Tyranny being a work of Satan, is not from God, because sin, either habitual or actual, is not from God: the power that is, must be from God; the magistrate, as magistrate, is good in nature of office, and the intrinsic end of his office (Rom. xii. 4) for he is a minister of God for thy good; and, therefore, a power ethical, politic, or moral, to oppress, is not from God, and is not a power; and is no more from God, but from sinful nature and the old serpent, than a license to sin.7
