To Live By One Man's

The Reason Why The Simpler Sort Are Moved With Authority, Is The Consciousness Of Their Own Ignorance; Whereby It Cometh To Pass That Having Learned Men In Admiration, They Rather Fear To Dislike Them Than Know Wherefore They Should Allow And Follow Their Judgments. Contrariwise With Them That Are Skilful Authority Is Much More Strong And Forcible; Because They Only Are Able To Discern How Just Cause There Is Why To Some Men's Authority So Much Should Be Attributed.

Of Law There Can Be No Less Acknowledged, Than That Her Seat Is The Bosom Of God, Her Voice The Harmony Of The World: All Things In Heaven And Earth Do Her Homage, The Very Least As Feeling Her Care, And The Greatest As Not Exempted From Her Power.

For Men To Be Tied And Led By Authority, As It Were With A Kind Of Captivity Of Judgment, And Though There Be Reason To The Contrary Not To Listen Unto It, But To Follow Like Beasts The First In The Herd, They Know Not, Nor Care Not Whither, This Were Brutish.

Angels Are Unsatisfiable In Their Longing To Do By All Means All Manner Of Good Unto All The Creatures, ...especially The Children Of Men.

Man Doth Seek A Triple Perfection: First A Sensual, Consisting In Those Things Which Very Life Itself Requireth Either As Necessary Supplements, Or As Beauties And Ornaments Thereof; Then An Intellectual, Consisting In Those Things Which None Underneath Man Is Either Capable Of Or Acquainted With; Lastly A Spiritual And Divine, Consisting In Those Things Whereunto We Tend By Supernatural Means Here, But Cannot Here Attain Unto Them.