Conformitys Deformity · Henry Burton
Conformitys Deformity, Table of contents
THE CONTENTS of this DIALOGVE.
| HOW Chriſts kingdome is the troubler of States, | p. 2. |
| How a worldly kingdome comes to be ſet up for Chriſts ſpirituall kingdome. | ibid. |
| The Heathen Emperour a ſhame to Chriſtians. | ib. |
| How Conformity is a troubler of Iſrael. | ib. |
| The opin…on we have of men, no good ground for conſcience to build upon. | p. 3. |
| Small difference between a Papiſt and Proteſtant at large. | ib. |
| How a Synod of learned Proteſtants may erre in ſome fundamentals of faith. | ib. |
| Many in England under a grand hereſie, and what it is. | p. 5 |
| Faith denied no leſſe in practice, then in words. | p. 7. |
| The evils of practicall deniall of the truth. | p. 8. |
| Conformity can finde no better proofs for it in Scripture, then the Pope for his Papality. | p. 9. |
| Conformity anſwered, concerning the model, wherewith Conſcience is ſo much caſt in the teeth. | ibid. |
| Great difference between the pattern in the Old Teſtament, and the model in the New. | ib. |
| Conformity put to prove many particulars of his Church by Scripture. | p. 10. |
| Conformitie's objection, concerning ſome Kings of Judah, anſwered. | ib. |
| Conſcience free from mens yoaks. | p. 11. |
| Conformity, how the myſterie of iniquity, its beginning, growth, full ſtature, | p. 12. |
| Conformity the ſluice, or inlet of all ſuperſtition and ſlavery. | ibid. |
| Sundry fearfull examples of Gods judgements upon Conformity. | p. 13. |
| Conformity a neceſſary introducer of Popery, when a State hath a popiſh Prince and Parliament; as England hath had, and may have again for ought we know. | p. 14. |
| Conformity in worſhip to mens Precept, brings a wonderfull ſpirituall judgement of blindneſſe, and deprivation of wiſdome and underſtanding. | p. 15. |
| All ſorts put to try and examine themſelves in ſundry weighty particulars, whether that propheſie (Eſay 29. 13, 14.) fall not heavie upon them; wherein Conſcience ſevers the innocent from the guilty. | p. 16. |
| How Conformity is hypocriſie, and a removing of the heart far from God. | ib. |
| The many bad fruits of Conformity. | 17. |
| How Conformity ſeeks to overtop the ſupream power, | p. 19. |
| How the Scotiſh Church-government, ſo much cryed up by the Engliſh Clergie, is incompatible with the fundamentall laws and liberties of our Engliſh Nation. | p. 20. |
| How Church orders, or diſorders, as Hereſie, or Schiſme, may be, or not be, for all the Civil power. | p. 23. |
| How Conſcience clears it ſelf from any withdrawing of due obedience to the Magiſtrate. | ib. |
| What limits God hath ſet to the Magiſtrate. | ib. |
| How prone mans nature is to idolize men in ſetting up a State-Religion, and how ſlothfull to ſearch the Scripture, the only rule of faith, and the evill conſequence hereof. | p. 25. |
| The counſel that Conſcience gives Conformity at their parting; and what he muſt of neceſsity do, to make peace, and hold communion with Conſcience. | p. 26 |
FINIS.
End of the text · Henry Burton, Conformitys Deformity (1646)