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TREATISE

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CIVIL POWER

IN

ECCLESIASTICAL CAUSES:

SHEWING THAT IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR

ANY POWER ON EARTH TO COMPEL IN
MATTERS OF RELIGION.

THE AUTHOR JOHN MILTON.

FIRST PRINTED ANNO M.DC.LIX.

LONDON:

RE-PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-

YARD. MDCCXC.

[ PRICE ONE-SHILLING. ]

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REV. RICHARD PRICE, D.D. LL.D. F.R.S.

FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL
SOCIETIES AT PHILADELPHIA AND BOSTON,

THIS MANUAL of John Milton is now most
justly infcribed, as the affertor and protec-
tor of the civil and religious rights of man-
kind. Who, with dangers compassed round,
yet undismayed by the terrors of abfolute
power, the frowns of fortune, and the ma-
lignity of the times, never relinquished his
principles; but, with confiftency and for-
titude, maintained those principles which at
prefent enlighten the world, and give af-
furances that human nature will be improv-
ed to the utmost of its faculties, refting
with deity alone to fix their boundary.

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TO THE

PARLIAMENT

OF THE

COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND, WITH THE DOMINIONS THEREOF.

I HAVE prepared, fupreme council, against the much expected time of your fitting, this treatise; which, though to all chriftian magiftrates equally belonging, and therefore to have been written in the common language of christendom, natural dutie and affection hath confined, and dedicated first to my own nation: and in a season wherein the timely reading thereof, to the easier accom. plishment of your great work, may fave you much labour and interruption: of two parts usually propofed, civil and ecclefiaftical, recommending civil only to your proper care, ecclefiaftical to them only from whom it takes both that namet and nature. Yet not for this caufe only do I require or trust to finde acceptance, but in a twofold respect besides: first, as bringing clear evidence of fcripture and proteftant maxims to the parliament of England, who in all their late acts,

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