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Show ( 104-. ) · . :n Bl (phemer or Turbulent lo11gs to him-to punuJ'1 aft C~nf~iencious DHfen- Hereticks (and fo the mo d by their Perfecutors ) ters . were a!ways ;,om(1 f~ s he) Religion is to be A gam, Tho we Jay Y r; not Civil-Weapons ; Perf:waded with Scripture-Re~,on?n.. . But (favs JJ with Pun:J"ments . ' with Argumen~s, ~ot d' t and Herefies carried on he) Blafphemtes :mme :: :; z ed in are to be [upwith an high Hand, and ~ ~~ment; ·where Reafon prej]ed with Weapons an u ·t So' fee what he and Arguments cannot prevaz • , d Weapons . . . if Arguments won r o, . brmgs tt to fi . lrfi all the Perfecuttons, nor muft ; fan~ ~ J~h~ne: againfi the Chrifiians, bur only o t <; ea . ft he firft Reformers, &c. the Romamfis agam t . n. themfelves · and fo f the Prelares agam~l . ' f h nay, o to . uftifie the Proceedmgs o : e goes on, P· 71· J • ft the ~akers, wh1ch Magifirates there,d a~am 'll not nor cannot, make now C. M. pre.ren s ~ W:nd who fees nor, that himrdl' a Vmdzcator of' r. • ll us may at 'J' '.1 t he mes a gam a ' the fame .A~gbmen ~ed againft themfelves ; and another tu~e e mr . till they declare pofi-that there ts no Secu~ty' . and for an U ni-tively againft all Per ec~uton, herwife what verfal Liberty of Co~fcten~~in~ others, 'will at they adva~ce at or~ tu~e a~d therefore, if they another htt them e ves ACt as he fpeaks of, Re· lSOOk$$ have made any Sole~~ fl. ·' :ft Liberty of Confcience, to be nouncing all La'}ls ~gamJ. d aectare againft all Perttnoun · let them pubhlh t~, a~ ce all their many ttb a£1 fecution ; and al. o eno~ave ublifh' d againft 11.1tll a~ wicked Books ~htch t~eyfor Pe~ecution of fuch ':Sra'"ll'f Liberty of Confcunce, an . . pall as their ~ w», ·tr. d f them tn ume u, d againff as dme~te rom d d his Antapologia an 1!-ibtt- ChampiOn, Tho. E war s, ·n he fays A Tol-tp of Gangrena, three Parts, where~ Devil fi~fi Parr, ~011- leration is the grand Defign hf ~ fter. a~d panicufctence. p. Ill• of whom more erea ' larly lady his Treati{e againft To/Jeratto11 anl pretended _ • Liberty of Confcience, which he he calls, The cafl·· XIII~~t· inK down of the lafl and flrongefl Hold of Satan ; fu:uttwherein he endeavours w prove, the Unla·JJJful- ~n to bt nefs ' and Mi{chiefs i1' Chriflim' Cr;mmomvealtbs and l:lenp'O. Kingdoms, both of a Univer[at ToU.erMion of alJ Re-ligions ana Confciences, and of a limitted anJ bounded of fame Sects only; and confeqt)endy none buc One, viz. char which is Uppermoft, which is always the Right in the Opinion of lhem rhat have the Sword, and fo co fupprefs all others, bow True and Confciencious fo ever they are; and p. 41. fays,. Magiftrates, by Vertue of their Office, as Magi{lrates {imply, every of them, though Turks, Heathens and Wicked, tU we!J a~ Chrijtiat~ and Orthodox, have an Authority, Right, and Power fom God, jure divino, in Matters of Religion, to Command for God, and hi.s Honour, and to forbid and [upprefs the contrary : That is, what they fo ac-count in their blind Zeal, Righr or \\7rong, mull: be rhe meaning ; and confequently Chrifiians. may be compell'd to be T11rks or Heathens ; of which pernicious DoCtrine, and the Confequen- -<es of ir, I leave ro ochers judge; and only nore, how contrary this is ro Chrifi's Doctrine, whofe Kingdom was nor of .this World, and therefore raughr his Difciples, to Ier rhe Tares Mat.1 3 • and Whedt grow together until the Harveft or Encl of 30 it; and rold lhem, when rhey would have Com-manded Fire to come do,vn from Heaven to Confume Luk. 9 •S4 them rhac did nor receive rhem, rhar they knew 55: no~ what Spirit they 'UJere of; and conrrary ro £he Judgment of the befi Chrifiiam, Marryrs, Kings, Princes, Srarefmen and Hifiorians, which always difiinguiffied between Cbrifl's and Ctejar's King-doms; as Stephen, King ofPolantl, whofaid, I am King of Mm, not of Confciences; ~ Commander of P p ~ Bo&e~ |
