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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.
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.
2. To Idols in regard of the false perswasion 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.
- 1Caelestes, Aerii, Terrestres, Marini dii. As many Gods as creatures almost amongst the Heathen.
3. To Magistrates, Exod. 4.16. who have their Commission from God, Rom. 13. who do the work of God, 2 Cor. 13. Rom. 3.4. who ought to do all for God,