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Show :Hew falfe 'fc~rhm' (whicb /tr) Foxe~) &c. Sal'v~tion';drawiag away men frorl1 God; either i!S to. what they are bound ,to beli..crc., qr 9o, am) _av qid i( they will .bc ·favtu : ,or elfe'fuch' as teitH:O·rhe m~n ifffl di!tM1;>lt~'ce of! fl)e tl•ll peul:e and o~dtl' l liut of!h~ poffil>'ly'm6/c_;t>y ahd by; ' ,~ · u• 1 ·• . 2 . SectJnd•iy~ · 'l!li• M•glflrar. mrl/1 bimf.Lf t<p6111due ~$:aminati.n li..•arvthr,.. t• bt {i<rf,. He hath no other R ule given him than to proceed '[tcolliditm dUef;at• & prbbata ; I ha.vel'Often wood red at the blindt1efs of. the .times of f oNrt ~s. to this ~ cry th.ing, where thcit\nHI'iotl \Vas~h\s .:- T~r. P~iflt Pnl.itt'a~'d''hi ! ~n!illorly ufi,, ally examined the fuppofed Heretick, and atnlihgll i.neh\fi:lves fo dw!rmjrted hlrn, excomrlmrl ica ted 1\im; and declared liim an Hmticl{, Then f!l;ni fied it to the Ci vil power, they did not condemn him to 'de'ath <is inferiour Magilit-a t-es; b'ik rneerly<~s<:hl'frch- men declarea him~mtic•l, and prayed the Magi!l~ate~b'puni!h , Not roo ~vmly, qor .yet toqg~ntly, &c. { T\:e(e were !he ~or.d~ in tl\cie for In~ : ) "'Snit hat the entir<: •jtidgmefttl(aftH t·his) at 'to the fpecies of his punHhmmt was itt the Civil M:igiflr~te , who yet never did more, than carty ·the ·poor Ghriflian 'to th~ Stake and burn him. And t~us thofe ~omilh Foxes, thou£h "like Pilat~, they had ,.,'!fhed lhHr ha~ds'Of 'the "'V>tWJi'of lbdf' juft min ; becaule they had bid thl: Magillrates fee tb it, ( 'Wheth<:r they did or no the great day will ·derehnine :) but 'the Magill rate was unqueft ionably fufficlenrly loaded, and made but the Executioner of thdr rage, the f.uislier .Of their bloo"dy rhirll. But that which is afloni! hing is this, that the-civi'I •Magiflrate could e-:er think that he could anfwer before God the !bedding of Chtillians blood for p(etended crimes, of which 'he had not the leal\ cognifance but as thofe Prelates ancl Priefis told him • . Bat fuppofing the perf on to be truly a falfe Teacher, not only who doth in his heart believe what is falfe but teach it to others, and that in prapofitians of mo ·ment,where the thing erroneoufly believed doth divide from God, and fuppo'fing the Magiflrate to have a perfonal knowledg of it fufficiently evidtnced to him, and proved before him. The Q!:etlion fli!l is, what his duty is as totheuking ofthefe t'oxes? Some tell us, Thatbtbathnathing at ·aUta d. as a Magifirate. And of this opinion the A11abapti{t1 are 'the -great Patrons. How far tne M agillrates power extendetll, Whetbtr to uk! a10>ay tht life of ·rht offender, or no, is indeed a quellion amongfi fober and learned men ; but that he hath a P'""'' committed Ia him from God, and a duty inc•mbmt 11po11 him to takt care t{Religiolf, and ill order •• il ·~ to r(jtr~i~ fucb f•l{t Ttachers as I have _defcribed, is granted by _fo: Soclnus dt •If· ber Dtvmes of all perfwafions, (I tlunk) and denied by S ocm•· b•mi•is chri• ns, A>~~b~ttf!s and Aiminiam. It is a large SubjeCt to which Jli.n, c. r. many .D1vmcs have fp oken fu11y , and I !hall take it for granted, Rem. c .. [. refe_rring you 10 what hath been fully fpoken to it by others , of c. >4. ·wiHCh the learned may find enough in all thofc who have wrote -c ommon places, in their difcourfes De M•rij!rat11; and thofe of you that unde rlland not Larine, may fatislie your felvcs in what hath been wrote by Mr.-Cabbrt of N. Eng lan d, and many others. Our,queftion is not about his power, which is abundantly con · hrm d by Scr ipture aoa-Reafon, but only about the extent of his power ; and here, · I. It will be g ranted ·On an hands, That if it be not the Magij! rJte/ du t~ to dct:y thorn ( as unq uefi ionably it is,) yet he is ( at leaf! ) at hberty to deny them pnblick pl•m and priviledgn. This mufl be granted us to fal fe T eachers of a lower orderthan I am fp eaking of, we may dJ witb our o10>11 ,.,bat"'' plea] e. Pub1ick R.cm.CMf,c.• s· places, and'Pub!ick pri viledges,are unquefl ionably •the M•githates ·ow11. ( Thus much the A rminians rhemfdves c onf~fs, J and crnnot .be. reafonably denied; but much more ought the Magiflnte to tifc thiS power as to fuch falfo T eachers, who"by their DoCtrine draw away men f ro_m the faith afChrifl, and from ihe """Y of IJ, Iimfs: it were unquell ronably lin and guilt in him to allow him his houfes and his ncain tenanc.e .-to pervert Souls to their eternal ruine and .dellruCtion. ~. I mull confcfs.I am ·verY:inc1inable 1to think, .that meer He· re/ir, or falJ: '!eaching, [~para ted from Rlafpbemy and grofi Idolatry and Sedition, ought n<lt to be punijhed with death by the M1gi- t '(1ratr. In three cafes, you fee that a falfe Teacher may be put to death. r •. Jn cafe an emixmt dl]lurbance of the civil pt~ce atteHd1 l1i1 teochutg, and his tea chi11g_ leads to it. This you know was the cafe of':'mntr and bit Complier~ not many years ·fince , private men taktng the Sword, may be Jullly puni!hed by the Sword. God in t~e wholdyll em ,otbi~'Law hath -!hewed his care of the preferva- . !ton of hu!"ane ~ octeucs and the.order of them; if any one teach· eth ~?Y thtng of tts ?W~ ·nature tending to the violation of it, or exctung othe~s to tt, It may undoubtedly be puni!hed by the 1 Sword to as ht ~h a degree as any other Tray tors or fedltious perfom. The hfe of the :Prince, or the whole 'l)o(!.y Politick, is H h h to |