"Unlimited Non-resistance can no more be inferr'd from this Scheme, than from that, espoused and established by the Excellent and Judicious Mr. Hooker, which founds the Authority of Governours upon the Voluntary Compact of Men."
— Richard Hooker

January 1, 1970

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Benjamin Hoadly, 'Preface', The Measures of Submission to the Civil Magistrate Consider'd, in a Defense of the Doctrine Deliver'd in A Sermon Preach'd before the Rt. Hon. the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of London, Sept. 29. 1705. (1718), pp. xl-xli