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Euse. What meaneth the scripture by that, I pray you?

Phil. To honour the king, is not only to pretend & show an outward humility & humble obeisance toward ⟨image 75⟩him, as by putting of our cap to him, reverently to speak to him, to kneel unto him, to grant him freely & willingly what so ever he requireth of us, but also with heart & mind to wish well unto him, to desire all good & prosperous things unto him, to pray for him, to desire long life unto him, to pray that God may rule & govern all his councils, enterprises & affairs, to watch diligently that no harm, disturbance or incommodity chance unto him, and in all our acts either public or private, open or secret, to seek the honour of him, as of our most sovereign LORD. This honour showed David to king Saul,¹ which knowing Saul to be his utter enemy, & one that sought his life, would notwithstanding so much as once hurt him, nor yet suffer any other to do it, although he had sufficient opportunity & occasion ⟨image 75⟩divers times to have slain him, if he had been so minded. The Lord forbid me, saith he, y• I should lay my hand on him. Again, kill him not. For who saith he, shall lay hands on the LORDS anointed, and be not guilty? The LORD liveth, he dyeth not, except the LORD smite him, or that his day be come to dye,² or else go to battle, & there perish He also afterward commanded the young man to be slain, which came & told him, that he had killed king Saul, thinking by this means to have picked a great thank or obtained some beneficial reward at Davids hand.³ Here was true honour. For it is not lawful for any man being a subject to arise against his Prince, & to avenge his own quarrel, be he never so much a Tyrant, or sustaineth he at his hand never so great injuries & wrongs, but patiently to suffer all things,