A90288:208
A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons, in Parliament assembled
A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons, in Parliament assembled: on January 31. A day of solemn humiliation. With a discourse about toleration, and the duty of the civill magistrate about religion, thereunto annexed. Humbly presented to them, and all peace-loving men of this nation. / By John Owen, pastor of the Church of Christ, which is at Coggeshall in Essex.A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons, in Parliament assembled: on January 31. A day of solemne humiliation. With a discourse about toleration, and the duty of the civill magistrate about religion, thereunto annexed. Humbly presented to them, and all peace-loving men of this nation. / By John Owen, pastor of the Church of Christ, which is at Coggeshall in Essex.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons for Henry Cripps, 1649
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1. Is of force only in this case of the object whereunto seduction tends; viz. strange gods, and no other.
1. Is of force onely in this case of the object whereunto seduction tends; viz. strange gods, and no other.
2. Turning from Jehovah respects not any manner of backsliding in respect of the way of worship, but a falling away from him as the object of worship.
2. Turning from Jehovah respects not any manner of backslyding in respect of the way of worship, but a falling away from him as the object of worship.
Now there being these and many other discrepancies hindering the cases proposed from running parallel, I profess for my part, I cannot see how any such evident deductions can possibly be drawn from hence, as to be made a bottom of ⟨p. 48⟩practise and acting in things of so high concernment. What may be allowed from the equity of those and the like Constitutions, and deduced by Analogy and proportion to the business in hand, I shall afterwards declare.
Now there being these and many other discrepancies hindering the cases proposed from running parallell, I professe for my part, I cannot see how any such evident deductions can possibly be drawne from hence, as to be made a bottome of ⟨p. 48⟩practise and acting in things of so high concernment. What may be allowed from the equity of those and the like Constitutions, and deduced by Analogie and proportion to the businesse in hand, I shall afterwards declare.