Things Personated, Inanimate There are few things, that are uncapable of being represented by Fiction.  Inanimate things, as a Church, an Hospital, a Bridge, may be Personated by a Rector, Master, or Overseer.  But things Inanimate, cannot be Authors, nor therefore give Authority to their Actors:  Yet the Actors may have Authority to procure their maintenance, given them by those that are Owners, or Governours of those things.  And therefore, such things cannot be Personated, before there be some state of Civill Government.

Irrational; Likewise Children, Fooles, and Mad-men that have no use of Reason, may be Personated by Guardians, or Curators; but can be no Authors (during that time) of any action done by them, longer then (when they shall recover the use of Reason) they shall judge the same reasonable.  Yet during the Folly, he that hath right of governing them, may give Authority to the Guardian.  But this again has no place but in a State Civill, because before such estate, there is no Dominion of Persons.

False Gods; An Idol, or meer Figment of the brain, my be Personated; as were the Gods of the Heathen; which by such Officers as the State appointed, were Personated, and held Possessions, and other Goods, and Rights, which men from time to time dedicated, and consecrated unto them.  But idols cannot be Authors:  for a Idol is nothing.  The Authority proceeded from the State:  and therefore before introduction of Civill Government, the Gods of the Heathen could not be Personated.

The True God The true God may be Personated.  As he was; first, by Moses; who governed the Israelites, (that were not his, but Gods people,) not in his own name, with Hoc Dicit Moses; but in Gods Name, with Hoc Dicit Dominus.  Secondly, by the son of man, his own Son our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ, that came to reduce the Jewes, and induce all Nations into the Kingdome of his Father; not as of himselfe, but as sent from his Father.  And thirdly, by the Holy Ghost, or Comforter, speaking, and working in the Apostles:  which Holy Ghost, was a Comforter that came not of himselfe; but was sent, and proceeded from them both.

A Multitude Of Men, How One Person A Multitude of men, are made One Person, when they are by one man, or one Person, Represented; so that it be done with the consent of every one of that Multitude in particular.  For it is the Unity of the Representer, not the Unity of the Represented, that maketh the Person One.  And it is the Representer that beareth the Person, and but one Person:  And Unity, cannot otherwise be understood in Multitude.

Every One Is Author And because the Multitude naturally is not One, but Many; they cannot be understood for one; but many Authors, of every thing their Representative faith, or doth in their name; Every man giving their common Representer, Authority from himselfe in particular; and owning all the actions the Representer doth, in case they give him Authority without stint:  Otherwise, when they limit him in what, and how farre he shall represent them, none of them owneth more, than they gave him commission to Act.