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The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their principles about civil and ecclesiastical authority and obedience ... : mostly written many years past, and now published to save our lives and the kingdoms peace, from the false and bloody plotters ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
44. No private personal injury may be revenged upon the King, nor upon the Common-wealth: no not by words.
45. The Sovereign or the Body of the Common-wealth may neither of them seek the hurt, much less the destruction of each other; nor do any thing that tendeth thereunto: for their union is the Existent Constitution, which dissolution destroyeth.
45. The Soveraign or the Body of the Common-wealth may neither of them seek the hurt, much less the destruction of each other; nor do any thing that tendeth thereunto: for their union is the Existent Constitution, which dissolution destroyeth.
46. Those that dispute for a Power in the Body of the Common-wealth to destroy the Head, or a Power in the Sovereign to destroy the Body, if he please, do (either as ignorant or cunningly treacherous enemies of both) sow the seeds of suspicion and enmity between them, and seek to make them afraid of each other as of Tigers or enemies, and by the terrible word of [A power to destroy] make them apprehend Destruction as at the door, and a civil war almost begun: and such are the most pernicious and unsufferable Counsellors.
46. Those that dispute for a Power in the Body of the Common-wealth to destroy the Head, or a Power in the Soveraign to destroy the Body, if he please, do (either as ignorant or cunningly treacherous enemies of both) sow the seeds of suspicion and enmity betwen them, and seek to make them afraid of each other as of Tygers or enemies, and by the terrible word of [A power to destroy] make them apprehend Destruction as at the door, and a civil war almost begun: and such are the most pernicious and unsufferable Counsellors.