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Words of advice to young men delivered in two sermons at two conventions of…
Words of advice to young men delivered in two sermons at two conventions of young men, the one Decemb. 25, 1666, the other Decemb. 25, 1667 / by Thomas Vincent ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1668
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.
4. The wicked one doth represent Professors as factious and rebellious: That they are a company of seditious and lawless persons, that they are disobedient to the Civil Magistrate whom God hath set over them.
That you may overcome this prejudice, know,
1. That none are more obedient unto the Civil Magistrate in lawful commands, than sincere Professors, because they know if in such things they disobey man, they do more displease God; and therefore that this calumny of the Devil, which was the false accusation of our Saviour, that he forbade to pay tribute to Caesar.
1. That none are more obedient unto the Civil Magistrate in lawful commands, than sincere Professors, because they know if in such things they disobey man, they do more displease God; and therefore that this calumny of the Devil, which was the false accusation of our Saviour, that he •orbad to pay tribute to Caesar.