Second London Baptist Confession of Faith · Chapter 24
Of the Civil Magistrate
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3. Civil Magistrates being set up by God, for the ends aforesaid, subjection in all lawful things commanded by them, ought to be yielded by us in the Lord, not only for Wrath, but for Conscience-sake; and we ought to make Supplications and Prayers for Kings, and all that are in Authority,a that under them we may live a quiet and peaceable Life, in all godliness and honesty.b
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Related texts
- Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (modernized, 1689) 24.3
- Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (first printing, 1677) 24.3
- Philadelphia Confession of Faith (1742) 25.3
- Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) 23.4
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