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CHAP. &quot; that he saith in this matter of policy is, Date Ccesari qua 



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&quot; sun t C&saris. Obey the magistrates , and those that be in 



&quot; authority ; not only for fear, but for conscience. He limit- 

 &quot; eth no magistrates; he altereth no policy; he meddleth 

 &quot; neither with democraties, aristocraties, nor monarchies; nor 

 &quot; prescribeth whether old or young, rich or poor, learned or 

 &quot; unlearned, man or woman, should reign. But as he finds 

 &quot; them, so he leaves them ; impairs none, alters none, dis- 

 &quot; turbs none.&quot;&quot; Thus gravely did our Divine reprove tam- 

 perers with princes 1 crowns, and meddlers with matters of 

 state to the disturbance of kingdoms, whether Papists or 

 innovators ; and by a sound exposition rescue Scripture 

 from countenancing such doctrines. 



A good in- Indeed he had well studied the holy Scriptures, both as 

 the Scrip- to the original language, history, and design thereof: where 

 by he became an excellent interpreter of the sense. To 

 give a specimen or two. He gave a notable answer to his 

 Several adversary who had made an unsound exposition of Deut. 

 hinTex- ^ xvu - Thou shalt choose a king among thy brethren ; and not 

 plained. among thy SISTERS, as he collected: and thereupon inferred, 

 that it was unlawful for us to have QUEENS to rule over us. 

 It is as much, said Aylmer, as if a man should say, Christ 

 said, / came to call sinners, sinful MEN, to repentance; that 

 is, I am come to call MEN sinners, and not WOMEN sinners. 

 Or, saith he, as one reasoned, Examinet se homo; Let a MAN 

 examine himself, and then communicate : ergo WOMEN may 

 not. And Christ at the latter day saith, Venite benedicti, 

 and not benedictce ; Come, ye blessed MEN, and not blessed 

 WOMEN : therefore WOMEN shall never go to heaven. But 

 this learned man shewed, that in all tongues the figure syn 

 ecdoche hath a singular good grace, as he expressed it, espe 

 cially in the Hebrew tongue ; where n^ Ach, which signi- 

 fieth a brother, doth not only comprehend a sister, but a 

 nephew too. And throughout the Scripture the masculine 

 comprehends the feminine : or else surely we must say 

 with the phrenetic Postellus, that women be not yet re 

 deemed, but men: and that they must have a woman to die 

 for them, as well as man had Christ. And that place of 



