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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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Argum: 2
A second Argument is, in that it's recorded as a most desperate and accursed estate of old, that they had no King or chief Ruler in Israel, to restrain, as Adultery, and Murder (sins against the second Table, Judges 19.1. with chap. 20.) so Idolatry (a sin against the first Table, chap. 17.1. & 18.1. compared) but every man had his liberty, to do what was right in his own eyes.
A second Argument is, in that it's recorded as a most desperate and accursed estate of old, that they had no King or chief Ruler in Israel, to restrain, as Adultery, and Murther (sins against the second Table, Judges 19.1. with chap. 20.) so Idolatry (a sin against the first Table, chap. 17.1. & 18.1. compared) but every man had his liberty, to doe what was right in his owne eyes.
Argum: 3
The third Argument is, in that it is recorded as a matter of special guidance and direction of God, and acknowledged by Ezra, inspired by the Spirit, as a special mercy of God to his people, that Artaxerxes an Heathen King, had an heart to put forth his coercive power enjoining things commanded of God, and forbidding, with sanction of suitable punishments, the evils, whether against the Laws of the King, or against the Laws of God, whether concerning Religion, or righteousness: whence we argue, that this use of the civil power was of God of old, and therefore the same is as well of God now. Artaxerxes was indeed an instrument in the hand of Christ, but