For seeing the “ghostly” power challengeth the right to declare what is sin, it challengeth by consequence to declare what is law, sin being nothing but the transgression of the law; and again, the civil power challenging to declare what is law, every subject must obey two masters, who both will have their commands be observed as law; which is impossible. Or, if it be but one kingdom, either the “civil,” which is the power of the commonwealth, must be subordinate to the “ghostly,” and then there is no sovereignty but the “ghostly”; or the “ghostly” must be subordinate to the “temporal,” and then there is no “supremacy” but the “temporal.” When therefore these two powers oppose one another, the commonwealth cannot but be in great danger of civil war and dissolution. For the “civil” authority being more visible, and standing in the clearer light of natural reason, cannot choose but draw to it in all times a very considerable part of the people: and the “spiritual,” though it stand in the darkness of school distinctions, and hard words, yet because the fear of darkness and ghosts is greater than other fears, cannot want a party sufficient to trouble, and sometimes to destroy a commonwealth.