Concerning the offices of one sovereign to another, which are comprehended in that law, which is commonly called the “law of nations,” I need not say anything in this place, because the law of nations, and the law of Nature, is the same thing. And every sovereign hath the same right, in procuring the safety of his people, that any particular man can have in procuring the safety of his own body. And the same law that dictateth to men that have no civil government, what they ought to do, and what to avoid in regard of one another, dictateth the same to commonwealths, that is, to the consciences of sovereign princes and sovereign assemblies; there being no court of natural justice but in the conscience only: where not man, but God reigneth; whose laws, such of them as oblige all mankind in respect of God, as He is the author of Nature, are “natural”; and in respect of the same God, as He is King of kings, are “laws.” But of the kingdom of God, as King of kings, and as King also of a peculiar people, I shall speak in the rest of this discourse.