 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake : whether it be to the king, as supreme ; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.  Institutes of the Christian Religion - Page 542by Jean Calvin, John Allen - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Edward Maltby (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 422 pages
...sake ; whether it be to the king as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him, for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well." At the same time, and with a similar reference to the design of the Gospel, the circumstances... | |
 | British preacher - 1831 - 756 pages
...sake : whether it be to the king, as supreme ; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish... | |
 | 1832 - 220 pages
...magistrate, the King is God's first temporal minister, who is to bear the sword of justice and judgment, " for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well." The Christian then, livinglike a Christian, has no just cause to fear a wound. We are commanded... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 498 pages
...Lord's sake ; whether it be to the king as supreme, or unto governors as unto them that are sent by him, for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well." Here it is sufficient to remark, all that can be inferred from this passage is, that Christians... | |
 | John Watkins - 1832 - 800 pages
...sake, whether it be 4u to the king as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by Him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well." The discourse of the learned prelate was impressively eloquent, and free from any political... | |
 | Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade, Thomas S. B. Reade - 1832 - 436 pages
...sake; whether it be to the king as supreme, or unto the governors as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well. For so is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish... | |
 | 1832 - 528 pages
...came under my own observation, I could not feel and teach that Government answered its end of being " for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well," while its enactments produced, on the contrary, rather a terror to the good than to the evil.... | |
 | Lucas E. Morel - 2000 - 272 pages
...Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well." Lincoln's "political religion," ironically enough, has little if anything to do with religion... | |
 | Marsilius (of Padua) - 2001 - 564 pages
...immediately after, when he said: "Whether it be to the king as supreme, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well; for so is the will of God." 40 I have not quoted the glosses of the saints on this passage,... | |
 | Meredith Baldwin Weddle - 2001 - 365 pages
...we were never guilty; but in the uprightness of our hearts we may, under the power ordained of God for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of them that do well, live a peaceable and godly life in all godliness and honesty. For although we have always... | |
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