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Richard Baxter's penitent confession and his necessary vindication in answer to a book called…
Richard Baxter's penitent confession and his necessary vindication in answer to a book called The second part of the mischiefs of separation, written by an unnamed author with a preface to Mr. Cantianus D. Minimis, in answer to his letter which extorted this publication.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1691
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.
1. As Subjects they are to obey. 2. As Supreme Council they are to be the chief Advisers. 3. As the Supreme Court, the King is finally to exercise Judicature by them. 4. As they represent the people as far as they are Freemen and not Slaves, they are to secure their reserved and natural Liberties and Properties (in their Lives, Limbs, Wives, Children and Acquisitions,) which are not to be taken from them. but by Consent or Forfeiture. 5. Their Legislative power they have not (as Hooker and many others think by Nature, but by that Fundamental Contract which made the form of Government: For though Government be of God in the Genus, and as empowered and obliged primarily to promote obedience to Gods own Laws; yet it is of Man by Contract, that the Persons or Families, or Number and Order of Rulers be constituted, and restraint put on the Invasion of Propriety.
1. As Subjects they are to obey. 2. As Supream Council they are to be the chief Advisers. 3. As the Supream Court, the King is finally to exercise Judicature by them. 4. As they represent the people as far as they are Freemen and not Slaves, they are to secure their reserved and natural Liberties and Properties (in their Lives, Limbs, Wives, Children and Acquisitions,) which are not to be taken from them. but by Consent or Forseiture. 5. Their Legislative power they have not (as Hooker and many others think by Nature, but by that Fundamental Contract which made the form of Government: For though Government be of God in the Genus, and as empowered and obliged primarily to promote obedience to Gods own Laws; yet it is of Man by Contract, that the Persons or Families, or Number and Order of Rulers be constituted, and restraint put on the Invasion of Propriety.
4. I did and do believe Grotius, Lawson, and other Writers of Politics, who agree, that the bare Title of Supreme given to a King, is no proof that the whole Sovereignty (summa potestas) or Legislation in particular, is in him alone, and not at all in the Senate or Parliament; for it is for Unity sake, Honorary, not excluding, but implying the Parliaments part, and also that he is to exercise his Judicatures by the Legal way of his Courts, Judges and Magistrates.