Chap. 29, .'rj vpsfstio rsaon the Bo, of f o B. VC:r. ?, the orders of mmn inCommon -weal: ,s, much lets doth it b: inn in confuficm. Thefe are fodar from violuncing or violating one ano- ther,thatthey embrace and kifs, yea maintain and lupport one auo:f er, Igranr,firfi : Chrifs makes all hisSubjefs a free ; but 'ris with a freecotne from ipirirual bondage, not from civil fubjecìion. I grant, fecondly ; The Jufi are a Law to ìhetnfeíveyea (Thrift bath made them Kings. Vet lira, they need both Laws and Kings_ for them, that is, to deend and prorea them ; for fuppofe they do no evil!, yet they may quickly furfer evils, if they have nor prorediicsii from Laws and P.ioces. And therefore it bath ben Paid anciently and truly ; c2v agiflrates are madefor men, rot men for Magz/frates,Secondiy,thougu .he just- are iLaw to thernfetves, yet they have Rill furls in ttaetnfetves coo, which many crimes call for coercion from outward Laws ; even good men may be byafled and fway'd by evil aife6tions, and ¡urn'cc afide by felt-ends and Interefis, and therefore have need enough a Laws land Magi- firates to keep them right, yea ro punifia them vv: hen they do wrong. ris granted, Thirdly ; That Believers a:e 'under the fpecial Governance and proteaion of God by promife ; yet the good that is in fuchpromifes is conveyed to us in wayes of providence. And God hathprovided and fet up Magifiracy for the guard and fecurityof hispeople from annoyance, as alto for their comfort and encouragement (Iía.49. a, 3 ) Kings (halt be thy marling Fa- thers, and their Rateens thy nurfing Mothers. God made leveral of the Perfian Kings nurfing Fathers, and Shields of defence to his ancient people the Jews, at the time of their return from the Babylonilh Captivity, as we read in the Books of Ezra and Ne- henetah. And to were fame of the Romane Emperours, Confak- tine, Theodof ee, &c. To his people profefling Chrildanity within their Dominions. Fourthly, It muff not be denyed ( whence fome have argued that Chriflians need no Magifrates ) That Chriflians ought not torefill evil ( Math. 5.39. ) That they ought not toavenge them- felves (Rom. 1 a. 19. ) That they ought not to go to lax one with another, kit rather take wrong (a Cor. 6. 7.) But thoìtgh a Chri- s ï.an ought not to return evil for evil, but cake two blows ra- ther than give one, and endure a double injury rather than doe Ppp2 one, 475
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