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A69585 An essay of a king with an explanation what manner of persons those should be that are to execute the power or ordinance of the kings prerogative / written by the Right Honorable Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban. Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. 1642 (1642) Wing B282; ESTC R16627 3,910 10

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AN ESSAY OF A KING WITH An explanation what manner of persons those should be that are to execute the power or ordinance of the KINGS Prerogative WRITTEN By the Right Honorable Francis Lord Verulam Viscount Saint Alban Decemb. 2. LONDON Printed for Richard Best 1642. An Essay of a King written by Sir Francis Bacon A King is a mortall God on Earth unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour But withall told him hee should die like a man lest he should be proud and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also 2 Of all kinds of men God is least beholding unto them for he doth most for them and they do ordinarily least for him 3 A King that would not feele his Crown too heavy for him must weare it every day but if he think it too light he knoweth not of what mettall it is made of 4 He must make Religion the Rule of government and not the Scale for he that casteth in Religion onely to make the scales even his own weight is contained in these Characters Tekel uphrasin he is found too light his Kingdom shall be taken from him 5 And that King that holds not Religion the best reason of state is void of all piety and justice the Supporters of a King 6 He must be able to give Counsell himself but not to relye thereupon for though happy events justifie their Councels yet it is better that the evill event of good advice be rather imputed to a Subject then a Sovereigne 7 He is the Fountain of Honour which should not run with a wast pipe lest the Courtiers ●ell the waters and then as Papists say of their holy Wels to lose the vertue 8 He is the life of the Law not onely as he is lex loquens himself but because he animateth the dead letter making it active towards all his Subjects praemio poena 9 A wise King must doe lesse in altering his Laws then he may for new government is ever dangerous it being true in the body politique as in the corporall that omnis subita mutatio est periculosa and though it be for the better yet it is not without a fearfull apprehension For he that changeth the fundamentall Laws of a Kingdome thinketh that there is no good title to a Crown but by conquest 10 A King that setteth to sale Seats of Justice oppresseth the People for he teacheth his Judges to fell Justice and praecio parata praecio vincitur Justicia Bounty and Magnificence are vertues verae Regiae but a prodigall King is neerer a Tyrant then a parcimonious for store at home draweth his contemplations abroad but want supplyeth it self of what is next and many times the next way and herein he must be wise and know wh●t he may justly doe 12 That King which is not feared is not loved and he that is well seen in his craft must as well study to be feared as loved yet not loved for feare but feared for love 13 Therefore as hee must alwayes resemble him whose great name he beareth and that in manifesting the sweet influence of his mercy over the severe stroke of his Justice sometimes so in this not to suffer a man of death to live for besides that the Land doth mou●n the restraint of Justice towards sin doth more retard the affection of love then the extent of mercy doth enflame it and sure where love is bestowed feare is quite lost 14 His greatest Enemies are his Flatterers for though they ever speak on his side yet their words still make against them 15 The love which a King oweth to the weal-publike should not be restrained to any one particular yet that his more speciall favour do reflect upon some worthy ones is somwhat necessary because there are so few of that capacity Hee must have a speciall care of five things if hee would not have his Crown to be put upon him First that simulata sanctitas be not in the Church for that is duplex iniquitas Secondly that inutilis aequitas sit not in the Chancecery for that is inepta misericordia Thirdly that utilis iniquitas keep not the Exchequer for it is crudele latrocinium Fourthly that fidelis temeritas be not his Generall for that will bring but seram poenitentiam Fiftly that infidelis prudentia be not his Secretary for that he is Anguis sub viridi herba To conclude as he is of the greatest power so hee is subject to the greatest cares made the servant of his people or else he were without a calling at all He then that honoureth him not is next an Atheist wanting the feare of God in his heart An explanation what manner of persons those should be that are to execute the power or Ordinance of the Kings Prerogative written by the said Sir Francis Bacon late Lord Chancellour and Lord St. Albans THat absolute Prerogative according to the Kings pleasure revealed by his Lawes may be exercised and executed by any Subject to whom power may be given by the King in any place of Judgement or Commission which the King by his Law hath ordained in which the Judge subordinate cannot wrong the people the Law laying downe a measure by which every Judge should governe or execute Against which Law if any Judge proceed he is by the Law questionable and punishable for his transgression In this nature are all the Judges and Commissioners of the Land no otherwise then in their Courts in which the King in person is supposed to sit who cannot worke that trespasse Felony or treason which the Law hath not made so to be neither can punish the guilty by other punishment then the Law hath appointed This Prerogative or power as it is over all the Subjects so being knowne by the Subjects they are without excuse if they offend and suffer no wrong if they be punished And by this prerogative the King governeth all sorts of people according unto knowne will The absolute prerogative which is in Kings according to their private will and judgement cannot be executed by any Subject neither is it possible to give such power by Commission or fit to subject the people to the same For the King in that he is the substitute of God immediatly the Father of his people and head of the Common wealth by participation with God and his subjects Discretion Iudgement and feeling love towards those over whom he raigneth only proper to himselfe or to his places and person who seeing he cannot in any others diffuse his wisedome power or gifts which God in respect of his place and charge hath enabled him withall can neither subordinate any other Iudge to governe by that knowledge which the King can no otherwise then by his knowne will participate unto him And if any subordinate Iudge shall obtaine Commission according of such Iudge to govern the people that Iudge is bound to think that to be his sound