Samuel Rutherford - When the supreme magistrate will not execute th

When the supreme magistrate will not execute the judgment of the Lord, those who made him supreme magistrate, under God, who have under God, sovereighn liberty to dispose of crowns and kingdoms, are to execute the judgment of the Lord, when wicked men make the law of God of none effect.

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Rutherford, Samuel. Lex, Rex, or The Law and the Prince. John Field, 1644, p. 173.

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