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not necessary to make men
consider,
74
the use of it for this end, is
75

a vain pretence,

82

is much more likely to bring
men to errour than truth, 76
employed to make people
consider, is neither useful nor
just,
78
no warrant in scripture for
using it,
no less necessary for con-
formists than nonconformists,
94, 96
the uncertainty of the pre-
tended end for which it should
be used,

95
none have a right to use it,
112
should rather be used to
drive bad men out of the church,
than to bring any in, 115

those who plead for the mo-
derate use of it, should show
what bounds should be set to
it,
142, &c.

if some force may be used
to bring men to religion, more
be used to advance them
may

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Force, unreasonably used to make
men judge more sincerely for
themselves,
177, 178
takes the care of men's souls
from themselves,

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196, 197

- magistrates not commission-
ed by the law of nature to use

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202

206, &c.

206

not using it, intimates not a

power given in vain,

214

the use of it makes not men
good, nor secures God's bless-
ing to a nation, 221, 378
by the same rule a lesser de-
gree of it is needful, a greater
may be so,
262

-no proper means to remove
prejudices,
297

concerning the end of its
being used,
303, &c.
it is equally just for one
church to use it as another, 333

the spiritual gain which suf-
ferers may reap, though it be
misapplied, a vain pretence,
367, &c. 393
kings being "nursing fa-
thers," &c. no good argument
for using it,

370

its use, tho' designed to
bring men to truth, may bring
them to falsehood, 378, &c. 399

is likely to lead far more
into errour than truth, 378,
399, 407
no proof that ever it has
done good,
380

using it to make men con-
sider impertinent,

386

the use of it cannot promote
real holiness,
390, 391

if it brings any to consi-
deration, it is only by accident,

392

it is most likely to prevail
on the loose and careless,
395

its unfitness to bring men to
true religion, argued from the
13th article of our church, 397

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Force may require extraordinary
strength to withstand it, when
used to bring to a false reli-
gion,

400

may be equally used by all
magistrates who believe their
-ligion true, 401, 402
r it is absurd to use it, with-
out pretending to infallibility,
407, &c.

the want of it not at first
supplied by miracles, 442, &c.
is necessary (if at all) to
make ministers do their duty,
463

the use of it prevented not a
horrible apostasy in the Roman
empire,
483
has (as far as history in-
forms us) always been injurious
to true religion, 484, &c.
the use of it no scripture-
method for advancing religion,
497

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foreigners not compelled to
observe the rites of it,
Legislative power, the end of it
is the outward good of society,
34, &c.
Love, persecutions rising from it,
would rather be against wick-
edness than opinions, 6, &c.

M.

MAGISTRATES, their duty is
to secure civil interests, not
the salvation of souls,

10

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have not more knowledge

of religion than others,

179

the apostle's saying, “We
can do nothing against the
truth but for it," not applicable
to them,
360
have not authority, like
parents, or schoolmasters, to
use force,
205
discovering them to be
in the wrong, adds little to
finding out the truth, 360, 361

ought to assist religion
by suppressing wickedness,
65, 66

are not commissioned
by the law of nature to use
force in religion,
205
Means (of salvation), no other
should be used, than what God
has appointed,
81, 82
what are proper for pro
moting religion,

82

those which are sufficient
are given to all, 113, &c.
the greatest part of the
world without them, if force
be necessary,
389, &c.
Ministers (of religion), of what
sort they are, who want to
have their doctrines enforced,
151, 152
doing their duty aright,
would render force unneces-
sary,
Miracles never used to supply
the want of force,
454

526

Miracles absurdly reckoned
among human means,

442
not wrought in the view
of all who were converted, 443
we have the same advan-
tage by them, as most had in
ibid.
the first ages,

were continued (accor-
ding to church-history) after
christianity was established by
human laws,

452, &c.
were not often repeated
to those who rejected the
gospel,
454, 455
will be always necessary,
supposing them so whenever
men neglect their duty, 459, &c.
were not a necessary
means of conviction in the
apostles time,
523, 526

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saving souls, persons conform-
ing on it would be examined
concerning their convictions.

197

Persecution only useful to fill the
church with hypocrites, 373,
374

117

297

Vid. Force, Punishments.
Political societies, all advantages
which may be gained by them,
cannot be reckoned the end of
them,
Prejudices, not to be removed
by force,
Vid. Force.
Punishments (for errours in reli-
gion) are unjust, though mode-
rate,
62, &c.
not lawfully used to
make people consider, 73, 79,

94
-human laws inflict them
not to make men examine, 88
the pretence for inflict-
ing them in France on the pro-
testants,
87
- national churches need
them as much as dissenters,
94, 99
if beneficial, it is un-
kind to withhold them from

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108

such,

any,
the difficulty of deter-
mining the due measures of
them,
104, &c.
commonly least used,
where they are most needful,
99, 118

it is unjust to inflict
them, for inforcing things not
necessary,
248, &c.
the fault for which they
are inflicted, points out the
end of them,
243, &c.
leaving the measures of
them to the magistrate's pru-
dence justifies the greatest,
281, &c.
admitting them as
necessary in matters of reli-
gion, leads to the sharpest
severities,
108, &c.

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10, &c.

why the care of each
man's belongs only to himself,
23-25

not the design of penal

laws about religion,

69

pretending care of this for
using force in religion is pre-
varication,
351

impossible to be pro-
moted, by forcing people in
religious matters, 391, &c.
Scepticism, not justly chargeable
upon toleration, 414, 415
Schism, wherein it consists, 55
who are the chief causes
of it,
238, 239
School-masters, their using force
to make their scholars learn, is
no warrant for using it in re-
ligious matters, 206, 209

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Scriptures are to be consulted as
our guide in religion, 353, &c.
contain all necessary
means of salvation, 519, 520
Sects (or divisions) who are the
chief cause of them, 238, 239
--whether national churches
may not be such as well as
others,
239, 240
Sedition, wherever it is practised,
should be punished alike, 51
Sins, several of them are not
punishable by magistrates, 36
Society, every advantage which
may be attained by it, is not
the end of it,
213, &c,

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divisions,

64, 65

is no cause of sects and
414, &c.
the pretended ill ef-
fects of it refuted,

ibid.

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Translation (of the Bible) a re-
mark concerning the authority
of the English one, 496, 497
True religion of the highest con-
cern to all persons, 317

force no proper means to
317, &c.

bring men to it,

is dishonoured, by using
force for promoting it,

319

several persons may be of
it, though differing in some
things,
327, 328
all who suppose them-
selves to be of it, have equal
right to impose on others,
419, &c.

no nations can lay claim
to it exclusive of others, 422
magistrates must know
it, before they can punish the
rejectors of it, 425-428

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