5. One step more must be taken to make the logic of despotism perfect, and complete the chain. That work was delegated to clergymen purchased for the purpose--Rev. Dr. Robert Sibthorpe and Rev. Dr. Roger Mainwaring. The first in a sermon "of rendering all their dues," preached and printed in 1627, says, "the Prince who is the Head, and makes his Court and Council, it is his duty to direct and make laws. 'He doth whatsoever pleaseth him;' 'where the word of the King is there is power, and who may say unto him, What doest thou?'" And again, "If Princes command any thing which subjects may not perform, because it is against the Laws of God, or of Nature, or impossible; yet Subjects are bound to undergo the punishment, without either resisting, or railing, or reviling, and are to yield a Passive Obedience where they cannot exhibit an Active one, ... but in all others he is bound to active obedience."[73] [Footnote 73: Cited in Franklyn, 208; 1 Rushworth, 422, 436, 444.] Mainwaring went further, and in two famous sermons--preached, one on the 4th of July, 1628, the other on the 29th of the same month--declared that "the King is not bound to observe the Laws of the Realm concerning the Subject's Rights and Liberties, but that his _Royal will and Command_, in imposing Loans, and Taxes, without consent of Parliament, _doth oblige the subject's conscience upon pain of eternal damnation_. That those who refused to pay this Loan offended against the Law of God and the King's Supreme Authority, and became guilty of Impiety, Disloyalty, and Rebellion. And that the authority of Parliament is not necessary for the raising of Aid and Subsidies; and that the slow proceedings of such great Assemblies were not fitted for the Supply of the State's urgent necessities, but would rather produce sundry impediments to the just designs of Princes." "_That Kings partake of omnipotence with God._"[74] [Footnote 74: Franklyn, 208, 592. These two Sermons were published in a volume with the title "Religion and Allegiance."... "Published by his Majesty's special command." (London, 1628.) Prof. Stuart seems inspired by this title in giving a name to his remarkable publication--written with the same spirit as Dr. Mainwaring's--"Conscience and the Constitution." (Andover, 1851.) See 3 St. Tr. 335; 1 Rushworth, 422, 436, 585, _et al._; 1 Hallam, 307; 2 Parl. Hist. 388, 410.]