This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ...would be toleration; and to obtain toleration, (if so they might, ) we think it would not be unlawful to submit to the appointment of the state in some things, in their own nature indifferent, and which had not been settled by divine authority: for example, that their meetings should be held in a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ...would be toleration; and to obtain toleration, (if so they might, ) we think it would not be unlawful to submit to the appointment of the state in some things, in their own nature indifferent, and which had not been settled by divine authority: for example, that their meetings should be held in a publick edifice appropriated to the purpose, and at a certain hour of the day, that the government might be secure in nothing hostile being transacted. But as to the supposition of obtaining the sanction of heathen authority to the rule of practice given by Jehovah in the New Testament, it is in itself so contradictory as not to admit of reasoning upon it; for it is supposing the state to authorize what directly tended to subvert its own religious constitution--it is supposing it to sanction the desertion of its temples, the disuse of sacrifice, the contempt of its deities--in short, it is supposing it to be a state renouncing idolatry, at the same time that we suppose it to consist of heathens. To ask, then, what a Christian church would do in such a situation, is to ask what they would do in an impossible case. And how unwarrantable it is to draw a parallel between these circumstances and those of a government and people professing Christianity, is too obvious for argument. The supposition alluded to must take for gtanted that every government is pagan or infidel. But the fair question is, whether a Christian king or legislature ought or ought not to interfere with the religious concerns of the people. Now, besides the example of the Old Testament kings, (which, notwithstanding any thing we have yet met with, we think very properly referred to by our 37th article, ) let us consider how the office of the civil magistrate is described in the New.
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