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. FromScripture ,‘ ' Fathers, and Reafon, how fame

that State—Maxim is, quel Authority 2': Origi-
will)! and Radically in the People. ’I + . . .

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on the fubjeét of the Succeﬂion; I" have read them over and over, and
a .I am now very well fatisﬁed in my own reafon,‘ that, The Defcmt of the
Crown can-not, via juris, he impeached in the Right Line, by any A6} what/b-
. ever; And indeed there is nething more prevalent withme, againﬂ: the

" exclnﬁon of the Rightful Heir, than the Priniciple that “mutt be made ufe
_ ' of,for the effecting of that' Enterprife. Ih‘ave been ever-tOId,that all thol'e
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for the fettlementof the Crown, mull: prefuppole, that, Royal Authority i: any: _

77411}! and Radically in the People; and from them by confem derived to the King. On this
fame Principle muft our next Parliament then proceed, in cafe their relolntion be,‘
to alter the Cuorfe of Right Succeﬂio‘n r or elfe what makes One of your Pamphle—
teers, ( a perfon, I am conﬁdent, either of the Iefuitical, or Puritanical Faction )
to alErt, that the power the King hath, is derived from the confent of the People,
in the ﬁrlt Conltitution of the Government. I will give you his very words.

“ As to the Qgeflion, whence the Parliament derives the power, let hlm lcnow,
“ that the Parliament derive their Power and Authority from the fame original,
“ the King derives his :’ the King hath not his Power from them, nor they from

“ the Kin ’; they both derive their Authority from the confent of the People ‘

“ in the ﬁr Conltitutio'n of the Government, either tacit, 0r eXprefs, or by their
“ exprefs or tacit content, in the infenﬁble, and little, or great, or more remark.
“ able Alterations, that the‘Government hath fuffered in the courfe of time, 67c.

Out of thefe fame words you and I may clearly infer, that our Author is an

Aﬂertdr (amongl‘t Other things ) of this one Doctrine :, .
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51% < ‘fmzzuhtnce is derived tovthe King—and Parliament. 4 A ‘T‘. -..
r ' - - -4‘he Author muﬂ: he a very bold Brittonfhatdarc write and publilh ﬁrth perni.
. - . cious Antimonarchical Stuff. Methinks thofe Quarters on Lndgdte lhould teach
f; him more modelty. Well, if 'aGate be nor his Fate, ’tis probable he may at laﬂ', .
for his Crows O\uill, meet with the Burial of an Afs. Had I been one of his Cabal, ‘
l lhould have advifed him, inl’cead of the Statute of .1 3. .Elz'z. to have placed the ~ l
Aft of 1 3.Car. 2. Regi: c. 1. that is now in forte (and long Ipray God itmay be
fo) to deter fuch as he fon thefuture, from-Treafenable and seditious Praéti‘fes,
ptbcgieding either from Printing, Writing, Preaching, or. malicious and adﬁfed‘
Sp ing. 7 ~- i ' . .

.Having given you a {hort Ariimadverlion on the Author, and his Doctrine, I
think my felt ‘obliged (for the Vindication of Truth, and the Monarchy of En-
gland ) to fay fomewhat Which maybe pertinent, towards the deftroying of our
Authors Leviathan; I mean the Original Sauemign Power of Mr. Mnitztude : and for
the effecting of this, I lhau plainly fet down, i *’ .

1 . The Poﬁtion I undertake to make good.

