Excerpt from Sermons, Vol. 5: Translated From the Original French of the Late Rev. James Saurin, Pastor of the French Church at the Hague; On Various Subjects Again, in regard to church discipline, our author sometimes addresses civil magistrates to suppress scandalous books of divinity, and exhorts them to protect the church, and to furnish it with sound and able pastors: but, when I translate such passages, I recollect Mr. Saurin was a presbyterian, a friend to establishments, with toleration however and in his system of church discipline the civil magistrate is to take order as some divines have sublimely expressed it. My ideas of the absolute freedom ofthe press, and the independent right of every Christian society to elect its own officers, and to judge for itself in eve ry possible case of religion, oblige me on this sub ject also to differ from our author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.