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…

But if any Magistrates will not have respect to the honour of God, and salvation of souls, let them take heed to their own interest▪ When the Church of Christ sinketh in a State, let not that State think to swim: Religion and Righteousness must flourish or fade away, stand or fall together. They who are false to God, shall not be faithful to men. It was a ⟨p. 164⟩pious saying of Constantine, Quomodo fidem praestabunt Imperato•i inviolatam, qui Deo sunt persidi? 'Tis more then paradoxical, and I fear no less then Atheistical, which Mr. Williams chap. 70. of the Bloody Tenet, holds, viz. that a false▪ Religion and Worship will not hurt the civill State, in case the worshippers break no civill Law.

But if any Magistrates will not have respect to the honour of God, and salvation of soules, let them take heed to their own interest▪ When the Church of Christ sinketh in a State, let not that State thinke to swimme: Religion and Righteousnesse must flourish or fade away, stand or fall together. They who are false to God, shall not be faithfull to men. It was a ⟨p. 164⟩pious saying of Constantine, Quomodo fidem praestabunt Imperato•i inviolatam, qui Deo sunt persidi? 'Tis more then paradoxall, and I fear no lesse then Atheisticall, which Mr. Williams chap. 70. of the Bloudy Tenent, holds, viz. that a false▪ Religion and Worship will not hurt the civill State, incase the worshippers break no civill Law.

4. That Socinian principle, doth now pass for• good among divers Sectaries, that a man is bound to believe no more then by his reason he can comprehend. Mr. I: Goodwin, in his 38. Queries concerning the Ordinance, for the preventing of the growing and spreading of Heresies, quaest: 29. tells us, that if reason ought not to regulate, or limit men about the object, or matter of their believing, then are they bound to believe these things, concerning which there is no ground or reason at all, why they should be believed.