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The Covenant of Grace
The covenant of grace discovering the great work of a sinners reconciliation to God / by John Cotton ... ; whereunto are added Certain queries tending to accommodation [sic] between the Presbyterian and Congregational churches ; also a discussion of the civill magistrates power in matters of religion ; by the same author.The covenant of grace discovering the great work of a sinners reconciliation to God / by John Cotton ... ; whereunto are added Certain queries tending to accommodadation [sic] between the Presbyterian and Congregationall churches ; also a discussion of the civill magistrates power in matters of religion ; by the same author.
London: printed by M.S. for Francis Eglesfield and John Allen, 1655
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The Result of the Disputations of the Synod, or Assembly, at Cambri… › Part › Question 1
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Whence also other objections are answered, as that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but spiritual; and that Paul showeth a way of redressing all offences, 1 Cor. 5.5. 2 Tim. 2.25. and Faith comes by hearing, and not by whipping: when these places rather intend and show a Church way of healing Church offences: and do no more exclude a Political way of healing offences in a Christian Common-wealth, than an Economical way of redressing disorders in the Family; so the other place showeth a spiritual means of drawing men to the Faith; so that neither are pertinent to the case of the Civill power, acting civilly; nor doth this Assertion, That the Magistrate is to be a terror to all evil works, (applying the same to evil works forbidden in the first Table) any more exclude the use of Church-discipline therein: then it doth in matters of the second Table, if applied thereunto; for the Church may proceed in her way to censure Ecclesiastically one and the same thing, whether it be against the ⟨p. 18⟩first or second Table, which the Magistrate doth punish civilly.
Whence also other objections are answered, as that the weapons of our warfare are not carnall but spirituall; and that Paul sheweth a way of redressing all offences, 1 Cor. 5.5. 2 Tim. 2.25. and Faith comes by hearing, and not by whipping: when these places rather intend and shew a Church way of healing Church offences: and doe no more exclude a Politicall way of healing offences in a Christian Common-wealth, than an Economicall way of redressing disorders in the Family; so the other place sheweth a spirituall means of drawing men to the Faith; so that neither are pertinent to the case of the Civill power, acting civilly; nor doth this Assertion, That the Magistrate is to be a terrour to all evill works, (applying the same to evill works forbidden in the first Table) any more exclude the use of Church-discipline therein: then it doth in matters of the second Table, if applyed thereunto; for the Church may proceed in her way to censure Ecclesiastically one and the same thing, whether it be against the