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The shields of the earth A sermon preached before the reverend judges, Sir Richard…The shieldes of the earth A sermon preached before the reverend judges, Sir Richard…
The shields of the earth A sermon preached before the reverend judges, Sir Richard Hutten, and Sir George Crook, at the assizes holden at North-hampton: February 25. 1634. By Edward Reynolds, rector of the church of Braunston in North-hampton shire.The shieldes of the earth A sermon preached before the reverend judges, Sir Richard Hutten, and Sir George Crooke, at the assizes holden at North-hampton: February 25. 1634. By Edward Reynolds, rector of the church of Braunston in North-hampton shire.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Robert Bostock, 1636
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.
But jurisdiction coercitive, or the power of the sword, which under external, secular, and corporal penalties maketh provision for the defence of truth, worship of God, and purity of Religion: This belongeth only unto Princes (and that independently, and unsubordinately to any higher power or person, save God) and to those to whom from Princes it ⟨p. 20⟩is communicated, and indulged.
But jurisdiction coercitive, or the power of the sword, which under externall, secular, and corporall penalties maketh provision for the defence of truth, worship of God, and purity of Religion: This belongeth only unto Princes (and that independently, and unsubordinately to any higher power or person, save God) and to those to whom from Princes it ⟨p. 20⟩is communicated, and indulged.
We see The Rulers of the earth belong unto God. We the people should from thence learn our duty of honour, reverence and loyalty towards The Shields of the Earth. To honour them in our hearts, as those that are worth ten thousand of us, 2 Sam. 18. 3. They were sons of Belial that despised Saul, 1 Sam. 10. 27. To honour them in our aPrayers, for their persons, their lives, their crowns, their government, their victories, their posterity, their salvation, 1 Tim. 2. 1, 2. To honour them in our services, and with our substance, with cheerful obedience, and with willing Tribute, Rom. 13. 7. 1 Pet, 2. 13, 14, 15. Since without them one man would but be bread for another, we should be as the fishes of the sea, the great would devour the small,