2. The Proofs-of it, drawn from Scripture, Fathers, and Reaforl. ‘ ‘

My PolitiDn then is this ”That G ad is the immediate Author of Soveraignty in'the
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Scripture, Fathers and Rea on {peak it clearly, that Soveraign Power refers to

God, as to its immediate Author, and Donor : but that it is underivedly, primari-

ly, and natively in the community from thence transferred toKings -' Ne W quidtm '

l Lucidiannm, not one Syllable. I begin ﬁrlt with Holy Scripture, out of which I

l {hall produce feveral Texts, to prove that the King and his Power are originally,and‘

igniemcdiately {torn God ,dependEnt Rom- him alone , and independent from alhoo‘ '
I'So ,

Byme King: reign -,i Prov. 8 '15. The power: that are, dréorddined of God, Rom. l
l 3. 2. I have [aid ye are Code, Pfal. 82.. 8. Aﬂpower it given from nhove,]0h.rg.
God hath fpokgn it once, twice hm I heard it, all. power helongeth unto the Lord, Pfal. 62.
1 1. When thou [halt fay, I will fet aKing Wer me, like mail the Nation: about me,-
tl~ou jhnlt in a wzﬁ fer him K ing over thee, whom the Lord thy God jhnll chuﬁ. And

to defcend to ’garticulars, dorh not God by the mouth of his Prophet Nathan, tell ' 1

Sam David? I anointed thee King over Ifrnel. Doth’not Solomon acknomedge

: King. ;" that the Lord hath cﬁablilhed him, and ﬁt him on the throne of hi: For. ' .
ther David .? Was it not the faying of the Prophet Ahijah in the per-
{on of 6°C! unto jerohodm, I will give the lq'ngdom unto thee :, 1 King. I l. Neither
the Kingdom only, and the power of Prince's. but all things elfe proper unto
them, are after a peculiar manner Gods. 'Their Crown, Pfal. 21. Their Anoint-
in , Pfal. 89. Their Scepter, 2Chron. 9. And Throne are Gods, and their perfon:
a orned with all thefe are fo Divine and Sacred, that they th emfelves are the Au
. elr of God, and Son: of the moﬂ high .- 2 Sam. 14. Pfal. 82. Thefe Texrs being

uﬂicient to prove my Poﬁtion from Scripture, I come to the Suffrages of the Fa- ~
thers, and they allert. that the conﬁituting and making of Kings-is referved as a

‘ prmlegcd care; a proper Prerogative for God himfelf.

I begin with Tertuﬂid‘n, writing ad Scapu'lam, and be faith, That a Cloriﬂidn it
enemy to none, much left to King and Emperor, whom he knoweth to he of God‘s Conﬂitu—s
tior , and fo it neaﬂierily bound to love, reverence, and honour him, to whom with hi: Ema
pire he Wlflletl? all jlafetyz, for when that perilheth, it it like the world will he at an end ;‘ ' l
we honour the Emperor therefore ﬁt much a: we are allowed by God’: Law,- andar mnch at
i: expedient for him, 45 the man, who it next to God himfelf. . v.

Clemens Romamu Con/lit. 1.7.c. 1-7. fays, Fear, or Honour the King, knowing that he

. it ordained, or Catt/littered h)! the Lord. '

1’ "7"“! thus, 11b. 5. cont. Her. 3} whofe appointment they are horn men, by hit up-
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j, Saint Hz'erome’s mind is this; in his Comment on the fecond of Daniel, 7734's
oKing: and Kingdom: have their con/fermion, change, and deﬂz'tntzon by the ﬁle Royal 171m;
(fare of God. . . . . , . ' .
p S. nﬂ‘in vindicatesthe'making of Kings, abfolutely to God, by a reafo'n mi-
ianfwerable, Qua join: new: Dem eﬂ‘; Becomfe he alone is the true God’.‘ His mean»
@ing is, you may as well deny him to be the only true God, as robbing him of this.
Prerogative of making Kings. Lz'h. 4.de aw. dell. c. 3 3. I. . 4, .
a . , I will once more‘cite Termllinn, with Whom lwill CO‘ntlnde; he in his ApolOge.
.‘ti‘ck agamlt the Gentiles, c. 30. tells 115 thus; Inde eﬂ Impt'mtor, undo @“homo an-
teqnmn Imperatorz, z'nde pore/tn: z'ﬂi, undo Cﬁ' jpz’ritm. Thence hon the Emperor hte’powgr .
whence he: fpirit. And that is by God only, who infufed into him his Soul by crea'
ltlmg It. ‘ > ; I .

