Magistrates: should Enforce the Laws

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Ezra 7:26
And whoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily on him, whether it be to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
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The Persecutions of the Church.
... law of Trajan which required that they should not be ... commenced forthwith a persecution;
and there were magistrates who proceeded to enforce the laws ...
/.../killen/the ancient church/chapter ii the persecutions of.htm

Human Government.
... them, whenever the needful occasion should call for ... it as absolutely the duty of
magistrates to punish ... to legislate arbitrarily, or enact, or enforce any other ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xx human government.htm

Non-Resistants.
... to our Savior's cross; that Christians should not punish ... evil for evil, or to enforce
even his ... right to others, called legislators, magistrates, judges, sheriffs ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hayward/the book of religions/non-resistants.htm

The Evolution of Early Congregationalism the Stone which the ...
... of Parliament which were passed to enforce conformity and ... years after Wyckliff, in
1582, laws were still ... did not believe that the magistrates should have power ...
/.../chapter i the evolution of.htm

Capital Punishment
... Man has the right to enforce laws, to see right done ... will, as to what men should
or should not do. ... and say not (remember always) of Christian magistrates in a ...
/.../kingsley/all saints day and other sermons/sermon vi capital punishment.htm

"Thou Shalt Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother. "
... wise and not at all times undertake to enforce his own ... benefit and teach more than
the laws and statutes ... it is not fitting that the magistrates should be idle ...
/.../luther/a treatise on good works/thou shalt honor thy father.htm

Political Parties in Connecticut at the Beginning of the ...
... that nominations for the magistrates should be made ... Presbyterians which made them
enforce ecclesiastical taxes ... alarm lest the Republicans should undermine all ...
/.../chapter xiv political parties in.htm

Church and State in New England
... were expected to meet with the magistrates to consult ... over the colonists, and also
to enforce upon the ... expressly enacted that church censure should not debar ...
/.../chapter iii church and state.htm

Home-Government.
... Parents are magistrates under God, and, as His stewards ... Its exercise should not run
into despotism on the ... laws and giving commands; but never enforce them; they ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter xviii home-government.htm

Of the Power of Making Laws. The Cruelty of the Pope and his ...
... that human laws, whether enacted by magistrates or by ... over churches not yet well
constituted, should intimate to ... grounds of offence, than to enforce the divine ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 10 of the power.htm