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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.
1Christ sent his Disciples not forth with any power of swords, or guns, or prisons to reform the World, or with any power of States or Armies, but sent forth poor illiterate and mechanic men, and only armed them with the power of the Word, and behold what Wonders they wrought by that power alone!
1Christ sent his Disciples not forth with any power of swords, or guns, or prisons to reforme the World, or with any power of States or Armies, but sent forth poore illiterate and mechanick men, and onely armed them with the power of the Word, and behold what Wonders they wrought by that power alone!
- 1Mr. Dells Serm. •. 15. l. 31Mr. Dels Serm. •. 15. l. 31
11. Presbyterians (as well as Mr. Dell) grant that fire and sword, prisons, and the co-active power of the Magistrate by inflicting corporal punishments, is not Gods way of planting the Gospel in a heathen nation which never heard of the Gospel before: All Protestant Authors acknowledge that it is the Word, not the sword that must propagate the Gospel; let the Pope, Spaniard, Mahomet, propagate Religion by the sword; I know none of a Presbyterian judgment that pleads for that.
11. Presbyterians (as well as Mr. Dell) grant that fire and sword, prisons, and the co-active power of the Magistrate by inflicting corporall punishments, is not Gods way of planting the Gospel in a heathen nation which never heard of the Gospel before: All Protestant Authors acknowledge that it is the Word, not the sword that must propagate the Gospel; let the Pope, Spaniard, Mahomet, propagate Religion by the sword; I know none of a Presbyterian judgment that pleads for that.