You fee, that God in the Divinity of thefe ﬁve Fathers, is the immediate Au;
then, and Creator of Soveraignty in Kings and Princes; ‘who in preheminence are
pen to God, above all; their authority fubordinate to, coOrdinate with none.
*1 fear, if theft- Holy Fathers were living now adays, they would be traduced as
Court Paralites, or Penﬁoners. . .

Butafter all this, our Conﬁderato‘r, or youfor him, may obje‘ét. thatif the So;-
veraign Power of Princes be thus Wholly from God; how is it (aid in Scripture,
that tome of the Kings were made by the People, and {'0 received their Regal
Power from them, and by their Eleétion. It is faid of Soul, that All thepeople
Went to Gilgnl, nndthere made himkinghﬂore the Lord. Of David, The men of fade/2
anointed David king of fndnh; the e den of [had anointed Dnmd king over,f1ﬁael’:
._1 Sam. 1 I. is. 2 Sam. 5. It is anfwered, Zadoclejhe Prieft, and Natl?” the pro-
phet anointed Solomon King, and the Lord alfo anointed him, Otherwife he, had
not been the Lord’s Anoint. d, , but the anointed of ano'clgand Nathan. T he Lord
anointed Solomon, as the Malter of the Subftance, and gave unto him Regal POW/CF;
zadoclg and Nathan anointed Solomon; as Majter of the'Cere'mony, and. declared
God had given him this power. For outward Unﬁtion dorh not confer upon
Kings theirAuthorityz, but it isaﬁgn only of Soveraigntyy; becaufe. if we p‘our

‘ Oilﬁmto‘ the fame 'VCHél with any other Liquor, it will be alivay uppef-

mo . . .

, The Elders then of judo/o and [ﬁne] anointing Daniel King, ‘did manifeft him to be
their King; but did not give unto him the Right unto his Kingdom; this was only

from the Lord: appointing. a . ,
_ ‘ like manner, Saul ﬁrﬂ: anointed by the Lord, to he Captain over his Inherz'mnce .-

1 Sam. I9. upon the Petition of the People, was let aKihg over them by the
:Lord, and ehofen immediately by God to be a King; he only gave Sam! Kingly
Power, and not the People; and therefore when it is laid, T hat the people made San:
king; it mult be underﬂood, thatthey only did put Saul into the poll'eﬂion of the
Kingdom to reign over them. ' \ , " _ _ ..

' But our Author may objeét farther, and {Buy this, admit the pOWer of Prince's
be not from the People, Yet it is often derived unto them fro'm'their Progenitors
by fucceﬂion, or obtained by their own Conqueft, how then is it only andinxmedi-
ately from God. ' _ . .

5.] return this Anfwer', thatSuccellion and lawful Conq‘ne'll: are Titles Wher'ChY
Princes receive their Authority, they are not the original and immediate Fountain
of this Authority. Heat, moiftu're, cold,- drinel‘s, and our temper arih‘ng from
them ( Whilﬂ' We are falhioned in our Mothers Womb) are p‘repa'rat'iveswhchhY
our Bodies are made Receptacles for our Souls; but the Creator of ourSoul is God
{o Princes have juﬂ: claim unto their Soveraign Power by the Titles 0f ShéC‘CmOn-r
and Conqueﬂz, but the prime Author of their Power is GOd- In brief, though
the Deﬁgnation or Deputation' of the p'erfon be by eleﬂiOn, "fucceﬂion, conqneft,‘
55"“ 3"?t the Royal POWer and Soveraignty is from God. primarily, forgzially and

mediately, as Mott/aim was deligned by the Apor‘tles letting Oi“ him apart. and:
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thefalling of the Lot upon him, but the Apoﬁolical Power was immediately, and
{01er from Chrift. So aWoman by her choice and" conl‘ent defigueth her Husband,
but the Marital Power and Dominion is only from God. So that you clearly fee,
that an humane Act may dcl’ign the perfon of a King, but y t the power is confer.-
red by God alone. Having anfwered the objeé‘tions that may be [tamed by Our
Author , and clearly evidenced from Scripture, and the Suﬁi’ages of ancient Fae
thcrs, That there i: no ﬁzpreme, or Royal Power, but from God alone; and Confequent-
ly he is fole Donor, and Soveraignty relates to him,,asto its immediate Author,
.1 come to prove in the third place, by feveral reafons that the Collation, or Dona-
tion of Soveraign Power cannor be from the Community.

