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A85416	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	Some modest and humble queries concerning a printed paper, intituled, An ordinance presented to the Honourable House of Commons, &c. for the preventing of the growing and spreading of heresies, &c.	1646		.xml	application/xml	4952	109	43	Whether is not the said Ordinance , in the example of it , a direct incouragement and confirmation to Popish Magistrates , to persecute the faithfull servants of God , who live in their territories with fire & sword , for professing the truth of God amongst them ? And whether doe not they , who here seeke to plucke up the tares , by such an Ordinance , plucke up the wheat also there , by the same ? Whether was there ever any such Ordinance , or State act , ever heard of , or knowne , in any the Reformed Churches ? I meane , which was so apparently bent against the faces , if not of the greatest part , yet of so considerable a part of the best and most conscientious men amongst them , as this is ? Whether was there ever any thing done in the Bishops times , or any thing attempted to be done by this generation of men in the day of their greatest interest and power in the Kingdome , of that bloudy consequence to those godly persons , Ministers , or others , whom they most hated , and sought to crush , as this Ordinance , if once established , is like to be , to surre greater numbers of truely pious and conscientious men ? Whether the said Ordinance ministreth not an advantage , of opportunity to the worst and wickedest of men , who commonly hate the best and faithfullest Ministers most , to accuse them unduly of such things , which according to the ordinary course of Law , may touch their lives , or otherwise bring much affliction , and vexation to them ? WHether it be agreeable to the Spirit of Christ , ( who came into the world , as himself saith not to destroy mens lives , but to save them a , ) to make snares of any of his Doctrines for the destruction of the lives of men ? Whether it be agreeable to the mind of Christ , for men to inflict the heavie censure of death upon their Brethren , for holding forth such Doctrines , or opinions in Religion , suppose contrary to admonition , which , for ought the said inflicters know , except they make themselves infallible , may be the sacred Truths of God ?	cache/A85416.xml	txt/A85416.txt
