euident, that the office of the king or supreme magistrate, hath respect
to the lawe morall, and to the conseruation of both the tables.

[Sidenote 96: NOTE. The gentil no lesse bounde to the lawe moral then
the Jewe.]
[Sidenote 97: NOTE.]
[Sidenote 98: The first argument that the authoritie of women
repungeth to iustice.]

Nowe if the lawe morall, be the constant and vnchangeable will of God, to
the which the gentil is no lesse bounde, then was the Iewe[96]; and if God
will that amongest the gentiles, the ministres and executors of his lawe
be nowe apointed, as somtimes they were apointed amongest the Iewes:
further if the execution of iustice be no lesse requisite in the policie
of the gentiles, then euer it was amongest the Iewes: what man can be
foolishe to suppose or beleue, that God will nowe admit those persons, to
sit in iudgement or to reigne ouer men in the common welth of the
gentiles, whom he by his expressed word and ordinance, did before debarre
and seclude from the same? And that women were secluded from the royall
seate, the which oght to be the sanctuarie to all poore afflicted, and
therfore is iustlie called the seat of god (besides the place before
recited of the election of a king, and besides the places of the newe
testament, whiche be moste euident) the ordre and election which was kept
in Iuda and Israel, doth manifestlie declare. For when the males of the
kinglie stocke failed[97], as oft as it chaunced in Israel and sometimes
in Iuda, it neuer entered in to the hartes of the people to chose and
promote to honors any of the kinges doughters, (had he neuer so many) but
knowing Goddes vengeance to be poured furth vpon the father by the away
taking of his sonnes, they had no further respect to his stocke, but
elected suche one man or other, as they iudged most apt for that honor and