That God then is the Author of all Government, and Sov’eraign Power {nail be
manifel‘ted by thefe Arguments following.

1. The fame, that is Author of all Creatures in their Being'andExiflzence,‘ mull:
be Author of their Subliﬁence, and prefervation in that Being and Exiftence. It is
aninfallible Maxim in the Schools, inNature, in Scripture; He that gioeth Being,
i: the fame that preferecth Being. Creation is begun Confervation, and Confervation
is a continued Creation : we allume; things made exiltent by Creation, cannot
,fubﬁlt and have continuance, but by order, and Government; from whence it will
naturally follow, God‘muft be the Author of this Order, and Government -, and
confequently hath net left it arbitrary to man '( as the Habhmt vainly fancy) by
compoﬁtion and confent to do it. The authority of S. Air/fin {hall beprodhced to

ﬁrengthen this Argun1eut: ngemle paéiuttt qt (fays he ) jbeiemti:

Libs-CORN]: humane obedire Regibu: [hire It. :5 award, ageneral, {reunion/idem»-

e. 8. p45}, comm of Mmafttfociuy to obey their Kings. in this Father’s Dia-

. left, Generate path»: is the Diﬂate of Nature, the Law and OrdinanCe

0f 00d Almighty; if it be f0 ( as indeed it is ) I would beg the favour that our

.Author will thew as much for Ariflocracy, or Democracy, as here is for Monarchy :
an cafe he does, he {hall bemy Apollo for ever.

2. If this Soveraignty be natively inherent in the thing called the Multitude, it
Inuit be proper to every individual of the Community :. ii it'be-lb, (and mutt beib
according to the Tenet of the Seéiarift, which is inforced bythat other as ground-.
Jefs and lalfe State- Maxim, which they hold, “That every one is born a Free-man in the ‘
Ford? 5) then willfollow of neceﬂity, that the Generation and Polterity of thoﬁ:
who have ﬁrlt contraéted with their eleéted King, are I101: bound to that Covent,
.but upon their native Right and Liberty may {tart aﬁde, appoint another King, and
that without breachof Covent, or any jull: Titlein the King of their Fathers, to
force, or reduce them to his obedience : an excellent way devifed to preferve King

and Kingdom in peaceand fafety. ‘ .

3. It is abfurd to fay, and maintain in true Philofophy, that the Community is
the ﬁrth Seat, and Subject in which Soveraignty is immediately ﬁxed? How can
.1! be 131d {0 , 166ng in them it was never Found, never actuated, never exercifed?
Vam eﬂ potentia, qua mqm reducitr in data».

4. This Tenet of our Author prefuppofeth, that all men coming into the world,
are by the Right and Privilegeof nature originaﬂy horn equal, independent one ﬂat» do
”1,”, without éﬁ,m?,.,d,ﬂgrme m from another. This is contradictory to the

