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Gods parley with princes with an appeal from them to him. The sum of…Gods parley vvith princes with an appeale from them to him. The summe of…
Gods parley with princes with an appeal from them to him. The sum of two sermons on the 3. last verses of the 82. Psalm; preached at Sergeants-Inn in Fleet-Street. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.Gods parley vvith princes with an appeale from them to him. The summe of two sermons on the 3. last verses of the 82. Psalme; preached at Sergeants-Inne in Fleet-Streete. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by Edw, 1620
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
uA discreet hand therefore is to be held of you in the administration of justice, and in the sentencing and censuring of Transgressors and Offenders. You must remember that you are sent by God as xwith a rod for some, so zwith a sword for others, yto take vengeance on malefactors. And therefore you fulfil not your charge, you discharge not your trust, if you put not the power which to that purpose he hath given you in practise: And ayou shall answer for it with your own souls, as Ahab; not only, bif you slay Naboth, but cif you slay not Benhadad. If you let murderers, and Mass-priests soul-murderers, & other like malefactors escape, whom God hath committed into your hands, dyour lives shall go for theirs, you shall answer it with your own lives for the saving of their lives.
uA discreet hand therefore is to be held of you in the administration of iustice, and in the sentencing and censuring of Transgressors and Offenders. You must remember that you are sent by God as xwith a rod for some, so zwith a sword for others, yto take vengeance on malefactors. And therefore you fulfill not your charge, you discharge not your trust, if you put not the power which to that purpose he hath giuen you in practise: And