Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	heir_n	king_n	successor_n	3,041	5	9.2063	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59543	The addres [sic] of the University of St. Andrews to the King by the rector, vice-chancellor, heads of the colledges, deans of faculties and the rest of the masters and professors of the University of St. Andrews, whose names are insert at the end of their address; also a letter from the arch-bishops and bishops to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty.	University of St. Andrews.	1689 (1689)	Wing S297; ESTC R33582	14,817	22

such Governments and that the happiness of a State consists not in the Greatness and Extent of its Bounds and Empire but in its Internal order and Tranquillity Eleventhly As to the great publick inconveniencies of a Monarchs turning a Tyrant It is observable First That the marks of a Tyrant are so variously and dubiously given by the enemies of Monarchy that it is very hard for the most Ingenious much more for the Vulgar to determine where any Governour deserves this odious Character 2dly If every man would industriously imploy himself in the proper business of his own calling and capacity there would be little time and less occasion for these unprofitable Inquiries into the Councils and Actions of Princes which of necessity must be kept more closs and mysterious then these of private men And yet we see how lyable these are to be often and greatly misrepresented 3dly Tho there is no shadow of true reason to imagine that Monarchs are accomptable to their Subjects for their Administration which is an Errour no less absurd an accomptable Monarch being an inferior Supreme then it is pernicious both in Government and Religion Yet Princes cannot but remember that as Subjects are accountable to their Soveraign and Superior So Monarchs are to theirs the Great GOD and Governour of the World by whom Kings reign and against whom only they sin 4ly We cannot fancy very few Monarchs so void of common sense as not to understand that their Honour and safty does depend on the happiness and prosperity of their Subjects so it is next too impossible that they can design their general hurt and oppression 5ly When some Severities actually happen which are generally lookt upon as excesses of Government they are never so heavy in Nature nor so Universal in their Extent and Duration as the dreadful Calamities of Civil War which is the common cause of the frailtie and mortality of Empires and which is thus always so unluckie as to produce the same and more and greater Evils then are pretended to be feared or suffered from the Lawful Superior and whoever by his fears discontents and grievances will needs disturb the Government or would circumscribe it must asurdly suspect himself to a power which he must acknowledge to be greater otherways he cannot dream how he can set Limits to the former But lastly which is a sufficient answer when it is asked what if a Monatch abuse the Power neglect the dictates or Laws of his Kingdom we ask the enemies of Monarchie what if in their forms of Government the Major part or Respresentatives and Trusties of the People do the same If they say that these can be resisted or judged by the rest then it seems very evident that there can be no Government at all or at least none that can be promised to be of a weeks continuance if these cannot be justly opposed or resisted then it is clear that the difficultie proposed is at least equal in all forms of Government but that it is greater on the Re-publicans side we are able to bring from impartial History many more example of Popular Governments generaly vitiated or in which avaritious irreligious and licentious Men have had the whole swey then can be produced of wicked Monarchs And this one matter of Fact being true is enough to destroy all the empty Objections of the Enemies of Monarchie as to that case of the Alteration of Civil Laws besides that these have no force nor obligation but what they intirely derive from the Soveraign And we are by all the Rules of Discretion and Charity to suppose that when ever there happens any change in any of them it is intended for the better and for the more general convenience of which the Soveraign always is Judge who ever thinks the perpetuity of Laws an advantage to a State or Society most have the less esteem of Popular Government when after examination ye shall find that never was there a greater number of partial and ridiculous constitutions never more frequent abrogations vicissrudes and changes of Laws then in the Roman Athenian and such other Republicks which has given occasion to that remark of some Lawyers That any considerable alteration in the Civil Laws cannot be expected in Monarchies in less then the Revolution of 30 years generally speaking but in the Popular Governments with every Callends of January Twelfthly From what has been said in the general concerning Monarchy it is easie to observe that these Monarchies are most perfect which are Hereditary Being in their Nature of the most equable Stability for seeing every Successor in such a Series has a full right to the intire Soveraignity This Right can never prescribe or be diminished And tho the Wisdom of the most Absolute Monarchies is in all Ages thought to use several Methods and Forms of Consulting their Subjects in the great and weighty Affairs of the Government yet no Concession whatsoever to subjects no custom be it never so long of imploying them or any number of them for private or more solemn Counsels or in administration of Justice can Allienat any part or making any shares of the Supreme Authority the Society may also Reasonably expect the greatest care and sincerest love from Hereditary Princes who considering the Government and Society as their Property and Inheritance will watch over it with the more dilligent and circumspect exactness that they may transmit it in the more secure and flourishing condition to their posterity Thriteenthly And now in the last place what is the fixed and established Government of this ancient Kingdom we cannot explain or assert in words more clear and comprehensive then these In which at several times and different occasions the Subjects of this Realm have solemnly sworn either inviolable fidelity and allegiance and in which the Representatives of the Body of this Nation in their most solemn and lawful Convocations have openly declared to the World the unquestionable Rights of this Monorchical Government in these it is solemnly owned and acknowledged for Subjects give no Prerogative but assert them in several publick Oaths and Declarations that the Kings Majesty is the alone Supreme Governour of this Kingdom and above all Persons in it whatsomever that he is a free Prince of a Soveraign Power having as great Liberties and Prerogatives as any other King Prince or Potentate whatsomever that his Majesty is a Soveraign Monarch Absolute Prince Judge and Governour over all Persons Estates and Causes in this Realm That the Kings sacred Majesty and his Heirs and Successors for ever hold the Royal Power from God Almighty over this Kingdom And that there are great Obligations from the Laws of GOD the Laws of Nations the Municipal Laws of the Land and Oath of Allegiance to maintain and defend the Soveraign Power and Authoritie of the Kings Majesty and that sad consequences do accompany any incroachments upon or diminitions thereof they acknowledge the great happiness that this Kingdom hath for many Ages