A78005:97
A vindication of Mr Burroughs, against Mr Edwards his foul aspersions, in his spreading…A vindication of Mr Burroughes, against Mr Edwards his foule aspersions, in his spreading…
A vindication of Mr Burroughs, against Mr Edwards his foul aspersions, in his spreading Gangræna, and his angry Antiapologia. Concluding with a brief declaration what the Independents would have. / By Jer: Burroughs.A vindication of Mr Burroughes, against Mr Edwards his foule aspersions, in his spreading Gangræna, and his angry Antiapologia. Concluding with a briefe declaration what the Independents would have. / By Jer: Burroughes.
London: printed for H. Overton, 1646
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
If you say, The Magistrate must come in and help.
If you say, The Magistrate must come in and helpe.
Answ. 1. Howsoever then in Church help there is little difference.
2. If you interesse the Magistrates power, he must then either by himself or by some Commissioners take cognisance of the jus and the fact, wherein his power is to be exercised, he must not act upon an implicit belief, that the acts of the Church are right.
2. If you interesse the Magistrates power, he must then either by himselfe or by some Commissioners take cognisance of the jus and the fact, wherein his power is to be exercised, he must not act upon an implicite beliefe, that the acts of the Church are right.
3. Will you call in his power in all matters of difference, wherein your selves cannot agree? or will you only desire his power to help, when either the heinousness of the matter, or the turbulency of the carriage, manifests stubbornness? If in the former case, then you make the Magistrate the Judge of all Controversies in Religion, which I believe you are not willing to do. If in the latter only, we are agreed. Why then is there such a stir, such an out-cry against that which is called the Independent way, as if there must needs be a confusion of all things, if liberty in it be granted? The Lord judge between us and our Brethren in this thing: To him we refer our Names and our Cause.