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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.
6. No man is bound by any Covenants whatsoever not to resist him that would kill him, wound him, or do him any other bodily hurt: every mans natural fear resisteth hurt; by slight or fighting: And no man is bound to impossibility: Only fidelity bindeth Covenanters; Therefore we bind malefactors that go to punishment with Cords, because they may resist if they can: To Covenant [If I do this, kill me] is one thing: But to say [If you kill me I will not resist] is another. Laws bind not the punished from resisting, but others from defending them. p. 31, 32, 33.
7. No Covenant or Law bindeth one to accuse himself, or to accuse any other whose suffering will be the bitterness of his life. p. 33.
8. The concord of many is the only security for our peace. p. 79, 80.
9. This must be by a Civil Union, which is by putting all our Rights into the hand of one Civil person, that is, Monarch or Councils absolutely (except as before excepted) p. 84.