05-16-2008, 03:11 PM
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The pope as the antichrist is a popular one that people recognize as being removed...but...a less common one is this:
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Chapter 20 - IV. And because the powers which God hath ordained, and the liberty which Christ hath purchased, are not intended by God to destroy, but mutually to uphold and preserve one another; they who, upon pretence of Christian liberty, shall oppose any lawful power, or the lawful exercise of it, whether it be civil or ecclesiastical, resist the ordinance of God. And, for their publishing of such opinions, or maintaining of such practices, as are contrary to the light of nature, or to the known principles of Christianity, whether concerning faith, worship, or conversation; or, to the power of godliness; or, such erroneous opinions or practices, as either in their own nature, or in the manner of publishing or maintaining them, are destructive to the external peace and order which Christ hath established in the Church, they may lawfully be called to account, and proceeded against by the censures of the Church, and by the power of the civil magistrate.
| Good point. If I remember correctly, the issue of the civil magistrate was something that the Church of Scotland was not too thrilled with when the Standards were first ratified and allowed an exception for. Therefore it was changed in the American version to reflect this standard exception. |