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The magistrates commission from heaven. Declared in a sermon preached in Laurence Jury, London, the…The magistrates commission from heaven. Declared in a sermon preached in Laurencejury, London, the…
The magistrates commission from heaven. Declared in a sermon preached in Laurence Jury, London, the 28. day of Sept. 1644. at the election of the Lord Major. / By Anthony Burgess, sometimes fellow of Immanuel College in Cambridge; now pastor of Sutton Coldfield in Warwick shire, and a member of the Assembly. Imprimatur Thomas Gataker.The magistrates commission from heaven. Declared in a sermon preached in Laurencejury, London, the 28. day of Sept. 1644. at the election of the Lord Major. / By Anthony Burgesse, sometimes fellow of Immanuel Colledge in Cambridge; now pastour of Sutton Coldfield in Warwick shire, and a member of the Assembly. Imprimatur Thomas Gataker.
London: printed by George Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1644London: printed by George Miller for Thomas Vnderhill, 1644
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The second Argument is brought from the contrary: Whosoever resisteth the power, resisteth the Ordinance of God. This place you know is frequently brought by Court Divines against the Parliaments defensive war: but no such inference can be made; for the Apostle speaks generally: we may as well prove, that they that refuse the Parliaments war, resist the Ordinance of God; for the Apostle speaks largely, All power is of God; And Parliamentary power being power is rightly of God: therefore he that resists that power, resists the Ordinance of God: So that that makes nothing but the clean contrary may be as well proved from thence. As for the main question it self that is so frequently agitated, I need not insist on it, wherefore I proceed.
The second Argument is brought from the contrary: Whosoever resisteth the power, resisteth the Ordinance of God. This place you know is frequently brought by Court Divines against the Parliaments defensive warre: but no such inference can be made; for the Apostle speakes generally: we may as well prove, that they that refuse the Parliaments warre, resist the Ordinance of God; for the Apostle speakes largely, All power is of God; And Parliamentary power being power is rightly of God: therefore he that resists that power, resists the Ordinance of God: So that that makes nothing but the cleane contrary may be as well proved from thence. As for the maine question it selfe that is so frequently agitated, I need not insist on it, wherefore I proceed.
The third Argument that he brings, it is from the end of these, they are not a terror to good works, but to evill, facile est imperium in bonos, the Government on those that are good, it is easy. And so he comes to this reason in my Text: For he is the Minister of God to thee for good. In which words observe,
The third Argument that he brings, it is from the end of these, they are not a terrour to good works, but to evill, facile est imperium in bonos, the Government on those that are good, it is easie. And so he comes to this reason in my Text: For he is the Minister of God to thee for good. In which words observe,