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The Christian CommonwealthThe Christian Commonvvealth
The Christian Commonwealth: or, The civil policy of the rising kingdom of Jesus Christ. Written before the interruption of the government, by Mr. John Eliot, teacher of the Church of Christ at Roxbury in New-England. And now published (after his consent given) by a server of the season.The Christian Commonvvealth: or, The civil policy of the rising kingdom of Jesus Christ. Written before the interruption of the government, by Mr. John Eliot, teacher of the Church of Christ at Roxbury in New-England. And now published (after his consent given) by a server of the season.
London: printed for Livewell Chapman, 1659
THE CHRISTIAN COMMONWEALTH: OR, The Civil Polity of the Rising King… › Chapter 2
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.
Servants, or Sons living with their Parents, as ⟨p. 6⟩in the condition of Servantsc, they may not explicitly, politically, personally, choose public Rulers; while they live under the Authority of Family-government, they are not personally capable of interest in public Political Elections: it is enough to attain Gods ends, that they be virtually comprehended in their Fathera Covenant.
Servants, or Sons living with their Parents, as ⟨p. 6⟩in the condition of Servantsc, they may not explicitely, politically, personally, chuse publick Rulers; while they live under the Authority of Family-government, they are not personally capable of interest in publick Political Elections: it is enough to attain Gods ends, that they be virtually comprehended in their Fathera Covenant.
- cGal. 4. 1. Tho heir so long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant.
But if they Marry, or live in the state of allowed public Free-men, then are they capable of, & are bound personally to act, in the choice of their public Rulers. The Rulers of the Father are virtually Rulers of the Child: but when the child putteth forth an act of choice, he hath liberty to choose, in due order, another Ruler of ten, unto whom he doth personally submit himself: for all men are commanded to choose unto themselves Rulers.
But if they Marry, or live in the state of allowed publick Free-men, then are they capable of, & are bound personally to act, in the choice of their publickRulers. The Rulers of the Father are virtually Rulers of the Child: but when the child putteth forth an act of choice, he hath liberty to chuse, in due order, another Ruler of ten, unto whom he doth personally submit himself: for all men are commanded to chuse unto themselves Rulers.