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Rule by one person, although it carries with it a common bondage of all except the one to whose pleasure all others are subjected, has never been acceptable to all people of superior and high spirit. But on the other hand, in order to exclude this wickedness of human judgment, scripture affirms explicitly that it is by the providence of divine wisdom that kings rule, and it specially commands that kings be honored
Institutes of the Christian Religion: The First English Version of the 1541 French Edition
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