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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.
15. It is seditious to say that it is lawful to kill a Tyrant (that is not an Usurper,) for then every murderer were master of a Monarchs life: And yet All the old Sophists, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Plutarch, and the rest of the fautors of the Greek and Roman Anarchy thought it not only Lawful, but worthy of the greatest praise. p. 193.
16. It is seditious to say that the highest Power may be divided. What more pernicious to the City than that men should be affrighted with the fear of everlasting torment from obeying Princes, that is, Laws, that is, from being just? p. 197.
16. It is seditious to say that the highest Power may be divided. What more pernicions to the City than that men should be affrighted with the fear of everlasting torment from obeying Princes, that is, Laws, that is, from being just? p. 197.
17. It is seditious to say, that faith and Holiness are not acquired by study and natural reason, but are always supernaturally infused or inspired. p. 197.
He thought that Christs Kingdom was to begin only at the Resurrection (which I suppose not believing any, he speaketh in contempt): He was a ware that the Bishop of Rom had his power only in one Empire; and that Atheists are not of the Kingdom of God. But I pass by the rest, it being mostly the same with Spinosa's. And briefly, contrary to his mass of Brutism, Atheism, Infidelity and self-contradiction, I oppose, besides what is aforesaid: