§ Neither "the Pope nor Cardinals, nor any body of men, nor any persons of the Church of Rome, can, by virtue of the keys, absolve or free the subjects of the King of England from their oath of allegiance."—The present and the former question are so intimately connected, that the answer to the first immediately applies to the second. For what greater authority over a sovereign can be conceived, than the right of absolving and freeing subjects from their oath of allegiance to him? With what justice might it be said, That the kingdom of Christ is of this world, if the right of deciding upon and disposing of temporal kingdoms had been annexed to its authority, and conferred upon its ministers?