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

A TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL CONTENTS OF THE BOOK.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Williams, Roger and Underhill, Edward Bean
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The true custodes utriusque tabulæ, and keepers of the ordinances and worship of Jesus Christ
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The kings of Egypt, Moab, Philistia, Assyria, Nineveh, were not charged with the worship of God, as the kings of Judah were
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Masters of families not charged under the gospel to force all the consciences of their families to worship
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God’s people have then shined brightest in godliness, when they have enjoyed least quietness
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Few magistrates, few men, spiritually good; yet divers sorts of commendable goodness beside spiritual
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Civil power originally and fundamentally in the people Mr. Cotton and the New English give the power of Christ into the hands of the commonweal
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Laws concerning religion, of two sorts
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The very Indians abhor to disturb any conscience at worship
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Canons and constitutions pretended civil, but indeed ecclesiastical
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A threefold guilt lying upon civil powers, commanding the subject’s soul in worship
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Persons may with less sin be forced to marry whom they cannot love, than to worship where they cannot believe
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As the cause, so the weapons of the beast and the lamb are infinitely different
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Artaxerxes his decree examined
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The sum of the examples of the gentile king’s decrees concerning God’s worship in scripture
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The doctrine of putting to death blasphemers of Christ, cuts off the hopes of the Jews partaking in his blood
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The direful effects of fighting for conscience
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Error is confident as well as truth
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Some consciences not so easily healed and cured as men imagine
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Persecutors dispute with heretics, as a tyrannical cat with the poor mouse: and with a true witness, as a roaring lion with an innocent lamb in his paw

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The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed and Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered, Project Gutenberg eBook #65739

A BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE BOTH HOUSES OF THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT.