Narnian Lessons for Idaho, August 21st, 2024. Introduction. I've been urging American Christians for some time now to get reacquainted with

Protestant resistance theory. This is not because I think everyone needs an odd hobby, although

I do, but rather because this is the theology as practical as a fistful of 16 penny nails

and these are nails that we are going to need very much.

We are also going to need them very shortly, not just very much.

A good introduction to Protestant resistance

theory by Glen Sunshine can be found here. Vindicki Contra Torranos is a bracing treatment of the topic

from a 16th century Huguenot.

And Lex Rex gives us the Scottish version from the great Samuel Rutherford.

There's also book four of Calvin's Institutes.

So to paraphrase why I'm urging this, you may not be interested in Protestant resistance theory,

but the despotic counterpart to Protestant resistance theory is interested in you.

What I would like to do in our time today is draw out one particular doctrine from Rutherford's Lex Rex because I believe it will play an essential role in any resistance to the coming power plays.

By the coming power place, I mean the coming power plays. And by essential role, I mean the coming Powerplace.

And by a central role, I mean a response that simultaneously does not take the bait, as you

recall I've urged before, and at the same time mounts an effective resistance.

Not taking the bait does not mean that we do not

resist. It means that we should not resist like idiots. And in order to avoid

any more moronic lunges at the man, here's looking at you J6, one of the things we really need to study is the doctrine of the lesser

magistrates, lesser magistrates or inferior judges. Rutherford poses the following question in his book,

whether or no inferior judges be univically and essentially

judges and the immediate vicars of God, no less than the King, or if they be only the deputies

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