A47584:1513
The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland
The history of the reformation of the Church of Scotland containing five books : together with some treatises conducing to the history.The historie of the reformation of the Church of Scotland containing five books : together with some treatises conducing to the history.
London: printed by John Raworth for George Thomason and Octavian Pullen, 1644
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.
The second is,1 An upright and willing mind to put in execution such things as God commandeth in his Law, without declining to the right, or to the left hand.
The second is,1 An upright and willing minde to put in execution such things as God commandeth in his Law, without declining to the right, or to the left hand.
- 1What is required of a King or Prince.
Kings then have not an absolute Power to do in their Regiment what pleaseth them;1 but their Power is limited by Gods Word: So that if they strike where GOD hath not commanded, they are but murderers; and if they spare where GOD hath commanded to strike, they and their Throne are criminal and guilty of the wickedness that aboundeth upon the face of the earth, for lack of punishment.
Kings then have not an absolute Power to do in their Regiment what pleaseth them;1 but their Power is limited by Gods Word: So that if they strike where GOD hath not commanded, they are but murtherers; and if they spare where GOD hath commanded to strike, they and their Throne are criminall and guilty of the wickednesse that aboundeth upon the face of the earth, for lack of punishment.
- 1The Authority and Power of Kings is limited.