Excerpt from Revolution Principles: Being a Full Defence of the Bishop of St. Asaph's Preface to His Four Sermons; In Answer to the Objections Which Have Been Made Against It; Proving Them to Be All Groundless, by Scripture, Law, and Reason
One and oppofi the Other it is no Wonder that the Sacred Writings fpeah for Them fince nothing Sacred can countenance Opprefion and Tyranny 'tis a Pitiful and Shameful Thing. Fays his Lord/hip in his Sermon on the Qieen's Ac cefion to the fhrone, that Men either in lg norance or Flattery, where they meet with fuch Noble Expreflion's of the Kingly Oi fice, as that his Rowe) is of God, and the Ordinance of God ana' that he is in God s Stead and his Vicegerent, and the like, (hould ci ther give it a wrong Turn, by giving the Prince from thencea lawlefs and unbound ed Power, becaufe that God's is (0; or ou ly enforce from thence the Obedierite and Subjeé'tion of the People without Referee, never concerning themfelves with lhewing the indifpenfible Obligations which all thofe Noble expreliions lay upon Princes to he fin/l, and to rule in the Fear of God and in all Things to reprefent that great Original from whence they der1ve. They have their Power from God, no donht of it': Tis therefore only the Pow er of doing Good For, God Himfelf has no other Power. They cannot then exceed their Principal, He can give them no other Power than what he 18 invefied with him felf; They can therefore have no Power fron'i him to do Injuflice, Opprefiion, 0?
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