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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

11. suffered Perfecution was very unlikely to perswade the Galatian Magistrates to persecute 'T is also certain that those Judaizers were Men full of moral Impiety and Persecutors of others The same Answer may serve for them who were blamed Rev. 2. 20. for suffering Jezabel the false Prophetess to seduce but to what viz. to Fornication and Idolatry Moreover what Toleration is here blamed is easily proved by this that the Christians were then no Magistrates but were by sound Doctrine to have stopped the Mouths and convinced Gain-sayers by the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God and if the seven Churches be prophetical as hath of late been very well proved we know who they were that had the temporal Sword and how well they managed it in the Thyatirian Interval they were certainly damnable Hereticks and such as deserved to be punished for their innumerable Crimes if they had had their due As an Appendix to this Argument let it be considered that the Apostles and Primitive Christians being accounted Hereticks by the generality of Men were very unlikely to have put such a Sword into the hands of their Enemies as to teach them that Hereticks were to be punished by the Civil Magistrate And our Saviour Christ laying the Foundation of his Church in his own Blood and the Blood of his Apostles and Disciples was very unlikely to prescribe a way for the shedding the Blood of his Enemies by a judicial Trial in humane Courts for that wherein their Consciences were thorowly satisfied as true and good and therefore must needs think themselves honest and innocent and the Christians unjust and inhumane notwithstanding all their preaching up of Meekness and the Example of the most meek and merciful Jesus who endured such Contradiction of Sinners against himself what had that been but to disgrace the Glory of Christian Martyrdom as when our Saviour biddeth Peter to put up his Sword Matth. 26. 52. he giveth this reason For they that take the Sword shall perish by the Sword intimating nothing of real worth and excellency in the Sufferings of Christians by the Sword if themselves should take the Sword as a matter but of quid pro quo He wanted not more effectual Souldiers to have made use of against his Persecutors viz. whole Legions of Angels II. I argue from Divine Authority affirmatively Our Saviour doth condemn Persecution in meer Causes of Religion in that Parable of the Tares Matth. 13. and so Chrysostom Austin and others both ancient and modern have expounded the place The Reapers are to be Angels not Men those Words Let them grow together cannot forbid Excommunication and therefore Let them grow together must forbid temporal Excision and if that should be taken only to signify eventually that there would be Tares to the End of the World yet there is a good Argument in the Caution ver 29. Lest while ye gather the Tares ye root up the Wheat also for though Men may think that they can distinguish clearly enough betwixt Tares and Wheat in some cases of Heresy yet as wise Men as they have found themselves deceived Acts 26. 9. And let Men give way to judicial Proceedings in this kind and the Ignorance and Rashness of Men will pluck up ten Orthodox Professors for one Heretick I am sure they have hither to pluck'd up many more Now in Civil Causes there is not the like danger wherein the Criminals own Consciences accuse them for the most part and they cannot deny the justness of the Law but deny their own particular Fact which made St. Cyprian say to Demetrian Proconsul of Africa Torqueri enim debui si negarem nunc autem cum sponte confitear c. quid tormenta admoves confitenti 2. Consider also how our Saviour rebuked his Disciples when they called for Fire from Heaven upon the Samaritans who received him not when his Face was as though he would go to Jerusalme Luke 9. 55. Ye know not what manner of Spirit ye are of i. e. how unsuitable these killing Spirits or Dispositions of yours are to the Times of the Gospel or that the Times of the Gospel require you to be of other Dispositions see Dr. Hammond in loc It is manifest that our Saviour opposeth not fault to fault as if the Samaritans fault was less deserving Punishment nor doth it appear that he opposeth the private Passions of his Disciples as Desire of Revenge or the like to the publick Spirit of Elias but he opposeth the Severity of legal Times to the eminent and extraordinary Grace of the Times of the Gospel as appears by the words following ver 56. For the Son of Man is not come to destroy Mens Lives but to save them as if he had said Ye must not be so prodigal of Mens Lives now the Saviour of the World is come to lay down his own Life for the ransom of other Mens 3. Some also argue from those words of the Apostle 2 Cor. 10. 4. For the Weapons of our Warfare are not carnal where tho the word carnal doth signify weak as the word Flesh is often used 〈…〉 gnify Weakness yet the words do imply that the Christians Weapons are spiritual and of another sort distinct from those which worldly Souldiers use III. My next Argument is drawn à Regulâ Fidei from the Rule of Faith viz. the Scriptures it is not proper to say that the Scripture is Judex Controversiarum the Judg of Controversies but it is Norma Fidei the Rule of Faith this I take here for granted Now this Rule is too hard to be understood to be introduced into humane Courts for civil coaction by temporal Punishments for unto the right determination of many Questions in Religion the Scriptures must be well translated various Copies must be consulted Figures of Speech must be known and the Idiom or Properiety of Language with many obsolete Customs the Analogy of Religion the Context and Coherence of Words comparing Scripture with Scripture are to be minded besides many Prejudices from diversity of Interpretations Authority Education and Company c. must be considered all which make it so easy for a Man to be mistaken as to exempt his Error from the cognizance and animad version of humane Courts by civil coercion they who are the great Persecutors when they please and it serves their turns can make large declamations of the Obscurity of Scripture even to little better than Blasphemy and Atheism saying it is but a Leaden Rule a Nose of Wax and yet see not what a horrible folly and detestable Impiety it is to quote Scripture to an fro whether a Man shall be burnt as many poor honest innocent Men yea even Women were in Queen Mary's Days after the Doctors had disputed of Hoc est corpus meum and whether Hoc was an individuum vagum or no If these things had been only ridiculous they might have been born but tending to so much Mischief and Murder they were intolerable