Politica sacra & civilis, or, A model of civil and ecclesiastical government wherein, besides the positive doctrine concerning state and church in general, are debated the principal controversies of the times concerning the constitution of the state and Church of England, tending to righteousness, truth, and peace / by George Lawson ...

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Politica sacra & civilis, or, A model of civil and ecclesiastical government wherein, besides the positive doctrine concerning state and church in general, are debated the principal controversies of the times concerning the constitution of the state and Church of England, tending to righteousness, truth, and peace / by George Lawson ...
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Lawson, George, d. 1678.
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London :: Printed for J.S. :
1689.
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Church of England -- Government -- Controversial literature.
Church and state -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"Politica sacra & civilis, or, A model of civil and ecclesiastical government wherein, besides the positive doctrine concerning state and church in general, are debated the principal controversies of the times concerning the constitution of the state and Church of England, tending to righteousness, truth, and peace / by George Lawson ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A49800.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2025.

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In opus politicum viri claris∣simi Georgi Lawsonii, popularis mei.

QVis tandem augustas regnandi digerit artes, Et solidam sceptris commodat Author opem? Instituit magnas subtilis pagina Gentes, Dat populis pacem, principibus{que} fidem. Publica privatâ sudantur munia dextrâ, Quod multi curant, unius ecce labor. Tam benè regna locat, potuit regnâsse videri, Heu! major cathedrâ quàm fuit ille suâ! Stant secura brevi subnixa Palatia chartâ, Nec facilè amoto cardine, regna labant: Vendicat haec populis leges, vim legibus: armat Te Themi; quae debes plectere, sola potes. Nil metuas, ne{que} jam metuaris, Regule; demptum est Posse nocere aliis, velle nocere tibi. Haec succurrisset nascenti pagina Romae, Ne vacet Egeriam consuluisse Numae. Nôsset Sparta isthaec, duro formata Lycurgo, Secula mansisset, quot stetit illa dies: Nec tibi Parthenope, gemino quater amplius anno* 1.1 Mutâsset dominos plebs malefida suos. Nec sibi foedâsset fastos tam turpiter Anglus, Mille per incertas mobilis us{que} vices.

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Quam bene Lawsoni! magni dignissimus haeres Nominis, ille salo jura dat; ipse solo. Qui regnare doces & qui parere, libenter Imperium calami cedimus ecce tibi. Te tantum genuit vicus brevis, angulus orbis Langcliff, nascenti conscia terra mihi. Eborac invideant, vel Athenae; debeo plura Jam pro te patriae, pro patriâ{que} tibi.

J. Carr, M. D.

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