None is worthy to have the name of a magistrate that is proud, peevish, selfish, crabbed; or that is wilful or wicked or that is heady or high-minded; for the higher power is to chain such from their intents and mischievous ends that they would do and wrong the innocent with their unrighteous intents; and such as touching judgment are blind, that be perverse and full of ambition and pride, such forgets God and he is not in their thoughts, these feel not the burden that the innocent bears and groans under; for such as be there be in that nature that burdens the just in particular and in the general; before whose eyes the fear of God is not, who makes a prey upon the just.... So as ye all, magistrates, be kept in the fear of God and in the higher power, in the true understanding and true wisdom which is pure, gentle, from above, easy to be entreated. It will bring you to the true instructions and there, being in them, it will bring you to instruct all others wherever you come. (C. J., I., _Letter to the Long Parliament_, pp. 84, 85.) Coercion. TO THE CHIEF MAGISTRATES, RULERS, ETC. And now I do in humility desire you to consider did ever Christ and His apostles force any to be of his true religion and worship, and if that they would not then to give forth orders to take away their goods and their very beds and their corn which should make them bread, their cattle which should help to maintain them and their cows which should give them milk, their clothes they should wear to keep them warm and their tools they should work withal to get their living? Did not Christ on the contrary exhort Christians _to love one another_ and _to love enemies_? (_Works_, VI., p. 272, 3.)