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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.
III. I find not in the public Confessions of faith of any of the Protestant Churches, or any of the Greek Churches, or of the Roman, any more power ascribed to Kings or other Civil Governors, than I subscribe to and acknowledge; except as before excepted of the Roman Papacy.
III. I find not in the publick Confessions of faith of any of the Protestant Churches, or any of the Greek Churches, or of the Roman, any more power ascribed to Kings or other Civil Governours, than I subscribe to and acknowledge; except as before excepted of the Roman Papacie.
IV. I find not any commonly named Parties of Divines in their writings (Greeks, Papists, Protestants, whether Lutherans, Reformed, Episcopal, or Presbyterian,) who wrote before the year 1640. who do generally (as to the stream or commonest doctrine) ascribe any more to Kings or other civil Governor, than I willingly subscribe to and acknowledge, except as before excepted of the Pope and Papists.
V. Of all the Greek, Roman and Arabian Philosophers, and Orators, of all the Historians, the Authors of Politics, and Civil Lawyers that I have read, I find many that are against Monarchy, but no party or sort of them that commonly give more Power to Princes than I willingly subscribe to and acknowledge, excepting as before excepted, the Papal Usurpation and the flatterers thereof.
V. Of all the Greek, Roman and Arabian Philosophers, and Orators, of all the Historians, the Authors of Politicks, and Civil Lawyers that I have read, I find many that are against Monarchy, but no party or sort of them that commonly give more Power to Princes than I willingly subscribe to and acknowledge, excepting as before excepted, the Papal Usurpation and the flatterers thereof.