52 KEINHOLD PAULI, 



syder, Avhat comodytie God hath plantyd within the precyncte of his do- 

 mynyon and acordyng as God by his ordynary law gevith the encrease 

 theroff, so ought all kynges and mynysters to receave it of the gyft of 

 God, that is he shulde se his people set to worke the saide gyfte acor- 

 dyng to the natuie or qualitie of the gyft, and that the workers theroff, 

 to receave there lyvyng by theire laboures, and that the thyng to have 

 the increase, so ought all kynges to have all proffytes or increase within 

 there realmes, the which is over and above, that all theire subiectes hath 

 no nede. 



For as a kyng, clamyng his kyngdome by mans law, is but a subiect 

 to that law, havyng but a certayne stepende apoynted to hym by that 

 law, where as by Godes law he is lorde of all within his domynyon^), 

 as it apearyth playnly in Samvell the VIT chapter^). And to bryng it 

 passe that all people within his realme to be brought owte of nede fyrst 

 must be to set all people to worke in order of a comen welth, and that 

 is to understande, that there may not be any man sufferde to lyve owte 

 of right Order, which right order I do understande thus, that the whole 

 bodie of a realme is a mysticall bodie, wherof the kynges maiestie is 

 hed, and as his maiestie is the hedd of this mysticall bodye^), so are all 

 degrees of people within this realme the bodie and members of the same 

 hed, and lyke as it is a greffe to the hed of any partyculer body to have 

 any member sore or sycke of his particuler body, even so ought it to be 

 a greffe to the generali and mystycall hedd to have any member sycke 

 sore in the mystycall body, ether to suffer any member of the saide my- 

 sticall body to lyve owte of order of a comen welth of the saide bodye. 

 Now whether it be for a comon welth of a bodye to mayntayne stränge 

 members to the disturbanse of the whole bodie, as lawyers , which are 



1) Offenbar in Bezug auf das Doppelkönigthum, wie es mit dem Kirchensu- 

 premat Heinrichs VIII. seit 1529 zur Thatsache wurde. 



2) Gemeint ist 2, Samuel, cap. 7. 



3) In ähnlicher Scholastik über Volk und Regierung Cardinal Pole in Starkey's 

 Dialogue p. 46: the one may, as me semyth, ryght wel be comparyd to the body, 

 and the other to the soule. 



