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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
7. Hereby they deny all the proper Judgement of God by ⟨p. 146⟩Christ at the last day, and make his Judgement to be nothing but Execution.
Yea, and 8. All proper Execution is denied, as Vindictive, or Remunerative, and so all Justice.
Yea, and 8. All proper Execution is denyed, as Vindictive, or Remunerative, and so all Justice.
9. The Authority of every Prince on earth is overthrown. For there can be no Authority but from Gods Sovereign Authority, any more then any Being without derivation from the first being. They may talk to the ignorant of Contracts, and Peoples Wills being the Original of Governing Authority, and deify the multitude and make them give that which they never had; but a mean understanding may perceive their folly.
9. The Authority of every Prince on earth is overthrown. For there can be no Authority but from Gods Soveraign Authority, any more then any Being without derivation from the first being. They may talk to the ignorant of Contracts, and Peoples Wills being the Original of Governing Authority, and deifie the multitude and make them give that which they never had; but a mean understanding may perceive their folly.