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A short treatise
A short treatise: containing all the principal grounds of Christian religion. By way of questions and answers: very profitable for all sorts of men, but especially for householders..A short treatise: containing all the principall grounds of Christian religion. By way of questions and answers: very profitable for all sorts of men, but especially for housholders..
London: printed for William Welby, 1617
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.
Q. What is the duty of Superiors?
Q. What is the duty of Superiours?
A. To carry 18 themselves gravely, meekly, and after a seemly manner towards their inferiors.
A. To carry 18 themselues grauely, meekely, and after a seemely manner towards their inferiours.
Expos. 18. Magistrates ought by all good means, to procure the good of their subjects, making holy and just laws, for the maintenance of piety and justice, appointing officers that be wise, courageous, and fearing God, to see justice executed, and labouring to root out sin by punishing offenders justly, and encouraging the Godly, 1. Tim. 2. 2. 2. Chron. 19. 5. &c. Rom. 13. 4. Deut. 7. ⟨p. 199⟩18, 19. Psal. 101. 6, 7, 8. 1. Pet. 2. 13