CHAP.3.I. v3 Commentarlevpon the 54.4 free flares. The latter fignifieth fuch as exercice detegated authority, ;twigs quiali and hold from thofehigher powers : fuch are vicegerents or viceroycs tau tic tub(' :di nato. vnder the King , prefidents of prouinces , Leiftenants over countries, Mayors of cities or townes, &c. Thus are Magitlrates ranked into Kings, and thole that are in errthoritie, z. Tim. 2. 2. and into Kings, sawchoie that are tene of them, z. Pet. 2.11. Thus fubieeioa and o- bedience is due to themboth, even to the latter afwell as co the former; and becatrlechele are fomecimes meane men, as the other are often bad men , the text called: vs ro turne our eyes from the perlons , and fixe them efpecially vpon the ordinance of God, which maketh there duties their right: for here is a metonymic of the adiune; it is not Paid, let them be lubiee toPrinces, as chore that haue power from them; but to rspkde proit) principalities, and power;: as thoughhe had laid, let themnot looke fo xorms. much to the men exercifng rule and power.asveto the power and ordi- nance it (elfe, and feeing there is nopower but ofGod, let them fubmit ,.Pee.-03, themfelues vnroeuery ordinanceof man for the Lord; fake. Secondly, the perlons fromwhom there duesmuta bepaid,are all Chriftians in ge- Aom.x ;.r. nerall without exception: for the Apoflle included, them all in the Quis uns exec. word, them: and therefore clergie as well as layty; yea euery foule mull Pi' abvniuur" be iubiee to the y p owers : higher ifeues foule ,then the clergies as well tat, I Betnatd. epiQaa, asothers. cbtiftianitie De 1r.i. Chriftianity eateth not vp Magiflracie, nor deflroyeth go_ confúmetbnot uernmenc and eiuill auchoritie, but racifieth and confirmeth it; for Chri- co acie, (liane are here called to (ubiceion and obedience ro ciuil auchority.The bue eor.firn,edr it. tteat. reafonis, t. the kingdoine ofChrifl is not of -this world, his authoricie s diuideth trot ciuill inheritances, his crowne and fcepter detrae not from earthly crownesand fcepters, his weapons are not carnali , the keyes of his kingdome are no temporale iurifdiélion, hecould both be the truc & lawfullKingof the )ewes, and yet conuey himfelfe away when they 2 wouldhaue giuen himhis right. 3. For one ordinance of God to de- dray another, wouldargue want of wifedome in God the ordainer , thte very thought whcreofwere blafphemous. The orders of Chrifi in his Church then cannot bring confufion in the commonwealth : for then the Lord fhould not be a God of order,but ofconfufion :nayon the con.. crary, for the Churches fake which he loueth, he keepeth order, and maintained) gouernmenc in commonwealths, that his Churchwhile it is a gathering in the world,might find fate harbour therein,& this doue ofChri fl haue place, where to let without dangerthe foie of her Foote. 3 3. Mofes (o wifely fromGod conilituted both ecclefiaflicall and poli- ticall ordinances,as that the one was fo farte from violencing the other, as one of them couldnot Handwithout the other : and was Chrift the Sonné'
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