A34674:409
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.
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.
The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but spiritual: Therefore no such use now to the people of God of such carnal weapons as the penal Laws or censures of Civil Magistrates in matters of Religion.
The weapons of our warfare are not carnall, but spirituall: Therefore no such use now to the people of God of such carnall weapons as the penall Lawes or censures of Civil Magistrates in matters of Religion.
It's the unhappiness of the most of the Arguments in the late Pamphlets and Pleas for Liberty, used against this Coercive power of the Magistrate in ⟨p. 39⟩some cases which we plead for, that if they be forcible, they conclude universally, even against that coercive power which our opposites allow to him in matters of the second Table, and so far also of the first, as in things against the light of nature, and Law of Nations: And of this we have a taste in this Argument; for besides the mistake of applying this, as if meant of other persons, then of Church Officers (contrary to the very scope of the Text) the Argument concludeth against the use of Civil Magistrates power by Civil Rulers in matters of the second Table, as well as of the first, because spiritual weapons are as weighty to pull down strong holds against the second Table, as well as against the first: Of like nature is that Objection, Christs Kingdom is not of this world, this (if of any force) excluding wholly, takes away the Magistrates power in both Tables.
It's the unhappinesse of the most of the Arguments in the late Pamphlets and Pleas for Liberty, used against this Coercive power of the Magistrate in ⟨p. 39⟩