If the state is to remain strong and firm, it is first of all, the guarantor of public peace.

如果法国要保持强大和稳固的话，首先它要保证治安。

In those small republics, therefore, the magistrate very soon found it necessary, for the sake of preserving the public peace, to assume to himself the right of presenting to all vacant benefices.

因此，在那些小共和国里，地方长官很快就发现，为了维护公共和平，有必要亲自承担向所有空缺职位提出建议的权利。

Such a clergy, upon such an emergency, have commonly no other resource than to call upon the civil magistrate to persecute, destroy, or drive out their adversaries, as disturbers of the public peace.

这样的神职人员，在这样的紧急情况下，通常没有其他办法，只能请求地方行政长官迫害、摧毁或驱逐他们的对手，认为他们是公共和平的扰乱者。