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IV. And because the Powers which God hath ordained, and the Liberty which Chrift hath purchased, are not intended by God to deftroy, but mutually to uphold and preferve one another; they who upon Pretence of Chriftian Liberty, fhall oppofe any lawful Power, or the lawful Exercise of it, whether it be Civil or Ecclefiaftical, refift the Ordinance of God P. And for their publishing of fuch Opinions, or maintaining of fuch Practices as are contrary to the Light of Nature, or to the known Principles of Chriftainity, whether concerning Faith, Worship, or Converfation; or to the Power of Godliness; or fuch erroneous Opinions or Practices, as either in their own Nature, or in the Manner of publishing or maintaining them, are deftructive to the external Peace and Order which Chrift hath established in the Church; they may lawfully be called to Account, and proceeded againft by the Cenfures of the Church,

Luke 1.74. That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, might ferve him without fear. v. 75. In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

IV. P Matth. 12. 25. And Jefus knew their thoughts, and faid unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to defolation: and every city or houfe divided againft it felf, fhall not ftand. 1 Pet. 2. 13. Submit your felves to every ordinance of man for the Lords fake: whether it be to the king as fupreme; v. 14. Or unto governors,, as unto them that are fent by him, for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of them that do well. v. 16 As free, and not ufing your liberty for a cloak of maliciouf

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nefs, but as the fervants of God.
[Rom. 13. 1. to the 8. verfe.] Heb. 13.
17. Obey them that have the rule
over you, and fubmit your felves:
for they watch for your fouls, as
they that must give account: that
they may do it with joy, and not
with grief; for that is unprofitable
for you.

9 Rom. 1. 32. Who knowing the judgment of God, (that they which commit fuch things are worthy of death) not only do the fame, but have plea fure in them that do them: With 1 Cor. 5. 1. It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not fo much as named amongst the Gentiles, that one should have his fathers wife. v. 5. To deliver

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pass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he fhall hear thee, thou haft gained thy brother, v. 16, But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witneffes, every word may be established. v.17. And if he fhall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. 1 Tim. 1. 19. Holding faith and a good confcience: which fome having put away, concerning faith have made fhipwrack, v. 20. Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blafpheme. Rev. 2. 2. I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou haft tried them, which fay they are apo ftles, and are not; and haft found them liars, v. 14. But I have a

fuch an one unto Satan, for the deftruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be faved in the day of the Lord Jefus. v. 11. But now I have written unto you, not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with fuch an one, no not to eat, v. 13. But them that are without, God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourfelves that wicked perfon. 2 John 10. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God fpeed, v. II. For he that biddeth him God speed, is partaker of his evil deeds. And 2 Theff. 3. 14. And if any man obey not our word by this epiftle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. And 1 Tim. 6. 3. If any man teach otherwife, and confent not to wholfom words, even the words of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and to the doctrine which is accor- few things against thee, because ding to godliness; v. 4. He is proud, thou haft there them that hold the knowing nothing, but doting about doctrine of Balaam, who taught queftions and ftrifes of words, Balac to caft a ftumbling block bewhereof cometh envy, ftrife, rail- fore the children of Ifrael, to eat ings, evil furmifings, v. 5. Perverse things facrificed unto idols, and to difputings of men of corrupt minds, commit fornication. v. 15. So haft and deftitute of the truth, fuppofing thou alfo them that hold the dothat gain is godliness: from fuch &trine of the Nicolaitans, which withdraw thy felf. And Tit. 1. 10. thing I hate. v. 20. NotwithstandFor there are many unruly and vain ing, I have a few things against talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcifion, v. 1. Whofe mouths must be ftopped,who fubvert whole houfes, teaching things which they ought not,for filthy lucres fake. v. 13. This witness is true: wherefore rebuke them fharply, that they may be found in the faith. And Tit. 3. 10. A man that is an heretick, after the first and second admonition, reject. With Matth. 18. 15. Moreover, if thy brother fhall tref

thee, because thou fuffereft that woman Jezebel, which calleth her felf a prophetefs, to teach, and feduce my fervants to commit fornication, and to eat things facrificed unto idols. Rev. 3. 9. Behold, I will make them ofthe fynagogue of Satan, (which fay they are Jews, and are not, but do lie,) behold, I will make them to come and worfhip before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

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and by the Power of the Civil Magistrate '. CHAP.

* [ Deut. 13. 6. to the 12.] Rom. 13.3. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou fhalt have praise of the fame. v. 4. For he is the minifter of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the fword in vain; for he is the minister of God, a revenger to exe cute wrath upon him that doth evil. With 2 John 10. 11. [See in the letter 9. ] Ezr. 7. 23. Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, ler it be diligently done, for the houfe of the God of heaven; for why fhould there be wrath against the realm of the king and his fons? 7. 25. And thou, Ezra, after the wifdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, fet magiftrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all fuch as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not. v. 26. And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed fpeedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment. v. 27. Bleffed be the Lord God of our fathers, which hath put fuch a thing as this in the kings heart, to beautify the house of the Lord, which is in Jerufalem: v. 28. And hath extended mercy unto me, before the king, and his counsellers, and before all the kings mighty princes; and I was ftrengthned, as the hand of the Lord my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Ifrael, chief men to go up with me. Rev. 17. 12. And the ten horns which thou faw

