The works of ..vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polityNow compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before publishedWith an account of his holy life, and happy death . doby vertue of their power, namely, their Laws, Ldifts, Services, or other aftiof Jurifdiaion,be not fufFered to take efieft,coiitrary to thehlefied Apoltles moftholy rule, Obey them that have the over fight efyo
The works of ..vindicating the church of England, as truly christian, and duly reformed: in eight books of ecclesiastical polityNow compleated, as with the sixth and eighth, so with the seventh, (touching episcopacy, as the primitive, catholick and apostolick government of the church) out of his own manuscripts, never before publishedWith an account of his holy life, and happy death . doby vertue of their power, namely, their Laws, Ldifts, Services, or other aftiof Jurifdiaion,be not fufFered to take efieft,coiitrary to thehlefied Apoltles moftholy rule, Obey them that have the over fight efyou^^.ij. or if they do takeeffeft, yet is not che will of God thereby fatisfied neither, as long as that whichwe do iscontemptuoufly, or repiningly done, beeaufe we can do fuch fort the Ifraelitcsin the Defart obeyed Mi/cx, and were notwithftand-ing defervedly plagued for difobediencc. The Apoftles Precept therefore i»TSe fubjeU even for Codscaufe: Be fubjeli , not for fear^ but of meer fonfciente^knoiving that he aihich refijieth them^ furchafeth to himfelf cmdemnation. Difo-t^dience therefore unto Lpws, which are made by men, is not a thing of fofmall accountasfome would make ic. ,, ; ,; Howbeit, too rigorous it were, thatthcBrciclfeof every Humane Law fhouldbe held a deadly fin : A mean there is between thofe extremities, if fobc wecan find it out- 117.
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