| 1884 - 874 pages
...Hartford — which was wider than in Boston—he laid down, in one of his discourses, this principle, " that the choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people by God's allowance; that they who have the power to appoint officers and magistrates, it is in their powor also... | |
| Bible - 1862 - 934 pages
...organization of the government of the Connecticut Colony, deducing these three very republican doctrines : 1. The choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people by God's own allowance. 2. The privilege of election which belongs to the people must not be exercised according to their humors,... | |
| Theology - 1862 - 920 pages
...organization of the government of the Connecticut Colony, deducing these three very republican doctrines : 1. The choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people by God's own allowance. 2. The privilege of election which belongs to the people must not be exercised according to their humors,... | |
| Theology - 1862 - 926 pages
...organization of the government of the Connecticut Colony, deducing these three very republican doctrines : 1. The choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people by God's own allowance. 2. The privilege of election which belongs to the people must not be exercised according to their humors,... | |
| Bible - 1895 - 816 pages
...May 31, 1638, Mr. Hooker preached a sermon before the General Court, and he held: — "Doctrine. I. That the choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people by God's own allowance. 1 Hubbard's General History, p. 265. a Winthrop, ii. 428. 8 Conn. Hist. Soc. Coll., i. II, 12. * Johnston's... | |
| 1902 - 1058 pages
...smaller towns of the Bay Colony, Hooker was the leader in the first general exodus to Connecticut. " The foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people," was the doctrine he laid down in a sermon preached in anticipation of Connecticut's original Constitutional... | |
| John Waddington - Congregationalism - 1874 - 756 pages
...make rulers over you. Captains over thousands. Captains over hundreds, fifties, tens' "I. Doctrine. That the choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people by God's own allowance. " II. The privilege of election, which belongs to the people, therefore must not be exercised according... | |
| Joseph Parrish Thompson - United States - 1877 - 362 pages
...preached a sermon on the foundations of civil government, in which he laid down these positions : — " I. That the choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people by God's own allowance. " II. The privilege of election, which belongs to the people, therefore, must not be exercised according... | |
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