A34674:386
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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4 Job, and those Judges mentioned in his time, as bound to punish Idolatry, ⟨p. 26⟩were no Members of the Jewish Church.
Object. If you make the example of the Princes of Israel, acting Coercively in matters of Religion for Magistrates imitation, why do not you make the Levites a pattern also to Ministers now, to act as they did civilly, in civil censures?
Object. If you make the example of the Princes of Israel, acting Coercively in matters of Religion for Magistrates imitation, why doe not you make the Levites a pattern also to Ministers now, to act as they did civilly, in civil censures?
Answ.1 It's not clear that the Levites d d act any further than by counsel, or at most by some general consent to that which the Princes were formally to Act.
Answ.1 It's not clear that the Levites d d act any further than by counsel, or at most by some generall consent to that which the Princes were formally to Act.