Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	call_v	gospel_n	law_n	6,005	5	5.3501	4	false

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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

further degree of power then may reasonably be presumed that the people intended or at the utmost ought to have intended to confer upon him or put into his hand If he may from whom or by whom shall this surplussage of power be conceived to be derived unto him or upon what account can be justifie himself in the exercise of it If he may not then by what right can he exercise any power in matters of Faith or over the judgements or consciences of men in as much as the common people from whom he receiveth the intire body or sum of that power which he administreth have no right at all nor colour of right to delegate unto any man any authority or power to intermeddle or officiate in one kind or other in the affairs of Jesus Christ and his Kingdom or to regulate authoritatively the judgements and consciences of men no not their own in little or much in things appertaining unto God VIII Whether did not the Lord Christ rebuke his Disciples and this somewhat roundly who desired a Commission or authority from him to call for fire from Heaven as Eliah formerly had done to consume those who refused to receive him did he not I say sharply reprove them in saying to them Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of a meaning that they did not consider the nature of the Gospel and what lenity ought to be shewed towards sinners in order to the propagation thereof above what the severity of the Law admitted And doth not the reason which he immediately subjoyneth plainly shew this to have been his meaning For the Son of man is not come to destroy mens lives but to save them as if he had said The end or one great end of my coming into the world was not that any mans life should be destroyed or taken from him for my sake or for any injury done unto me b but that I might mediate perswade and prevail with those who otherwise are severe against offenders as you are to exercise all lenity and patience towards them and to be tender over their lives in order to the Salvation of their Souls IX Whether as the ancient saying amongst the Fathers was Sanguis Martyrum semen Ecclesiae i. e. the blood of the Martyrs was the seed of the Church so it be not altogether as true and this upon the same account in reason and experimented accordingly in all ages that Sanguis Haereticorum semen Haereseos the blood of Heretiques is the seed of Heresie And whether is not that saying of Tacitus Punitis ingeniis gliscit authoritas Punishment doth but make the authority and credit of any mans wit or parts to glow shine and prevail the more altogether as true in re Ecclesiasticâ sive Christianâ in matters of an Ecclesiastical or Christian as of a Politique or Civil import X. Whether had not an Vzzah an honest and upright intention to accommodate the Ark and to preserve it from harm by shaking when he put forth his hand to keep it steady by holding it and whether was not God offended with him notwithstanding making a breach upon him by slaying him in the place Or was the Ark of God in any real danger of suffering inconvenience by the shaking of the Oxen in case Vzzah had not intermedled to prevent it XI Whether might Paul in his days have been lawfully punished by the Civil Magistrate in Ephesus for that sedition or tumult which was occasioned in this City by his preaching the Gospel and paricularly of this Doctrine That they be no gods which are made with hands It not whether may such Ministers or Preachers upon occasion of whose preaching Tumults are frequently raised by rude and inconsiderate people be punished by the Christian Magistrate upon this account Or ought not rather the Heads and Principals in such Tumults be enquired out and punished XII Whether are not Formality Hypocrisie Simulation Dissimulation c. in and about the Worship of God sins of an high provocation in the sight of God If so is it not simply unlawful either for the Civil Magistrate or any other person whatsoever either to compel or to invite or tempt unto any of these sins Or is not the punishing of such persons for not frequenting the publique places of Divine Worship who have no sense of a Deity or others for not coming or joyning in a State-worship whose Judgments and Consciences inwardly abhor such a Worship as much as a compelling of men unto those sins Or whether is a Christian State any whit the more like to receive countenance or blessing from God for such practices in it as these XIII Whether was it reasonable or at all pleasing unto God that Pharaoh and his Taskmasters should require of the Israelites their full tale of work and yet not give them straw Or is there any whit more reason or equity that Magistrates should require subjection unto such Laws from men to whom they neither give nor indeed are able to give either wisdom or strength whereby they should be enabled to yield such subjection at least if it be supposed that they have no sufficiency of strength and power in this kind given unto them by any other yea such a sufficiency whereby they are enabled to yield this obedience or subjection under any temptation whatsoever to the contrary Or is it a thing equitable or lawful to impose Mulcts and Penalties upon blind men whose eyes were put out by their parents because they see not XIV Whether can there any thing demonstratively yea or probably be concluded for the punishing of Idolaters by the Civil Magistrate from this passage in Job If I beheld the Sun when it shined or the Moon walking in brightness and my heart hath been secretly enticed or my mouth hath kissed my hand this also were an iniquity to be punished by the Judg c c. considering 1. That these words to be punished by the have nothing in the Original corresponding with them but are inserted by the Translators upon their own account as the different character wherein they are printed importeth 2. That this latter clause this also were an iniquity to be punished by the Judg upon which the stress of the pretended in●erence lieth is thus rendred out of the Hebrew by Arias Montanus Etiam hoc iniquitas judicata i. e. this also is or hath been an adjudged iniquity meaning that such a practice or practices which Job had now mentioned and described had been adjudged viz. by men fearing God or rather was to be adjudged by all men impiously sinful 3. That though the English Translation of the said clause be admitted yet it is no ways necessary that by the Judg therein mentioned we should understand the Civil Magistrate or any Earthly Judg but rather the Judg of all the Earth God himself 4. And lastly That the sin of Idolatry was not like to be punished by the Judges of the Earth in Jobs days