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Excerpt from A Continuation of the History of Passive Obedience Since the Reformation Jconcladetwith that Paflkge of Mr. Philpot't Letter; that every good Man A? C0 ought, not to' hide his Faith, but to editie the Church of God by a true Md/6,9 confeflion: for as' St: Paul writeth to the Romans, the belief of the-heart miles, jtifiifiethf to acknowledge with theniouth maketh a Man fate; (foqhe p rendreth the Paflege) andhe that walketh uprightly, walketh f'afely Ear while thexlittle policies of crafty Man, 'wi, ll at ia/i. Expofe and ruin thein. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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"This work explores the patriot clergymen's arguments for the legitimacy of political resistance to the British in the early stages of the American Revolution. It reconstructs the historical and theological background of the colonial clergymen, showing the continued impact that Stuart absolutism and Reformed resistance theory had on their political theology. As a corrective to previous scholarship, this work argues that the American clergymen's rationale for political resistance in the eighteenth century developed in general continuity with a broad strand of Protestant thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The arguments of Jonathan Mayhew and John Witherspoon are highlighted, along with a wide range of Whig clergyman on both sides of the Atlantic. The agreement that many British clergymen had with their colonial counterparts challenges the view that the American Revolution emerged from distinctly American modes of thought"--
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.