eh · III <r,~e HIS T ·oR .Y ol" the PuRITANS. 445 ap. , .L •- :; ACts xv. 24. comnared ~vith Gal. i. 6, 7• 8_, 9· Gal. v. 2, 4, 5· Oliver r 6 G I .. . Protetl01·. Rom. ix. 3 1, 32, 33· Rom. x. 3, 4· Rom. I. r ' 17· a .m. I r. I654· Ephef. ii. 8, 9, ro. . . ~- Fourteenth, T hat to contmue m any knc~vn.fin, upon 7vhat pretence or principle foever , is damnable. . ... Rom..i. 3 2. Rom. vi. I' 2, rs, t6. I Jo~:~l I. 6, 8. I John Ill. 3· 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 2 Pet. ii. 19, 20, Rom. v111. 13: . . . Fifteenth, That God is to be worjbipped acc?rdmg ~o hzs 07Vn wt!!; and whoji;ever jha!lforjake and dejpije all the dutzes if hzs 7vorjhtp cannot br: f acved. - Jer. x. 15. Pfalm xiv. 4-· Jude, ver. I 3, I g, 20, 2 r. Ram. X: .r 3. Sixteentb, That the dead foal! rife; and that tbere zs a day of Judg– ment, 'Wim·ein all jhall appear, Jome to go into e·verlaftiug life, and .fuae into everlafting condemnation. r Tim. i. 19, 20. compared 7vith 2 Tim. ii. 17, rS. ACts xvii. 30, 31. John v. 28, 29. 1 Cor. xv. 19. Mr. Baxter C1ys Or. Ou:m worded there articles; that Dr. Goodwin, M r. Nye, and Mr. Simpfon, were his aili!tants; that Dr. Cheynel wa~ fcribe ; and that Mr. Marjhal a fober worthy man, did fomething; but that the reil: were little better than p1Bive. He adds, that twenty of Life, p. 205, their propofitions were printed, though in my copy, licenCed by Scobel, there are only fixteen: However the parliament being abruptly diffolved they were all buried in oblivion. It appears by thefe articles, that thefe divines intended to exclude, not R emarks. only deifls, focinians, and papifts, but aria11s, antinomians, quakers, and others. Into fuch difficulties do wife and good men fall, when they ufurp the kingly office of Chrill:, and pretend to refl:rain that liberty which is the birthright of every reafonable creatLll·e. 'Tis an unwarrantable pre– famption for any number of men to declare what is fundamental in the chrifl:ian religion, any further than the fcriptures have exprefsly declared it. 'Tis one thing to maintain a doCtrine to be true, and another to declare, that without the belief of it no m1n can be faved: None may fay this but God himfelf. Befides, why fhou!d the civil magifl:rate protect none but thofe who profefs jaitb in God by Jefus Chrift? If a colony of englijh merchants fhould fettle among the mahometans or chinefe, fhould we not think that the government of thofe countries ought to protect· them in their religion, as long as they invaded no man's proper~y, and ~aid obedience and fubmiflion to the government under which they liVed ? Why then fhould chrifl:ians deny others the fame liberty? The
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