For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Ver. 2. For kings, &c.] Though persecutors, if they have not yet sinned against the Holy Ghost, as Julian had. Voluit scilicet Christus etiam aliquando Reginam in caelum vehere, saith Luther of Elizabeth, Queen of Denmark, who lived and died in the truth of the gospel. God hath his, even among great ones too.
A quiet and peaceable life] Quiet, from inbred tumults and commotions; and peaceable, from foreign invasions and incursions of the enemy. See Jeremiah 29:7 .
In all godliness and honesty] And not come to eat the bread of our souls with the peril of our lives, as they do in various places of this land at this day. Det meliora Deus. He will do it.