To prove the Pope has power to make laws, he allegeth many places; as first ( Deut. 17:12), “The man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest, that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die; and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.” For answer whereunto, we are to remember that the high priest, next and immediately under God, was the civil sovereign; and all judges were to be constituted by him. The words alleged sound therefore thus: “The man that will presume to disobey the civil sovereign for the time being, or any of his officers in the execution of their places, that man shall die,” etc. : which is clearly for the civil sovereignty, against the universal power of the Pope.
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