If an under-sheriff had arrested Harry Martin for debt, and pleaded that he did not imprison his membership, but his Martinship, would the Committee for privileges be fobbed off with that distinction? To make this good in analogy, we must suppose that Harry Martin had notoriously neglected all the duties, while he perverted and abused all the privileges, of membership: and then I answer, that the Committee of privileges would have done well and wisely in accepting the under-sheriff's distinction, and, out of respect for the membership, consigning the Martinship to the due course of law. Ib. 'That every soul should be subject to the higher powers.' The higher power under which they lived was the mere power and will of Cæsar, bridled in by no law. False, if meant 'de jure'; and if 'de facto', the plural 'powers' would apply to the Parliament far better than to the King, and to Cromwell as well as to Nero. Every even decently good Emperor professed himself the servant of the Roman Senate. The very term 'Imperator', as Gravina observes, implies it; for it expresses a delegated and instrumental power. Before the assumption of the Tribunitial character by Augustus, by which he became the representative of the majority of the people,--'majestatem indutus est,--Senatus consulit, Populus jubet, imperent Consules', was the constitutional language. Ib. s. 190. Yet so much dissonancy there was between his tongue and his heart, that he triumphed in the murder of Cæsar, the only Roman that exceeded all their race in nobleness, and was next to Tully in eloquence. There is something so shameless in this self-contradiction as of itself almost to extinguish the belief that the prelatic royalists were conscientious in their conclusions. For if the Senate of Rome were not a lawful power, what could be? And if Cæsar, the thrice perjured traitor, was neither perjured nor traitor, only because he by his Gaulish troops turned a republic into a monarchy,--with what face, under what pretext, could Hacket abuse 'Sultan Cromwell?' [Footnote 1: By Thomas Plume. Folio, 1676.--Ed.] [Footnote 2: 'Ea omnia super Christo Pilatus, et ipse jam pro sua conscientia Christianus, Cæsari tum Tiberio nuntiavit.' Apologet, ii. 624. See the account in Eusebius. Hist. Eccl. ii. 2.--Ed.] [Footnote 3: See 'M. T. Ciceronis de Republica quæ supersunt. Zell. Stuttgardt'. 1827.--Ed.] [Footnote 4: See 'supra'.--Ed]. [Footnote 5: Folio. 1693.--Ed.] [Footnote 6: See The Church and State.--Ed.] NOTES ON JEREMY TAYLOR.