ABSTRACT
In most dangerous diseases, where the fever runs high, the skilful physician tries to abate it. “The apostolical commands on this subject deserve the more implicit obedience, because they are incomparably more easy to us than they were to the primitive Christians. To get a little nearer our own times, King James the Second, who is called, by Echard, James the Just , because, says Echard, he strictly observed his faith,—this James the Second, or James the Just, abjured the Protestant Religion, and never read the Scriptures, says Burnet, but to make a jest of them. “They are not at all authorities appointed of God, according to the apostle, if they are a terror to good works, and a praise to evil; for the authorities appointed by God are appointed for this end. The upholders of passive obedience and non-resistance to arbitrary and illegal power, have in all times brought ruin on themselves, by their slavishness.
