Has been ... read - It is doubtful if the Persian monarchs could ordinarily read. At any rate, it was their habit to have documents read to …

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The plural number is used, being now become courtly for kings thus to speak of thems…

It is an old slander, that the prosperity of the church would be hurtful to kings and princes. Nothing can be more false, for true godliness teache…