Mr. Barrowe’s profession concerning Queen Elizabeth 350
The inventions of men swerving from the true essentials of civil and spiritual commonweals 353
A great question, viz., whether only church members, that is, godly persons, in a particular church estate, be only eligible into the magistracy 353
The world being divided in thirty parts, twenty-five never heard of Christ 354
Lawful civil states where churches of Christ are not 355
Few Christians wise and noble, and qualified for affairs of state 355
[MR. COTTON’S LETTER EXAMINED AND ANSWERED.
If Jesus Christ bring more light he must be persecuted 371
Public sins, the cause of public calamities, must be discovered 372
Persecutors do no good to men’s souls 377
Mr. Cotton’s proof from Prov. xi. 26 discussed 379
Spiritual offences only liable to spiritual censure 382
Mr. Cotton ignorant of the cause of Williams’s sufferings 383
Civil peace and magistracy blessed ordinances of God 384
The mercies of a civil state distinct from those of a spiritual state 385
The state of godly persons in gross sins 393
God’s mystical Israel must come forth of Babel before they build the temple 395
New England refuses church fellowship with godly ministers of Old England 398
Christ considered personally and in his people 398
Mr. Cotton confessing the true and false constitution of the church 401
Difference between God’s institutions to the Jews and anti-christian institutions 403
Every true church separate from idols 411
The substance of true repentance in all God’s children 412
The first Christians the best pattern for Christians now 413
Mr. Cotton against a national church, and yet holds fellowship with it 415
The Jewish national church not to be separated from 417
Mr. Cotton extenuates national churches 420
Mr. Cotton guilty of cruelty in persecuting, yet cries out against due severity in the church 423
The puritans and separatists compared 424
Four sorts of backsliders from separation 428
Mr. Canne’s Answer to Mr. Robinson’s Liberty of Hearing 429
The fellowship of the word taught in a church estate 432
False callings or commissions for the ministry 433
The Nonconformists’ grounds enforce separation 436
Mr. Cotton’s practice of separation in New England 436
Persecution is unjust oppression wheresoever 438]