The Christian Martyrs: Or, The Conditions of Obedience to the Civil Government |
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Page 28 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive, all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Page 5 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Page 49 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant •which is escaped from his master unto thee : he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which 15 he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 49 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 49 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 25 - But in the obedience which we have shown to be due to the authority of governors, it is always necessary to make one exception, and that is entitled to our first attention, — that it do not seduce us from obedience to him, to whose will the desires of all kings ought to be subject, to whose decrees all their commands ought to yield, to whose majesty all their sceptres ought to submit. And, indeed, how preposterous it would be for us...
Page 22 - The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
Page 16 - Wherefore I praise thee for all thy mercies ; I bless thee; I glorify thee, with the eternal and heavenly Jesus Christ, thy beloved Son, to whom, with thee and the Holy Spirit, be glory now and for ever.
Page 5 - Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said ; We ought to obey God rather than men.
Page 5 - Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves : be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But beware of men : for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues...