A70175:28
Wholesome severity reconciled with Christian liberty, or, The true resolution of a present controversy…Wholesome severity reconciled with Christian liberty, or, The true resolution of a present controversie…
Wholesome severity reconciled with Christian liberty, or, The true resolution of a present controversy concerning liberty of conscience here you have the question stated, the middle way betwixt popish tyranny and schismatizing liberty approved and also confirmed from Scripture and the testimonies of divines, yea of whole churches : the chief arguments and exceptions used in the bloody tenet, The compassionate Samaritan, M.S. to A.S. &c., examined : eight distinctions added for qualifying and clearing the whole matter : and in conclusion a parænetick to the five apologists for choosing accommodation rather than toleration.Wholesome severity reconciled with Christian liberty, or, The true resolution of a present controversie concerning liberty of conscience here you have the question stated, the middle way betwixt popish tyrannie and schismatizing liberty approved and also confirmed from Scripture and the testimonies of divines, yea of whole churches : the chiefe arguments and exceptions used in the bloudy tenent, The compassionate samaritane, M.S. to A.S. &c., examined : eight distinctions added for qualifying and clearing the whole matter : and in conclusion a parænetick to the five apologists for choosing accommodation rather than toleration.
London: printed for Christopher Meredith, 1645
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1. If it were not so, then it is free and arbitrary to the Magistrate to appoint what punishments himself pleaseth. But this is not arbitrary to him, for he is the Minister of God, Rom. 13. 4. and the judgement is the Lords, Deut. 1. 7. 2 Chron. 19. 6. And if the Magistrate be Keeper of both Tables, he must keep them in such manner as God hath delivered them to him.
2. Christs words, Mat. 5. 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the Law or the Prophets, I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil, are comprehensive of the Judicial law, it being a part of the law of Moses; Now he could not fulfil the Judicial law, except either by his practice, or by teaching others still to observe it; not by his own practice, for he would not condemn the Adulteress, Joh. 8. 11. nor divide the Inheritance, Luke 12. 13, 14. Therefore it must be by his doctrine for our observing it.
2. Christs words, Mat. 5. 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the Law or the Prophets, I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill, are comprehensive of the Judiciall law, it being a part of the law of Moses; Now he could not fulfill the Judiciall law, except either by his practice, or by teaching others still to observe it; not by his own practice, for he would not condemn the Adulteresse, Joh. 8. 11. nor divide the Inheritance, Luke 12. 13, 14