Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order · Chapter 24

Of the civil Magistrate

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4. It is the duty of people to pray for Magistrates, to honor their persons, to pay them Tribute and other dues, to obey their lawful commands, and to be subject to their Authority for conscience sake. Infidelity, or difference in religion, doth not make void the Magistrates just and legal Authority, nor free the people from their obedience to him: from which ecclesiastical persons are not exempted, much less hath the Pope any power or Jurisdiction over them in their dominions, or over any of their people, and least of all to deprive them of their Dominions or lives, if he shall judge them to be Hereticks, or upon any other pretence whatsoever.

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