magistracy

• “First, "Thou shalt be so;" the reforming of the magistracy is a good step towards the reforming of the city and the country too.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

• “There are other things from God that are the greatest calamities; but magistracy is from God as an ordinance, that is, it is a great law, and it is a great blessing: so that the children of Belial, that will not endure the yoke of government, will be found breaking a law and despising a blessing.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)

• “The DPP is expected to enjoy a sure-win in the legislative by-election in the Chiayi County, southern Taiwan, because the party has fielded a heavyweight candidate Chen Ming-wen, who just completed his second-term magistracy, into the poll.”

  China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper

• “It cannot be required as essential thereunto; for then it would be the same thing with magistracy, which is grossly absurd, and big with absurdities.”

  Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive

• “Those whose ancestors or themselves had borne any curule magistracy, that is, had been Consul, Prætor, Censor or Curule Edile, were called nobiles, and had the right of making images of themselves, which were kept with great care by their posterity, and carried before them at funerals.”

  Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)

• “Thus the election to the magistracy was a triple process; first, the election of the nominators, then the election of the candidates, and finally the election to the office.”

  The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886

• “Formerly the magistracy was a recognised and autonomous branch of the public service, and as a result, save as it was affected by revolution and in normal times by the fear of revolution, enjoyed an absolute independence.”

  The Cult of Incompetence

• “_ A term applied to such as could not boast of any ancestor that had held any curule magistracy, that is, had been consul, praetor, censor, or chief aedile.”

  Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War

• “Secondly, Their doctrine tendeth to the altering of the surest and best known tenure of magistracy, which is from God; for they hold that God hath put all government, and all authority civil, and all, into the hands of Christ as Mediator; if the tenure from Christ fail, then, by their doctrine, the tenure from God shall fail too.”

  The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)

• “But the point in hand is, that the covenant doth undeniably suppose, and clearly hold forth a government in the church distinct from magistracy, which is proved by these arguments (which, as they are not yet answered, so I will briefly apply them to the proof of that point which now Mr Coleman sticks at): 1.”

  The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)

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