A brief examination and consideration of the unsound princples upon which the armies plea (lately committed to publick view) is grounded wherein the repentance of those army-men and the conversion of all other persons from the error of their ways who have (in what capacity so-ever) acted by the said principles is most earnestly desired and specially aimed at / by a friend to the truth.
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- A brief examination and consideration of the unsound princples upon which the armies plea (lately committed to publick view) is grounded wherein the repentance of those army-men and the conversion of all other persons from the error of their ways who have (in what capacity so-ever) acted by the said principles is most earnestly desired and specially aimed at / by a friend to the truth.
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- Friend to the truth.
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- London :: Printed for Humphery Tuckey,
- 1660.
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- Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685.
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"A brief examination and consideration of the unsound princples upon which the armies plea (lately committed to publick view) is grounded wherein the repentance of those army-men and the conversion of all other persons from the error of their ways who have (in what capacity so-ever) acted by the said principles is most earnestly desired and specially aimed at / by a friend to the truth." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A29451.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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Power is absolute and uncontroulable two wayes; first, by being so in it self intrinsecally; secondly, by being so in relation to men; that is, though it be controulable by God the immediate Author of it, yet by men it is not. This uncontroulable authority in relation to men, must be found, and is; in all supreme Magistracie: For if supreme or chief Magistracie be controulable in them that justly possesse it by any other men, (of what quality, or in what capacity soever they be,) those Controulers themselves either have uncontroulable power, or they have not: If they have not, then may they also be controuled by o∣thers, and those again by others, and so onward, to an end∣lesse and indeterminable confusion; If they have, then there is some uncontroulable power beneath that which is in God: And if so, then certainly it can only be where God, from whom all power is, hath plac'd it; that is, where it hath ever visibly resided, and practically appeared, by divine permission, approbation, and special Ordination, time out of minde. If it hath so resided and appeared time out of minde in those that think they may controul it in the Supreme Magistrate, then let them for ever have it: But if on the contrary, it hath been publickly and experi∣mentally known to have resided ever in the Supreme Ma∣gistrate (whose Supremacie hath been recognized even by National Oaths,) it is only His Right, maugre all that can (with sense) be said to the contrary.
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* 1.1
The eighth.