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EZRA 7.26.And whosoever will not do the law of thy God and the Kings law, let him have judgement without delay.
WHat Almighty God is in his great monarchy of the world, that (in his proportion) is every absolute King in his own dominion: for he is in Gods place unto his people, to nou∣rish and protect them. Now because no one man can do Gods office (who is all eye and all eare, and all in every place) Kings are inforced to use the mi∣nistry of inferiour helps, to be eyes, eares, and hands for them; that as the sunne whose office it is to en∣lighten all the world (which by it's own beams it cannot do at one instant) is therefore inforced to communicate himself to other starres, who in his absence may give light and influence: so Kings (it being impossible that they should be present at all affairs of their kingdome) do lend some of their own authority to lesser lights, who do heare and see, and do for them; among which lights the Judges of a land, to whom sacred justice is committed, are not the least. This was not unknown to that great King Artaxerxes, who intending the full restaura∣tion of the people, citie, and temple of the God of heaven, gave order in the verse before for Judges to be set over them; and (though himself an heathen