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Paul being before Festus and Agrippa, wisheth not unto the King Agrippa, more wealth, or more honour, or more riches, but more religion, which is the greatest want of Princes and Magistrates. They sit in Gods chair, and are called Gods, but are not like God, but like Mammon, except their names and their crowns: peradventure a David, or a Solomon, or a Joshua, that is, a few that remember whose person they bear: the rest are like Saul, and Herod, and Nebuchadnezzar, which know not from whom their kingdoms come. Nebuchadnezzar built for his honour, and they built for their honour: Nebuchadnezzar gathered for his wealth, and they gather for their wealth: Nebuchadnezzar sought after his pleasure, and they seek after their pleasure: Nebuchadnezzar vaunted of his power, and they vaunt of their power: what ⟨p. 423⟩did Nebuchadnezzar which they do not, but repent which they do not? I cannot wish them beasts to do them good, like Nebuchadnezzar, because it is a question, whether they are worse than beasts already, but if we could drive them out of their palaces to live like beasts in the wilderness, it were a good riddance, for there they should do less harm: where now their proud horns do gore others, & their hoof is up to strike every one that is better than themselves, which maketh many fly into the wilderness, from their house, and church, and calling, lest they should fall into their clutches: The Lord which restored Nebuchadnezzar from the likeness of a beast, restore them to the likeness of men, or else fright them like Nebuchadnezzar, to run from their rooms, that better may have their places.

Paul being before Festus and Agrippa, wisheth not vnto the King Agrippa, more wealth, or more honor, or more riches, but more religion, which is the greatest want of Princes and Magistrates. They sitte in Gods chayre, and are called Gods, but are not like God, but like Mammon, except their names and their crownes: peraduenture a Dauid, or a Salomon, or a Iosua, that is, a few that remember whose person they beare: the rest are like Saul, and Herod, and Nabuchadnezzar, which know not frō whome their kingdomes come. Nabuchadnezzar built for his honour, and they built for their honour: Nabuchadnezzar gathered for his wealth, and they gather for their welth: Nabuchadnezzar sought after his pleasure, and they seeke after their pleasure: Nabuchadnezzar vaunted of his power, and they vaunt of their power: what ⟨p. 423⟩