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They reign over it still, and must for ever, though at present 

 very far from confessed ; and, in most places, ragingly denied. 



The first power is that of the Teacher, or true Father ; the 

 Father ' in God.' It may be happy the children to whom it 

 is the actual father also ; and whose parents have been their 

 tutors. But for the most part, it will be some one else who 

 teaches them, and moulds their minds and brain. All such 

 teaching, when true, being from above, and coming down 

 from the Father of Lights, with whom is no variableness, 

 neither shadow of turning, is properly that of the holy Catho- 

 lic ' KK\r)a-ia,' council, church, or papacy, of many fathers in 

 God, not of one. Eternally powerful and divine ; reverenced 

 of all humble and lowly scholars, in Jewry, in Greece, in Eome, 

 in Gaul, in England, and beyond sea, from Arctic zone to zone. 



The second authority is the power of National Law, enforc- 

 ing justice in conduct by due reward and punishment. Power 

 vested necessarily in magistrates capable of administering it 

 with mercy and equity ; whose authority, be it of many or 

 few, is again divine, as proceeding from the King of kings, 

 and was acknowledged, throughout civilized Christendom, as 

 the power of the Holy Empire, or Holy Eoman Empire, be- 

 cause first throned in Rome ; but it is for ever also acknowl- 

 edged, namelessly, or by name, by all loyal, obedient, just, 

 and humble hearts, which truly desire that, whether for them 

 or against them, the eternal equities and dooms of Heaven 

 should be pronounced and executed ; and as the wisdom or 

 word of their Father should be taught, so the will of their 

 Father should be done, on earth, as it is in heaven. 



19. You all here know what contention, first, and then 

 what corruption and dishonour, had paralyzed these two pow- 

 ers before the days of which we now speak. Reproof, and 

 either reform or rebellion, became necessary everywhere. 

 The northern Reformers, Holbein, and Luther, and Henry, 

 and Cromwell, set themselves to their task rudely, and, it 

 might seem, carried it through. The southern Reformers, 

 Dante, and Savonarola, and Botticelli, set hand to their task 

 reverently, and, it seemed, did not by any means carry it 

 through. But the end is not yet. 



