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justice_n	authority_n	peace_n	power_n	2,673	5	4.5185	4	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

fit to observe that not only is the Supreme Power as hath been said in it 's own nature One and Indivisible but in all States and civil Societies it is lodged in one Person either in a Natural or Moral sense For even in the more Popular parts these many who are said to have a share in the Government have this power properly Lodged in them according to the principles of the highst Re-publicans no otherwayes then as they are Morally Civilly or Virtually one that is as they aggree in one Mind Will or Determination And therefore when we speak of Government in the general they as well as Monarchs they may be called by one single Name the Soveraign Sixthly We do the more fully comprehend the Nature of the Supreme Power and Soveraignity by taking a distinct view of some of the most Considerable and Essential things that belong to it And first whoever has the Supreme Authority is the Author and Pountain of all Civil Law and Justice For to have the trust and care of preserving the Unity and Peace and Society of the whole and every part of the Society necessarly includes a Power of deliberating and judging what is fittest for these ends of prescribing these Rules Measures and directions by which the Subjects whose Wills as to these things that concern the Society are submitted to the Supreme are in their several Capacities to Regulat their Actions as also of fortefying these Laws against all contempt and disobedience and of punishing the Transgressors seeing the most perfect Laws without being armed with the Coactive Strength and Authority should be Naked Ridicoulous and Ineffectual And whoever is the Supreme giver of the Laws is for the same Reasons Vested with a Power to Interpret Correct and change them as necessitie requires Strict Riged and Litteral Laws is the Severest and Bloodiest Master in the World And therefore it belongs to the Supreme Power in which is the Paternal care of the Subject to Interpret and Mitigate the severity of the Law or suspend its Execution as may best agree with the end of the publick safety and the wholsome intention of all Laws whatsoever The perpetual multitude of new Actions and qualities of Actions which cannot be foreseen is so vast that no Laws can be made so general and extensive as expresly to comprehend them and therefore it belongs to the Universal trust care of the Supreme Power there immediatly or by inferior deputed Judges and Ministrators not only to declare these Actions about which the Laws were directly intended but also to apply the general and material Justice of the Laws to the varieties of Actions and Emergencies which they cannot explicitly comprehend the condition of Humane Affairs the Tempers and Inclinations of the People the means of advancing the most general ease and conveniences of the Government and the Subject care remarkably Various Mutable not only in different Nations and Societies but at different times in one and the same Therefore the wisest and celebrated Law Givers have acknowledged that their Laws were not the best they could have framed but only the best the condition of their People could bear at the time of their making and were therefore with the alteration of their condition and circumstances to be Rectified or Improven Yea even these Laws which the Sacred History tells us were conveyed by Moses from GOD himself to the Jewish Nation cannot be said to be the most compleat and perfect Directions that could be given to Mankind otherways all the World at least such as heard of them should indispensably be oblidged to their Observation but their perfection consisted in their being Proportionated and adopted to the Capacity Temper and Circumstances of that Rude Ignorant Supperstitious Unthankful and Sensual People for whole Benefit they were given Aand when the Observation of these Laws and Ceremonies were designed to separate and distinguish from the Luxurious and corrupted Nations And so for the alteration of Times and Circumstances and the Diminution of the Hazards against which they were intended Some of the most Considerable of them were innocently dispensed with and is continued and at last the whole or Genetality abrogated and loused their Obligation from all which it is evident that generally speaking an immutable Humane Law is an absurdity or contradiction and when ever former Laws and Constitutions appear to the Supreme Power who is the only Judge in such Cases to fail of their Subserviencie to the more general Happiness and Conveniencies of the Society the Soveraign has not only unquestionable Right but is found by the nature of supream Power and Trust which is from the Gracious and the bountiful Governour of the World to Alter Correct or Abrogate them as may be most expedient 2dly The Soveraign to whom belongs the Care not only of the Internal Order and Happiness of the Society but also of the securing of it from External Violence and preserving its Ballance and Proportion with the Neighbouring States and Societies has the undoubted power of making War and Peace and consequently of the raising and disposing of Forces making Confederacies sending Ambassadours keeping Correspondences and prescribing the necessar Expences affoorded by the Subjects for these and other Necessities of the Government and for the supporting the Strength Honour and Interest of the Nation 3dly And it belongs to the Soveraign only in whom is the Supremacie and Original Jurisdiction and whose it is to Judge of the Qulifications and Fitness of such as may be imployed in any inferiour Administration to Errect and Regulate the Freedoms and Priviledges of all inferiour Corporations to Constitute Magistrates to Appoint and Nominate all publick Ministers Officers of State Judges Counsellours and in a word all that serve in any Publick Civil Trust Capacity whatsoever Seventhly These are the Foundamental and Vital Prerogatives of Government and Supremacy to which all the other Particulars by Consequence and Connexion are easily Reduceable And now from what has been said in the General concern of Government the inference is Natural and Obvious that whosoever murmurs against the Being or Exercise of the Supream Authority who absurdly pretends to limit it for some seeming present advantage endeavour to incroach upon the Prerogative of the rightful Soveraign is guilty not only of the greatest wickedness by contemning the Power and resisting the Ordinance of God but also of the greatest Folly by doing what in him lyes to subvert the Foundations of all Peace and Tranquillity and to shake and unsettle that surest Rock on which his own and his posterities perpetual security and happiness is built Eightly As to the different Forms of Government it may be observed first that seeing no man denyes but that it is possible in any Society to have it sufficiently known and publickly acknowledged what is their form of Government or in whose hands the Soveraignity is Lodged it is certain that that Society is in so far the happiest of all others in