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CXI propositions concerning the ministry and government of the ChurchCXI propositions concerning the ministerie and government of the Church
Edinburgh: printed by Evan Tyler, 1647
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66.
Fourthly, they differ in the end: The immediate nearest end of civill power is, that the good of the Commonwealth may be provided for and procured, whether it be in time of Peace, according to the rules of Law and counsel of Judges; or in time of War according to the rules of Military prudence; and so the temporal safety of the Subjects may be procured, and that external Peace and civill Liberty may be preserved, and being lost may be again restored.
Fourthly, they differ in the end: The immediate nearest end of civill power is, that the good of the Commonwealth may bee provided for and procured, whether it be in time of Peace, according to the rules of Law and counsell of Judges; or in time of Warre according to the rules of Militarie prudence; and so the temporall safety of the Subjects may bee procured, and that externall Peace and civill Liberty may bee preserved, and being lost may be againe restored.
67.
But the chiefest and last end of civill Government is, the glory of God the Creator, namely, that those which do evil being by a superior Power restrained or punished, & those which do good getting praise of the same, the Subjects so much the more may shun impiety and injustice, and that Virtue, Justice and the Moral Law of God (as touching those eternal duties of both Tables, unto which all the posterity of Adam are obliged) may remain in strength and flourish.