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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.
If thou wouldst not therefore suffer with others, take heed of sinning with other. Depart I pray you from the Tents of these wicked persons, (saith Moses to the Congregation upon the conspiracy of Corah, Dathan, &c. against their rulers) and touch nothing of theirs, least ye be consumed in all their sins, Numb. 16.26. They that join in common rebellions, must expect to be joined common destructions. Be not impatient of rule, as thou desirest to ⟨p. 232⟩avoid that ruin, which Gods mouth doth threaten, and his hand will execute on such rebellious ones. Let those many examples (which are in Scripture and other Authors mentioned) of them that are hung on Gibbets as monuments of Gods fury, fright thee from their acts least thou partake of their ends. Believe it, no King can possibly be so tender of his own honour, as God is of his own Officers. Do not therefore shoot off thy guns of opposition against the Gods, least they recoil and kill thy self. Reviling of natural parents was banishment by Plato's Law, death by Gods Law, Exod. 21.17. Those then that revile civil parents, shall not always go unpunished.
If thou wouldst not therefore suffer with others, take heed of sinning with other. Depart I pray you from the Tents of these wicked persons, (saith Moses to the Congregation upon the conspiracy of Corah, Dathan, &c. against their rulers) and touch nothing of theirs, least ye be consumed in all their sins, Numb. 16.26. They that join in common rebellions, must expect to be joyned common destructions. Be not impatient of rule, as thou desirest to ⟨p. 232⟩avoid that ruine, which Gods mouth doth threaten, and his hand will execute on such rebellious ones. Let those many examples (which are in Scripture and other Authors mentioned) of them that are hung on Gibbets as monuments of Gods fury, fright thee from their acts least thou partake of their ends. Believe it, no King can possibly be so tender of his own honour, as God is of his own Officers. Do not therefore shoot off thy guns of opposition against the Gods, least they recoil and kill thy self. Reviling of natural parents was banishment by Plato's Law, death by Gods Law,