Pansebeia, or, A view of all religions in the world with the severall church-governments from the creation, to these times : also, a discovery of all known heresies in all ages and places, and choice observations and reflections throughout the whole / by Alexander Ross.

The Contents of the fifteenth Section.

REligion is the ground of all Government, and Greatnesse. 2. By divers reasons it is proved that Religion: of all Common wealths, and humane societies, is the foundation. 3. That Princes and Magistrates ought to have a special care, in setling and preserving of Re∣ligion. 4. That one Religion onely is to be al∣lowed in a Common wealth publickly. 5. In what Respects different Religions may be tole∣rated in private. 6. A Christian Prince may not dissemble his Religion. 7. Why God blesseth the professors of false Religions, and punisheth the contemners thereof. 8. False Religions are grounded upon policy, and what use there is of Ceremonies in Religion: 9. The mixture and division of Religions, and of Idolatry. 10. How the Gentile Religion in worshipping of the Sunne, seems to be most con∣sonant to natural reason; with divers obser∣vations concerning Sun-worship, and the knowledge the Gentiles had of a Deity, and the Vnity thereof, with some glimmering of the Trinity. 11. That the honour, maintenance, and advancement of a Priest-hood, is the maine supporter of Religion. 13, That the Christian Religion is of all others the most excellent, and to be preferred for diver reasons, being considered in it selfe, and compared with others; with an exhortation to the practice of religions duties, which is true Christianity.