Nero and the persecuting emperors not so injurious to Christianity as Constantine and others, who assumed a power in spiritual things 316
They who force the conscience of others, cry out of persecution when their own are forced 316
Constantine and others wanted not so much affection, as information of judgment 317
Civil authority giving and lending their horns to bishops, dangerous to Christ’s truth 317
The spiritual power of Christ Jesus compared in scripture to the incomparable horn of the rhinoceros 318
The nursing fathers and mothers, Isa. xlix. 319
The civil magistrate owes three things to the true church of Christ 319
The civil magistrate owes two things to false worshippers 320
Pious magistrates’ and ministers’ consciences are persuaded for that, which other as pious magistrates’ and ministers’ consciences condemn 321
An apt similitude discussed concerning the civil magistrate 322
A grievous charge against the Christian church and the king of it 330
A strange law in New England formerly against excommunicate persons 331
A dangerous doctrine against all civil magistrates 331
Original sin charged to hurt the civil state 331
They who give the magistrate more than his due, are apt to disrobe him of what is his 332
The great privileges of the true church of Christ 336
Two similitudes illustrating the true power of the magistrate 337
A marvellous challenge of more power under the Christian, than under the heathen magistrate 339
Civil magistrates, derivatives from the fountains or bodies of people 341
A believing magistrate no more a magistrate than an unbelieving 341
The excellency of Christianity in all callings 341
The magistrate like a pilot in the ship of the commonweal 342
The terms _heathen_ and _Christian_ magistrates 343
The unjust and partial liberty to some consciences, and bondage unto all others 344
The commission, Matt. xxviii. 19, 20, not proper to pastors and teachers, least of all to the civil magistrate 345
Unto whom now belongs the care of all the churches, &c. 345
The promise of Christ’s presence, Matt. xviii., distinct from that Matt. xxviii. 347
Church administrations firstly charged upon the ministers thereof 349
Queen Elizabeth’s bishops truer to their principles than many of a better spirit and profession 350