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§ 8. How commonly do such dispute the foresaid case, whether the Prince or People be the chief, without distinguishing Majority and Meliority? How oft do they speak of their different Right, without distinguishing, separate or distinct from opposite? How oft do they falsely tell us that the People are the Fountain of Power? And how oft do they tell us that Government (Monarchical or Aristocratical) are a mere Trust, and Rulers only the Peoples Trustees, without distinguishing what is of God in it, and what is of man, and what trust God committeth to them, and what men commit? And what power people have by Nature, and what by Contract.

§ 8. How commonly do such dispute the foresaid case, whether the Prince or People be the chief, without distinguishing Majority and Meliority? How oft do they speak of their different Right, without distinguishing, separate or distinct from opposite? How oft do they falsly tell us that the People are the Fountain of Power? And how oft do they tell us that Government (Monarchical or Aristocratical) are a meer Trust, and Rulers only the Peoples Trustees, without distinguishing what is of God in it, and what is of man, and what trust God committeth to them, and what men commit? And what power people have by Nature, and what by Contract.

§ 9. I have oft proved that Political Government of Societies, is so far different from Self-government, that it is not the contribution of the Self-governing power of individuals given up to one, that maketh political power. It's fully proved,

1. In that God is the prime Sovereign, from whom all Power is given. There is no Power but of God. 2. And God hath gone before man, and hath instituted Government himself, by the Law of Nature and of Scripture, and hath not staid for man to do it? How can man be the Fountain of that which God hath instituted before him? He hath not left man to his own