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Short and plain animadversions on some passages in Mr. Dells sermon first preached before…Short and plaine animadversions on some passages in Mr. Dels sermon first preached before…
Short and plain animadversions on some passages in Mr. Dells sermon first preached before the Honourable House of Commons on Novemb. 25. 1646. But since printed without their order Setting forth the many dangerous and destructive assertions therein both to church and state, the covenant, and the reformation so much desired. Together, with an answer to an unlicensed pamphlet annexed to the sermon, entitled, A reply to Master Loves contradictions. By Christopher Love minister of Anne Aldersgate, London. The second edition. Imprimatur Ja. Cranford. Decemb. 17. 1646.Short and plaine animadversions on some passages in Mr. Dels sermon first preached before the Honourable House of Commons on Novemb. 25. 1646. But since printed without their order Setting forth the many dangerous and destructive assertions therein both to church and state, the covenant, and the reformation so much desired. Together, with an answer to an unlicensed pamphlet annext to the sermon, entituled, A reply to Master Loves contradictions. By Christopher Love minister of Anne Aldersgate, London. The second edition. Imprimatur Ja. Cranford. Decemb. 17. 1646.
London: printed by R. Cotes for John Bellamie, 1647London: printed by R. Cotes for Iohn Bellamie, 1647
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2. You say, this is the force of the place, that the Magistrate ought to permit this to be d•ne according to the Law of God in your hands, or rather the Law of the spirit of life in your hearts, and not to enforce upon you any Clergy-Constitutions, page 28▪
2. You say, this is the force of the place, that the Magistrate ought to permit this to be d•ne according to the Law of God in your hands, or rather the Law of the spirit of life in your hearts, and not to inforce upon you any Clergy-Constitutions, page 28▪
Answ. 1. This place warrants the Magistrate to permit the free and public exercise of the truth, not of error; The Magistrate that is enjoined by God to protect the true Religion must not tolerate a false.
Answ. 1. This place warrants the Magistrate to permit the free and publique exercise of the truth, not of errour; The Magistrate that is enjoyned by God to protect the true Religion must not tolerate a false.
2. This place doth rather plead for a Clergy-constitution (as you scoffingly call it) hen any ways deny it; for this decree of Artaxerxes was granted upon the request of Ezra, who was a Priest (compare Ezr. 7.6. with Ez•. 10.10.) which place will warrant what you deny in your Sermon, viz. that Ministers may petition the civill Magistrate to have Idolaters, Heretics; or other gross transgressors of Gods Law to be punished with death, banishment, or imprisonment, as the cause shall require; This decree then of banishment, death, &c. being granted upon the request of Ezra a Priest, in that sense it may be somewhat like a Clergy-constitution. I shall say more to your third.