Bishops ought to say in the beginning of their mandates, “By the favour of the King’s Majesty, bishop of such a diocese”; or as civil ministers, “in His Majesty’s name.” For in saying, Divina providentia , which is the same with Dei gratia, though disguised, they deny to have received their authority from the civil state; and slyly slip off the collar of their civil subjection, contrary to the unity and defence of the commonwealth.
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