Magistrates: should Know the Law of God

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Ezra 7:25
And you, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God, that is in your hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of your God; and teach you them that know them not.
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'A Mirror for Magistrates'
... We do not know whether the great secession had ... which he gives to these peasant
magistrates bears on ... divisions, ecclesiastical and civil, as we should say, the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/a mirror for magistrates.htm

Human Government.
... times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the ... not unto men, and render obedience
to magistrates for the ... 3. It is said that Christians should leave human ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xx human government.htm

Law and Grace.
... law, if a man became a drunkard the magistrates would take ... the law, shut up unto
the faith which should afterwards be ... Perhaps some of you do not know what a ...
//christianbookshelf.org/moody/sovereign grace/chapter v law and grace.htm

Whether the Judicial Precepts were Suitably Framed as to the ...
... Dt.16:18) that "judges and magistrates" should be appointed ... punishment, according
to true judgment, should be diminished ... precept, which all were bound to know. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the judicial precepts were 3.htm

A Further Thanksgiving to God for the Change in the Late ...
... In order to know that it is a good thing to exercise temperance, we need no ... For although
we should despise parents, yet while we fear magistrates, we shall ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/homily xiii a further thanksgiving.htm

Scriptures Showing the Sin and Danger of Joining with Wicked and ...
... and thou shalt stumble then, and not know whereupon, even ... the other, and so bring
them under a law. ... Ver.8. Magistrates should scatter away evil men with their ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/section v scriptures showing the.htm

Easter Tuesday
... and subjected to himself emperors and magistrates equally with ... possessors of the
prophets and the Law and the ... as a people who have, and should know, the Word ...
//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle sermons vol ii/easter tuesday 2.htm

St. Justin Martyr (Ad 166)
... old man, ordered that governors and magistrates should not give ... such outcries, and
that the Christians should no longer ... having a strong desire to know the truth ...
/.../chapter iii st justin martyr.htm

The Conversion of the Jailor of Philippi.
... How submissive have those insolent magistrates suddenly become! ... that he began to
inquire what lie should do to be ... We know with what indifference we listen to a ...
/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture xviii the conversion of.htm

None but Jesus
... When our City magistrates were giving relief to the poor, nobody said ... There is no
reason in you why he should have mercy ... You say, "He is black." I know he is as ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 7 1861/none but jesus.htm

Subtopics

Magistrates

Magistrates are Appointed by God

Magistrates are Ministers of God

Magistrates are not a Terror to the Good, But to the Evil

Magistrates: Good: Daniel

Magistrates: Good: Gideon

Magistrates: Good: Job

Magistrates: Good: Joseph

Magistrates: Good: Nehemiah

Magistrates: Good: Samuel

Magistrates: Purpose of Their Appointment