Feb 15, 2022
“It is evident from Romans 13 that all subjection and obedience to higher powers commanded there is subjection to the power and office of the magistrate in abstracto, or (which is all one) to the person using the power lawfully, and that no subjection is due by that text, or any Word of God, to the abused and Tyrannical power of the King ... Because the Text saith, ‘Let every soul be subject to the higher powers.’ But no powers commanding things unlawful, and killing the innocent people of God, can be... ‘higher powers,’ but in that lower powers.”
-Samuel Rutherford, Lex, Rex: The Law and the Prince
