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Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /
Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume / by several ministers in and about London, preached in October, 1689.
London: printed by James Astwood for John Dunton, 1690
Sermon 15: Quest. What is the duty of Magistrates from the highest to the lowest, for the suppress…
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2. From the sin of those who refuse this required Subjection, and oppose and resist the Magistrate, v. 2. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God. He doth herein run counter and Cross to the all-wise God, and his declared will. He doth as it were, set his Wisdom and Will against Gods. Bellum cum Deo suscipit, whatever he fancies to himself, he undertakes and wages War with God. This man sinneth against God as well as against man, is a Rebel against the Majesty of Heaven as well as his Prince upon earth refusing the obedience he owes to his Ordinance and Command.
2. From the sin of those who refuse this required Subjection, and oppose and resist the Magistrate, v. 2. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God. He doth herein run counter and Cross to the all-wise God, and his declared will. He doth as it were, set his Wisdom and Will against Gods. Bellum cum Deo suscipit, whatever he fancies to himself, he undertakes and wages War with God. This man sinneth against God as well as against man, is a Rebel against the Majesty of Heaven as well as his Prince upon earth refusing the obedience he ows to his Ordinance and Command.
3. From the evil and fatal consequence or effect of Rebellion and Resistance, of which in the same verse, they that resist shall receive unto themselves damnation. They commit such a crime as shall most certainly and severely be revenged, they had better never have done it, for punishment will surely follow it, and it may be with a quick and speedy pace, either from the hand of the Magistrate, to whom the Sword is committed, with which he is to animadvert upon all disobedience, or by the hand of God who will plead the cause and vindicate the honour of his Lieutenants and Vicegerents; so that such Delinquents are never safe, but in danger of a Temporal punishment here, as Korah and his accomplices experienced, and so did that unnatural wretch Absalom; or an eternal one in Hell in case hearty repentance do not by an happy interposal prevent it.