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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.
2. Chap. 5. He taketh slavery to be unlawful.
3. Page 88. c. 8. He maketh Monarchy to be the gift of the people, voluntarily disseizing and despoiling themselves of the Sovereign power to seize and invest another in it. (As if a man should by pure gift deliver to another man the propriety and possession that to him belongeth): And so he maketh the Ruler to have just so much power as the people give him. And at this rate Lawyers ordinarily speak both Protestants and Papists.
3. Page 88. c. 8. He maketh Monarchy to be the gift of the people, voluntarily disseising and despoiling themselves of the Sovereign power to seize and invest another in it. (As if a man should by pure gift deliver to another man the propriety and possession that to him belongeth): And so he maketh the Ruler to have just so much power as the people give him. And at this rate Lawyers ordinarily speak both Protestants and Papists.
4. He ever excepteth from the absolute Sovereigns power, all that is commanded or forbidden by the Law of God and Nature, which no man can abrogate, pag. 89, &c.