A26965:754
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacify such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benj. Alsop, 1679
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§ 6. If the Jewish Law, either as such, or as stablished by Christ for his Kingdom, did bind all the world to this day, then it would bind them to their Civil Policy, as much at least as to their Ecclesiastical. But few Christians think that it binds them to their Civil Policy. For if it did, then, 1. All Nations that have varied from it to this day, have sinned: 2. No diversity of ⟨p. 254⟩Governments could be lawful: 3. Then it would perplex men, to be sure, whether it be the old Mosaical form by Judges, or the later Regal form that bindeth: 4. Then such a Civil Council or Sanhedrin as was appointed the Jews, would be a Divine Establishment, and not variable at the will of Kings or People. Many other things would follow, which Kings would not easily believe.
§ 6. If the Jewish Law, either as such, or as stablished by Christ for his Kingdom, did bind all the world to this day, then it would bind them to their Civil Policy, as much at least as to their Ecclesiastical. But few Christians think that it binds them to their Civil Policy. For if it did, then, 1. All Nations that have varied from it to this day, have sinned: 2. No diversity of ⟨p. 254⟩Governments could be lawful: 3. Then it would perplex men, to be sure, whether it be the old Mosaical form by Judges, or the later Regal form that bindeth: 4. Then such a Civil Council or Sanhedrim as was appointed the Jews, would be a Divine Establishment, and not variable at the will of Kings or People. Many other things would follow, which Kings would not easily believe.
§ 7. There may be much more said for the continuance of the Jews civil Policy than for their Ecclesiastical: For there is much more forbidden of the latter, than of the former; Though all nations be not bound to their civil policy, they may set it up if they please; They are not prohibited: For Christ hath not made new Laws for civil states as such; But he hath made new Church Laws, and thereby altered, yea prohibited much of the old.