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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.
10. Societies are for Common good, more than for my own.
11. They are not made by arbitrary giving up our power; for God first instituted them, and described the parts universally necessary, and our power to govern or dispose of our own lives was none, but as under him; and public power is quite of another species. We have power to obey God and such as he shall by due consent of man set over us and authorize.
11. They are not made by arbitrary giving up our power; for God first instituted them, and described the parts universally necessary, and our power to govern or dispose of our own lives was none, but as under him; and publick power is quite of another species. We have power to obey God and such as he shall by due consent of man set over us and authorize.
12. Life must not be defended when justice sentenceth us to death.
13. It's Gods will and power in Rulers that we must obey, and not only the peoples united in them.