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Prologue.
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That the unskilful venture not to approach an office of authority.iii.iv.ii.ii
That none should enter on a place of government who practise not in life what they have learnt by study.iii.iv.ii.iii
Of the weight of government; and that all manner of adversity is to be despised, and prosperity feared.iii.iv.ii.iv
That for the most part the occupation of government dissipates the solidity of the mind.iii.iv.ii.v
Of those who are able to profit others by virtuous example in supreme rule, but fly from it in pursuit of their own ease.iii.iv.ii.vi
That those who fly from the burden of rule through humility are then truly humble when they resist not the divine decrees.iii.iv.ii.vii
That sometimes some laudably desire the office of preaching, while others, as laudably, are drawn to it by compulsion.iii.iv.ii.viii
Of those who covet pre-eminence, and seize on the language of the Apostle to serve the purpose of their own cupidity.iii.iv.ii.ix
That the mind of those who wish for pre-eminence for the most part flatters itself with a feigned promise of good works.iii.iv.ii.x
What manner of man ought to come to rule.iii.iv.ii.xi
What manner of man ought not to come to rule.iii.iv.ii.xii