Word 0 God, which teachEth that God did ﬁx Government in A-

7!» no}! Udr- dam before the Woman was made, or Children begotten by him. Is
5:132:23 not every one that cometh into the world begotten of aFather ?' ls
Tm in ,b, he not thus by the Law of Cod and Nature to fubmit and fubieét
ﬁr]: chaptnyf himfelf in reverence and obedience to his Father? ls he nor then fo
Gcncﬁs . far from havingoriginal power inherent in himfelf, that he hath net
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.fubjettroanother, is he not by the fame Law {object to his Fathers Superior ’ Who
tan make this fubordination‘void, except he willranverle the Ordinance of God
and natu“ iwhere then is the veracity of this fallacious Maxim which hath worked
fomuch mi Chief in our Kingdom, Every mam: [admit Freemanm the Fore/2‘5 Arr:
they not fuhordina'te, fubieét to their, preexiltent Father, and to his Superionr
too, if he have any .? is not the Female Sex by the ordmance of God and DHCUIC,
, inferiour and fubordinate to the Male? DOth not nature teat h that theW ire by the
Lawof nature is fubjett to the Husband? it did fo in my great Grandfathersdays;
Whether it does {'0 now or not, let our Author give you an anfwer, for l, hippol'e
him to beamarried man, or Widower with-Children, theing he is [0 careful ofva
iterity. '

5.1f all power- he originally in the People,"then it will by confeduence Follow,_,

that the lawful authority of a Father over his Children, and-a Husband over his
Wife, are derived from the Children and Wife, and the Children and Wile in
fome Cafes may refume their power, derived from them andtheir native Liberty.
" If our Author will aver fo, he is 'to becudgelled, not to be anfwered. .

~ The ﬁxrhand lall: Argument: God only haththe‘po‘vve'r of Man’s life. No
Man is Damimt: vita. fat. ‘ Whofo taketh away the Life of Man, in God’sJultice
and Ordinance, his life isto be taken away again. This. principally and prorerly
belongeth to God; but God hath given this to fome Deputies. This, power is
nor given to every one. This were to deltroy mankindand make God the God of
Diforder and ConfuﬁOn. Some man itisthen by dil’tint‘tion and exeellency, who
is God’s Deputy, and then this can .be none elfe but he, in whom is Soveraign
Power; and this power is from none elle but from God Almighty: and if this”
power over life be from God, Why not all Soveraign Power? feeing it is Homo.

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‘cannot be diltraéted, put away, nor impaired: as'aCrown, take any part from
it, it is no morea‘ crown. . . , a . ' -

To conclude with the very words of the molt fam0us Earl of Clarendon; This
,fole propolition, that men cannot difpofe of their o‘wnlives, hath alwaysbeeu held
as amanifelt and undeniable argument, that Sorteraigns never, had, nor can have
their Power from the Pe0ple. ' ‘ . . ' -

My Reafons being thus prefented to you, I will anfwe‘r fome Arguments, that
our Author, lknow, is furnilhed with, to prove, that God is nor, the immedi—
ate Donor, the Author, the Eﬂicient, the Conltituent of Kings, and their Sove-
raign Power. .A-nd his Arguments, (.which indeed you will ﬁnd to be meet Paro'.
logifms) Sophtfms, or captions Reafonings) are fuch as there.

1. Hisﬁrﬂ: Argument may be framed thus -, neither the Law Of God, or Na-
ture, determine, that Monarchy is the Government, or Ariltocracy the Goverm,
ment, or Democracy the Government; or why one more than more, and fame
few more than many lhould have the fupremacy; ergo the Donation of the Power,
the Collation of Supremacy, is by derivation from the People to the Governor, or
Governors. ,

To this Argument, lanfwer thus; It is an Inconl'equence; becaufe althoughl
lhould grantall the Antecedent, and that the fpeciﬁcation of the Government,
the people deﬁgning ( if ever any people were {0 really to be free of Government,
becaufe it is imaginable, let us grant it as real) either one to have the Soveraign,
ty over them, as in Monarchy, or fome few of the better fort, as in Ariltocracy,
-or many as in Democracy, itwill nor follow, ergo, Soveraignty in one, few, or
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for the Government: the Collation or the power followeth upon this delignation,

and depotation of the perlon or perfons, from theitnmediatesﬂonation and Ordi-
nation of God. As When fuch and fuch men are deligned tO‘Holy Orders, and
Functions, the deﬁgnation of the perfon and perfons is the work, and At}; of the
Church; but the collation of the power is the proper, peculiar and immediate
work and ail: of God, as all knowing and found Divines do willingly. acknovv-
lcdge.

