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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.
To strengthen this; he quotes many Authors, in page 21.
Observe 1.1 If by forcible Reformation he means that a Christian Magistrate should not force by fire and sword, an heathen people to embrace the faith, I shall not contend with him; but if he means that Magistrates must not among people professing the faith, put forth their power to suppress Heresies, and punish the divulgers thereof, this is not unbeseeming the Gospel, but most consonant unto it. For did not Paul in the want of a Christian Magistrate in ⟨p. 20⟩an extraordinary way do the Magistrates work, inflict a bodily punishment on Elymas the Sorcerer, struck him blind, only because he would have seduced Paulus Sergius from the faith? Acts 13.8, 9, 10, 11. Now what Paul did extraordinarily, the Christian Magistrate may do ordinarily as an ordinary act of his charge. There are a cloud of witnesses that affirm this, that it is the Magistrates duty to suppress errors, and punish the spreaders thereof.
Observe 1.1 If by forcible Reformation he meanes that a Christian Magistrate should not force by fire and sword, an heathen people to embrace the faith, I shall not contend with him; but if he meanes that Magistrates must not among people professing the faith, put forth their power to suppresse Heresies, and punish the divulgers thereof, this is not unbeseeming the Gospel, but most consonant unto it. For did not Paul in the want of a Christian Magistrate in ⟨p. 20⟩an extraordinary way doe the Magistrates worke, inflict a bodily punishment on Elymas the Sorcerer, struck him blinde, onely because hee would have seduced Paulus Sergius from the faith?