A34674:369
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
The Result of the Disputations of the Synod, or Assembly, at Cambri… › Part › Question 1 › Arguments
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.
Having thus cleared the state of the Question, we shall now come to some Arguments from Scripture, which confirm the Affirmative part of the question so stated; and the Arguments are taken some from the old, some from the New Testament. Of the former sort there are three.
Having thus cleared the state of the Question, we shall now come to some Arguments from Scripture, which confirme the Affirmative part of the question so stated; and the Arguments are taken some from the old, some from the New Testament. Of the former sort there are three.
From the Old Testament.
Argum: 1
1 In that it is evident that Rulers of old, and those Rulers in the Commonwealth of Israel, they are commended in Scripture for the exercise of such power in the matters of the first Table; and therefore it is according to the mind of God that now civil Rulers do the like. Abraham, who was not an ordinary master of a family, but a Prince among them, Gen. 23.6. He is commended for laying the force of his command upon those under his power, in matters of Religion,