Magistrates: should Subjection to Their Authority Enjoined

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Matthew 23:2,3
Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
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Romans 13:1
Let every soul be subject to the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
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1 Peter 2:13,14
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
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The Counsel of Gamaliel.
... people, that their priests and magistrates were guilty ... from an ignominious and cruel
subjection to strangers ... all people, nations, and languages, should serve him ...
/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture vii the counsel of.htm

Of the Jurisdiction of the Church, and the Abuses of It, as ...
... For when emperors and magistrates began to assume the ... but also to bring the emperors
into subjection to them. ... say that a question of faith should be discussed ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 11 of the jurisdiction.htm

Covenanting a Duty.
... Judges, and magistrates, and kings, having power in civil society ... Their punishment
was, that they should stand in a state of great subjection; through the ...
/.../cunningham/the ordinance of covenanting/chapter iii covenanting a duty.htm

Of Civil Government.
... testify that they do not feign subjection, but are ... edicts, although those invested
with it should be most ... For when popular magistrates have been appointed to ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 20 of civil government.htm

Chapter i
... of this obedience with civil subjection, were distinctions ... populace, the rashness
of some magistrates and negligence ... its first success, I should conclude, from ...
//christianbookshelf.org/paley/evidences of christianity/chapter i.htm

The Abrogation of the Saybrook Platform
... Her magistrates issued the dignified and spirited address ... number of Roman Catholicks,
who should tell you ... Scotland is distinctly released from subjection to the ...
/.../chapter xi the abrogation of.htm

The Image of the Beast.
... punished; and enjoined the princes and magistrates to execute ... beast, would be an
acknowledgment of subjection to it. ... 7. Those who should refuse the mark of the ...
/.../bliss/a brief commentary on the apocalypse/the image of the beast.htm

Seances Historiques De Geneve --The National Church.
... re-constituting governors, laws, and magistrates, educators, and ... belongs to the English
citizen should be conceded to ... What that subjection amounts to, must be ...
/.../seances historiques de genevethe national.htm

St. Gregory the Great.
... us seem to us kinder than the magistrates of the ... descent of the Lombards, in the
subjection of the ... Anger in punishing even delinquents should not anticipate ...
/.../allies/the formation of christendom volume vi/chapter v st gregory the.htm

Justinian.
... Rome refused his assent his signature should be returned ... the bishops, accustomed
to slavish subjection to their patriarchs, followed their example, and ...
/.../allies/the formation of christendom volume vi/chapter iv justinian.htm

Subtopics

Magistrates

Magistrates are Appointed by God

Magistrates are Ministers of God

Magistrates are not a Terror to the Good, But to the Evil

Magistrates: Good: Daniel

Magistrates: Good: Gideon

Magistrates: Good: Job

Magistrates: Good: Joseph

Magistrates: Good: Nehemiah

Magistrates: Good: Samuel

Magistrates: Purpose of Their Appointment