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The best and the worst magistrate
The best and the worst magistrate: or, The people's happiness and unhappiness, laid open in a sermon preached at the late election of the Lord Major for the famous City of London, Sept. 29. 1648. / By Obadiah Sedgwick B. in D. and minister at Covent-Garden.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1648
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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.
1. Rulers or Magistrates must be men fearing God: Thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, 1said Jethro to Moses; He who fears God, he only is fit to rule men: That Judge who said, I fear not God, said immediately, 2I regard not man. Now take the fear of God
1. Rulers or Magistrates must be men fearing God: Thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, 1said Jethro to Moses; He who fears God, he onely is fit to rule men: That Judge who said, I fear not God, said immediately, 2I regard not man. Now take the fear of God
Either Comprehensively, as it contains in it the whole Worship and Service of God (The fear of God is an abridgement 1of all Religion:) Thus the righteous persons are the only persons who fear God; no men are truly religious, but such who are sincerely righteous.
Either Comprehensively, as it contains in it the whole Worship and Service of God (The fear of God is an abridgement 1