The Life of Faith. 3 a 9 Law for, to that good which is their proper end.] r Cor. 14. 54 r.z. 3, 26.t7.2Cor. to. 8.& 02.t9. & 13. ao. I Cor. to. 23. Ephef.4.. 0,16,29. t Tain. r. 4. Rom. t 5.2. I Cor, 12.7 46. Publick Duties, ordinarily, mutt be preferred before private: And that which is for the goad of many, before that which is for the good ofone only. 4. Yet when the private neccttîtyts more preffing, acrd the publick may be omitted at that time with lets detriment, the cafe doth alter. As allo when that one that we do good to is more wortb;than the many,in order to the honour ofGod,or the more publiekgood ofthe whole fociety : or when it is one that by fpecial precept, we arc obliged to prefer in our beneficence 48. Civil Power is to _be ob ycd before Ecclefiattical, in things belonging to the Office of the Magittrate : and Eccle- fiaffical before the Civil, in things proper to the Ecclefiaflical Gvocrnours only. And Family Power before both, in things proper to their cognizance only. But what it is that is proper to each power, I thall tell them when I think they are Willing_ to know, and it will do more good thanharm to tell it them. 4.9. The fupreene Magijhate is ever tobe obeyed beforehis Iuferiours: becaule they have no power but fromhim; and therefore have none againli him (unlefs he fo give it them.) 5ó. No Humane Authority is above Gods, nor can bind us agaLnft him r but it is all received from him, and fubordinate to him. 51. No Humane Power can bind us to the dettro6 ion of the focictywhich it governeth ; bccaufc the publick or com mon good, is the endof Government. 5r. The Laws of Kings, and the Commands of Parents, Makesand Paflors (in cafes where they have true Authority) do bind the foul primarily, as well as the body, fccoadarily ô = But not as the primary, but the fecondary bond. It is a wonder- ful and pittiful thing, to read Divines upon this point [Whe- ther the Laws of men do bind the confcience ?] what work they have made as in the dark, when the cafe is fo very plain and catie ? force arc peremptory that they do not bind cony fcience ; and force that theydos and Tome calling their ad- verfaries the Idolizer; of men ; and others again iatinuating that they arc gailty of trcafon again(} K=,cgs, who dogd :fay them
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