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is the glory of the saints, much like the temporal au 

 thority that the Pope challenged! over princes. But 

 this is the difference, that that is a furious and fana 

 tical fury, and this is a sad and solemn mischief : he 

 &quot; imagineth mischief as a law ;&quot; a law-like mischief. 



As for the defence which they do make, it doth 

 aggravate the sin, and turneth it from a cruelty 

 towards man to a blasphemy towards God. For to 

 say that all this is &quot; in ordine ad spirituale,&quot; and to a 

 good end, and for the salvation of souls, it is directly 

 to make God author of evil, and to draw him in the 

 likeness of the prince of darkness ; and to say with 

 those that Saint Paul speaketh of, &quot; Let us do evil 

 &quot; that good may come thereof;&quot; of whom the 

 apostle saith definitively, &quot; that their damnation is 

 &quot;just.&quot; 



For the destroying of government universally, it 

 is most evident, that it is not the case of protestant 

 princes only, but of catholic princes likewise ; as the 

 king hath excellently set forth. Nay, it is not the 

 case of princes only, but of all subjects arid private 

 persons. For touching princes, let history be pe 

 rused, what hath been the causes of excommunication ; 

 and namely, this tumour of it, the deposing of kings ; 

 it hath not been for heresy and schism alone, but 

 for collation and investitures of bishopricks and be 

 nefices, intruding upon ecclesiastical possessions, vio 

 lating of any ecclesiastical person or liberty. Nay, 

 generally they maintain it, that it may be for any 

 sin : so that the difference wherein their doctors vary, 

 that some hold that the Pope hath his temporal 



