The whole body of Christian religion, by Hieron. Zanchius. Translated out of Latine by D. Ralph Winterton.

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Title: The whole body of Christian religion, by Hieron. Zanchius. Translated out of Latine by D. Ralph Winterton.
Author: Zanchi, Giralamo, 1516-1590.
Publication: London, :: Printed by John Redmayne,; 1659.
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Subject terms: Christian life -- Early works to 1800.; Christianity -- Early works to 1800.
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DOCT. XXI. That we do not deny the civill authority of such Bishops as are also Princes.

NEverthelesse we do not gain-say, but that Bishops who are also Princes beside their Ecclesiasticall authority, have their politicall rights and secular powers, (aswell as other Princes have authority in ruling over temporalls) the power of the sword, some a right of electing and con∣firming Kings and Emperours, and of constituting and administring o∣ther civil affaires, to compell the people that are their subjects to per∣forme their obedience to them: And therefore we confesse that their poli∣ticall commands which can be ob∣served without transgressing the di∣vine law are to be obeyed by their subjects not onely out of fear, but for conscience sake. For we knowa 1.1 that all power is from God, and who∣soever

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resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God; also thata 1.2 Kings are to be honoured, and that we ought to be subject to Princes and Lords with all fear, not onely to the good and gentle, but also to the froward and perverse.

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a 1.1

Rom. 15.1, 2.

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a 1.2

1 Pet. 2 17, 18.

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