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A32801	The divine trinunity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, or, The blessed doctrine of the three coessentiall subsistents in the eternall Godhead without any confusion or division of the distinct subsistences or multiplication of the most single and entire Godhead acknowledged, beleeved, adored by Christians, in opposition to pagans, Jewes, Mahumetans, blasphemous and antichristian hereticks, who say they are Christians, but are not / declared and published for the edification and satisfaction of all such as worship the only true God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, all three as one and the self same God blessed for ever, by Francis Cheynell ...	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.	1650 (1650)	Wing C3811; ESTC R34820	306,702	530

shew and the Toleration of Seducers made the world Antichristian as Mr. Cotton proves And how the Christian world hath been not onely shaken but even broken by the Arian and E●tychian persecutions by the insurrection of the Macedonians in Greece and by the Antichristian warres and persecutions for many hundred years is evidently proved by sad and experimentall demonstrations When King James did tolerate Papists he did persecute Puritans as they then called men that were seriously and invincibly pious When Seducers get head they strengthen their party by force aswell as fraud and oppose such as dissent from their damnable errours as the Circumcellians did with Clubs and Swords or as Zedekiah did Micaiah with his fists Muncer Becold c. who were so tender and careful to preserve the Tares would not suffer the wheat to grow till harvest XII We must distinguish as judicious Davenant did between tolerable and intolerable errours simple and complicate errours as others speak There are corrigible and incorrigible Heretikes some Hereticks are but perverted and they are teachable others are subverted men that are smitten with a Spirit of Obstinacy impenitent and self-condemned men condemned Formally by their own conscience or Virtually by their proud and stubborn contempt of Christian admonition and their voluntary rejection of plaine truths that they may enjoy their beloved errours and their haereticall lusts men whose lives are as full of Atheisme as their assertions of blasphemy Seducing Heretikes who endeavour to thrust away others from the beliefe or worship of the only true God Father Son and Holy Ghost The Calvinists do not say that any one ought to be put to death for simple Heresie as the reverend and learned Professours of Leyden shew in their censure of the Arminian confession And on the otherside the Lutherans grant that seditious blasphemous seducing Heretikes Idolators and Apostates are when they grow incorrigible to be punished with death aswell as Sorcerers Traytours or Adulterers Let them name one of us saith Beza if they can who saith that all Heretikes ought to be put to death or that calls every one Heretike who dissents from him in some pro●itable but not Fundamentall points Servetus saith Mr. Calvin might have saved his life if hee had been a modest Heretike Master Cotton approves the Decree of the Senate of Geneva for punishing of Servetus with death No judicious Protestant will affirme that errours are to be confuted with fire and faggot but with meeknesse of wisedome expressed in faithfull instructions and admonitions our reasons are spirituall and if the Magistrate draw the sword in Gods name it is not to punish simple errour but to smite some intolerable errour that is twisted and complicated with blasphemy Apostacy Obstinacy or some such sins as are eminent in Seducing Heretikes and destructive to the Soules Religion and Peace of Christians Some erroneous persons have the itch and some the plague some of them are melancholike and some of them are mad and mad men must be bound or at least not permitted to walk abroad without their keeper The itch and the plague are both infectious but they are not both alike dangerous and nothing is more clear in point of Civill-government then that Magistrates should not suffer any to go about with plague-sores running on them Seducing Apostates Blasphemous Heretikes and grosse Idolators do not only subvert Order and Peace but Faith Piety they infect nay poyson souls XI●I The glory of God the good of Soules the happinesse of Christian societies are irresistible Motives to quicken the Magistrate to act against such dangerous persons as we have described according to the law of judgement and their different demerits in Faith and Love 1. In Faith for the Christian Magistrate doth not act like himself if he doth not performe acts of Civill-justice in Faith And it is cleare that if there be no morall equity in any of the judiciall Lawes in the Old Testament and there are none at all extant in the New the Christian Magistrate cannot performe any