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Phil. Here is Faithful obedience required of you toward the high powers and rulers of the common weal.¹ ⟨image 67⟩For as it is their office to rule, so is it our duty to obey, & that not feignedly but with sincerity of conscience & pureness of mind without any dissimulation or Hypocrisy.² For there is no power but of God. ³The powers that be are ordained of God. Therefore Who so ever resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God. And they that resist, shall get to them selves damnation. Butte I pray you mark, what your flour saith, Let every soul be obedience to the powers that bear rule. Note that it is said, Let every soul be obedient. Here see you, that no parson, be he spiritual or temporal, as they use to call them, is excepted from obedience toward the high powers.⁴ All are under subjection. All owe obedience, fear, honour & tribute to the rulers of the common weal. None is free from this subjection. For every soul is here taken after the Hebrew phrase for all men, & for so many as are reasonable creatures, ⟨image 67⟩borne & appointed to live under a law. So that the scripture here commandeth all men both spiritual & temporal, both godly and ungodly, both wicked & righteous, both perfect & imperfect, to obey the magistrates & all such ordinances & laws, as are made of them for the glory of God, & the commodity of the public weal, or else they accumulate & heap up to them selves great damnation, as S. Austen saith,⁵ who soever will not obey the laws of the temporal governors, which are made for the establishment of God's trueth, he getteth great damnation.⁶

Phil. Here is Faythfull obedience required of you toward the high powers and rulers of the common weale.