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Show [30]? * Tm: other text which I lliall mention, and which has been made me of, by the favourers of arbitrary government, as their great lhtet anchor and main fupport, is in Rom. 12th the firlt fix vertes. [ct awry foul [16 [ix/War lo the big/Fer powers 3 for Mac {I informer [2212‘ cf GUI) a: 7/36 powers that [1? are ordain'd If COD. "7Mfievc‘r t/Jerafore rejflel/J t/Jc fatter, rcfflclb ‘I/JL' or- ding/Ira of GOD; and {be}! I/mt' rtfl/Z‘ "Ml/l re- [ 3 l obedience, we mull; find out in What fenfe the apoltle alhrms, that magittraey is the ordinance of Goo, and What he intends when he calls the ruler the minilter of (Jon. I CAN think but of three pollible fenfes, in which 11121;;ilt2‘,icy can with any propriety ix". {£7572 no! [2: nfiaid (ft/16 power :" Do that tub/(l; ealled GoD's ordinance, or in which rulers can be taid to be ordained of Goo as his minitltrizi The lirft is a plain declaration from 'the word. of Goo, that tneh an one, and his (letcetidants tez-ve Ia flrmyez'ws damnation : For ruler; are 770! n terror to good works but to {be mil. "7/; [1701.4 at (weekend 1/1011 jba/t have prflifl' oft/w fimlr. are, and {hall be the only true and lawful mam for I." 2x the mini/fer OfGOD f0 I/Jce [brig/00d. gitlrates ; thus we [ind in teripture, the king But y‘Z/mr do that whit/9 is evil be afraidfl'bir be dotn of judah to be tettled by divine appoirt- [martin not t/chword in main, far lac it l/JC' minifler of COD, (1, rcomgcr fa excel/[c coral/.7 Mm: merit in the family of lilavid. or, 2dly, Br an immediate commiflion from 191.721., f/Jat dot/J mil. firtycc‘f 7210f only for twat/J, but (I7/b for rcrr/i/mm Goo, ordering and appointing tuch an one by nan e to be the ruler over the people ; thus Saul fate. and David were immediately appointed by [WM/"(fore re Mtg/1' need} be For, for this rail/é pay you ~iris/lure try/b ; for they are Gm": mini/Zen (if/ending (071.0}!!162/0/ 1/]3673 i/m wry I/Jirzg. A very little attention (1 apprehend ) will be litilleient to thew, that this text is to farfrom favouring arbitrary {mi/ornznent, that on the contrary, it thong]; holds :olrttlr)tlfifrfiieilples of true liberty: Subjecti‘ t3 1C1 powers is ClljtnllCd by the appoille, became there is no powerbut of GOD ; the powers that: be are ordained of GOD, con" ieqnently, to reiitl the power is to rclitt the granianee 0t (lop : And he repeatedly declar es i:f1:,:b\ci:;n :1‘tle"1pinpte1 oi": Corn Il‘ximv GOD to be kings over lti‘ael. Or, 3dly, MAG ISTRA CY may be called the ortli~ nance of Goo ; and rulers may be called the minillers of Goo, beeaute the nature and rem {on of things, which is the law of Con tequircs fuch an ii‘iltitutioii for the pretervatia‘vn and tat‘ety of civil fociet . la the two full; thirties, the apollle cannot be tirppol‘ed to aiiirtn, that lriagillraey is GoD's ordinance, for nether he, nor any of the titered writers have entailed net itr llll‘i that makes "he magitlracy to any one partieuiar famiiy unl(ler the gotpel dit‘pentation. Neither duel; he, tor, or agaxnlt the doetrine of unlimited {2128111 1 I ,7, w, {twinklik-l leatt hint, tiizt any peri'on lhould everbc ill?- ' . v; .1 3 nor any of the intpired writers give 11:; :‘h: t ,1‘,. .' , lileul..tti‘.. |