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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 341

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  2. es che supreme Jude and meare not roobey menrather than God
  3. Isehere any Christian m.N, sbat does nor actenomledse that me ar
  4. 1obe judecdby Christ, or that me ourl. + not to obey him rather thex
  5. any man, that Ball be his Lieurenant upon carth: The question
  6. therefore is, not of nhoistobe obered, but of What behis com
  7. mands. If thc Scripeure contain his commands, then may every
  8. Christian enom by them nhat theyare: and mhar has the Bistop
  9. to do nirh what iod say-to me When Treadthem more then Yhave
  10. r0 do ich wta Ccds scys ro him Whenhe rcads tbem. anlesse he have
  11. Authorier siven him by bim mhom Christ hath constitetedhis
  12. Lientenant? This Lieutena t upon carth L sar is the supreme ci-
  13. vil Macistrate, tomlom belone ihthe care and charee of sceine
  14. that no Doctrine muybe rio ehi the pcoplec bat such as may co.-
  15. sist with rhe senrut Peace of them all, and viththe obedience
  16. that is due to the civil Foveraign. In rhom Would the Bistop have
  17. the Authoriey reside os prohibitins sedicions opieions, nhen they are
  18. tanghe (as chey are often) in Diviniey Booles, and from the Pul
  19. pit? Lcoula haraly suesse, but that lremember that there have
  20. ibeen Bools Writtenta intitle the Bistors ro a Divine rixhe. unde-
  21. rived fromthe civil Sovernign. Bur because he malethit so hay-
  22. nons a matter, thatthe supreme civil Masistrate Bould be Christs
  23. Tientenant upon carth. let us suppose rhat a Bisop, or a Synode ot
  24. Bisops Bould beser p Crrhich T bope. never Ball) for our ervil
  25. Soveraien; thon thac hich he objecterh here; T contd ole, cet in
  26. thesame mords acainst himsels. For Lcould say in his onn moras
  27. This is lite ecerrial co know theonely erue God, and Telus
  28. Christ, Foh. 27. 3. Pure Relision andundetiled BetoreCod
  29. is this, eo visie che Facherle(s, dc. Fames 1. 27. Fear 60d. and
  30. hee his Commandmenis. Eccles. L2. 13. Batthe Bist op hach
  31. found a more compendicus may to Fleaven, namely. that crue Reli-
  32. cion consisteth in obedience ro C. hrist st.. Fientenants that is, (nom hy
  33. supposition) 10 the Distrops; Fhat is tofay, that everu Christian
  34. of mhat nation soever, comins inro the Coentry Which the l’istops
  35. coverne, Bouldbecf their P elision le vould mahe the civit
  36. Macistrere ro be Christs Lieucenant upon carth for mattrers of. Re-
  37. lirion and supreme Fudre in alt contro versies, and say chey onchtita
  38. beobercdby al horr strance socver and unconthit seem ro hin nor
  39. the Soveraisnitu beins in others. And Lmar say robim, erhat

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The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance, fol. 341. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1030877386:0341?run=74