B22970:137
An appeal to thy conscience as thou wilt answer it at the great and…An appeale to thy conscience as thou wilt answere it at the great and…
An appeal to thy conscience as thou wilt answer it at the great and dreadful day of Christ Jesus.An appeale to thy conscience as thou wilt answere it at the great and dreadfull day of Christ Iesus.
London : s.n., 1643
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.
The second Evasion.
But thou wilt tell me, that thou takest▪ up Arms in obedience to public command and authority; and therefore doest nothing but what is warrantable and lawful.
But thou wilt tell me, that thou takest▪ up Armes in obedience to publique command and authority; and therefore doest nothing but what is warrantable and lawfull.
The Answer.
'Tis true thy obedience to public authority is lawful and necessary; for God doth require it, Tit. 3. 1. yet before thou yield thy active obedience thereunto, be sure that •oth the command and authority to which thou yieldest, and also the thing commanded & authorized, be agreeable to the Laws of God, and warrantable by the Laws of the Land▪ wherein thou livest. For if the public command be unlawful, then is thy obedience thereunto also unlawful; as, the obedience of the men of Israel in going to their tents, and forsaking of David their King at the command of traitorous Sheba, was plain rebellion,