Which individual would agree with the position expressed in the passage below?
Source: Bishop Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, 1679
..Finally, let us put together the things so great and so august (exalted] which we have said about royal authority,
Behold an immense people united in a single person; behold this holy power, paternal and absolute; behold the
secret cause which governs the whole body of the state, contained in a single head: you see the image of God in
the king, and you have the idea of royal majesty. God is holiness itself. goodness itself, and power itself. In these
things lies the majesty of God. In the image of these things lies the majesty of the prince...
Peter the Great
John Locke
Oliver Cromwell
Martin Luther