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Chri. All these things are true.

Chri. All these thīges are true.

Phil. Well than let us conclude if it were lawful at the time for a christemmanto bear rule in the common weal how is it now become unlawful, Is any ⟨image 62⟩man more fit to reign & rule among christen men, than he which is of the same profession, faith & religion? Is it convenient for the wicked & unfaithful to have dominion over the righteous & christen, rather than they, which desire nothing more than the glory of god, & the health of their Christen brothers? O extreme blindness. If that should come to pass, who would not wish rather to be an unfaithful painim than a faithful christian? Behold to what point these wicked order breakers bring the Christen religion, while they will seem to fight most chiefly for the glorious furtherance of it? O foxysh Hypocrites. Who perceiveth not their subtlety? Who smelleth not their craft? Who espieth not their false hood? While they go about to sin without punishment, to have all things in common, to live of the sweat of other mens brows, to live freely ⟨image 63⟩in all kind of beastlike pleasure, to defile other mens wives, maidens, daughters & servants. &c. behold to what point these gross Gospellers, these shameless Schismatics, these brutal belly Gods, bring the public wea•e of Christendom. God mought once root• such Pestilences out of the earth, that we may according to our duty with all submission of mind, & faithful obedience, honour and magnify y• public Magistrates. Thus have I neighbours, grossly but faithfully, rudely but truly proved to you by the infallible verity of Gods word, that the high powers are ordained of God, and that their office pleaseth God, & is agreeable in all points with the holy scriptures both of the old & new Testament. Now according to my promise will I in three words, as they say,