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nister of God to tia for good, the terror of evil doora> and ttie preLine of them that do well. And the church may not uauqi to itself any power, nor resist the power, nor call upon it to answer for ita actjoms before any of itn courts, because the powers that be are ordained of God, luid reftpon- aible unto Him who is the Prince of the kings of the cartb.^lt is said of the Sixth Edward, thai when, at hia coronation, three swurds were brought to be carried before him, as the king of three kingdoma, he said there was one yet wanting. Upon which the nobles inquiring what he meant ; ho replied, it wa» the Bible ; and thus delivered himoelf in right royal style: " That hook is the sword of the Spirit, aod to be preferred before Lhesc &irords. That ought, tn all right, to go*^H vert] ut, who are then for the people's safety by^^ God's appointment. Without that fKtjt^ we are I mf 1II,J OOU'S COVTROYKRIV WITH THE l.AVD, 999 DotluDfT* we can do nothia;, we have no power: from thai we arc what we are tbia day: froin that we receive whatsoever it in that wc at this prcboit do assume. He that rules without it is not to bo called God's minister^ or a king. Under that we ought to live, to fight, lo ^vtTii the peo- ple, and to perform all our ufTaJm. From thai alone we obtain all power, virtue, grace^ salva- tion, ftud whfttftocirer wo have of Divino strength/' —Now, forasmuch as the church may nM dare lo arrogate unto herself any power whatever, eiih« co-ordinate with or Gompult«7itory over the civil power, which is an ordinarce of God, it i« so much the more her province and duty to open in the cars of miaffistTatos, judf^es, members of parliament, ministers of state, and royal princet, the ^od, and wise, and mercifijl ends for which pjTcrnmcnt, that beat f>f all national blessings, » entrusted lo Uieir administration, that they may oot err through ignorance of their higli and holy location. Wherefore, at the coronation of his majesty, it is appointed unto a minister of Christ anoint his head with od, and to another to dis- course in his hearing concerning the royal office aa the hi^hrst stewardship under ChrinL And ev«ry aitting of parliament is opened with offices of devotion, to the same end appointed. And every assize of judgment is opened, not only with prayer, but with a special diiicourse to the same end directed. And, in the north, I know that e tirsl thing which the magistrates of towns have U> do, is to go and hi.nu fnmi rhe li[is uf the minister of the Gospel a discourse coDccr