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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, Consider the severity of God against the contemners of Magistrates. There are several in the word of God that stand up like the Mast of a Ship cast away by Sands, to warn us that we steer not their course, least we be sunk also. Those who opposed the preservers of our civil lives, have not seldom been punished with violent deaths: Corah and his company, Abimelech, Athaliah, Adonijah, Absalom, Zimri, Joab, Sheba, with several others will confirm this truth. And humane as well as divine writings speak to the same purpose.
Secondly, Consider the severity of God against the contemners of Magistrates. There are several in the word of God that stand up like the Mast of a Ship cast away by Sands, to warn us that we steer not their course, least we be sunk also. Those who opposed the preservers of our civil lives, have not seldom been punished with violent deaths: Corah and his company, Abimelech, Athaliah, Adonijah, Absolom, Zimri, Joab, Sheba, with several others will confirm this truth. And humane as well as divine writings speak to the same purpose.
1James the first King of Scots was murdered in Perth by Walter Earl of Athol, in hope to attain the Crown: for so had his Sorcerers prophesied, and crowned he was with a Grown of red hot Iron clapped upon his head, being one of the tortures wherewith he ended at once his wicked days and desires. Becket, Mortimer, Tyler, Warbeck, Sanders, Story, Campian, the Piercies, the Powder-Plotters, Rhodulphus Duke of Suevia, Richard the third of England, ⟨p. 231⟩and many others have been marked with divine vengeance for contemning this divine Ordinance.
1James the first King of Scots was murthered in Perth by Walter Earl of Athol, in hope to attain the Crown: for so had his Sorcerers prophesied, and crowned he was with a Grown of red hot Iron clapt upon his head, being one of the tortures wherewith he ended at once his wicked dayes and desires. Becket, Mortimer, Tyler, Warbeck, Sanders, Story, Campian, the Piercies, the Powder-Plotters, Rhodulphus Duke of Suevia, Richard the third of England,