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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
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.
L. They commonly run one way, founding Power in the People, as being the Majestas Realis, and giving the King's and States a derived Majestatem Personalem, which being for the Common good, they may resist when it would destroy it. They took their Politics by Learning from Aristotle, Plato, Cicero; and such Ancients, and no wonder if they follow them.
L. They commonly run one way, founding Power in the People, as being the Majestas Realis, and giving the King's and States a derived Majestatem Personalem, which being for the Common good, they may resist when it would destroy it. They took their Politicks by Learning from Aristotle, Plato, Cicero; and such Ancients, and no wonder if they follow them.
M. And I pray you which way go our famous Historians in this Point, such as Commines, Jovius, Guicciardine, Pontanus, Sleidan, Thuanus, Besoldus, Johnston, Fregius, and our English Math. Paris, Henry Huntington, Mat. Westminster, Malmsbury, Hoveden, &c.
M. And I pray you which way go our famous Historians in this Point, such as Commines, Iovius, Guicciardine, Pontanus, Sleidan, Thuanus, Besoldus, Iohnston, Fregius, and our English Math. Paris, Henry Huntington, Mat. Westminster, Malmsbury, Hoveden, &c.
L. You know they lived in times when Civil Wars were so frequent, and Princes so bad, and one pulling down another, that it's no wonder if they praise some resisters. But if you read those of our Age that lived in quiet Times and under good Princes, such as Camden, Speed and Baker, you will find no such thing.
L. You know they liv'd in times when Civil Wars were so frequent, and Princes so bad, and one pulling down another, that it's no wonder if they praise some resisters. But if you read those of our Age that lived in quiet Times and under good Princes, such as Cambden, Speed and Baker, you will find no such thing.