Men are gods, or, The dignity of magistracy, and the duty of the magistrate…

It might have been a cutting word to the heart of Brutus, (whose hand was then stabbing Caesar) What thou my son Brutus! I could not have expected better from a slave; but little looked for this from a son. How think you, can the Lord take it, that you who are his children, should wound the Body of his Son with oaths and curses, his sacred laws by wickedness and wilful disobedience! I beseech you, be exceeding holy that ye may show your selves to be children of the most High. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the Devil; He that doth not righteousness, is not of God, 1 John 3.10. If ye therefore call on the Father, who without respect of persons will judge every man according to his works, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear, 1 Pet. 1.17. forasmuch as ye know ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain-conversations received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without spot and blemish, vers. 18, 19. It is written of Boleslaus, one of the Kings of Poland, that he still carried about with him the picture of his Father, and when he was to do any great work, he would look on the picture, and pray that he might do nothing unworthy of such a Fathers name: So when you set about any business, desire and labour that you may do nothing (while on earth) unworthy your Father who is in heaven.

It might have been a cutting word to the heart of Brutus, (whose hand was then stabbing Caesar) What thou my son Brutus! I could not have expected better from a slave; but little looked for this from a son. How think you, can the Lord take it, that you who are his children, should wound the Body of his Son with oaths and curses, his sacred laws by wickedness and wilful disobedience! I beseech you, be exceeding holy that ye may shew your selves to be children of the most High. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the Devil; He that doth not righteousness, is not of God, 1 John 3.10. If ye therefore call on the Father, who without respect of persons will judge every man according to his works, pass the time of your sojurning here in fear, 1 Pet. 1.17. forasmuch as ye know ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain-conversations received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without spot and blemish, vers. 18, 19. It is written of Boleslaus, one of the Kings of Poland, that he still carryed about with him the picture of his Father, and when he was to do any great work, he would look on the picture, and pray that he might do nothing unworthy of such a Fathers name: So when you set about any business, desire and labour that you may do nothing (while on earth) unworthy your Father who is in heaven.