The first and second whereof are, that it is contrary to the order which God established before the law, vnder the law, and since Christ, or* 1.1 in the Apostles dayes; during all which tymes, he affirmes, that the power of governing was in the cheif; in the first born before the law, in the Levites vnder the law, and in the Apostles in their dayes. And for confir∣matiō of these things, he brings sundry scriptures from the old & new Testament, & for the exposition of them, & clearing of his aslertion, intermingles sundry other observations.
For entrance into the answer of which his refutation, I desire* 1.2 it may be considred, that the visible Church being a polity Eccle∣siasticall, and the perfection of all polities, doth comprehend in it whatsoever is excellent in all other bodyes politicall, as man being the perfection of all creatures, comprehends in his nature, what is excellent in them all: having being with the Elements, life with the plants, sense with the beasts, and with the angels reason. Now wise men having written of this subiect, have approved as good, and lawfull, three kyndes of polities, Monarchycall, where supreme authority is in the hands of one, Aristocraticall when it is