The three uses of the law

[Martin Marprelate]

The second use of the law seems to me to be promoting the idea that the civil magistrate should be implementing Christian morals and laws through force of law, that everyone must outwardly - if not internally- conform to Christianity. this goes against the idea of religious freedom and separation of church and state

I don't see how you get that. It certainly is about a million miles from my view, and would have been a similar distance from that of the early Baptists. We certainly hope to be ruled by just laws, and Christian magistrates may help in achieving that, but you can't legislate for morality. The experience of the Presbyterian puritans in England proves that.

 

[Yeshua1]

I don't see how you get that. It certainly is about a million miles from my view, and would have been a similar distance from that of the early Baptists. We certainly hope to be ruled by just laws, and Christian magistrates may help in achieving that, but you can't legislate for morality. The experience of the Presbyterian puritans in England proves that.

And the attempt by Calvin in New geneva!