Dangerous consequences flowing from the civil magistrate’s power in spiritual cases 183
The wonderful answer of the ministers of New England to the ministers of Old 184
Lamentable differences even amongst them that fear God 185
The doctrine of persecution ever drives the most godly out of the world 186
A MODEL OF CHURCH AND CIVIL POWER, composed by Mr. Cotton and the ministers of New England, and sent to Salem, (as a further confirmation of the bloody doctrine of persecution for cause of conscience) examined and answered 189
Christ’s power in the church confest to be above all magistrates in spiritual things 190
The civil commonweal, and the spiritual commonweal, the church, not inconsistent, though independent the one on the other 192
Christ’s ordinances put upon a whole city or nation may civilize them, and moralize, but not christianize, before repentance first wrought 193
Mr. Cotton and the New English minister’s confession, that the magistrate hath neither civil nor spiritual power in soul matters 194
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 the bar 196
A demonstrative illustration, that the magistrate cannot have power over the church in spiritual or church causes 197
The true way of the God of peace, in differences between the church and the magistrate 198
The terms _godliness_ and _honesty_ explained, 1 Tim. ii. 1, and _honesty_ proved not to signify in that place the righteousness of the second table 201
The forcing of men to God’s worship, the greatest breach of civil peace 203
The Roman Cæsars of Christ’s time described 204
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 worship 205
The true _custodes utriusque tabulæ_, and keepers of the ordinances and worship of Jesus Christ 206
The kings of Egypt, Moab, Philistia, Assyria, Nineveh, were not charged with the worship of God, as the kings of Judah were 207
Masters of families not charged under the gospel to force all the consciences of their families to worship 207
God’s people have then shined brightest in godliness, when they have enjoyed least quietness 210