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Yea but you will •ay: it is not like. For the whole body of the subjects chose those the ruler. Now, cuius est ligare: eius est soluere: Ergo, if he rule amiss, they that set him up, may put him down again. I answer: God (and not the common people) chooseth the Prince, though he choose him by them. For deut. xvi. God commandeth to choose and set up officers: and therefore is God the chief chooser and setter up of them, and so must he be the chief putter down of them again: so that without his special commandment, they may not be put down again. Now hath God given no commandment to put them down again: But contrariwise, when we have anointed a king over us at his commandment, he saith: touch not mine anointed. And what jeopardy it is to rise against thy Prince that is anointed over thee, how evil so ever he be, see in the story of king David, and throughout all the books of the kings. The authority of the king is the authority of God: and all the subjects ¹compared to the king, are but subjects still (though the king be never so evil) as a thousand sons gathered together are but sins still, & the commandment obey your fathers, goeth over all, as well as over one. Even so goeth the commandment over all the subjects: obey your Prince and the higher power, and he that resisteth him, resisteth God, and getteth him damnation. And unto your argument, cuius est ligare, eius est soluere, I answer: he that bindeth ²with absolute power, and without any higher authority, his is the might to louse again. But he that bindeth at an other mans commandment, may not louse again without y• commandment of the same. As they of London, choose them a Major: But may not put him down again how evil so ever he be without the authority of him with whose licence they chose him. As long as the powers or officers be one under an other, if the inferior do thee wrong, complain to the higher. But if the highest of all do thee wrong, thou must complain to God only. Wherefore the only remedy against evil rulers is, that thou turn thine eyes to thy self and thine own sin, and then look up to God and say:

Yea but you will •ay: it is not like. For the whole body of the subiectes chose those the ruler. Now, cuius est ligare: eius est soluere: Ergo, if he rule amisse, they that set him vp, may put hym downe agayne. I answere: God (and not the common people) chuseth the Prince, though he chuse hym by them. For deut. xvi. God commaundeth to chuse and set vp officers: and therefore is God the chiefe chuser and setter vp of them, and so must he be the chiefe putter downe of them agayne: so that without his speciall commaundement, they may not be put downe agayne. Now hath God geuen no commaundement to put them downe agayne: But contrariwise, when we haue annointed a kyng ouer vs at his commaundement, he sayth: touch not myne annointed. And what ieopardy it is to rise agaynst thy Prince that is annointed ouer thee, how euill so euer he be, see in the story of kyng Dauid, and thoroughout all the bookes of the kinges. The authority of the kyng is the authority of God: and all the subiectes