that the ‘church hath authority to establish that for an order at one time which at another time it may abolish, and in both may do well’.91 He had already made a similar claim in Book Three. The laws positive are not framed without regard had to the place and persons for which they are made. If therefore Almighty God in framing their laws had an eye unto the nature of that people, and to the country where they were to dwell; if these peculiar and proper considerations were respected in the making