The History of England, From the Accession of James the Second 5
The History of England, From the Accession of James the Second 5
Macaulay Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron
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He could exercise none of the powers and perform none of the duties of a ruler, and could, as it seemed, be restored only by means as violent as those by which he had been displaced. To which of these two princes did Christian men owe allegiance ? To a large part of the clergy it appeared that the AiTirumentB plain letter of Scripture required them to sub- for taking '^ ., ^ ^, o • ^. th« oftthi. rait to the sovereign who was in possession, without troubling themselves about his title. The powe...rs which the Apostle, in the text most familiar to the Anglican divines of that age, pronounces to be or- dained of God, are not the powers that can be traced back to a legitimate origin, but the powers that be. When Jesus was asked whether the chosen people might lawfully give tribute to Caesar, he replied by ask- ing the questioners, not whether Caesar could make out a pedigree derived from the old royal house of Judah, but whether the coin which they scrupled tg pay into Caesar's treasury came from Caesar's mint, in other words, whether Caesar actually possessed the au- thority and performed the functions of a ruler.
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