Jonathan Smedley
Published: 2016-06-30
Total Pages: 38
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Excerpt from The Doctrine of Passive Obedience, and Non-Resistance Stated: And Its Consistence With Theology, Reason, Justice, the Revolution, Our Laws and Policy, Impartially Consider'd Hard, very hard would be the Cafe of Princes, were it fo.' Is Liberty and Property fo dear to Suhjefis 5 and is the Life of a Prince ofno Value? Muff he be the only Slave in a King dom! Shall even a common Malefa or' be allow'd to appeal from his Accufers, and he alone be forc'd to be judg'd by them! Ls it reckon'd fuch a Grievance to be fnbjeei to the Arbitrary Will, and the Defpofic Power of a Prince; and would it not be the fame for: a Prince to be fnbjeel to his People! Why are we fo partial? Why muf't rot the Prince's Welfare be confulred, as well as the People's? 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."