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power immediately, and others but &quot; in ordine ad 

 &quot; spirituale,&quot; is but a delusion and an abuse. For all 

 cometh to one. What is there that may not be 

 made spiritual by consequence : especially when he 

 that giveth the sentence may make the case ? and 

 accordingly hath the miserable experience followed* 

 For this murdering of kings hath been put in prac 

 tice, as well against papist kings as protestant : save 

 that it hath pleased God so to guide it by his admi 

 rable providence, as the attempts upon papists princes 

 have been executed, and the attempts upon protes 

 tant princes have failed, except that of the prince of 

 Orange : and not that neither, until such time as 

 he had joined too fast with the duke of Anjou and 

 the papists. As for subjects, I see not, nor ever could 

 discern, but that by infallible consequence it is the 

 case of all subjects and people, as well as of kings ; 

 for it is all one reason, that a bishop, upon an ex- 

 communicaton of a private man, may give his lands 

 and goods in spoil, or cause him to be slaughtered, 

 as for the Pope to do it towards a king ; and for a 

 bishop to absolve the son from duty to the father, 

 as for the pope to absolve the subject from his alle 

 giance to his king. And this is not my inference, 

 but the very affirmative of pope Urban the second, 

 who in a brief to Godfrey, bishop of Luca, hath 

 these very words, which cardinal Baronius reciteth 

 in his Annals, Non illos homicidas arbitramur, qui 

 &quot; adversus excommunicates zelo catholic matris 

 &quot;ardentes eorum quoslibet trucidare contigerit,&quot; 

 speaking generally of all excommunications. 



