The Christian Magistrate: A Discourse, With an Appendix (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The text and context 'make it undeniably'evident, that-hypower here, is understood, not a natural, but a moral power, consisting, not only in ability, but in a right to command. Which power is said to be ordained of God, as importing, riot merely the proceeding of the thing from God providentially, but such a being from God, as carrieth m it his instituting or appointing thereof, by the warrant of his word, law, or precept. So that that power, which is to be owned as of God, includeth these two particulars, without which no authority can be acknowledged as God's ordinance, viz. Institution and constitution, so as to possess him, who is God's minister, with a moral power. - Act and Testimony qf t/ze Refmvnal Presbyterian Church-p. 98-belfast edit, 1832.

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