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Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied…
Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied to England / written by Richard Baxter for promoting peace ... and for the fuller explication of the Treaty for Concord in 1660 and 1661, and of the Kings gracious declaration about ecclesiastical affairs ... and for further explication of his treatise of episcopacy ...
London: printed by T. Snowden for Thomas Parkhurst, 1691
Chapter 8: How far this Confederacy and Concord bindeth the Members of a National Church to Confor…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§ 5. The Kings Interest is chief in Majority, in genere cause efficientis. And the Kingdoms chief in Meliority, in genere causae finalis, it is false that the King who is singulis major, is Universis Minor in Authority or Jure regendi: But it is true that the King tho singulis melior (melioritate Relativd) is not universis melior) for finaliter, the King was made for the Kingdom, rather than the Kingdom for the King: And yet both King and Kingdom are made by God and for God; that is, for his Will or Pleasure and his Glory and Honour: And as it is the Honour of Gods Sovereignty, Wisdom and Justice that is glorified in the Magistracy, so even the honour of Magistracy is part of the final meliority: As Gods Love glorified in the common good, is another part of it: And so God is the Beginning and the End, and All in All. And this is the Rulers Interest.
§ 5. The Kings Interest is chief in Majority, in genere cause efficientis. And the Kingdoms chief in Meliority, in genere causae finalis, it is false that the King who is singulis major, is Universis Minor in Authority or Jure regendi: But it is true that the King tho singulis melior (melioritate Relativd) is not universis melior) for finaliter, the King was made for the Kingdom, rather than the Kingdom for the King: And yet both King and Kingdom are made by God and for God; that is, for his Will or Pleasure and his Glory and Honour: And as it is the Honour of Gods Soveraignty, Wisdom and Justice that is glorified in the Magistracy, so even the honour of Magistracy is part of the final meliority: As Gods Love glorified in the common good, is another part of it: And so God is the Beginning and the End, and All in All. And this is the Rulers Interest.
§ 6. The People have no Jus regendi, Governing Authority to use themselves, or to give to others: So false is the Principle of Mr. Hooker and Laud, and many others, that make them the Fountain of Power. They have the Power called strength (in which a Horse excelleth a Man) but not Authority. If any Nation be Democratical it is not because men are born with any right to Political Government, but only to Private Self-government. But because Contract hath so ordered the Form of Government. And indeed tho a City may be Democratically Governed, I know not how any great Nation can possibly be so: So that I think there is scarce any true Democracy in the World.