A30577:497
The glorious name of God, The Lord of Hosts opened in two sermons, at…
The glorious name of God, The Lord of Hosts opened in two sermons, at Michaels Cornhill, London, vindicating the Commission from this Lord of Hosts, to subjects, in some case, to take up arms : with a post-script, briefly answering a late treatise by Henry Ferne, D.D. / by Jer. Burroughs.The glorious name of God, The Lord of Hosts opened in two sermons, at Michaels Cornhill, London, vindicating the Commission from this Lord of Hosts, to subjects, in some case, to take up arms : with a post-script, briefly answering a late treatise by Henry Ferne, D.D. / by Jer. Burroughes.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1643
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.
He says, conscience will look at that power he hath as the ordinance of God.
He saies, conscience will look at that power he hath as the ordinance of God.
True, what power he hath, that is, what the Laws give him, we say is an ordinance of God.1
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But his abuse of power is a judgement of God, that we must cry to God against, and a true informed conscience in that case will rather suffer then resist.
But his abuse of power is a iudgement of God, that we must cry to God against, and a true informed conscience in that case will rather suffer then resist.
He still takes abuse of his power to be the doing whatsoever he please: we deny that to be abuse of his power. We say in that he doth not exercise his authoritative power at all, therefore he doth not abuse it. If indeed some unjust Law should give him any power to do wrong, the execution of this would be the abuse of his power, and therein it is granted a true informed conscience would rather suffer then resist. But in the other case, when he doth what Law enables not to do, all the arguments of the Doctor cannot so inform our consciences, as to believe the State must rather suffer then resist.