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Source: Modern Western Civilization (School Textbook)

The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth; for kings are not only
God's lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself
are they called gods. There be three principal similitudes that illustrate the state of
monarchy; one taken out of the word of God; and the other out of the grounds of
policy and philosophy. In the scriptures kings are called gods, and so their power
after a certain relation compared to the divine power. Kings are also compared to
fathers of families; for a king is truly Parens patria, the politique father of his
people. And lastly, kings are compared to the head of this microcosm of the body
of man.

Kings are justly called gods, for they exercise a manner or resemblance of divine
power upon earth; for if you will consider the attributes of God, you shall see how
they agree in the person of a king. God hath power to create or destroy, make or
unmake at his pleasure, to give life or send death, to judge all and to be judged
nor accountable to none; to raise low things and to make high things low at his
pleasure, to give life or send death, judges over all their subjects and in all causes and yet
accountable to none but God only. They have power to exalt low things and abase
high things, and make their subjects like men at the chess, a pawn to take a
bishop or a knight, and to cry up and down any of their subjects, as they do their
money. And to the king is due both affection of the soul and the service of the
body of his subjects....