A TREATISE OF CIVIL POWER IN ECCLESIASTICAL CAUSES:
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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.D.C.LIX.
LONDON:
RE-PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD. MDCCXC.
TO THE 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 inscribed, as the assertor and protector of the civil and religious rights of mankind. Who, with dangers compassed round, yet undismayed by the terrors of absolute power, the frowns of fortune, and the malignity of the times, never relinquished his principles; but, with consistency and fortitude, maintained those principles which at present enlighten the world, and give assurances that human nature will be improved to the utmost of its faculties, resting with deity alone to fix their boundary.
THE EDITOR,
AN ENGLISHMAN, A LOVER OF LIBERTY, HIS COUNTRY, AND ITS ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION, AS MOST NOBLY CONFIRMED AT THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION.