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Excerpt from Mr. Hoadly's Measures of Submission to the Civil Magistrate: Enquired Into, and Disprov'd, Wherein Is Shewn That Mr. Hoadly Has by No Means Proved the Lawfulness of Forcibly Resisting the Supreme Magistrate in Any Case
Other hand, been fo often and fully expos'd, as one would have thought might have effeetu ally prevented any Man of Confci'ence and Underfianding, from ever teaching the fame Doctrines more. For thanks be to God, as thefe Republican Demagogues have in their feveral times endeavoured to Corrupt the Truth, and laythe' Founda tion, and fpread the Seeds of Treafon and Rebellion; fo have there nor been Wanting Others of Ready loyal Principles, who have had both Will and Ability to Extirpate the Mifchievous and Defirue'tive Seeds (own them, and to put People in mind, both the indifpenfable Obligation they are under, to bejctojec'zf to Principalitt'es and Porters, and to obey Magt'?rciter, and Withal of the great Eh couragement theyhave to depend upongod's Good Providence for Safety and Defence at Inch times of Fear and Danger, wherein Mr. H. And hisfraternity would perfuade them, rather to trul'r an'arm of Refly than in the Living God to take their protee'tion out of God's Hands into their own, and rely upon an Unchrifiian Self-defence, than Pati ently take up their Grofs, and follow their Lord, through all the Trials and Sufferings he may at any time, in his infinite Wifdom, fee fit to exercife them' 'with.
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