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Text (though that be a wandring too) but from the way their own Profession might teach them, State super Vias antiquas, and Remove not the ancient Bounds and Land-marks which our Fathers have set. If to be Absolute, were to be restrained by no Laws; then can no King in Christendom be so; for they all stand obliged to the Laws Christian. And we ask no more; for to this Pillar are our Priviledges fixt, our Kings at their Coronation taking a sacred Oath not to infringe them.

I am sorry these Men take no more care to gain our Belief of those things, which they tell us for our Souls Health; while we know them so manifestly in the wrong, in that which concerns the Liberties and Priviledges of the Subjects of England: But they gain Preferment; and then 'tis no matter, though they neither believe themselves, nor are believed by others. But since they are so ready to let loose the Consci­ences of their Kings, we are the more carefully to provide for our Protection against this Pulpit-Law, by declaring and reinforcing the Municipal Laws of this Kingdom.

It is worth observing, how new this Opinion is, or rather this way of rising, even among them­selves. For Mr. Hooker, who sure was no re­fractory Man, (as they term it) thinks, That the first Government was Arbitrary, till it wasfound,

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