These Acts the
people are much rejoiced with, as being words forerunning their
freedom, and they wait for their accomplishment that their joy may
be full. For as words without actions are a cheat, and kill the
comfort of a righteous spirit, so words performed in action do
comfort and nourish the life thereof.
"Now, Sirs, wheresoever we spy out Kingly Power, no man I hope
shall be troubled to declare it, nor afraid to cast it out, having
both Act of Parliament, the Soldier's Oath, and the Common People's
Consent on his side. For Kingly Power is like a great spread tree;
if you lop the head or top bough and let the other branches and
root stand, it will grow again and recover fresher strength.
"If any ask me, what Kingly Power is? I answer, there is a twofold
Kingly Power. The one is the Kingly Power of Righteousness, and
this is the power of the Almighty God, ruling the whole Creation in
Peace, and keeping it together. And this is the Power of Universal
Love, leading people unto all truth, teaching everyone to do as he
would be done unto.... But the other Kingly Power is the power of
Unrighteousness.... This Kingly Power is the Power of Self Love,
ruling in one or in many men over others, and enslaving those who
in the Creation are their equals; nay, who are in the strictness of
equity rather their masters.
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