A30581:455
Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world
Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world wherein is showed (besides many other gospel truth) ... that there was a breach made between God and man ... to which is added two sermons / by Jeremiah Burroughs.Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world wherein is shewed (besides many other gospel truth) ... that there was a breach made between God and man ... to which is added two sermons / by Jeremiah Burroughs.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1657
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Obj. But you will say, the Apostles they had the word of Reconciliation, and preached it to the people; but they did not preach to the people that they should maintain it by force of arms, But they taught people to suffer, and to lay down their lives, and not to take the sword into their hands.
Obj. But you wil say, the Apostles they had the word of Reconciliation, and preached it to the people; but they did not preach to the people that they should maintain it by force of armes, But they taught people to suffer, and to lay downe their lives, and not to take the sword into their hands.
Ans. This hath been answered again and again, and it is a most vain objection of the people. This objection seems to be strengthened partly from the thing it self: They say, religion should not be maintained by the sword, and secondly, the example of the primitive times.
Ans. This hath been answered again and again, and it is a most vain objection of the people. This objection seemes to be strengthned partly from the thing it selfe: They say, religion should not be maintained by the sword, and secondly, the example of the primitive tims.
First for religion, know, that the maintenance that is now by the sword in this cause, it is not merely for religion, but it is for our civil right, that we have to our religion. And this answer will answer both.
First for religion, know, that the maintenance that is now by the sword in this cause, it is not meerly for religion, but it is for our civil right, that we have to our religion. And this answer wil answer both.