act of Civill-justice in Faith But it is indeed too evident to be denyed that All divine lawes which concern the punishment of Morall transgressions are of perpetuall obligation and therefore still remaine in force according to their substance and generall equity abstracted from speciall circumstances Typicall Accessories and the old formes of Mosaicall Politie For 1. These divine Lawes are not expired in their own nature 2. They are not repealed by God 3. The authority of the Law-giver is the same under both Administrations old and new the consciences of Christians aswell as Jewes are subject to his soveraigne and perpetuall jurisdiction 4. The matter of the Lawes is Morall and very agreeable to the Dictates of nature as doth appeare by the severall Lawes and Decrees of Heathens Dan. 3. 29. Ezra 7. 23. 25 26 27. Ezra 10. 3. 5. 8. compared with Numb 15. 30 31. Levit. 24. 15 16. Deut. 13. 8 9. Zach. 13. 3 6. Seducing poysoning slaying of Soules is by the law of Nature and Nations the worst of injuries 5. The reason of these divine Lawes is immutable and that reason is sometimes expressed and declared But it is not necessary that there should be any expresse ratification of every Morall Law in the New Testament which is plainly delivered in the Old 6. These divine Lawes are Independent on the will of Man and therefore indispensable mans authority II. The Magistrate is to act in Christian Love and charity against these dangerous men It is mercy to drive away the wolfe and cruelty to spare him there must be so much Fatherly love shewen to the souls of Christians to the ●●ttle flock as to preserve them from Wolves and Foxes Hee who loves Christ the Christian religion the souls and peace of Christians will not beare the sword in vaine his head heart hand bowels will keep time in working according to the written Rule XIV The Happinesse of Civill societies aswell as Church Assemblies doth much depend upon the punishing of Antichristian Heretikes seducing Apostates c. according to the nature and measure of their offences In all Civil States whose Acts are recorded in sacred or profane stories the Magistrates were to have a care not only of Justice Honesty but of that Religion also which they estemed divine for the good happinesse of their Civil state though it is no wonder if the Heathens did misapply this zealous instinct of nature to the maintenance of Superstition and Idolatry of a false Religion and false Gods Socrates Theodorus and Protagoras famous Philosophers were all three condemned at Athens by the Law against Irreligion But let us look into Christian states When the means of Instruction and Reformation have been vouchsafed to a people that are in Covenant with God and they corrupt the truth and worship of God the Lord doeth not onely punish degenerate Churches but even

age do professe Faith in and obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ according to the Rules of Faith and Life delivered in the Word 3. Desire that the above mentioned Officers should be incorporated in one Eldership and joyn in all acts of Government of the Church 4. Hold the same censures of Admonition and Excommunication and do likewise receive such as have been censured into communion again as soon as they give testimony of their repentance to them Godly Independents doe acknowledg that Parochial Churches wherein Ministers and others endeavor to remove all things justly offensive that so all ordinances may be administred in purity are true Churches of Christ. 2. They retaine Communion with these Parochicall Churches by baptizing their Children and receiving the Lords Supper there as occasion serves And if occasionall Communion with us be lawfull constant Communion with us would not be sinfull 3. They receive the members of such parishes as aforesaid unto Communion with themselves in their own Congregations also occasionally 4. They professe that they are ready to give an account to such Parochiall Congregations as to Sister-Churches whensoever they are offended at any irregular administrations in Independent Churches 5. They esteem a sentence of Non-Communion passed by such Parochicall Congregations is Churches against them upon any scandall wherein they are unsatisfied as a means to humble them and as an ordinance of God to reduce them Much more might be added But it is clear from these premises that prudent and godly Independents cannot conceive themselves obliged 1. To set up other Churches with differing rules of Constitution or Worship For Presbyterians and Independents did both agree in the same Confession of Faith and Directory for Worship and resolved to practice most of the same things and those the most substantiall in respect of Government also as doth appeare by those few transactions in the Assembly and Committee for Accommodation which have been Printed 2. Nor can they say that they are enforced to gather new Churches out of true