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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, Those that in their practices contemn Magistracy, sin against this truth discovered in the ⟨p. 219⟩Text; for they despise an Ordinance of God, Rom. 13.2.
Secondly, Those that in their practices contemn Magistracy, sin against this ttruth discovered in the ⟨p. 219⟩Text; for they despise an Ordinance of God, Rom. 13.2.
Some sin in their words by uncivil disrespectful language; The corruption of their hearts breaks out of their lips; These filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominions, ([Greek or Hebrew], they opposed not so much the Officers as the Office,1 not so much the Magistrate as Magistracy,) speak evil of dignities, Jude ver. 8. they blaspheme glories. It is blasphemy against the second Table. Our wicked times are a woeful Comment on that Text. Those persons and places which are honoured by the Spirit of God with glorious Titles, are bespattered by them with dirty, disgraceful language. Because they could not by the power of their hands displace the Magistrate, therefore with the poison of their tongues they did disgrace Magistracy.
Some sin in their words by uncivil disrespectfull language; The corruption of their hearts breaks out of their lips; These filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominions, (〈non-Latin alphabet〉, they opposed not so much the Officers as the Office,1