What Divine Duty Has the Civil Magistrate Toward the First Table of the Law? (2)

We took the position that the magistrate is in duty bound to maintain the laws written on the first table as well as the laws written on the second table. But would not the magistrate's doing so bring into being a state church and result in religious perse­cution? Not necessarily. The requirement should not be that the magistracy elevate to the position of the established religion in the realm, a certain type of Christianity -- Lutheran, Reformed, or Baptist or any of the others -- and refuse...