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

In all your difficulties make the Word of God your Counsellor; in all your doubts let Scripture resolve you: You may look too much to the light ⟨p. 263⟩within you, which is imperfect and (1 Tit.) defiled (as Quakers make a Christ of it) but you can never look too much to this light without you, which is perfect and pure, without the least blemish or defect.

The Jews say, that if Printing had been found out in the time of Moses, yet was the King bound to write out two copies of the Law with his own hand; one to keep in the Treasury, and the other to carry about with him as his Vade Mecum. ¹Alphonsus King of Aragon (as some say) read over the Bible fourteen times with Lyra's Notes upon it. And that renowned Maiden Queen Elizabeth, when she passed in triumphal state through the City of London, after her Coronation,² when the Bible was presented to her at the little Conduit in Cheapside, she received it with both her hands, and kissing it, laid it to her breasts, saying, that it had ever been her chiefest delight, and should be the rule whereby she would frame her Government. This was the delight, the joy, the counsellor of that Magistrate that was after Gods own heart, Psal. 119.70.111, 24. And this made him wiser then his Teachers, then his Elders, Psal. 119.97. to 100. And indeed this Book of Books only can make a wise and good Christian, Captain, Counsellor, and Ruler. Let therefore the balance of the Sanctuary weigh all, the Oracles of God decide all, the rule of the Word square all, and then nothing will be amiss. Let the Bible be to you as the pillar of fire by night, and the cloud by day to the Israelites, directing you through the Wilderness of this world, till ye come to the true Canaan.