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Common Quotes by Jonathan Mayhew
- The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility
- They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in the…
- Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
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