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Men are gods, or, The dignity of magistracy, and the duty of the magistrate…
Men are gods, or, The dignity of magistracy, and the duty of the magistrate as it was presented in a sermon at the assize holden at Hertford for that county on August 2, 1653 / by George Swinnocke ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1660
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.
Secondly, If Magistrates be Gods,1 and that by the appointment of the living God; (I have said ye Gods) It informeth us, That they are guilty of great impiety that contemn and disesteem Magistracy; they vilify those whom God doth dignify, and fight against God, in endeavouring to pull down that order and that ordinance which he himself hath set up. Such men by denying rule and authority, seem to be beasts, and to put off all humanity. For ⟨p. 212⟩places without some in power would be rather wildernesses then Cities, and the Inhabitants rather herds of Beasts then Societies of men.
Secondly, If Magistrates be Gods,1 and that by the appointment of the living God; (I have said ye Gods) It informeth us, That they are guilty of great impiety that contemn and diisesteem Magistracy; they vilifie those whom God doth dignifie, and fight against God, in endeavouring to pull down that order and that ordinance which he himself hath set up. Such men by denying rule and authority, seem to be beasts, and to put off all humanity. For ⟨p. 212⟩places without some in power would be rather wildernesses then Cities, and the Inhabitants rather herds of Beasts then Societies of men.
- 1The second use by way of Information.
There are two sorts of men guilty of this sin.