To reafon therefOre from the power, which deligneth and deputeth a - perfon, or
perfons for. the charge; to the power of collating, or giving the power. it felf, isa
Sophil‘tical Caption, which the Schools call Figum Dz'éiz'om'r, where there is a pro.
poling in the Antecedent in one kind, and concluding in the confequent in anoa
ther and different kind. ' ’ ' ' .

2. His {econd Argument may be this; that which is of that condition, and
temper, that it may be enlarged or ftraitned : thﬁwhich actually: and experiment-
ally is foundvarious and different, it cann0t be. ﬁle by any conltitution of nature,
orlnliiturion of God, bur Monarchichal Power is fuch, ergo.

.The Aiajor of his Syllogifmtmuft be fome way better qualiﬁed: otherw‘il‘e it
Wlll conculde nothing, or too much, which is the equivalent in the Rules of right
Reafoning to that. to conclude nothing. In the fame ma‘nner'l ;will reafon, every
man hath nota little mealhre of‘Knowledge, 'Reafon or’Difcourfe: but fome are
more, fome are lefs knowing Men: lome more, lome leis rational, ergo know;
ledge, realbn, m. are net natural to man. The conlequencehalrs like Loyala;
becaufe t0 reafon, Ab 4814 exercito adaéfum ﬁgndmm, or contrariw'ife, Will .nOt al.
ways hold ; or to realon a poremia fe’crmda ad primam “061 e contra, from the diﬁ.

'ference in the cxerciﬁ, to conclude a diffetence or dilparity in the :ﬁrft capacity, is ‘

inconfequent. To berationalin the ﬁrﬂ‘ capacity, and natural power, is-(frentjaltd
all men, and equal in all: but in the aft, theexerciﬁ of the Rational Faculty; there
isavalt difparity, becaufe of a great latitude in different aftual ability; nature ad-
mits a great variety in the ufe and exercil’e of her natural powers, that allare not a
like ﬁtted, and enabled for the fccond Ads. In the ﬁrfi capacity nature is {o juﬂ‘,
f0 equal, fo indulgent to all, that the native full: Radical Power being of it felf
in ind-oifrlaz‘li, is e ual inall, nolefsir. the lealt knowmg man, than in him ( fuch is
our Author) w o in lharpnefs of wit approacheth nearelt to Angelical and
Noetical Spirits. ' e ~ . -, . _ ‘ .

I could give you inﬂances as Well in Moraland Divine thingsa‘s in natural, but,
for the fake of Brevity I will pretermit them.

The Refult of Whatl have faid, is» this, That feeing in things natural, éc.
this accidental and ﬁrpervenient variety in their exercife deitroyeth nor thetrue ,
Ellence, and infeparahle eﬂentials of things themfelves, but naturally they are uni-
form, and equally the fame; fo in the different Monarchies of . the world,the d1-
fparity and difference of the exerciﬁng of Monarchical Power, which is accideno
tal, makcth them not fpeciﬁcally and effentially different, and diverfe. But before
I leavethis Argument, I molt entreat you to conﬁder, that l maintainmt, lplead
not at this time for a Difporical Soveraignty, an abfolute Power, fuch as the great
Turk this day exercifes over his Subjects: I maintain only fuch Royal, Paternal
Soveraignty, as we and our Anceﬁors havelived long, and happily under. This
asit hath its Royal Prerogatives inherent naturally m the Crown, and inleparably
from it -, (0 it trencheth not upon the liberty of the perfon, or the propriety of
the Goods of the Subjects, but in and by the lawtul and yell ac‘ts of Jurifdié’cion.
In a word, this Government or ours is ﬁnely defcribed by the Royal Pen of King

