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Chap 10 Concerning Governors, and Governments, and Subjection to this testimony I give to the world.

Governors, Rulers, and Magistrates we own, and do respect in the Lord; (and yet cannot respect any mans person whatsoever) such as be a terror to all evil in their government, and that fears God and hates covetousness, and delights in equity, in justice, and true judgement, and gives diligent heed to try the cause of the poor, and will judge justly without respect of men, who justifies the good and gives praise to the well-doer, such Government and Governors we reverence, where sin and iniquity is kept under, drunkenness, swearing, Murder, quarrelling, and all the ways and works of the flesh are terrified, and a welldoer praised and justified, this Government of men, reaches to the witness of God in every man, and that answers to the justice and righteousness of all such Governors and Government, and these witnesses that they are of God, but the witness of God in every man, bears witness against all unjust men, and Laws, and Rulers, and Governments, which strengthened the hands of the wicked, and oppresses the just, where the making and execution of Laws are in the power of proud men, and covetous men, who fears not God, neither hates covetousness, neither doth respect the cause of the poor but rules by their wills and tyranny, and not by just Laws in righteousness; but makes unrighteous decrees to oppresses the poor and innocent, letting the wicked go free, such who upholds unrighteous worships, and teachers by oppression, and cause the innocent to suffer, and makes them offenders, because the exercise of a pure