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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.
VI. Seeing that by the said Papal Religion or Laws, all Protestants and others that are not Papists, are Dead men in Law where those Laws are received, and must be burnt as Heretics or exterminated, and the Princes ⟨p. 68⟩or other secular Powers that will not swear it and execute it, are themselves to be excommunicate and deposed; we do therefore detest as treacherous to Princes, the practice of all such as would persuade any Prince or Ruler of a Protestant, Greek or other Country not yet Papists, to become a Papist: and thereby to expose himself to the Popes deposing of him, or to destroy his own kingdom, & to cast before his subjects a temptation to dispute such questions, as [whether any Prince have Power from God to burn or exterminate his Kingdom? & how far they should own him which by his very Religion is obliged so to do on pains of excommunication, deposition and damnation. But where the Kingdom are already Papists, it is only the sin against God in the destruction of some innocents or the Princes deposition, and not the Kingdoms destruction that is in the way.
VI. Seeing that by the said Papal Religion or Laws, all Protestants and others that are not Papists, are Dead men in Law where those Laws are received, and must be burnt as Hereticks or exterminated, and the Princes ⟨p. 68⟩or other secular Powers that will not swear it and execute it, are themselves to be excommunicate and deposed; we do therefore detest as treacherous to Princes, the practice of all such as would perswade any Prince or Ruler of a Protestant, Greek or other Countrey not yet Papists, to become a Papist: and thereby to expose himself to the Popes deposing of him, or to destroy his own kingdom, & to cast before his subjects a temptation to dispute such questions, as [whether any Prince have Power from God to burn or exterminate his Kingdom? & how far they should own him which by his very Religion is obliged so to do on pains of excommunication, deposition and damnation. But where the Kingdom are already Papists, it is only the sin against God in the destruction of some innocents or the Princes deposition, and not the Kingdoms destruction that is in the way.