A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

Our orthodox protestant writers, condemn as well the Anabaptists, who reject and s•orne at arguments brought against them from the old Testament, as the Manichees who did repudiat the old Testament, as having proceeded from an evil God. See P▪ Martyr in 1 Cor. 10. 12. Aret: proble: theol: loc. 56.

Our orthodox protestant writers, condemne as well the Anabaptists, who reject and s•orne at arguments brought against them from the old Testament, as the Manichees who did repudiat the old Testament, as having proceeded from an evill God. See P▪ Martyr in 1 Cor. 10. 12. Aret: proble: theol: loc. 56.

By this principle they shall not hold it contrary to the will of God under the new Testament, that a man marry his fathers brothers wife, this not being forbidden in the new Testament, but in the old. Some indeed of this time have maintained, that it is not unlawful to us to marry within these degrees which are forbidden, Lev: 18. See Mr. Edwards in the third part of Gangraena, pag 3. These hold, 'tis only forbidden to commit fornication with such as are within these degrees, not being married, as if […] were not unlawful to commit fornication with any, be they never so far without these degrees. By the same principle which rejecteth old Testament proofs, they must deny the duty of children under the new Testament, to marry with their parents consent, and this is one of the foul errors of some Sectaries now adays, that though consent of parents unto children's marriage, was commanded under the law to them that lived then, yet because that was but a ceremony, 'tis now lawful to marry without their consent, because we live under the Gospel. See that same third part of Gangraena, pag: 14. By the same principle they must deny that an oath (be it never so just and necessary) may be imposed by authority Or that the Magistrate ought to put to death, a blasphemer, an incestuous person, an adulterer, a Witch, or the