Reformed Churches for a circumstantiall difference cannot be a sufficient ground for leaving of all ordinary Communion with true reforming Churches The prudent and godly Presbyterians have set no bounds to themselves in their Reformation but the Word of God and therefore if the Independents will set forth a compleat Modell of their whole Church-way and Church-order fully freely and clearely and prove it by plaine Texts out of the holy Scriptures we shall thankfully receive whatsoever they shall convincingly impart And I shall be bold to say that there had been a judicious affectionate and practicall Accommodation between us notwithstanding some speculative differences in notionall Ideas if there had been no interposition of Statesmen or Sword-men when the Committee of Accommodation had sadly considered and reviewed all materiall Arguments on this side and on that And if you set aside all reasons of State and saecular considerations I do not see why men who agree in the substance of the Service and Worship of God in the Directory according to the Preface in the Confession of Faith set forth by the Assembly and in the Doctrine contained in the Confessions and Writings of the reformed Churches should not mind the same thing and walk by the same Rule that there might be a Practicall Communion between us in all points wherein there is a Doctrinal Agreement and we might go hand in hand to heaven together with meeknesse of wisdome and sincerity of love Let men of both perswasions beware of such a superstitious tendernesse as doth usually arise from some unconscionable errour and unmortified lust because it is no priviledge but a judgement to be given up to errour or lust and from such ensnaring liberty which is indeed perfect bondage good Lord deliver us No man is obliged to follow the Positive Praescript of an erroneous conscience in any point or case whatsoever Differences of Iudgment did not extinguish the relation of membership amongst the Romans and Corinthians And it is certaine that the Substantials of Church-Government must not be changed in every age acording to the graduall differences of light in severall persons and Congregations We humbly desire that there may be a strict and mutuall obligation condescended to in some expedient by all godly men of both perswasions for mutuall edification and for the preservation of all the Churches in these Dominions in truth godlinesse and peace that we may not passe unchristian censures upon our Christian Brethren Let all private quarrels then fall to the ground and let us mind the common interest of the Lord Iesus and seriously promote it in our respective places in faith and love And let all Statesmen beware 1. That they do not fall into the same spirituall or civill evils which they themselves have condemned in the King and Prelates 2. Beware of ERASTIANISME which doth overthrow all Church-government both Presbyterian and Independent 3. Take heed of CIVILL SCEPTICISME which doth overthrow the Fundamentals of publike Faith and publike rights and plucks up all Civill Government by the roots 4. Beware of Familisticall Polytheisme for the Familists affirme that there are as many Christs as many Gods manifested in the flesh as there are Saints on earth But to us there is but one God and one Lord Iesus Christ it is enough for blind Pagans to talk of many Gods and many Mediatours 5. Beware of Atheisme the great Monster of this Age compounded of Socinianisme Familisme Libertinisme and Antinomianisme The Ephesians complaine of none but robbers of Churches and blasphemers Acts 19. 37. But we have cause to complaine of them and Apostates Idolaters Atheists and what not 6. Beware of a Toleration of intolerable errours Reverend Mr Cotton is afraid that the Antichristian Whore will steale in at the Back-doore of a Toleration The Magistrates of England are engaged by the Oath of God to root out whatsoever is contrary to sound Doctrine and the Power of Godlinesse That man is seduced by a private Spirit as you observe well in your Orthodox Book who lusteth after envy after Sects and Divisions but the holy Spirit is a Catholike Spirit a Spirit of Catholike Faith and Catholike love an unreserved and universall Love to all that beleeve and love the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us then all hold fast the wholesome forme of sound words in faith and love For they who waver against the credit of their own testimony are not as the Civilians say to be heard or regarded because they have lost their credit We are reserved for some service in this declining Age and therefore it doth become us to be Orthodox Saints steady Christians that our Posterity may imitate us and see those glorious daies which some conceive are come already because they have attained a little vainglory in this Age of vanity The Writers of this present time who seeme to contradict one another concerning the light and glory of