and dispose such Legacies, and, in that sense, say, they personate God, quoad haec; thus farre there might have been some excuse; but to say, that the true God may be personated by any thing which is not God, was too great an exaltation of the Creature, and diminution of his ex∣cellency; but yet thus he doth, as appear's by his In∣stance [as he was; first by Moses, who governed the Israe∣lites (that were not his, but Gods people) not in his own name with hoc dicit Moses, but in Gods name with hoc dicit Dominus] first by Moses. I am perswaded, he can never shew me, that the true God was ever personated by Moses, A man may be instead of God, in divers Offi∣ces; to the poor are in the room of God, instead of his hands, receive in God's stead those Almes which, for Gods sake, are given them; Kings, and those which are in Authority, are in God's stead, to govern and rule us, and therefore we make conscience of obedience to them, because for this purpose they are ordained of God: Priests are loco Dei, in the place of God, in Sacris, holy Duties; so that they open or shut the gates of heaven, absolve and bind m••n, and he that despiseth them, in those holy dispensations, despiseth Christ himself; but, none of these can be say'd to personate God, nor can any Creature doe it; he who personate's God, must represent an infinite Excellency, infinite in Power, infinite in Wisdome, &c. yea must represent an unspeakable, an incommunicable, unexpressible, an unrepresentable excellency, which is impossible: If Mr. Hobbes had say'd, that some men, as Moses, were Messengers of God, as the Apostles; Embassadors of God, to deliver or act his will amongst us, he had say'd a∣right; but to make them personate him, sound's too high for a finite Creature in his sense.