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In a word: as you bear the name of Gods, so let your conversation and courses, your carriage both general and special be Godlike, correspondent to this great and glorious title given you of God: that you may not be as he said sometime of the Heathen Philosophers and their writings, like Apothecaries pots, ^tthat have an inscription of some sovereign medicine without, when there is either nothing at all, or that which is worse then nothing, nothing but some rank poison within.

In a word: as you beare the name of Gods, so let your conversation and courses, your cariage both generall and speciall be Godlike, correspondent to this great and glorious title giuen you of God: that you may not be as hee said sometime of the Heathen Philosophers and their writings, like Apothecaries pots, ^tthat haue an inscription of some soueraigne medicine without, when there is either nothing at all, or that which is worse then nothing, nothing but some rancke poison within.

1. tQuorum tituli habent remedia, py•ides venena. Lact. instit. l. 3. c. 15.Qu•rū tituli habent remedia, py•ides venena. Lact. instit. l. 3. c. 15.

Hitherto we have showed what this stately and lofty stile of Gods given to Rulers by God himself requireth of them: let us now see what it exacteth of us that live under them. That which the Apostles tell us both Peter and Paul. If Magistrates be Gods, and their power and place be of God, then must ^uevery soul be subject to the higher power, ^x