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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.
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.
10. Hereby they destroy all humane Laws, that must receive their strength from Gods Laws, or have none: and so they absolve all subjects in the world from conscientious obligations to obedience. If God have no proper Governing Laws but Physical motions, then we are no further obliged to obey men, by any Law of God, then we are effectually moved to it, and then we do obey them. And if so, then we can owe no more obedience to Parents, Masters, or Princes then they force us to! If they can make us obey them, well and good: If not, we break no Law of God by disobedience.