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Raw
far
men
may
finer
in
utters
of
Religion.
But
may
we go
no
further?
Yes furely,
In other
thins
that are
or
ata
inferiour
nature,
though
it's
hot the
light of
nature that
will convince
men, yet
fuch
things
as
are againit the common light of
chriltianity,that
are
fo
clearly
reveal'd, that
even
thole that
are
in
plaice
and
power, and
the community of the people
may take
it
upon
them,
that thefe men
if
they
be ignoranr,are wilfully
ignorant,
fuch
things likewife are
net
to be fuffered,for therein
the
fame.
reafon
why
they fhould be
punifl
ed
by
chrifiians,as why
thofi;
that
have only
the light
of
nature fhould punith thofe
things
that are
aginft
the light of nature.
Yea
fo
farre
a
Magifirate
may
goe,
that
through the evill
carriage
of
men
in
their
tairbulency,
in their
pride,
manifef?t
ing
apparently
a
ítubbome
fpirit,
carriage
;
I:
either
through
the nature
of
the thing,or
through
their
wicked carriage, they
may
take upon them
as
they
would anfNer
it
to
Jefus
(Thrift
at
the laft
day, that they doe
evidently
fee
meere
wanronneffe
and
flubbornneffe, and not
Hveakneflee
and
infirmity
;
fo
farre
as
may
be
futable
to
help
againft wantonnefs and
ftubbornnefs,
the Lord'hath appointed outward meanes
,
even outward
pu
nifhment
to
be
an Ordinance
of his
;
for
it
hath
an efficacy
put
into
it by nature
-
Externalt
things have
by
the
God
of
nature
an
efficacy
put
into them
to
help
against
that
that
cloth
appear
outwardly
to be
flubbornneile, wantonneffe,
or
Itoutnefle.
Thus farre there
may
be
fuffering
in
matters
of
Religion,
and
thofe
that
will
go
farther then this, they
had
need
make
it
ve-
ry
cleere
;
fuch
as
would
have
every
kind of
errour
as
they
think
in matters controverfall
,
though men fhould behave
themfelves
never io
meekly and humbly
before others, yet
i
f
they think
that God
bath
appointed the civili (word
to put
an
end
to the Controverfies
in
Religion,
I
fay,
if they take
not
heed, when
they
think
to
doe
God
good
fervice,they will
run
upon
the danger
of
being guilty of bringing
the
people
of
God
under
perfecution.
But the
other
two
that
I
have
folïen
of
,
are enough to
cleere
many
from
that
great
errour
that
is
cryed
oift
of a-
mongft us
,
That
men would
have
no.kind of Government,
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