deliver His commandments to the people, did exercise on earth; there would not have been so much contention and war about who it is by whom God speaketh to us; neither would many priests have troubled themselves with spiritual jurisdiction, nor any king have denied it them.

Out of this literal interpretation of the “kingdom of God,” ariseth also the true interpretation of the word “holy.” For it is a word, which in God’s kingdom answereth to that, which men in their kingdoms use to call “public,” or the “king’s.”