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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.
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.
10. This Union maketh a City, or Civil society, all mens wills being now one, that is, the Cities.
11. The man or the Council to whose will all have given up their wills, have the supreme Power, and all are their subjects, that is, All have given up their right of resisting them. p. 87.
12. But no man is supposed to have bound himself to any thing further than he is secured from fear of danger while he wrongs not others; nor to have parted with his right of arbitrary self defence, when the City defends him not. p. 93.