§. 195. I will not dispute now whether princes are exempt from the laws of
their country, but this I am sure, they owe subjection to the laws of God and
Nature. Nobody, no power can exempt them from the obligations of that eternal
law. Those are so great and so strong in the case of promises, that Omnipotency
itself can be tied by them. Grants, promises, and oaths are bonds that hold the
Almighty, whatever some flatterers say to princes of the world, who, all
together, with all their people joined to them, are, in comparison of the great
God, but as a drop of the bucket, or a dust on the balance —
inconsiderable, nothing!
