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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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Use 1 In the first place,let us make this use; is it so that Magistracy is appointed of God for our good? Government, is it for our good? Then it may reprove all those opinions and errors that are about Government; either in the defect, or in the excess of it: In the defect, Anabaptists and Socinians that question the Authority of Magistracy: and so likewise Papists, though they question it not, yet notwithstanding have many destructive opinions about it.
Ʋse 1 In the first place,let us make this use; is it so that Magistracie is appointed of God for our good? Government, is it for our good? Then it may reprove all those opinions and errours that are about Government; either in the defect, or in the excesse of it: In the defect, Anabaptists and Socinians that question the Authoritie of Magistracie: and so likewise Papists, though they question it not, yet notwithstanding have many destructive opinions about it.
And then, on the other side, in the Excess, for there is politic idolatry as well as spiritual; we may make a Magistrate an idol; and that is, when we will obey him against God, when we have no other ground for our Worship or Religion then the Authority of a Magistrate, we look not to the Word of God; this is politic idolatry, Quicquid rex Demetrius jubet id erga homines justum & Deos sanctum, that was their resolution.
And then, on the other side, in the Excesse, for there is politicke idolatry as well as spirituall; we may make a Magistrate an idoll; and that is, when we will obey him against God, when we have no other ground for our Worship or Religion then the Authoritie of a Magistrate, we look not to the Word of God; this is politicke idolatry, Quicquid rex Demetrius jubet id erga homines justum & Deos sanctum, that was their resolution.