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A84230 The examiner examined. Certaine questions proposed to the author of Zeale examined concerning his principles. Whereby he endevours to prove; that the magistrate by his authority ought not to advance true religion, but to give a toleration to idolatry and heresie. 1652 (1652) Wing E3733; Thomason E670_8; ESTC R207036 3,688 9

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THE EXAMINER EXAMINED Certaine Questions proposed to the AUTHOR of Zeale examined concerning his PRINCIPLES Whereby he endevours to prove That the MAGISTRATE by his Authority ought not to advance true RELIGION but to give a Toleration to Idolatry and Heresie ESAY 49.22 23. Thus saith the Lord God Behold I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles c. And Kings shall be thy nursing Fathers and their Queens thy nursing Mothers REVEL 17.12 16. The ten Horses which thou sawest are ten Kings These shall hate the Whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eate her flesh and burne her with fire Printed at London for John Wright at the Kings-head in the Old Bailey 1652. be given up to strong Delusions not to receive the Love of the Truth yea an universall Love of all Truth But if he propose things contrary to Truth or doubtfull things for resolved Truths as indeed he is very cloudy in many of his Assertions herein he may be Questioned That so he may receive Light in those things wherein he erres by being certainly in the Darke and may be stird up to seeke more clear Light in those things which he yet sees but in a Mist Towards these Ends are these following Enquiries which if they shake the Examiners Principles and Pillars and the House built thereon doe fall it will be no great losse nor wonder No losse nor wonder I say if a House of Dagon fall the receptacle and shelter of Idols and Idolatry Heresie and Blasphemie Question 1. WHether a MAGISTRATE that knowes the Doctrine of Salvation by Christ Jesus doe fulfill the Office of a Nursing Father if he doe not cause this saving Food to be given to his Children and Poyson that is a contrary Doctrine to be kept from them 2. Whether the Doctrine of GRACE that bringeth Salvation doe not teach Men to live godly righteously and soberly and more particularly to obey Magistrates and to Live in Love and Peace among themselves and whether such a Doctrine doe not advance the peace and prosperity of a Nation and consequently whether a Magistrate be not bound to advance this Doctrine which doth advance the peace and prosperity of a Nation 3. Whether Godlinesse hath not the promise of this life and that to come And whether these Promises doe not containe in them all good and happinesse and if so whether the Magistrate be not bound to his power to advance that godlinesse which gives all good and happinesse to a Nation 4. Whether the Magistrate be not bound to love GOD with all his Might and accordingly to advance his Glory with all his might And whether he doe so if he doe not put forth all his might in advancing Gods true worship and service and the chiefe good of Gods People committed to his care 5. The People being bound to pray for Magistrates that under them they may lead a peaceable quiet life in all godlinesse and honesty Whether the Magistrate be not bound to doe that which the People are bound to pray that he may doe And whether he be not also bound to give himselfe up to God to be his servant and Instrument when he granteth this Prayer 6. Whether Abraham and the Heads of other Families before the Law Gen. 18.19 were not Magistrates in their Families And whether Abraham did not command his Family to keepe the way of the Lord And whether God did not commend him for doing so Gen. 35.2 and whether Jacob did not purge his House from Idols and caused his Houshold to goe up to Bethell to worship the true God Sect. 10. And whether Abraham and Jacob were meerly Fellow Servants with their Servants as this Examiner saith and their Houshold might command Abraham and Jacob as well as Abraham and Jacob command their Houshold 7. Whether Artaxerxes did well in making a Decree for the advancement of the true worship of the true God Ezra 7. and in causing Ezra to teach them the Law of God And whether the King of Niniveh did well to command his People to keepe a generall Fast and to turne from their evill wayes whereby he saved that great City Or whether he might not have done better to have left them to a carelesse liberty and so to destruction 8. Whether any of the Prophets Apostles yea our Saviour himselfe did ever except at the Magistrates Auhority for questioning them in matters of Religion 9. If a beleeving Magistrate as a nursing Father Recommend to his Children the wholsome food of the Word that is able to save their Soules and encourage those that disperse and dispense it and withall forbid others to give abroad the poyson contrary to it Whether the Examiner hath just cause to say that this is a Ground for another Magistrate to command the giving abroad of poyson and to forbid the delivering of the wholsome food that may save his peoples soules 10. Authority being given by God to Asa to advance true Religion and suppresse Idolatry which he did to the deposing of his Mother Whether this were a ground for Manasseh one of his Successours to set up Idolatry and a principle of Persecution whereupon he might kill those that would not worship his Idols 11. When God made a Law that Blasphemy proved by two Witnesses should be punished with Death Whether he therein did lay a principle of Persecution or Murder whereby Jesabel by two false Witnesses might unjustly put Naboth to death 12. Whether Paul commanding Christian Fathers to bring up their Children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord doe hereby lay a Principle Eph. 6 4. whereupon Idolatrous Parents may bring up their Children in the nurture and and Doctrine of Idolatry that is in the doctrine of Devils 13. Idolatry being against the Light of Nature Job 3.28 Rom. 1. and therefore punishable under the Law of Nature and so acknowledged by Iob who lived before the Law of Moses Whether the Magistrate under the Gospell which gives more light to the discovery of the sinfulnesse and guilt of Idolatry may not also restraine and punish that sinne 14. Idolatry by the testimony of Paul drawing downe heavie Plagues upon a People and delivering them up to grievous and abominable sinnes Rom. 1.18 seq the worst of Plagues whereof he giveth a Catalogue and actually causing the Land of Canaan to spue out the Inhabitants Whether it doe not concerne the Magistrate to deliver his People from those Plagves Levit. 20.2 3 22 23. by taking away Idols the cause of them and to cast out Idolatry rather then it should cast out the People from the Land where he Governeth 15. Whether this Examiner doe not directly set himselfe to confute the Apostle Paul Sect. 9. for the Examiner argues that it is not easie to finde that the Heathen should not make a graven Image nor any marvell that they should by the forme of some Creature represent the invisible Being and worship