A TABLE CONTENTS OF THE BOOK. against persecution A definition of persecution discussed The wonderful providence of God in the writing of the arguments A chaste soul in God's worship compared to a chaste wife The coming out of Babel not local, but mystical The great ignorance of God's people concerning the nature of a true A notable speech of King James to a great nonconformist turned perse- cutor The difference between spiritual and civil state Six cases wherein God's people have been usually accounted arrogant, and peace breakers, but most unjustly The true causes of breach and disturbance of civil peace A preposterous way of suppressing errors Persecutors must needs oppress both erroneous and true consciences All persecutors of Christ profess not to persecute him What is meant by the heretic, Tit. iii. The word heretic generally mistaken Corporal killing in the law, typing out spiritual killing in the gospel The carriage of a soul sensible of mercy, towards others in their blind- The difference between the church and the world, wherein it is, in all The church and civil state confusedly made all one The difference between the wheat and the tares, as also between these A civil magistracy from the beginning of the world The danger of infection by permitting of the tares, assoiled A twofold state of Christianity: persecuted under the Roman emperors, Accompanying with idolaters, 1 Cor. v. discussed Civil magistrates never invested by Christ Jesus with the power and title God's people [Israel] ever earnest with God for an arm of flesh The blood of souls, Acts xx., lies upon such as profess the ministry: the blood of bodies only upon the state Usurpers and true heirs of Christ Jesus The civil magistrate bound to preserve the bodies of their subjects, and The fire from heaven, Rev. xiii. 13, 2 Tim. ii. 25, 26, examined The original of the Christian name, Acts xi. A civil sword in religion makes a nation of hypocrites, Isa. x. A difference of the true and false Christ and Christians The nature of the worship of unbelieving and natural persons Rom. xiii., concerning civil rulers' power in spiritual causes, largely ex- Usury in the civil state lawfully permitted Seducing teachers, either pagans, Jewish, Turkish, or anti-christian, may David advancing of God's worship against order Constantine and the good emperors, confessed to have done more hurt to the name and crown of Christ, than the bloody Neros did Christ's lilies may flourish in the church, notwithstanding the weeds in Queen Elizabeth and King James, their persecuting for cause of religion Queen Elizabeth confessed by Mr. Cotton to have almost fired the world The wars between the papists and the protestants The wars and success of the Waldensians against three popes God's people victorious overcomers, and with what weapons Isa. xlix. 23, lamentably wrested. The civil commonweal, and the spiritual commonweal, the church, not The magistrates and the church, (by Mr. Cotton's grounds) in one and the same cause, made the judges on the bench, and delinquents at A demonstrative illustration, that the magistrate cannot have power over The true way of the God of peace, in differences between the church The terms godliness and honesty explained, 1 Tim. ii. 1, and honesty proved not to signify in that place the righteousness of the second It pleased not the Lord Jesus, in the institution of the Christian church, to appoint and raise up any civil government to take care of his The true custodes utriusque tabulæ, and keepers of the ordinances and The kings of Egypt, Moab, Philistia, Assyria, Nineveh, were not charged Masters of families not charged under the gospel to force all the con- Civil power originally and fundamentally in the people. Mr. Cotton and the New English give the power of Christ into the hands of the Laws concerning religion, of two sorts The very Indians abhor to disturb any conscience at worship. Canons and constitutions pretended civil, but indeed ecclesiastical A threefold guilt lying upon civil powers, commanding the subject's soul |