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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.
They tell us, God is their Keeper; therefore they need neither Law nor Magistrate for their defence.
Answer.
God is the good mans Keeper; but how? not immediately (in an ordinary way) but mediately. As trust in God doth not consist with trust in means, neither without use of means where God doth afford them: for then Christ might have taken the Devils Counsel, and have thrown himself down from the Pinnacle of the Temple when God had afforded him stairs for his safe going down. Saints are under the shadow of Gods wings principally. He is their chief Sun and Shield, Gen. 17.1. but they are under the shadow of the Gods wings subordinately, they are the instrumental shields of the earth, Psal. 47.9.
God is the good mans Keeper; but how? not immediately (in an ordinary way) but mediately. As trust in God doth not consist with trust in means, neither without use of means where God doth afford them: for then Christ might have taken the Devils Counsel, and have thrown himself down from the Pinacle of the Temple when God had afforded him stairs for his safe going down. Saints are under the shadow of Gods wings principally. He is their chief Sun and Shield, Gen. 17.1. but they are under the shadow of the Gods wings subordinately, they are the instrumentall shields of the earth, Psal. 47.9.