own territories only, and not in the territories of any other state.
The second argument, is from the nature of monarchy; wherein all authority is in one man, and in others by derivation from him. But the government of the Church, he says, is monarchical. This also makes for Christian monarchs. For they are really monarchs of their own people; that is, of their own Church; for the Church is the same thing with a Christian people; whereas the power of the Pope, though he were St. Peter, is neither monarchy, nor hath anything of “archical,” nor “cratical,” but only of “didactical”; for God accepteth not a forced, but a willing obedience.
The third is from that the “see” of St. Peter is called by St. Cyprian, the “head,” the “source,” the “root,” the “sun,” from whence the authority of bishops is derived. But by the law of Nature, which is a better principle of right and wrong than the word of any doctor that is but a man, the civil sovereign in every commonwealth is the “head,” the “source,” the “root,” and the “sun,” from which all jurisdiction is derived. And therefore the jurisdiction of bishops is derived from the civil sovereign.