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Phil. What is this? What do I hear? May not a christen man execute that office, whereby virtue is maintained & vice exiled? Is he not more fit to be a ruler that believeth in the true God, ⟨image 61⟩feareth him, seeketh his glory, embraceth virtue, hateth vice, loveth his neighbour, tendereth the common wealth, & seeketh in all points to be a father among his subjects, than such one as believeth in Idols, feareth them, seeketh their glory, despiseth the alone true God, hate the virtue, embraceth vice, oppresseth his neighbour, teareth the common wealth in pieces, & showeth himself in all things a cruel Tyrant among his subjects? What furious Erinnys hath invaded and troubled the brains of these unreasonable creatures to resist the public Magistrates and to condemn their authority, which they have received of God? But let these honest men, & GOD will, tell me, was not Abraham, Joseph, Judas, Moses, Joshua, Gedeon Samuel, David, Hezekiah, Jehoshaphat, Josiah, with many other Christen & faithful men? Yet did they ⟨image 61⟩execute the office of Magistrates & were high powers, in deed allowed before God, working that, which was good in his sight?

Phil. What is this? What do I heare? May not a christen man execute that offyce, wherby vertue is mayntayned & vice exiled? Is he not more fitte to be a ruler that beleuethe in the true God, ⟨image 61⟩feareth him, seketh his glory, embraseth vertue, hateth vice, loueth his neyghbour, tendereth the common wealth, & seketh in al poyntes to be a father amonge his subiectes, thā suche one as beleueth in Idolles, feareth them, seketh th•yr glory, despyseth the alone true God, hate the vertue, embraceth vice, oppressethe his neyghbour, tearethe the cōmon welth ī peses, & sheweth hīselfe ī all thīges a cruel Tyraunt among his subiectes? What furious Erinnys hath inuaded and troubled ye braynes of these vnresonable creatures to resist the publique Magistrates and to condemne theyr authoritie, which they haue receaued of God? But let these honest men, & GOD wyll, tell me, was not Abraham, Iosephe, Iudas, Moses, Iosue, Gedeō Samuel, Dauid, Ezechias, Iosaphat, Iosias, wt many other Christen & faythfull men? Yet dyd they ⟨image 61⟩