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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	church_n	religion_n	true_a	7,548	5	5.1593	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91790	Certain questions propounded to the assembly, to answer by the Scriptures whether corporall punishments may be inflicted upon such as hold errours in religion. / By S.R.	Richardson, Samuel, fl. 1643-1658.	1646 (1646)	Wing R1404A; Thomason E1182_6; ESTC R210206	6,417	16

judge the other in spirituall matters if the Magistrate then he is above the Church and so the head of the Church and he hath his power from the People to govern the Church whether it will not follow that the People as a People have originally as men a power to governe the Church to see her do her duty to reform correct her and so the Spouse of Christ the wife of Christ must be corrected according to the pleasure of the world who lye in wickednesse 1 Iohn 5. What power a Church hath over a Magistrate if he be a Member of the Church if members they may be excommunicated if so discerning Reason 1. Because Magistrates must be subject to Christ but Christ censures all offendors 1 Cor. 5. 4 5. 2. Every brother must be subject to Christs censure Mat. 18. 15 16 17. but Magistrates are Brethren Deut. 17. 15. 3. They may censure all within the Church 1 Cor. 5. 12. 4. The Church hath a charge of all the souls of the Church and must give account of it Heb. 13. 17. 5. Christs censures are for the good of soules 1 Cor. 5. 6. but Magistrates must not be denied any priviledge for their soules else they by being Magistrates should lose a priviledge of Christs 6. In which priviledges Christians are all one Gal. 2. 28. Col. 3. 11. Sins of Magistrates are hatefull and condemned Esay 10. 1. Mich. 3. 1. It s a Paradox that a Magistrate may be punished by the Church and yet that they are Judges of the Church 50 Whether every man upon that Religion which in his conscience he is perswaded is true whether he doth not upon the truth thereof venter his soule If that Religion the Magistrate be perswaded be true he owes a three-fold duty First Approbation Esa 49. Rev. 21. with a tender respect to the truth and the Professors of it Secondly Personall submission of his soule to the power of Jesus his government Matth. 18. 1 Cor. 5. Thirdly protection of them and their estates from violence and injury Rom. 13. to a false Religion he owes 1. Permission for approbation he owes not to what is evill as Mat. 13. 30. for publike peace and quietnesse 2. Protection of the Persons of his subjects though of a false worship that no injury be offered to the persons or goods of any Rom. 13. Object The Kings of Inda compelled men to serve the Lord ergo Kings may now compell c. Answ They who lived under the Jewish worship only were compelled strangers were not Secondly they were not compelled to any thing but what they knew and confessed was their duty 2 Chron. 16. 12 13 14 15. Thirdly if they did compell their actions were not morall to obliege other Kings to doe so May not the Prelates by the same reason alleadge the Order of the Priest-hood for their Episcopacy as you for the Kingly Fourthly the Kings of Israel did not imprison Schismatikes Pharices Herodians c. Fifthly the Kings of Israel had extraordinary profits to direct them what to do infallibly these Kings have none such to direct them Sixthly If the Law be morall where is it set down in Christs Testament which is to be our Rule that the Magistrate shall compell all to his Religion for to another he will not Object Then every man may live as he list Answ Had not he as good live as he list as live as you list Object Then it seemes errours may be suffered Answ If truth may be suffered also it will prevaile against Errors It s no more in their power to hinder Errors then it was in the power of the Prelates to hinder mens preaching writing and speaking against them If you can hinder Sathans suggestions and the vain imaginations of mens hearts and expell the darknesse in men and place light in stead thereof and hinder men from speaking each to other then you can suppresse erors else not the Lord only can surprise Errors by the mighty power of his spirit with his word and we believe he will certainly do it in his time to his glory and the comfort of his people amen One thing more I desire to know why the Priests of England asume to themselves the title of a Divine is it because they are exercised in Divine truths or because they pertake of the Divine nature or both if so then many Tradesmen may as well have the title of Divine given them as well as they because they pertake of the Divine nature and are as much exercised in matters Divine as the most of them but it is a question to me whether the title Divine is to be given to any man but only to God alone whose being is onely Divine FINIS Cor. 1. 9.