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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.
1. To the Devil in regard of his unjust usurpation, and wicked mens corruption, 2 Cor. 4.4. He is called, The God of this world: He usurpeth the honour and Sovereignty of God, Matth. 4.9. and the wicked world obeyeth him, as if he were a God, John 8.44. The God he is, not of the world simply, but of this world, of this sinful world that lieth in wickedness, 1 John 5.19.
1. To the Devil in regard of his unjust usurpation, and wicked mens corruption, 2 Cor. 4.4. He is called, The God of this world: He usurpeth the honour and Soveraignty of God, Matth. 4.9. and the wicked world obeyeth him, as if he were a God, John 8.44. The God he is, not of the world simply, but of this world, of this sinful world that lyeth in wickedness, 1 John 5.19.
2. To Idols in regard of the false persuasion of degenerate man,1 1 Cor. 8.4, 5. There are Gods many, and Lords many; that is, in their conceits, who were Heathen (They worshipped stocks and stones, any thing, yea almost all things) though an Idol be nothing in the judgement of a Christian; It is nothing saith the Apostle, i. e. formally, the thing signified is nothing, yet materially it is something, as made of wood, or brass, or the like.