6. But that I may not thus by piecemeal prove the right of princes, I will now instance those testimonies which altogether establish the whole power; namely, that there is an absolute and simple obedience due to them from their subjects. And first out of the New Testament: Matth. xxiii. 2, 3: _The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat; all therefore, whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do. Whatsoever they bid you_ (says Christ) _observe_, that is to say, _obey simply_. Why? Because they _sit in Moses’ seat_; namely, the _civil magistrate’s_, not Aaron, the priest’s. Rom. xiii. 1, 2: _Let every soul be subject to the higher powers; for there is no power but of God; the powers that be are ordained of God; whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God; and they that resist, shall receive to themselves damnation._ Now because the powers that were in St. Paul’s time, were ordained of God, and all kings did at that time require an absolute entire obedience from their subjects, it follows that such a power was ordained of God. 1 Peter ii. 13-15: _Submit yourselves unto every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether it be to the king as supreme, or unto governors as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of wicked doers, and for the praise of them that do well; for so is the will of God._ Again St. Paul to Titus, (chap. iii. 1): _Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, &c._ What principalities? Was it not to the principalities of those times, which required an absolute obedience? Furthermore, that we may come to the example of Christ himself, to whom the kingdom of the Jews belonged by hereditary right derived from David himself; he, when he lived in the manner of a subject, both paid tribute unto Cæsar, and pronounced it to be due to him, Matth. xxii. 21: _Give unto Cæsar_ (saith he) _the things which are Cæsar’s, and unto God the things which are God’s_. When it pleased him to show himself a king, he required entire obedience, Matth. xxi. 2, 3: _Go_ (said he) _into the village over against you, and straight-way ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me; and if any man say aught unto you, ye shall say the Lord hath need of them_. This he did therefore by the right of being lord, or a king of the Jews. But to take away a subject’s goods on this pretence only, because _the Lord hath need of them_, is an absolute power. The most evident places in the Old Testament are these: Deut. v. 27: _Go thou near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say; and speak thou unto us all that the Lord our God shall speak unto thee, and we will hear it, and do it._ But under the word _all_, is contained absolute obedience. Again to Joshua (Joshua i. 16-18): _And they answered Joshua, saying, all that thou commandest us, we will do; and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go; according as we hearkened unto Moses in all things,