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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	law_n	sabbath_n	16,158	5	9.9135	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33722	Liberty of conscience, asserted and vindicated by a learned country-gentleman ...	Care, George.	1689 (1689)	Wing C503; ESTC R21541	21,512	30

Blasphemy Lev. 24. 16. in Idolatry Deut. 17. 4 5. in Sabbath-breaking Exod. 31. 15. so Numb 15. 35. it was revealed that he who gathered Sticks upon the Sabbath-day should be put to death though for other things God did not bind the Gentiles to the like Obedience to the Law with the natural Jews Neither did the Jews require it of them nor do they now from whence it appears that is a great Paralogism to argue from what was done by Kings and Princes under the Old Testament to the like under the New as if a Man should now argue from Elijah's slaying Baal's Prophets 1. Kings 18. 20. or from that in Zech. 13. 3. Thou shalt not live for thou speakest Lies in the Name of the Lord as some have argued from Asa's Covenant to put Men to Death 2 Chron. 15. 13. what a hideous deal of Mischief might an ignorant Zealot be perswaded to do from ill managing the Old Testament as I have heard some in the Pulpit to argue from thence for the observation of the Lord's Day as would prove the Saturday Sabbath and not lawful now under the Gospel to kindle a Fire upon Saturday But some will say that the Equity of that Law obligeth still giving to Kings and Princes power to reform the House of God. I answer Be it so but what that Equity is must not be taken as every Man shall imagine of his own Head but from the Law of Nature and from the positive Law of Christ Placeus says that those Kings were all typical and it is probable that in the spiritual sense not Kings but prevalent Parties in the Christian Church are to be understood so Hierom ad Paulinum Haereticorum bella adversus Ecclesiam declarantur A Magistrate may do much for the propagation of the Christian Religion against such Errors as are meerly against the Gospel by protection of the Orthodox by his Munificence Encouragement Direction Example and against moral Errors and Impieties by due coercion for where these are carefully look'd to no fear but the Gospel will thrive well but that the Magistrate is to punish Errors and Heresies meerly concerning the Faith of Christ where there is not sufficient mixture of moral Impiety proved by sufficient Witnesses that this I say is any part of the moral Equity of that Law I deny affirmanti incumbit probatio III. My third Conclusion is this Errors and Heresies against the Faith of Christ only and meerly as such are not to be punished with civil Punishments by the Christian Magistrate I shall prove this Proposition by these Arguments following I. First I reason ab Authoritate divinâ negativè which no Logician can reasonably deny in this case I reason therefore thus Our Saviour Christ hath neither by himself nor by his Apostles commanded any such thing therefore no such thing ought to be done To meddle with the Estates Liberties Limbs or Lives of Men is no indifferent thing but a matter of great consequence and therefore our Saviour Christ who was the great Law-giver of the Christian Church and was faithful to him that appointed him who spared not to threaten and denounce the Judgments of God and knew very well that the Christians would one day gain the Imperial Crown I say he would not only have commanded all Christian Kings and Princes in a thing so important as Mahomet bids his Disciples to fight for the Faith with promise of great Reward but have given them plain and particular Rules to guide them that they should not draw the Ruin and Blood of Men upon them where 't is so dangerous to mistake and exceed Our Saviour foresaw the grand and general Apostacy of the Christians from the Purity of the Faith and was therefore very unlikely to put such Knives into the hands of Apostates or Men imperfectly reform'd We see what Work they have made for their abominable Heresies thinking to do God Service in burning Men alive which is enough to satisfy any Man of a true Christian Spirit of the Antichristianism of the Opinion which I oppose since all Errours are not equal neither ought the Punishment What Rule hath our Saviour left or can any Man imagine by which to proportion the Punishments which are of many sorts and degrees indeed the Pope as if he would supply what Christ left defective makes his own Definitions and Decrees the Rule whereby to judg of Heresy and his own arbitrary Will the Standard of its Punishment being in that directly Antichrist i. e. contrary to Christ Now if Christ hath not commanded they are surely too officious that will offer violence to any Man for his sake and may expect their Reward from him that set them on work non amo nimiùm diligentes But to prosecute this Argument further it is clear that there is nothing to be alledged from the Current of the Gospel so that the Adversary is constrained to glean up a Scrap or two I think there was hardly ever any thing alledged from our Saviour's own Words except some few have trifled from those Words Luke 14. 23. Compel them to come in which are part of a Parable and according to the scope of it to be understood of importunate preaching for surely the Apostles were not Masters of the Temporal Sword the word is in the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is best understood of urgent Invitation and most proper to bring such as are there spoken of to his Supper Paul useth the same word of Perswasion and Example Gal. 2. 14. Why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews So likewise little is to be alledged from the Apostle's words but from some general Expressions and by consequence as thus it may be objected That though the Apostles could not punish so as being no Magistrates yet Peter denounced God's Judgments against Ananias and Sapphira Acts 5. 1. I answer first That is without the state of the Question for that was in a criminal Cause of Lying Dissembling Purloining Sacriledg Vow-breaking and I will not deny but Hereticks may be punished for the like Faults when they can be proved against them as they use to be against other Men Ananias and Sapphira might be Orthodox enough as to any point of Doctrine 2. What Peter did by extraordinary Inspiration and miraculous Infliction upon some particular Persons is no Rule for uninspired Men to go by in ordinary cases Magistrates being sometimes young Men and Women and of small Learning in the Scriptures and which is worse often wicked Men and Hereticks themselves by ill Education Interest and Practice This may answer to that which was said of them who were delivered over to Satan and that Paul saith of the Judaizers I would they were cut off that trouble you Gal. 5. 1 2. viz. as Dr. Duport expounded at St. Maries in Cambridg that God would cut them off which yet may be meant of Excommunication as in ver 10. And the Apostle who was no Magistrate and ver