| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia - 1912 - 492 стор.
...stations — " God's ministers attending continually upon this very thing." Attending upon what thing? " The punishment of evildoers and the praise of them that do well." Ah ! now we know why we pay taxes. It is that we may have public officials who are " God's ministers"... | |
| Thomas Smyth - 1912 - 830 стор.
...Christianity further defines and limits the true ends of civil government — its scope and design. "The punishment of evildoers and the praise of them that do well" — these are the ends and purposes of civil government as "the ordinance of God." "The minister of... | |
| 1914 - 196 стор.
...are learning that human government is of divine origin, and that 'the powers that be' are ordained of God for the punishment of evil-doers and the praise of them that do well. Official position was not intended by God to be a 'football for politicians to kick around, but a vehicle... | |
| Thomas Hill Green - 1986 - 400 стор.
...tending to the general welfare of mankind. If we are told that civil rewards and penalties exist not for the punishment of evil-doers and the praise of them that do well, but only for the preservation of society, we may ask what right society has to preserve itself by such... | |
| P. Sangren - 1987 - 288 стор.
...eater of the bread of authority, to render judgments on the acts of the past without fear or favour, "for the punishment of evil-doers, and the praise of them that do well." Government in China could and did bestow titles and honours on the dead as well as the living, . .... | |
| Buddy Hanson - 2004 - 332 стор.
...submitting to civil laws and Biblical laws: If we should submit ourselves to "every ordinance of man for the punishment of evil-doers, and the praise of them that do well, "should we not much more submit ourselves to every ordinance, every institution, every appointment... | |
| William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1855 - 584 стор.
...maintain order and decorum in the republic of letters ; or, at the most, they are its magistrates, set " for the punishment of evildoers, and the praise of them that do well." It is not necessary for them to discuss the merits of the laws which they administer ; it ia still... | |
| Jeremy Taylor - 2007 - 549 стор.
...sake : whether it be to the king, as supreme ; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and the praise of them. that do well."3 For spiritual or ecclesiastical governors, thus we are commanded : " Obey them that have the... | |
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