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The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated…
The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated and argued by Richard Baxter ; who earnestly beseecheth rulers and clergy not to divide and destroy the land and cast their own souls on the dreadful guilt and punishment of national perjury ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
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M. But if you are of so many Minds, how are Doubters resolved, what to Swear and what to do? ⟨p. 136⟩1. If you say, It's no Commission that is contrary to Law, who shall be Judge when it is contrary to Law? If every Subject be Judge, it is as easy to Rebel, and say the King's Commission is illegal, as it is to deny all the Authority of his Commissions?
M. But if you are of so many Minds, how are Doubters resolved, what to Swear and what to do? ⟨p. 136⟩1. If you say, It's no Commission that is contrary to Law, who shall be Judge when it is contrary to Law? If every Subject be Judge, it is as easie to Rebel, and say the King's Commission is illegal, as it is to deny all the Authority of his Commissions?
L. The Judges and Courts must judge what is Legal.
L. The Iudges and Courts must judge what is Legal.
M. If the Judges, yea, or the Parliament shall judge the King's Commissions illegal, will that make it lawful for the Subjects to resist them.