An apology for the true Christian divinity, being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers

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thoy have no mediato Ow r. hoc auso os th in torruptionmad by tho apostasy and sor an immediate o ver oroommand hy tho Spiritis God O adminis to thos things non os ur advorsarios protend incit. Ne nou that ini his, as in ther hiram, hoy mal ora nciis os tho constant consoni os th ohur ii, and of Christians in ali agos huius radition is notis Sufficient ground Orciaith, O in thi Thrudition

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tho falso notions os transubstantiation and consubstantia

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PROPOSITIO XIV.

Concerning the Poster of the Civit Magistrate in offers pureli Religious, an perto ining to the Conscience. Sino God ath assumsed to himsoli ho power an dominion o the conscienoe, Wh alone an righil instruct Luk i . and goVern it, thereiore it is no lawiu sorinny whoso-Μat. vii 12. Ver, by Virtue Dan authorit o principalit thomboariti. 7ii . 10. in tho goVerrimentis thi Worid, o foro the consciences of thors and thorosore ali illing, anishing, ining imprisoning and thor Such things hicli aro inflictodupon men to the alone exercise of thei conscience, ordisserenue in orShip or opinion, proceo leth iro the spiritis Cain the murderer, and is contrar to the truth: providin always thatis man, unde the preterice iconscience, projudice his eighbour in his lis oristato, o do any thin clostructive io, o inconsistent illi, human socioty in hicli case thecia is for tho transgressor, and juStice S tot administeredipo all, ithout respect os PerSonS. I. LIBERTY os conscieno tro the power of the civilmagistrat mathieonii late ear so largoly and earnedly

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causeae doth contrar to the wil o God although,6 VP ' materiali and truly, et sol mali and interpretati vely. So themusestion is, ii St, hether the civi magistrate hath powerri sorde men in thing religio his in do contraryto thei conscie nee and ii the wil not, O punish themin their goods, liberties, o lives This e old in thenegative. mut econdi y A We ould have the magi

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έ62 PROPOSITIO M XIV.

to ill and destro ut the wiel sed, id est, at that disser

thereior I have sufficienti guarded against that in thel ulter par of the proposition. ut tho libert w layelaim to is sueti as the primitivo cliui cli justi fought under

ini an error, niter due admonition and instruetion ac-

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464 PROPOSITIOD XIV.

no the nature o lambes to destro or deuour any It SerVe nothin to allego, that in Christ' and his apostles' time the magistrates ore heathen, and thereiore Christan his postles, nor et an of the bellevet S, ein nomagiStrateS, Could no exercise the power Lecauserit can

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But Thirdly, Christ utly and plaini declareth torus his

i lares, do pent declare, that the mal e no erupte tobreui the command of Christ. Miserable is that evasionwhicli sonae os ur adversaries se here, in allegin theSetare are meant i hypocrites, an notis hereties Butho to evince that S in heretios as ellis hypocrit , are children os the wicked ne the have no any thinghut theiriwn bare assirmation, hicli is thereiore justly rejected. Diast . I the Say, MeaUSe hypocrites cannot be discerned, butSo ma hereties; ΑΚΑ. Thici both false, and a beggin os the question Forthos that have a Spiritua discerning, an discern both hypocrites an heretius and thos that an it, cannot certaini discern ither. Sising the question ill ariSe,

Whether that is a heres whicli the magistrate suilli is sor