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The difference between the power of magistrates and church-pastors and the Roman kingdom &…
The difference between the power of magistrates and church-pastors and the Roman kingdom & magistracy under the name of a church & church-government usurped by the Pope, or liberally given him by popish princes opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
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.
96. Wise Rulers will watch the Plots of such enemies, as would use them as the Devil would have used Christ, who carried him to the Pinnacle of the Temple, in hope to have seen his fall the greater: who would have them with Herod arrogate the praise of God unto themselves, or with Pharaoh or Nebuchadnezzar to disdain to be under the Sovereignty of their Maker? and ascribe to them the Divine ⟨p. 49⟩Prerogatives; And would make it seem their honour to have Power to do the greatest mischief; that the pretence and claim may make them odious, and so may debilitate and undermine them. That like a draught of cold water to one in a Pleurisy, they may kill them by pleasing them.
96. Wise Rulers will watch the Plots of such enemies, as would use them as the Devil would have used Christ, who carried him to the Pinnacle of the Temple, in hope to have seen his fall the greater: who would have them with Herod arrogate the praise of God unto themselves, or with Pharaoh or Nebuchadnezzar to disdain to be under the Soveraignty of their Maker? and ascribe to them the Divine ⟨p. 49⟩Prerogatives; And would make it seem their honour to have Power to do the greatest mischief; that the pretence and claim may make them odious, and so may debilitate and undermine them. That like a draught of cold water to one in a Pleurisie, they may kill them by pleasing them.
97. It is an unchristian carnal craft for the Protestant Clergy of several Opinions, to lay false charges on one another, as being enemies to the Civil Government, when really their principles therein are all the same; Or to make the differences of Statesmen and Lawyers, to be taken for differences in Religion: purposely to make one another (and their Religion) odious, and to strengthen themselves by the errors and passions of Princes; till at last they have tempted the world to think as bad of all and of Religion it self, as they have said of one another, and by undermining others fall themselves.