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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.
17. To make the power of Kings independent on Gods Laws, is to subvert their foundation.
18. It's not seditious but necessary to tell men of Gods future judgement, against those that obey men against God.
But the rest is before confuted, which perhaps I have already too oft repeated.
I once thought to have added several other Columns, that other mens judgements, and the Nonconformists might be compared by such as would judge in the light, and not in darkness, viz. I. The judgement of Aristotle, Plato, Zenophon, Isocrates, Cicero, Livy, Tacitus, and others of the famousest of the old Philosophers and Historians and Orators.
I once thought to have added several other Columns, that other mens judgements, and the Nonconformists might be compared by such as would judge in the light, and not in darkness, viz. I. The judgement of Aristole, Plato, Zenophon, Isocrates, Cicero, Livy, Tacitus, and others of the famousest of the old Philosophers and Historians and Orators.