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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.
12. But God as the Universal Ruler hath signified his will in the nature of man and of things, than he will have the world live in Political order, and have Government and obedience; so that it is Commanded by him in the Law of Nature, antecedently to mens voluntary conjunction (though it may possibly fall out that some uncapable Individuals, (as those cast upon a foreign continent or solitude) may be under no such obligation.)
12. But God as the Vniversal Ruler hath signified his will in the nature of man and of things, than he will have the world live in Political order, and have Government and obedience; so that it is Commanded by him in the Law of Nature, antecedently to mens voluntary conjunction (though it may possibly fall out that some uncapable Individuals, (as those cast upon a foreign continent or solitude) may be under no such obligation.)
13. The people therefore give not the King or any other Sovereigns their Power.
13. The people therefore give not the King or any other Soveraigns their Power.
14. Their power resulteth from Gods Law which instituteth Government, under him, and that Immediately, as to any mediate Donor, though not Immediately as without any mediate condition sine qua non. For though Originally the peoples consent was necessary to determine of the person, or in hereditary Government, of the family, that should receive the power from God; yet that is no Donation of the Power it self. Even as the Kings Charter immediately giveth the power of a Mayor or Bailiff to a Corporation, though by the same Charter the people choose that person that shall receive it. Or as a woman chooseth the man that shall be her Husband, but giveth him not the Government of her, for that is given by Gods institution, to that person whom she contracteth with and if she should agree with him that he should not be her Governor, it were a nullity.