3. The third seditious doctrine springs from the same root, that _tyrannicide is lawful_; nay, at this day it is by many divines, and of old it was by all the philosophers, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Plutarch, and the rest of the maintainers of the Greek and Roman anarchies, held not only lawful, but even worthy of the greatest praise. And under the title of _tyrants_, they mean not only monarchs, but all those who bear the chief rule in any government whatsoever; for not Pisistratus only at Athens, but those Thirty also who succeeded him, and ruled together, were all called _tyrants_. But he whom men require to be put to death as being _a tyrant_, commands either by right or without right. If without right, he is an enemy, and by right to be put to death; but then this must not be called the _killing a tyrant_, but an _enemy_. If by right, then the divine interrogation takes place: _Who hath told thee that he was a tyrant? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat?_ For why dost thou call him a _tyrant_, whom God hath made a _king_, except that thou, being a private person, usurpest to thyself the knowledge of _good_ and _evil_? But how pernicious this opinion is to all governments, but especially to that which is _monarchical_, we may hence discern; namely, that by it every _king_, whether good or ill, stands exposed to be condemned by the judgment, and slain by the hand of every murderous villain. [Sidenote: That even they who have the supreme power are subject to the civil laws, is a seditious opinion.]