8. [8.] Because the English are of such a character, therefore priests are set over them, and also magistrates, in whom they have faith as being intelligent and wise, and they then favor these priests and magistrates with their assent in everything they say and teach. By this the people are held in a state of obedience and at the same time in fidelity to doctrine. Moreover, those who are rebellious and those who are impious are banished from their society, because they would undo the bond of unanimity.