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Short animadversions upon a sermon lately preached by the Reverend Dr. Tillotson, upon Joshua 24. 15. and since published. : So far as the said sermon asserteth the power of the magistrate in things of religion over his subjects, the same with that of the master of a family over his family. The unlawfulness of preaching the true religion by ministers, where a false religion is established by law, without an extraordinary commission confirmed by miracles; and the hypocrisie of such ministers as think themselves obliged to preach Christ (though contrary to a law) in their own countrey, because they do not go and do the same in Turky or Spain. All which assertions are shortly examined. The first proved to be uncertainly true. The second condemning the practice of all the first ministers of the Gospel, after the Apostles, and of those that have laboured in reformation. The third most uncharitable, and groundless