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By the way we disallow not, but that bishops, which are also princes, besids their ecclesiasti∣call authoritie, they haue also their politicall rites and secular powers, euen as other prin∣ces
haue: the law of commaunding in secular causes, the law of the sword: some of them the law of choosing and confirming kinges and emperors: and of directing and ordering o∣ther politicall matters: and to constraine peo∣ple that are their subiects, to do them obedi∣ence: and therefore we confesse, that their po∣liticall commandements, which may be kept without breach of Gods law, are to be obeyed by their subiects, not onely for feare, but also for conscience sake. Rom. 13.5. For we know that all power is of God: and vvhosoeuer resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and that kings are to be honoured, and that we ought to be sub∣iect to our princes and rulers, in all feare not onely to the good and curteousse, but also to the frovvard and vniust.
Rom. 13.1.2
1. Pet. 2.17