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If this be doubted for good Law, to make amends, I am sure it is sound Scripture, the King is as much our selves, as our own life makes us our selves; he is the very Breath of our Nostrils; Is it too much for the King to Re∣present the People! I tell you, (and I crave no pardon from any of those, who believe him to be, what he is,
God's Vice-Gerent) He represents more, even God him∣selfe.
To evacuate the latter, (and thereby the more strong∣ly, for the very Popery sake of it, to render the former an abomination) If this Inordine may passe for Authentick, how easily will Ambition and Covetousnesse be tempted to call, Every Temporal (The Crown of the King, and the wealth of the People) Interpretatively and by Reduction, Spiritual! When this is done, all Christendom, and all Temporals therein, (A Religious Mine, and a Spiritual Cole-Pit too) will be the Popes; The Land and the Sea too will be his; the Sea shall be Holy-Water, and all shall be Fish that comes to his Net: the Gold and Silver shall be Fish; and the Fish shall be Spiritual; When all this is done, he may (next, do as another Pope we read of, did before him) Throw away his fishing-Net, send the Di∣stinction to the Colledge from whence it came, call himself Christs Vicar, and every King his Curate to stand to his al∣lowance, and own himself Lord of Temporals in the ve∣ry Name of them, and Quatenus such.
Which of the two, (the unlucky distinction (the lame member of it) of some who call themselves Protestants, or of others amongst the Papists) is more repugnant to Scripture, or more mischeivous to man, 'tis hard to tell, so like they are the one to the other.
Ovid.
Lam. 4.20.