"That government and authority which hath a foundation in the law of nature and nations (yea, might and should have had place and been of use, though man had not sinned) cannot be held of, and under, and managed for Christ, as he is Mediator. But magistracy or civil government hath a foundation in the law of nature and nations (yea, might and should have had place, and been of use, though man had not sinned); therefore, the reason of the proposition is because the law of nature and nations, and the law which was written in man's heart, in his first creation, doth not flow from Christ as Mediator, but from God as Creator. Neither can it be said that Christ as Mediator, ruleth and governeth all nations by the law of nature and nations, or that Christ should have reigned as Mediator though man had not sinned... In the state of innocency there had been no such use of magistracy as now there is; for there had been no evil-doers to be punished, no unruly persons to be restrained, yet, as the wife had been subject to the husband, and the son to the father, so, no doubt, there had been an union of divers families under one head, man being naturally ζῷον πoλιτικόν as Aristotle calls him. He is for society and policy, and how can it be imagined that mankind, multiplying upon the earth, should have been without headship, superiority, order, society, govenment? And what wonder that the law of nature teach all nations some government?"
- George Gillespie, Aaron's Rod Blossoming, II.VII