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A48177 A Letter to a friend shewing from Scripture, Fathers, and reason, how false that state-maxim is, royal authority is originally and radically in the people. 1679 (1679) Wing L1655; ESTC R12997 9,086 11

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being of it self in indivisibili is equal in all no less in the least knowing man than in him such is our Author who in sharpness of wit approacheth nearest to Angelical and Noetical Spirits I could give you Instances as well in Moral and Divine things as in natural but for the sake of Brevity I will pretermit them The Result of what I have said is this That seeing in things natural c. this accidental and supervenient variety in their exercise destroyeth not the true Essence and inseparable essentials of things themselves but naturally they are uniform and equally the same so in the different Monarchies of the world the disparity and difference of the exercising of Monarchical Power which is accidental maketh them not specifically and essentially different and diverse But before I leave this Argument I must entreat you to consider that I maintain not I plead not at this time for a Dispotical Soveraignty an absolute Power such as the great Turk this day exercises over his Subjects I maintain only such Royal Paternal Soveraignty as we and our Ancestors have lived long and happily under This as it hath its Royal Prerogatives inherent naturally in the Crown and inseparably from it so it trencheth not upon the liberty of the person or the propriety of the Goods of the Subjects but in and by the lawful and just acts of Jurisdiction In a word this Government of ours is finely described by the Royal Pen of King Charles the glorious Martyr writing to the Prince of Wales The next main ●hing says he on which your prosperity will depend and move is that of Civil Justice wherein the settled Laws of these Kingdoms to which you are rightly Heir are the most excellent rules you can govern by which by an admirable temperament give very much to Subjects In dustry Liberty and Happiness and yet reserve enough to the Majesty and Prerogative of any King who owns his People as Subjects not as Slaves whose subjection as it preserves their Property Peace and Safety so it will never diminish your Rights nor their ingenuous Liberties which consist in the enjoyment of the fruits of their Industry and the benefit of those Laws to which themselves have consented Thus Sir I have endeavoured so far as I am able to vindicate Truth and his Majesties Soveraign Power against all Papal and Democratical Practises by demonstrating to you from Scripture Fathers and Reason That God is the immediate Author of Soveraignty in the King and that he is no Creature of the Peoples Making 'T is high time to put a period to my Letter I crave your pardon for its length but before I do so I will being well assured by reading our Authors Animadversions throughout he has bestrid this Ass the Multitude ever since Forty One I will I say present to your view a Catalogue of the Trappings that this Beast is adorned withal and they are these That Royal Authority is original in the Community from them by consent derived to Kings immediately mediately only from God God is no more the Author of Regal than of Aristocratical or Democratical Power of supreme than of subordinate Command Dominion which is usurped and not just while it remains Dominion and till it be legally again divested refers to God as to its Author and Donor as much as that which is Hereditary Soveraignty and Power in a King is by conveyance from the People by a Trust devolved upon him and that it is conditionate fiduciary and propertioned according as it pleaseth the Community to entrust more or less Royal Power in a King is not simply supreme but in some cases there is a Co-ordinate Power or Collateral nay that in some cases the King is subordinate to the Community In some cases the King may be resisted and opposed by violence force and Arms at least in a defensive way Soveraignty is derived to the King from the People by communication so that they may resume it in some cases A private man may make away his personal liberty and enslave himself to another ergo a People or Multitude may do the like and invest a King with Soveraignty Neither Scripture nor nature determine the specification of Government nor do they intimate why this man more than another or be than a third or these more than those should have the power of Government Every Society of Mankind is a perfect Republick and consequently the community may supply and rectifie the defects and errors of Soveraignty If there were not such a power and superintendency in the people to supply God hath left Man remediless The Right of Dominion is founded in Grace Rex est major singulis minor universis Quod efficit tale est magis tale That which maketh any thing such or such is in it self much more such or such our Author and his Brethren will be ready to assume but the People make the King give him all the Power and Majesty he hath ergo the People are above the King c. Quisque nascitur liber Every man is born a Freeman in the Forest Pray God we do not instead of a Forest come again into a Wood. These Principles are the right way to effect it FINIS