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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
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.
Thirdly, From the whole tenor of these words, Shall he that hateth right govern?
Thirdly, From the whole tenour of these words, Shall he that hateth right govern?
Note.
They that hate right, or righteousness, are altogether unfit to Govern, or to be Governors?
They that hate right, or righteousness, are altogether unfit to Govern, or to be Governours?
Nothing is more contrary to the state of Government, or the qualification of a Governor, then to hate right; righteousness is the sphere wherein he ought to walk, and never to move out of it; 'tis the business he hath to do, the trade which he hath to drive; whatsoever he doth in that capacity, he must be doing righteous things. So far as any man hath the power of Government in his hand, if it be but over a family, much more over a Nation, he ought to do right; Davids prayer for himself as a King, and for his son who was to succeed him in the Kingdom, was only and altogether this, (