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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.
17. A Person utterly uncapable receiveth no Authority from God.
18. Those are Usurpers (Civil or Ecclesiastical) who by force or fraud depose the Lawful Governor and take his place: And those that seed vacant seize on the place without any consent of the people; either on pretence of mere conquest, or (as Mahomet) on false pretence of Divine revelation or Commission, or on pretence of their greater worthiness: saving that the supreme Power may impose on the people his inferior officers, and they are bound to obey them.
18. Those are Usurpers (Civil or Ecclesiastical) who by force or fraud depose the Lawful Governour and take his place: And those that sede vacante seize on the place without any consent of the people; either on pretence of meer conquest, or (as Mahomet) on false pretence of Divine revelation or Commission, or on pretence of their greater worthiness: saving that the supream Power may impose on the people his inferior officers, and they are bound to obey them.
19. They that are made Rulers only of one kind or from of a Republic, and shall without authority from God or the peoples consent change that kind or form of Government into another, and assume that other, are Usurpers as to that new usurped form, though not as to the former.
19. They that are made Rulers only of one kind or from of a Republick, and shall without authority from God or the peoples consent change that kind or form of Government into another, and assme that other, are Usurpers as to that new usurped form, though not as to the former.