Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
God Himself commands us to obey the magistrate. Therefore He also grants him the authority to pass laws which are not contrary to the moral Law or right reason but are appendices to the moral Law, congruent with virtue, adapted for the safety and preservation of the state.
Johann Gerhard, Theological Commonplaces: On the Law of God, on the Ceremonial and Forensic Laws, trans. Richard J. Dinda, ed. Benjamin T. G. Mayes and Joshua J. Hayes (1613; St Louis MO: Concordia Publishing House, 2015), XVI.3.4. § 41.
