A Treatise on Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes; shewing that it is not lawfull for any power on earth to compell in matter of religion.
The natural power of individual persons over themselves, is tota specie different from this political or civil power.
And it is not the individual's resignation of this natural power of self-disposal, unto one or more, which is the efficient cause of sovereignty or civil power.
Civil power, properly organized and exerted, is capable of diffusing its force to a very great extent; and can, in a manner, reproduce itself in every part of a great empire by a judicious arrangement of subordinate institutions.
It at all times betrayed an ignorance of the true springs by which human conduct is actuated, and belied the original inducements to the establishment of civil power.
They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of civil power, and the confidence of the people, they can at once adopt a regular plan of opposition, in which they can combine all the resources of the community.
The tribes broke up into smaller communities, administering their own affairs under the law they had sworn to observe, but which there was no civil power to enforce.
What constant care is taken in this country to remind the military that they are under the restraint of civil power!
I shall be told that the Church in this case would have had an excessive authority over all that relates to charity, and would have unjustly usurped the civil power.
The general assembly of the church met at the same time with the convention; and exercising an authority almost absolute over the whole civil power, made every political consideration yield to their theological zeal and prejudices.
All orders of men were inflamed with indignation at seeing the military prevail over the civil power, and king and parliament at once reduced to subjection by a mercenary army.
Newcomb entered for his copy (under the hand of Mr. Pulleyn, warden) a book called A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes by John Milton.
Nothing is clearer than the fact that wild beasts stand as a symbol of persecuting tyrannical governments; hence we are to understand that this rider was to employ also the arm of civil power to aid him in the deadly work.
Under the present seal, however, is represented a later stage of their corruption, when a great hierarchal system, sustained and upheld by the arm of civil power, was able to bear tyrannical rule over a great portion of the earth.
So, say I, an action may proceed from a civil power either elicitive or imperative.
And what mean our writers when they say,(977) that kings have no spiritual but only a civil power in the church?
Justice should be done, by a civil power--agreeable to God's preceptive will.
Cancel the words: but the sum total of civil poweris a constant quantity, the same for all States.
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