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Judge.

FE see the Pageants in Cheapside, the Lions, and the Elephants, but we do not see the Men that carry them: we see the Judges look big, look like Lions, but we do not see who moves them.*

2. Little things do great works, when the great things will not. If I should take a Pin from the Ground, a little pair of Tongs will do it, when a great pair will not. Go to a Judge to do a business for you, by no means he will not hear of it; but go to some small Servant about him, and he will dispatch it according to your heart's desire.

3. There could be no mischief in the Common-Wealth without a Judge. Though there be false Dice brought in at the Groom-Porters,† and cheating offered, yet unless he allow the cheating, and judge the Dice to be good, there may be hopes of fair Play.

* The Judges almost unanimously sanctioned Charles's right to Ship-Money and other extortions. When Selden and others sued to be admitted to be bailed out of the Tower, in 1629, Sir Robert Heath, Attorney General, said to the Judges: "I am confident that you will not bail them if any danger may ensue; but first you are to consult with the King; and he will show you where the danger lies."

† An Office of the Royal household succeeding, it is said, to the Master of the Revels. He used to keep a Gaming Table at Christmas. It should appear that this custom was abolished in or about the year 1700, when a poem was published, with the following title:

"An Elegiack Essay upon the Decease of the Groom-Porter, and the Lotteries," fol. 1700.

Juggling.

IS not Juggling that is to be blamed, but much Juggling; for the World cannot be

Governed without it. All your Rhetoric, and

all your Elenchs in Logic come within the compass of Juggling.

Jurisdiction.

with the Lord Mayor's.

HERE'S no such Thing as Spiritual Jurisdiction; all is Civil; the Church's is the same Suppose a Christian came into a Pagan Country, how can you fancy he shall have any Power there? he finds faults with the Gods of the Country; well, they will put him to death for it: when he is a Martyr, what follows? Does that argue he has any spiritual Jurisdiction? If the Clergy say the Church ought to be governed thus, and thus, by the Word of God, that is Doctrinal,* that is not Discipline.

2. The Pope he challenges Jurisdiction over all; the Bishops they pretend to it as well as he; the Presbyterians they would have it to themselves; but over whom is all this? the poor Laymen.

* Original edition, that is doctrine all.

Jus Divinum.

LL things are held by Jus Divinum, either immediately or mediately.

2. Nothing has lost the Pope so much in his Supremacy, as not acknowledging what Princes gave him. 'Tis a scorn upon the Civil Power, and an unthankfulness in the Priest. But the Church runs to Jus divinum, lest if they should acknowledge that what they have, they have by positive Law, it might be as well taken from them as given to them.

King.

KING is a thing Men have made for their own Sakes, for quietness-sake. Just as in a Family one Man is appointed to buy the Meat if every Man should buy, or if there were many buyers, they would never agree, one would buy what the other liked not, or what the other had bought before, so there would be a confusion. But that Charge being committed to one, he according to his Discretion pleases all; if they have not what they would have one day, they shall have it the next, or something as good.

2. The word King directs our Eyes; suppose it had been Consul, or Dictator. To think all Kings alike is the same folly, as if a Consul of Aleppo or Smyrna should claim to himself the same Power that a Consul at

Rome [had.]* What! am not I a Consul? or a Duke of England should think himself like the Duke of Florence; nor can it be imagined, that the word Bartλeys did signify the same in Greek as the Hebrew Word did with the Jews. Besides, let the Divines in their Pulpits say what they will, they in their practice deny that all is the King's: they sue him, and so does all the Nation, whereof they are a part. What matter is it then what they Preach or Teach in the Schools?

3. Kings are all individual, this or that King, there is no Species of Kings.

4. A King that claims Privileges in his own Country, because they have them in another, is just as a Cook, that claims Fees in one Lord's House, because they are allowed in another. If the Master of the House will yield them, well and good.

5. The Text Render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's, makes as much against Kings, as for them; for it says plainly that some things are not Cæsar's. But Divines make choice of it, first in Flattery, and then because of the other part adjoined to it Render unto God the things that are God's, where they bring in the Church.

6. A King outed of his Country, that takes as much upon him as he did at home in his own Court, is as if a Man on high, and I being upon the Ground, used to lift up my voice to him, that he might hear me, at length should come down, and then expects I should speak as loud to him as I did before.

*Had is omitted in original edition.

King of England.

HE King can do no wrong; that is, no Process can be granted against him. What must be

done then? Petition him, and the King writes upon the Petition soit droit fait, and sends it to the Chancery, and then the business is heard. His Confessor will not tell him, he can do no wrong.

2. There's a great deal of difference between Head of the Church, and Supreme Governor, as our Canons call the King. Conceive it thus: there is in the Kingdom of England a College of Physicians; the King is Supreme Governor of those, but not Head of them, nor President of the College, nor the best Physician.

3. After the Dissolution of Abbeys, they did not much advance the King's Supremacy, for they only cared to exclude the Pope hence have we had several Translations of the Bible put upon us. But now we must look to it, otherwise the King may put upon us what Religion he pleases.

4. 'Twas the old way when the King of England had his House, there were Canons to sing Service in his Chapel; so at Westminster in St. Stephen's Chapel where the House of Commons sits: from which Canons the Street called Canon-row has its Name, because they lived there; and he had also the Abbot and his Monks, and all these the King's House.

5. The three Estates* are the Lords Temporal, the

The three Estates." "This division of estates is countenanced by some old statutes," says Fuller, " and was doubtless well