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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.
XIX. Much more do we abhor their treachery against Kings, who would both expose them to Gods Justice, and the peoples hard thoughts, by setting them either above God or in competition with him, or building their Kingdoms in the air and not on God; we mean specially such as deny all Monarchs to be Limited by God, ⟨p. 75⟩and to be subject to his Laws: And were they Absolute and not limited by God, they might command all the Subjects to curse God, to renounce Christ and their Salvation, to worship the Devil, and to violate all the Laws of Nature; which would subvert their own foundation.
XIX. Much more do we abhorr their treachery against Kings, who would both expose them to Gods Justice, and the peoples hard thoughts, by setting them either above God or in competition with him, or building their Kingdoms in the air and not on God; we mean specially such as deny all Monarchs to be Limited by God, ⟨p. 75⟩and to be subject to his Laws: And were they Absolute and not limited by God, they might command all the Subjects to curse God, to renounce Christ and their Salvation, to worship the Devil, and to violate all the Laws of Nature; which would subvert their own foundation.
XX. Accordingly we reject their treachery, that would make it the peoples duty to be of the Kings Religion, be it what it will be, and so among Turks, and Papists and Pagans, to be Mahometans, Papists or Heathens; and to obey the King against God; Nothing more dishonouring Kings than when they are set up as in Gods place or as against him.
XXI. We also renounce their treachery, who would deny the subjects, a judicium discretionis, a judgment discerning duty from no duty and from sin: For so they deprive the King of his Subjects and make them no men, nor capable of obeying him: And they deprive him of their aid, in case any Usurper claim the Crown, if they must not judge, who hath the true right.