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o
dd
the
1Veder
xix
by
;
that
aEtion
is not
his, but
his
foverei
rn's
;
nor
is
it
he,
that
in
this
cafe deníeth
Chr
/,
but
his
fovereign
and
the
law
of
his
country.
And,
p.
309.
The
civil fovereign
may
make
laws
fuitable
to
his
doc`Irine
(for
he
will have
him
to
be the
only fovereign
teacher
of
the
people, that
are
under
him
jure
divino
;
which
quite
nulls
the
divine
right
of
all
the
minifters
of
the Gofpel)
which may
oblige
men
to
fuch
actions,
as
they
would not otherwife
do,
and
which
he
ought
not
to
command
;
and
when
they
are
com-
manded,
they
are
laws,
and
the
external
anions
that
are
done
in
obedience
to
them,
without
the
inward
approbation,
are
the
actions
of
the fovereign,
and
not
of
the
fubjet,
who,
in
that
cafe, is
but the
inflrument,
without
any
motion
of
his
own
at
all,
becaufe God
hath
commanded
to
obey
them.
Alas,
the
poor
fubje
&,
is
here by
him, not only
robbed
of
his
judgment
of
privare difcretion
and confcience,
as
to
his
own
ads,
which
is
hard
enough
;
but, in
a
manner,
ofa
human
rational
foul,
if
not alto
of
a
fentitive
one
;
and
fo
degraded
and
detruded
below
the very
beajls
that
pe-
ril!)
:
For
he
makes
him
a
mere
innflrument
without any
?notion
at
all
;
only he fomewhat
recovers him from
his
brutal,
yea,
infra
-
brutal
{tare,
by
making
him
capable
to
obey commands,
tho'
againfl his confcience.
The
o-
ther
Hobbifb
DoEtor, who
will
not
be
outflript
by his
snafler,
according
to
his
manner, di&ateth very magifle-
rially, That,
if
there
be
any
fin
in
the
command
of
the fove-
reign power,
he
that
impofed
it
¡ball anfwer
it, and
not
Ì,
whole whole
duty is
to
obey
;
the
command
of
authority
will
warrant
my
obedience, my
obedience
will
hallow,
at
leafs,
excufe my
anion,
and
fo
fecure
me
from
fin,
if
not
from
er-
ror.
Very
eafy,
loft
and
fmooth
dodrìne
indeed, for
private perlons
and fubje
&s,
if
its
teachers could affure
us
of
its
certain
and
infallible
truth,
and
of
its
confo--
nancy and agreeablenefs
with
the
fcriptures
of
truth
;
but
fubje&s muff nor
call
their
fouls
at
hap-
hazard,
on
the
bare and unproved
afferts
of
thefe
gentlemen, who
give
us
no
great
proof
of
either their
truth
or
tendernen
in other great
concerns
of
religion
;
efpecially
fince
the
divinely infpired apoille teacheth
us
quite other
do&rine,-
while
he
tells
us,
more
generally,
z
Cor.
5.1
o.
That
we
muß all
appear
(or
be
made manifelî)
before
the
judgment