Edwin Sandys on service to God and country

[Reformed Covenanter]

Leave you all private affections likewise; cast them behind you, seek not your own commodity. Let it appear that you love your Country. God, the Prince, and the common wealth require a faithful performance of this service at your hands. Seek by Law the sincere setting forth, the maintenance and continuance of God’s true religion. Let this be your first and principal care: and so shall ye serve the Lord in truth.

Edwin Sandys, Sermons made by the most reverend Father in God, Edwin, Archbishop of York, primate of England and metropolitan (London: Henry Midleton, 1585), p. 39.

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

On a similar theme:

One God, one king, one faith, one profession is fit for one monarchy, & common wealth. Division weakneth; Concord strengtheneth.

Edwin Sandys, Sermons made by the most reverend Father in God, Edwin, Archbishop of York, primate of England and metropolitan (London: Henry Midleton, 1585), p. 39.

 

[Ed Walsh]

These two quotes illustrate the exact opposite of what we have for the most part in American government these days.

 

[TheBruisedReed]

These two quotes illustrate the exact opposite of what we have for the most part in American government these days.

It's a mess out there.