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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
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.
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.
2. This place doth rather plead for a Clergy-constitution (as you scoffingly call it) hen any wayes 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, Heretiques; or other grosse transgressors of Gods Law to be punisht 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 bee somewhat like a Clergy-constitution. I shall say more to your third.
3. In the third place you say, that the force of this text is, that the Magistrate may debtor me and the rest of the Kingdom, that are of the like mind, from resisting and hindering you in gathering into Communion, page 38. and a little before you say he may do it upon pain of death and banishment.
3. In the third place you say, that the force of this text is, that the Magistrate may deterre me and the rest of the Kingdome, that are of the like minde, from resisting and hindering you in gathering into Communion, page 38. and a little before you say he may do it upon pain of death and banishment.