Charla the glorious Martyr, Writing to the Prince of I-Valer, _ . T be ”ex:
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main hing, rays he, on which year pro/perity will.~ depend, and move, is that of Civil
fujiice, wherein the fettled Law: of thefh Kingdoms, to which you are rightly \Htir,
are the mo]? excellent .; ulet you can governh ', whichh] an admirable temperament give
, yer} muchto, Subjeil: In die/try, Liberty, and Happinej}; and yet reﬁrve enough to the
Majeﬂy and Prerogative of'any King, who own: his People ar Shhjeéh, not a; Slavery,
who/2’ fuhjeiiion‘, atit preferver theirProperty,” Peace and Sﬂﬁtyt, [0 it will never dimi—
nzjh your Rights, nor their ingenuout Lihertiet, which conﬂﬁ‘ tn the enjoyment of the fruit;
of their Induﬂ'ry, and the beneﬁt of thofe Law: 5 to Which themfeloe: have conﬁne

ted. \

. Thus (Sir )I have endeavoured ( ('0 far as I am able ) to vindicate Truth, and his?
Majefties Soveraign Power agamil: all Papal and Democratical Pr'attifes,~ by dee
monftrating'to you from Scripture, Fathers and Reafon, That (Jodi: the tma
mediate Author of Severazgnty in the King, and that he it no Creature of the People:
Making.

’Tis high time to puta' period to my Letter : lcra‘ve Your pardon for its lengthf
,hut betoreI do {0, .1 Will, being wellaﬂ'ured,by reading Our Authors Animadverﬁons'
throughout , he has beﬂtrid this AS, the Multitude, ever ﬁnce Forty One; I” will; .
I fay, prefent to your View a Catalogue of the Trappings, that this Beall: is adorn-
ed withal, and they are thefe, That '

Royal Authority is original in the Community, from them by confent derived to Kingt
immediately, mediately only from God. - _ g . .-

God it no more the Author of Regal, than of Arijiocratical, or Democratical Power;
éffupreme, than of fuhordinate Command. . . . _ -

Dominion which i: ufurped, and not juﬂ', while it remain: Dominion, and till it he le-ﬁ
gall)’ again dive/ied, refer; to God,'~ a: tb its. Hut/air, and Donor, a: much a: that, which
,‘5 Hereditary. - . _ , . .-

Sovereignty and Power in aKing i: h)! conveyance from the People, hy a Tru/l devolv-

ed uponhim; and that it i: conditionate, ﬁduciary, and proportioned according a: it plea-
ﬁth the Community to entru/t more, or leﬁ.’ . , - , .4 f . . , .
' Royal Power in aKing i! not ﬁmply fupreme, hut in fame cit/2': 'there ‘i: a Cooordiv
teate Power, or Collateral: nay, that in lime cafe: the King is fuhordinate to the Com-
mnﬂtt d ‘ _ -_
In )lbme cafe: the King may he refi/ied and oppofed by violence, force," and Arms, at lea/tI
in adefenﬁve way. . . A
- Soveratgnty i5 derived to the King from the People, by communication, ﬁt that they may
refume it in fame caﬁet. . . .1 . .' . . . . . » .

A p ivate man may make away his perfonal liher , and enﬂave him/Elf to another, er-
go a People or Multitude may do the like, and inve aKt'ng with Soveraignty.

Neither Scripture nor nature determine the fpe ciﬁcation of Government, nor do the inti-g.
mate, why this man more than another, or he than a'third, or the]? more than tho/e jhould
have the power of Government. , . '_

‘ Every Society of Mankind i: a perﬁ’fl Reptthltck, and con/equentl)’ the community may
[WW] and refliﬁe the defebl': and error: of Soveraignty. ‘1

If there were not fuch a poorer and fuperintendenCy in the people to fupply, God hath lefi‘
Man remedileﬁ. _

The Right of Dominion i5 founded in Grace.

Rex cit major vﬂngulis, minor univerﬁs. ﬂ, ’ ,. , . ,

030d efﬁcit tale, eft magis tale : That which makgth any thing fitCh 0'? fﬁch. it it"?
it felf much more fuch or fuchz, our Author and his Brethren Will be ready to aﬂ’ume 5"
but the People make the King, give him all the Power and Meiji/i} hc hath', ergo the People

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