things appertaining to the Worship of God II. Whether doth it appertain to the Civil Magistrate as such to provide by Civil penalties as by disgracing fining imprisonment death c. for the observation of any other Law in his Territories but of the Law of Nature only and of this so far only as either it clearly dictateth or prescribeth the doing of such things which have a rational connexion with the welfare honor and prosperity of that community of men which is under his inspection and government or as it with like clearness restraineth the doing of such other things which are in the eye of Reason contrary hereunto considering that matters of a more spiritual nature and such which relate either by way of sympathy or opposition only to an holy and humble walking with God and not properly or directly to the Civil Interest are of another cognisance and committed by God to the care and faithfulness of Ecclesiastical Magistrates in conjunction with the Common Councel of such Christian Churches which are under their inspection respectively III. Whether is the consent of the generality of the inhabitants of many Nations in one and the same principle especially relating to the maintenance and upholding of their respective Idolatries and Superstitions any competent or sufficient proof that this principle is agreeable to the light or Law of Nature or safe for Christians to practise and walk by considering that the Devil the God of this world laboreth in the very fire to corrupt the Judgments to blind the Understandings to pollute the Consciences of Men in matters appertaining to the Worship of God and hath so sadly prevailed over the world herein as we generally know he hath done Or whether is that principle of Mahometanism according unto which the men of this Superstition judg it lawful to put a Christian or any other person to death who shall in any of their Territories call Mahomet Accursed wherein probably many other Idolatrous Nations accord with them in reference to their respective Gods so called a sufficient ground for Christians to put a Mahometan to death for calling Christ Accursed in their Dominions Or in case a Christian State should thus practise would it not be a snare of confirmation and obduration upon the Mahometan in his way IV. Whether our Saviours intent in the Parable of the tares where the housholder forbiddeth his servants to GATHER up the tares lest whilest they gathered up these they PLUCKED UP the Wheat also b was not to prohibit such Magistrates who are Christian and Orthodox the exercising of any degree of severity against Blasphemers Seducers Heretiques erroneous persons c. simply as such for this reason lest by such an example they occasion or be accessary unto the exercising of much greater severity by Idolatrous and Heretical Magistrates upon Christians and godly persons that are Orthodox and sound in their Judgment And whether is not this sence of the said passage argued and asserted from the Context it self and by other Arguments against all reasonable contradiction in a Discourse not many years since published entituled Hagiomastix c. pag. 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 25. as also in another Discourse printed not long after and with relation to it entituled a Postscript or Appendix p. 14 15. V. Whether is that right of power to interpose in matters of Religion as in punishing Idolaters Seducers false Prophets c. which seems to have been given to the Civil Magistrate amongst the Jews under the Mosaical Dispensation any reasonable or competent ground on which to judg that Civil Magistrates now under the Gospel and amongst the Gentiles ought to assume yea or lawfully may assume the like power Or are there not many reasons and these pregnant and undeniable to prove the contrary extant in the Discourse mentioned entituled Hagiomostix pag. 43 44 45 46 47 c. VI Whether the Lord Christ himself did not strictly charge his Disciples themselves as well as others not to accept of the title of Rabbi or Masters from men in these words But be not ye called Rabbi c and again Neither be ye called Masters And whether they do not much more then accept of these titles even compell men to give them unto them who under civil Mulcts and Penalties shall exercise a Magisterial Jurisdiction over the judgements and consciences of men in matters appertaining to God requiring of them either to beleeve such or such doctrines or to submit to such or such practices whilst their judgments and consciences remain unsatisfied and unconvinced of the truth of the one and lawfulnesse of the other VII Whether may the Civill Magistrate who derives and receives his power of Magistracie from the people lawfully exercise by vertue of his office any other kind of power or any further degree of power then may lawfully be delegated unto him and intrusted with him by this people yea or may he lawfully exercise any