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Show Io8 why the Civil/ MagiftrAte Whence ic is, that in all civill NJtions , whofe AB1 are recorded, either in facred or prophane Authors, their Magif\rates have had not on ely a due care of .Juflice and honefty, bus a re-' verend care of Religion alfo : ]4ipl1 in Egypt provided for the prefervation of the Lands of the Priells without Impeachment, and that not out of refpe8: totheirfuper!lition (which he could not but di!hke: ) but out of regard to the lEgyptian Lawes, & Cu- 1\omes, to preferve their Religion, and the maintenance thereof. inviolate, Gen, 47· 22. InBabell, NebucbatJnezzar beingconvin~ ced of the f~veraigne Divinity of th~ God of lfrael, made a capitall Lawagamll theblafphemersof htsName, Dan. 3· 29. Dariur of the Medu and !'•rfi~nJ ena8:ed a Royall Law to like purpofe, Dan.~· 26. The hkedtd Artaxerxes, Ezra. 7· 26. and DariiH before~~~, Ezra. 6. II. In A them they had a Law again(\ A'~IPuo, lrreltgton, upon which fuffered three famous Philofophers, Soc~ ate~, 'IbeodorU<, and Protagor/H. Socratu,as LaertiU( reporceth in huLtfe, was accufed by MelitU< 1nr Mo~<lotr who commenced his A~io~ ag~inll. him in the~ words Mm7 :. ... ~.:7Nr, or ~ mNf ""''~~ 9£~ > v 1Dfi.I~Mr, snpcc J£ btup.or~d.Xtl.l,ei iii111)'¥Jl!'~. TheedorU< was firnamed A 8;1fr, and as Socrattl was condemned to death by P.oyfon ~ fo wa.s this man aUo, as L•ertiu< reporteth OUt of Amphtc~am m the hfe of Arijlipp1H. Prot.•gmr, (as 'IuiiJ reporteth of h:m, de Natura Dtoru, Lib. 1.) having thus expref. fed himfelfe in the beginning of his Rooke, concerning the Godt ( I havenottofay, .whether they be, or whether they be not ) his Bookes were pubbckly burnt, and himfelfe banilhed out of City and C~unt~ •. How the Ephefiam flood affi:aed to the dellroy· ers of thm Rehgron, appeareth by the excufe which the Towne· Clarke mad; for P ~ul and hi~ Companions , you have brought thefe men htther fatth he, whtch are neither robbers of Churches, noryetblafpbemers of your Goddeffi:, AB1 19. 37• The&mam how zealous they were in defence of their Religion , the !laughter of many thoufand ?hrilli•ns ·Will be a perpetuall Mon~ men~ t~ all Ages. All wh1ch things I recite not to jullifie the mJfappl:y_mg of their zeale to the mainrenance of faiiC Gods, but to make It appeare, that as the Pagan Nations who never heard ;[the true God, and of his Sonne Jefus, did erea by inflintl: of ature, Governments, and Magiftrates : fo by the lame infiinlt, their is ra!ltd Goa's t.Minifttr. their L•wes and Magillrates tooke care of the maincen•nce of that Religion, which they tooke to be of God. What a lhama were it, that Pagan Magillr•tes !hould be more careful! and zealous of the honour of their Jdob, then Chrillians of the Honour of the koowne true God, the Lord our Creator, Redeemer, and s.m8:ifier? CHAp. p. A 'R,Jply to his Chap. 51. Difcu1Ter. MAnyobjef1•ut ofver·4• of Rom. 13. that tbeMJgifirate ~ to avengeevill: and therefore Hmfiu, falfe Chrijls, &c. But Ianfw~r, Firft,tbat tben>ordugenerally oppofed to civi/Jgoodmffi,-or vertut tn a Common·'t#eaill•, and rm to fPirituaU good. Secondly,! kave proved, ber< iH ~ot intended evilJ againp the JPiri· tuall or CbriJltan State ( b~ndledtn chapter 12.) But evill againp tbeCivill State, handled in thi1 13. chapter. Definder. What is meant by .,.3 x«J<3r, evill , no man (that I meet with) In!erprtteth. more fully then Pareus. 'Ihere i1, faith he, a foure·fold evtll, •f '!¥'btch the c.MJgiftrate u the Avenger :·contrary to tbefo~trefoid good, whereof !he Magi]!~ a!' is the Prefirver. A naturaU good, a Mora/1 good, a CtVJII good, a IJmttuaU good. A natural/ good aJ Lift ~fafityof our b•diu: A moral/ good, iH 'Iemp<rante, Chajliry: a Ci~ ~•II good, aJ our geod1 a1ed LgrniJ, and civi/1 Libmiu: A JPirituaiJ. good, ., t~efree p.J[age of ~he Ordinances of God, and· pure Religion. I~ oppojitton to theft thtre u a foure-fold Evil): N atura/1, at the killzng, and woundtng, and _be_ating of o~tr bodies : moral/· aJ Drunk!_nneffi? and wbortdome: Ctvtll, aJ jlealtb, and robbery, and oppreffion:' Spmtuall~ aJ Hmfie, ldolaJry , a>Jd dijlurbance of the fr6t·pa.ff'age of GodJ Ordznanm. MJ the MJgiflrate u bound by bit office to pre fen·• the good of the SubjeCl i11 all theft kjnd1 : fo u he to avenge the eviU done again]! tbeSubjeB in anJ of theft. What the Difcuffer hath proved . to the contrary (as he faith) hath been Anfwered already in his place. DiCcuffer. 1be Elder~ of New-England grant ,. tbe M3gijlrate |