V. 17.

eft, are ten kings, which have re-
ceived no kingdom as yet; but re-
ceive power as kings one hour with
the beaft. v. 16. And the ten horns
which thou faweft upon the beafts,
these shall hate the whore, and shall
make her defolate, and naked, and
fhall eat her flesh, and burn her
with fire. v. 17. For God hath put
in their hearts to fulfil his will, and
to agree, and to give their king-
dom unto the beaft, until the words
of God fhall be fulfilled. Neh. 13.
15. In those days faw I in Judah,
fome treading wine-preffes on the
fabbath, and bringing in fheaves,
and lading affes; as alfo wine,
grapes, and figs, and all manner of
burdens, which they brought into
Jerufalem on the fabbath-day: and
I teftified against them in the day
wherein they fold victuals.
Then I contended with the nobles
of Judah,and faid unto them, What
evil thing is this that ye do, and
profane the fabbath-day? v. 21,
Then I teftified against them, and
faid unto them, Why lodge ye a
bout the wall? if ye do so again,
I will lay hands on you. From
that time forth came they no
more on the fabbath.
v. 22. And
I commanded the Levites, that they
fhould cleanse themselves, and that
they fhould come and keep the gates,
to fanctify the fabbath-day. Re-
member me, O my God, concerning
this alfo, and fpare me according to
the greatnefs of thy mercy.
And I contended with them, and
curfed them, and smote certain of
them, and pluckt off their hair,
and made them fwear by God,
saying, Ye shall not give your daugh
ters unto their fons, nor take their

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v. 13. That whofoever would not feek the Lord God of Ifrael, fhould be put to death, whether finall or great, whether man or woman. 16. And alfo concerning Maachah the mother of Afa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Afa cut down her idol, and ftamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron. Dan. 3. 29. Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language,which speak any thing amifs against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fhall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghil, because there is no other god that can deliver after this fort.

daughters unto your fons, or for your felves. v. 30. Thus cleanfed Ithem from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests, and the Levites, every one in his bufiness. 2 Kings 23.5. And he put down the idolatrous priefts, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incenfe in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places found about Jerusalem, them alfo that burnt incenfe unto Baal, to the fun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the hoft of heayen. ~. 6. And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerufalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burnt it at the brook Kidron, and ftampt it small to powder; and caft the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people. v. 9. Nevertheless, the priefts of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerufalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren. U. 20. And he flew all the priests of the high places that were there, upon the altars, and burnt mens bones upon them, and returned to Jerufalem. v, 21. And the king commanded all the people, faying, Keep the paffover unto the Lord your God, as it * written in the book of this covenant. 2 Chron. 34. 33. And Jofiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Ifrael, and made all that were prefent in Ifrael to ferve, even to ferve the Lord their God. And all his days they departed not from following the Lord,the God of their fathers. 2 Chron. 15. 12. And they entred inro a covenant to feek the Lord God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their foul;

1 Tim, 2. 2. For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, in all godliness and honefty. Ifa. 49. 23. And kings shall be thy nurfing-fathers, and their queens thy nurfing-mothers: they fhall bow down to thee, with their face toward the earth, and lick up the duft of thy feet, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. Zech. 13. 2.

And it fhall come to pass in that day, faith the Lord of hofts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they fhall no more be remembred: and alfo I will caufe the prophets, and the unclean spirit to pafs out of the land. v. 3. And it fhall come to pafs, that when any fhall yet prophefy, then his father and his mother, that begat him, fhall fay unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou fpeakeft lies in the name of the Lord and his father and his mother, that begat him, fhall thruft him through when he prophefieth.

CHAP. XXI.

Of Religious Worship, and the Sabbath Day.

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HE Light of Nature fheweth that there is a God, who hath Lordship and Sovereignty over all; is good, and doth Good unto all, and is therefore to be feared, loved, praised, called upon, trufted in, and served, with all the Heart, and with all the Soul, and with all the might. But the acceptable way of Worfhipping the true God is inftituted by himself, and fo limited by his own revealed Will, that he may not be worshipped according to the Imaginations and Devices of Men, or the Suggestions of Satan, under any vifible Reprefentation, or any other way not prescribed in the holy Scripture b

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difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the fame Lord over all, is rich unto all that call upon him. Pfalm 62. 8. Truft in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Joh. 24. 14. Now therefore, fear the Lord, and serve him in fincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers ferved on the other fide of the flood, and in Egypt: and serve ye the Lord. Mark 12. 33. And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the foul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole-burnt-offerings and facrifices.

I. Rom. 1. 20. For the invifible fo fhall I be faved from mine enethings of him from the creation of mies. Rom. 10. 12. For there is no the world are clearly feen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and godhead; fo that they are without excufe. Acts 17. 24. God that made the world, and all things therein, feeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth,dwelleth not in temples made with hands. Pfal. 119. 68. Thou art good, and doft good; teach me thy ftatutes. Jer. 10. 7. Who would not fear thee, O King of nations for to thee doth it appertain; forafmuch as among all the wife men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee. Pfalm 31. 23. O love the Lord, all ye his faints: for the Lord preferveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud Deut. 12. 32. What thing foever doer. Pfalm 18.3. I will call upon I command you, obferve to do it: the Lord who is worthy to be praised;

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