The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience...

Phineas’s act discussed

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Elijah’s slaughters examined

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Dangerous consequences flowing from the civil magistrate’s power in spiritual cases

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The world turned upside down

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The wonderful answer of the ministers of New England to the ministers of Old

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Lamentable differences even amongst them that fear God

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The doctrine of persecution ever drives the most godly out of the world

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A MODEL OF CHURCH AND CIVIL POWER, composed by Mr. Cotton and the ministers of New England, and sent to Salem, (as a further confirmation of the bloody doctrine of persecution for cause of conscience) examined and answered

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Christ’s power in the church confest to be above all magistrates in spiritual things

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Isa. xlix. 23, lamentably wrested

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The civil commonweal, and the spiritual commonweal, the church, not inconsistent, though independent the one on the other

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Christ’s ordinances put upon a whole city or nation may civilize them, and moralize, but not christianize, before repentance first wrought

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Mr. Cotton and the New English minister’s confession, that the magistrate hath neither civil nor spiritual power in soul matters

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The magistrates and the church, (by Mr. Cotton’s grounds) in one and the same cause, made the judges on the bench, and delinquents at the bar

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A demonstrative illustration, that the magistrate cannot have power over the church in spiritual or church causes

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The true way of the God of peace, in differences between the church and the magistrate

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The terms godliness and honesty explained, 1 Tim. ii. 1, and honesty proved not to signify in that place the righteousness of the second table

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The forcing of men to God’s worship, the greatest breach of civil peace

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The Roman Cæsars of Christ’s time described

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It pleased not the Lord Jesus, in the institution of the Christian church, to appoint and raise up any civil government to take care of his worship

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