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Clergy, their office sufficient, with-

out other employments,
Commonwealth, what it is,

172

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end of it, not to force
men in religion, but to free them
from such force,
ibid.
no necessity to exclude
Jews, &c. from it, to prevent the
seduction of Christians, 235, &c.
Conformity (in religion) and not
conviction, is the end of penal
laws,
73
men may be brought to
it, without true religion, 339,
340

no ground to presume it
is always upon conviction, 340
whether it be from rea-
son and conviction, or not, can-
not be certainly known, 339, 340
some things required to
it, hard to be understood, 410,

411

Consideration to force men to it
impracticable,
242, 243
conformists may need
punishment to bring them to it,
as much as dissenters, 244
it is hard to understand,
whether penal laws are designed
to bring men to it,
389
Vid. Examination.
Conscience, none can be saved by
acting contrary to it, though it
be erroneous,
28
laws contrary to it, must
be passively submitted to, by
private men,

44
a man sins, by acting
contrary to it, though it be mis-
guided,

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146

to promote it,

Creeds ought not to be imposed by
the magistrate,

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152

Dissenters should not be punished,
to make them consider, more
than others,

96
ought to be convinced a
church is true, before they con-
form to it,

97, &c.

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261

properly so called,

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no warrant in Scripture for
using it,
82

no less necessary for confor-
mists than non-conformists, 94,
96

the uncertainty of the pre-
tended end for which it should
be used,
95

none have 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 may
be used to advance them in it,
134
no sovereign has authority to
use it toward another, 163

not necessary to promote reli-
gion, though religion be neces-
sary,
164, &c.

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for other men,

173

have not more knowledge
179

of religion than others,

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 find-
ing 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,
what are proper for promot-

ing religion,

81, 82

82

those which are sufficient are
113, &c.

given to all,

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Miracles not wrought in the view
of all who were converted, 443
we have the same advantage

by them, as most had in the first
ages,
ibid.

were continued (according
to church-history) after Christi-
anity 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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Paganism, how zeal against it
should be expressed, 233, &c.
Penal laws, not designed to make
men consider, but conform, 387,

&c.

how a national religion
loses ground by the relaxation of
them,
467-469
whether atheism, &c. in-
crease by their relaxation, ibid.
Vid. Punishments.

Penalties. Vid. Force.
Persecution, what it signifies, 142
if it were designed for
saving souls, persons conforming
on it would be examined con-
cerning their convictions, 197

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Punishments (for errors in reli-
gion) are unjust, though mo-
derate,
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 unkind
to withhold them from any, 108
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 enforcing 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,

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pretending care of this for
using force in religion is preva-
rication,
351

Salvation impossible to be pro-
moted by forcing people in reli-
gious matters,

391, &c.

414, 415

Scepticism, not justly chargeable
upon toleration,

Schism, wherein it consists, 55
who are the chief causes of
it,
238, 239
Schoolmasters, their using force to
make their scholars learn, is no
warrant for using it in religious
matters,
206, 209

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

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