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• I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey,…
• Extremes are dangerous.
• To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant,…
• Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their…
• But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
• People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found…
• They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just,…
• The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are…

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