can be proued to do their females: that is, they reuerence them, and qwake
at their presence, they obey their commandementes, and that against God.
Wherfore I iudge them not onelie subiectes to women, but sclaues of Satan,
and seruantes of iniquitie. If any man thinke these my wordes sharpe or
vehement, let him consider that the offense is more haynous, than can be
expressed by wordes. For where all thinges, be expressedly concluded
against the glorie and honor of God, and where the blood of the saintes of
God is commanded to be shed, whome shall we iudge, God or the deuil, to be
president of that counsel?[86] Plain it is, that God ruleth not by his
loue, mercie, nor grace in the assembly of the vngocllie. Then it resteth,
that the deuii, the prince of this worlde, doth reigne ouer suche
tyrannes. whose seruantes, I pray you, shal then be iudged, such as obey,
and execute, their tyrannie? God for his great mercies sake, illuminate
the eyes of men, that they may perceiue in to what miserable bondage they
be broght, by the monstriferous empire of women.

[Sidenote 87: NOTE.]
[Sidenote 88: Deut. 17.]
[Sidenote 89: God hath apointed man his ministre and lieutenant.]
[Sidenote 90: Answer to an objection.]
[Sidenote 91: The election of a king floweth frome the moral lawe.]
[Sidenote 92: Iosue I.]
[Sidenote 93: Rulers should take hede to this.]
[Sidenote 94: Deut. 17]
[Sidenote 95: what vices magistrates oght to punishe.]

The seconde glasse, whiche God hath set before the eyes of man[87],
wherein he may beholde the ordre, whiche pleaseth his wisdome, concerning
authoritie and dominion, is that common welth, to the whiche it pleaseth
his maiestie to apoint, and geue lawes, statutes, rites and ceremonies not