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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87137	The prerogative of popular government. A politicall discourse in two books. The former containing the first præliminary of Oceana, inlarged, interpreted, and vindicated from all such mistakes or slanders as have been alledged against it under the notion of objections. The second concerning ordination, against Dr. H. Hamond, Dr. L. Seaman, and the authors they follow. In which two books is contained the whole commonwealth of the Hebrews, or of Israel, senate, people, and magistracy, both as it stood in the institution by Moses, and as it came to be formed after the captivity. As also the different policies introduced into the Church of Christ, during the time of the Apostles. By James Harrington.	Harrington, James, 1611-1677.	1657 (1657)	Wing H820; Thomason E929_7; ESTC R202382	184,546	252

able to raise such a revenue doth equally on which word grows the Blackberry conduce to Empire that is as much as could any natural ballance of the same He may stain mouths as he hath done some but he shall never make a Politician The Earth yieldeth her natural increase without losing her heart but if you come once to force her look your force continue or she yields you nothing and the ballance of Empire consisting of Earth is of the nature of her Element Divines are given to speak much of things which the Considerer baulks in this place that would check them to the end he may fly out with them in others whereunto they do not belong as where he saith that Government is founded either upon Paternity and the natural advantage the first Father had over all the rest of Mankind who were his sons or else from the increase of strength and power in some Man or Men to whose will the rest submit that by their submission they may avoid such mischief as otherwise would be brought upon them Which two Vagaries are to be fetched home unto this place For the former if Adam had lived till now he could have seen no other then his own Children and so that he must have been King by the right of Nature was his peculiar Prerogative But whether the eldest son of his house if the Praevaricator can find him at this time of the day have the same right is somewhat disputable because it was early when Abraham and Lot dividing Territories became several Kings and not long after when the sons of Jacob being all Patriarchs by the appointment of God whose right sure was not inferiour unto that of Adam though he had lived came under Popular Government Wherefore the advantage of the first Father is for grave Men a pleasant phancy neverthelesse if he had lived till now I hope they understand that the whole Earth would have been his demeans and so the ballance of his propriety must have answered unto his Empire as did that also of Abraham and Lot unto theirs Wherefore this way of deduction comes directly home again unto the ballance Pater familias Latifundia possidens neminem aliâ lege in suas terras recipiens quam ut ditioni suae qui recipiuntur se subjiciant est Rex Fathers of families are of three sorts either a sole Landlord as Adam and then he is an absolute Monarch or a few Landlords as Lot and Abraham with the Patriarchs of those days who if they joyned not together were so many Princes or if they joyned made a mixed Monarchy or as Grotius believes a kind of Commonwealth administred in the Land of Canaan by Melchisedec unto whom as King and Priest Abraham paid tithes of all that he had Such a Magistracy was that also of Jethro King and Priest in the Commonwealth of Midian Fathers of families for the Third sort as when the Multitude are Landlords which hapned in the division of the Land of Canaan make a Commonwealth and thus much how ever it was out of the Praevaricators head in the place now reduced he excepting no farther against the ballance then that it might consist as well in money as in land had confessed before His second Vagary is in his deduction of Empire from increase of strength for which we must once more round about our Coal fire The strength wherof this effect can be expected consists not in a pair of fists but in an Army and an Army is a beast with a great belly which subsisteth not without very large pastures so if one man have sufficient pasture he may feed such a beast if a few have the pasture they must feed the beast and the Beast is theirs that feed it But if the People be the sheep of their own pastures they are not onely a flock of sheep but an Army of Lyons though by some accidents as I confessed before they be for a season confinable unto their Dens So the advantage or increase of strength depends also upon the ballance There is nothing in the world to swear this Principle out of countenance but the fame of Phalaris Gelon Dionysius Agathocles Nabis c. with which much good do them that like it It is proper unto a Government upon the ballance to take root at home and spread outwards and to a Government against the ballance to seek a root abroad and to spread inwards The former is sure but the later never successeful Agathocles for having conquer'd Affrica took not the better root in Syracusa Parvi sunt arma for as nisi sit consilium domi To conclude this Chapter the Praevaricator gives me this thank for finding out the ballance of dominion being as antient in Nature as her self and yet as new in Art as my writings that I have given the world cause to complain of a great disappointment who while at my hand that satisfaction in the Principles of Government was expected which several great wits had in vain studied have in diversifying riches in words only as Propriety Dominion Agrarian Ballance made up no more then a new Lexicon expressing the same thing that was known before seeing the opinion that riches are power is as antient as the first book of Thucydides or the Politicks of Aristotle and not omitted by M. Hobbs or any other Politician Which is as if he had told Dr. Harvey that whereas the blood is the life was an Opinion as antient as Moses and no girl ever prickt her finger but knew it must have a course he had given the world cause to complain of a great disappointment in not shewing a man to be made of Gingerbread and his Veins to run Malmesey CHAP. IIII. Whether the Ballance of Empire be well divided into National and Provincial and whether these two or Nations that are of distinct ballance comming to depend upon one and the same head such a mixture create a new ballance THe Ballance of Empire that is National as it is stated in the former Chapter stands in regulated or mixed Monarchy upon the Propriety or Native interest of the Nobility in a Commonwealth upon the Propriety or Native interest of the People so these are very natural But the ballance of absolute Monarchy partaking of force as well as Nature is a mixed thing and not much different from the ballance of Provincial Empire or the manner of holding a Province or conquer'd Countrey In a Province if the Native that is rich be admitted unto power the power grows up Native and overtops the Forreign therefore you must either not plant your Citizens in your Provinces where in time they will become native or so planting them neither trust them with Power nor with Armes Thus the Provincial ballance comes to be contrary to the National And as where Empire is Native or national the administration of it can be no otherwise then according to the National ballance so where Empire is forreign or provincial the