Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Magistrates, that should punish murderers, if they spare them, their lives are in danger to go for the offenders: as Achabs did for Benadads; Dauid also was exceedingly punished for sparing blood-thirsty men (such as was his son Absolon) and not punishing them.
Thomas Cartwright, A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole body and substance of divinity (2nd edn, London: Thomas Man, 1616), p. 139.
Thomas Cartwright, A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole body and substance of divinity (2nd edn, London: Thomas Man, 1616), p. 139.