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The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667
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.
20. But the best of it is, while it nullifieth Right and Wrong, it inferreth, that whosoever shall beat or hang the owners of this Doctrine do them no wrong, nor offend any Laws of God or Man: For if there be no Government, there is no Transgression; and if they are Brutes, they may ⟨p. 43⟩be used as Brutes, who are incapable of Titles, Rights, Inheritances, or of any plea as against an injury.
20. But the best of it is, while it nullifieth Right and Wrong, it inferreth, that whosoever shall beat or hang the owners of this Doctrine do them no wrong, nor offend any Laws of God or Man: For if there be no Government, there is no Transgression; and if they are Bruits, they may ⟨p. 43⟩be used as Bruits, who are incapable of Titles, Rights, Inheritances, or of any plea as against an injury.
§. 2. Man being made a Creature to be governed, it thence followeth, that his Creator must needs be his Sovereign Governor, as being only fit, and having in his Propriety, the only Right.1
§. 2. Man being made a Creature to be governed, it thence followeth, that his Creator must needs be his Soveraign Governour, as being only fit, and having in his Propriety, the only Right.1
- 1Mundus Numine regitur, estque quasi communis urb▪ & civitas hominum. Cicero 2 de finib.