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Clergy, their office sufficient, with-
out other employments, 172
Commonwealth, what it is, 10
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

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146

to promote it,

Creeds ought not to be imposed by
the magistrate,

D.

152

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97, &c.

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properly so called,

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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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the use of it makes not men
good, nor secures God's blessing
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 be-
ing 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 fathers,"
&c. no good argument for using
it,
370

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

is likely to lead far more into
error than truth, 378, 399, 407
no proof that ever it has done.
good,
380
using it to make men consider
impertinent,
386

the use of it cannot promote
real holiness,
390, 391
if it brings any to considera-
tion, it is only by accident, 392
it is most likely to prevail on
the loose and careless, 395
its unfitness to bring men to

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true religion, argued from the
13th article of our church, 397
Force, may require extraordinary
strength to withstand it, when
used to bring to a false religion,
400

may be equally used by all
magistrates who believe their re-
ligion true,
401, 402

it is absurd to use it, with-
out pretending to infallibility,
407, &c.

the want of it not at first sup-
442, &c.

plied by miracles,

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 informs
us) always been injurious to true
religion,
484, &c.
the use of it no Scripture-me-
thod for advancing religion, 497

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Legislative power, the end of it is
the outward good of society, 34,
&c.
Love, persecutions rising from it,
would rather be against wicked-
ness than opinions,
6, &c.

M.

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

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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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