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The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…
The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacify such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things in which they are misunderstood written to reconcile and pacifie such as by mistaking them hinder love and concord / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benj. Alsop, 1679
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.
VI. And 1. It must be remembered that God then reserved the Legislation to himself, which he exercised by Revelation, and by special Prophets: And so the Prophet Moses delivered them that Law, which no King had power to abrogate, suspend, or alter by adding or diminishing, Deut. 12. 32. Jos. 1. But they had a mandatory power, and of making some subordinate By-laws, as Cities and Corporations have from and under the King.
VI. And 1. It must be remembred that God then reserved the Legislation to himself, which he exercised by Revelation, and by special Prophets: And so the Prophet Moses delivered them that Law, which no King had power to abrogate, suspend, or alter by adding or diminishing, Deut. 12. 32. Jos. 1. But they had a mandatory power, and of making some subordinate By-laws, as Cities and Corporations have from and under the King.
VII. 2. Yea great and special Mandates were oft sent from God by Prophets, against which the Kings of Israel had no power.
VIII. 3. The Executive or Judicial Power was divided: part was in the Kings and Magistrates; and part was in the Priests and Levites, which the King could not usurp himself (as appeareth in Uzziah's offering Incense,) nor yet forbid the Priests to use it, according to God's Law; nor change or abrogate their Office. For he and they were subject to God's Laws.