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  1 1|  characteristic mark of the true Church. For whatsoever some people
  2 1|          one another than of the Church of Christ. Let anyone have
  3 1|        God, to the purity of the Church, and to the salvation of
  4 1|    burning zeal for God, for the Church, and for the salvation of
  5 1|        talk never so much of the Church, he plainly demonstrates
  6 1|        compose a truly Christian Church is altogether incredible.
  7 1|        true religion, and of the Church of Christ, make use of arms
  8 1|          gathering them into His Church, not armed with the sword,
  9 1|          than for any son of the Church, how potent soever, with
 10 1|       Let us now consider what a church is. A church, then, I take
 11 1|     consider what a church is. A church, then, I take to be a voluntary
 12 1|          is born a member of any church; otherwise the religion
 13 1|        bound unto any particular church or sect, but everyone joins
 14 1|   expectation of eternal life. A church, then, is a society of members
 15 1|        what is the power of this church and unto what laws it is
 16 1|   conversation and discourse, no church or company, I say, can in
 17 1|         can be said to be a true church unless it have in it a bishop
 18 1|        imposed that law upon His Church. And let not any man think
 19 1|     anything necessary to a true church, pray do you consider. Certain
 20 1|   certain order of rulers in the Church. Now, their very dissension
 21 1|        men have a ruler in their church, established by such a long
 22 1|        solicitous about the true church, I would only ask them here,
 23 1|        not more agreeable to the Church of Christ to make the conditions
 24 1|        not more agreeable to the Church of Christ than for men to
 25 1|       how that can be called the Church of Christ which is established
 26 1|       into the marks of the true church, I will only mind those
 27 1|        cry out continually, “The Church! the Church!” with as much
 28 1|    continually, “The Church! the Church!” with as much noise, and
 29 1|        persecution; but that the Church of Christ should persecute
 30 1|      ceases to be a part of that church.~These things being thus
 31 1|       And, first, I hold that no church is bound, by the duty of
 32 1|     excommunicated person by the church minister’s refusing him
 33 1|         because he is of another church or religion. All the rights
 34 1|         give no new right to the church, nor the church to the civil
 35 1|     right to the church, nor the church to the civil government.
 36 1|   magistrate join himself to any church, or separate from it, the
 37 1|         or separate from it, the church remains always as it was
 38 1|          that it is the orthodox church which has the right of authority
 39 1|        nothing at all. For every church is orthodox to itself; to
 40 1|    heretical. For whatsoever any church believes, it believes to
 41 1|         derived unto a Christian church over its brethren from a
 42 1|       greater authority upon the Church than in the hands of a heathen;
 43 1|         within the bounds of the Church, nor can it in any manner
 44 1|       civil affairs, because the Church itself is a thing absolutely
 45 1|   another man that is not of his church and faith either of liberty
 46 1|          not lawful to the whole Church cannot by any ecclesiastical
 47 1|         any such there be in his church), to charity, meekness,
 48 1|      would be the fruit, both in Church and State, if the pulpits
 49 1|          man do not frequent the church, if he do not there conform
 50 1|     civil magistrate, but in the Church. What the Church has determined,
 51 1|          in the Church. What the Church has determined, that the
 52 1|      religion otherwise than the Church teaches. So that the judgement
 53 1|        of those things is in the Church; the magistrate himself
 54 1|       frequently the name of the Church, which was venerable in
 55 1|          only the decrees of the Church. Of what Church, I beseech
 56 1|   decrees of the Church. Of what Church, I beseech you? of that,
 57 1|     enter into this or the other Church, did not interpose his own
 58 1|          by the doctors of their Church? If the religion of any
 59 1|           If the religion of any Church become, therefore, true
 60 1|   counsel of the doctors of that Church?~But, to speak the truth,
 61 1|        must acknowledge that the Church (if a convention of clergymen,
 62 1|      Court than the Court by the Church. How the Church was under
 63 1|     Court by the Church. How the Church was under the vicissitude
 64 1|      subjects to come into their Church communion, under pretence
 65 1|  difference between the National Church and other separated congregations.~
 66 1|   congregations.~But as in every Church there are two things especially
 67 1|        by law, either in his own Church, or much less in another,
 68 1|        they are brought into the Church and worship of God, are
 69 1|         The only business of the Church is the salvation of souls,
 70 1|      which the prudence of every Church may bring into such use
 71 1|      rites and ceremonies in any Church, so neither has he any power
 72 1|   approved, and practised by any Church; because, if he did so,
 73 1|         so, he would destroy the Church itself: the end of whose
 74 1|  difference there is between the Church and the Commonwealth. Whatsoever
 75 1|         by the magistrate in the Church. Whatsoever is permitted
 76 1| religious worship; though in the Church the use of bread and wine
 77 1|         to the oppression of any Church, under pretence of public
 78 1|          may be said: “What if a Church be idolatrous, is that also
 79 1|     suppression of an idolatrous Church, which may not in time and
 80 1|        appears what zeal for the Church, joined with the desire
 81 1|        that commonwealth and the Church. The laws established there
 82 1|      strict conformity with that Church by the civil power. But
 83 1|         cannot be imposed on any Church by the law of the land.
 84 1|      speculative opinions in any Church because they have no manner
 85 1|        and ceremonies of another Church), men are not in these cases
 86 1|          indeed, examples in any Church are rare. For no sect can
 87 1|        to effect it?~Again: That Church can have no right to be
 88 1|        between the Court and the Church afford any remedy to this
 89 1|      persuade the members of his Church to whatsoever he lists,
 90 1|         person to be head of his Church who is the supreme magistrate
 91 1|         or civil impunity to the Church in which they are taught,
 92 1|     magistrate afraid of his own Church; and why does he not forbid
 93 1|  peculiar temper of this or that Church or religious society, but
 94 1|  assemblies less sufferable in a church than in a theatre or market?
 95 1|          government. Now if that Church which agrees in religion
 96 1|          subjects, of whatsoever Church they be, without any distinction
 97 1|   permitted to do it also in the Church. Is it lawful for any man
 98 1|        or wash with water in the church. In a word, whatsoever things
 99 1|      them remain free unto every Church in divine worship. Let no
100 1|  slanderers, etc., of whatsoever Church, whether national or not,
101 1|      commands no such thing. The Church which “judgeth not those
102 1|         to the civil peace, that Church itself which the magistrate
103 1|         heads and leaders of the Church, moved by avarice and insatiable
104 1|   themselves most different, the Church and the commonwealth. Now
105 1|         able to establish in the Church? This is the unhappy agreement
106 1|          that we see between the Church and State. Whereas if each
107 2|        the stronger part, of the Church separates itself from others
108 2|          heretic who divides the Church into parts, introduces names
109 2|          from the communion of a Church because that Church does
110 2|         of a Church because that Church does not publicly profess
111 2|         make a separation in the Church, either by withdrawing themselves
112 2|          in the communion of the Church upon account of something