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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.
§. 9. The breaking of Gods Laws must needs deserve a greater penalty, than the breaking of any Man's Laws, as such.
The difference of the Rulers and their Authority puts this past all controversy; of which yet I shall say more anon.
The difference of the Rulers and their Authority puts this past all controversie; of which yet I shall say more anon.
§. 10. What is said of the subjection of Individuals to God, is true of all just Societies as such; the Kingdoms of the world being all under God the universal King, as small parcels of his Kingdom, as particular Corporations are under a humane King.
Therefore Kings and Kingdoms owe their absolute obedience to God, and may not intend any ultimate end, but ⟨p. 69⟩the pleasing of their universal Sovereign; nor set up any interest against him, or above him, or in coordination with him; nor manage any way of Government, but in dependence on him, as the Principle and the End of it; nor make any Laws, but such as stand in due subordination to his Laws; nor command any duty but what hath in its order, a true subserviency and conducibility to his pleasure.