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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.
22. Subjects are bound to take their Rulers, not as their own creatures, to set up and take down as the Roman Soldiers did: (For then to obey a Ruler would be but radically to obey themselves, or to obey their servants): But as the Officers of God, who communicateth authority to them, and so to honour and obey God in them, as we do the King in his inferior Magistrates: And so to obey for Conscience sake.
22. Subjects are bound to take their Rulers, not as their own creatures, to set up and take down as the Roman Souldiers did: (For then to obey a Ruler would be but radically to obey themselves, or to obey their servants): But as the Officers of God, who communicateth authority to them, and so to honour and obey God in them, as we do the King in his inferiour Magistrates: And so to obey for Conscience sake.
23. Subjects are bound not only to fear their Rulers, but to Love them: and to shun that fear which tendeth to hatred.
24. God must be first obeyed, and no man against him, by breaking any of his Laws, particular or general.