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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.
61. Our Love to the whole world is a greater duty than our Love to our Country, and our Love to our Country is a greater duty than our Love to our Parents, Magistrates, or our selves; As the Goodness of the Objects is diversified.
61. Our Love to the whole world is a greater duty than our Love to our Countrey, and our Love to our Countrey is a greater duty than our Love to our Parents, Magistrates, or our selves; As the Goodness of the Objects is diversifyed.
62. In some cases God hath laid some special charge on us by his own Law, which way first to exercise our Love: But where he hath not so done, the Greatest Good in the exercises of Love is to be preferred to a lesser, and the lesser is no duty but a sin, when it would exclude the greater, (Comparatively).
63. If a King or Parent command me to forbear a necessary Act of Love (or expression of it) (as to save a mans life, or soul as far as I am able when there is great hope of the success) unless finis gratiâ, a Greater Good oblige me to forbear it, the Authority of the commander doth not oblige me; as not dissolving Gods obligations.