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Jeremiah Wise
Jeremiah Wise was a seventeenth-century English theologian and political theorist whose work Rulers the Ministers of God for the Good of Their People articulated a Reformed Protestant understanding of civil authority grounded in divine providence and the common good. Writing during a period of significant religious and political upheaval in England, Wise contributed to contemporary debates about the proper relationship between ecclesiastical and secular power, emphasizing the magistrate's accountability to God for the welfare of the commonwealth. His theological framework synthesized Calvinist political thought with emerging concepts of civic responsibility, influencing broader discussions of governance and religious liberty in early modern Protestant England.
From Rulers the Ministers of God for the Good of Their People
Being the Day for the Election of His Ma- | Rules the Good of their bel. SETS Preached before His EXCELLENCY | WILLIAM BURNET Esq, The Hondurable the Lieu. Governous, Bay in New-England, May 28. 1729. Jesty's COUNCIEE.” By Feremiaß Wise, M A * „ aber to a Church of Christ in Berwick. Luke 22: 25. — they that 8 Authority use on them, are called Renefattors, ON. the Council and Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts» Printed by T Fleet; Printer to the Honourable: House of Re- I presentatives. Sold by T. Hancock, at the d . | oe near che Nun Dock, ewes — CY OTE Wer. IIS "oF _ act} Advertisement. HE Reader is desir d to take No- | tice, that several Paragraphs were omitted in Preaching, FOR The Good of their People. ROM. XIII 4. For He is the Minister of GOD to thee…
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