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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.
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.
4. I did and do believe Grotius, Lawson, and other Writers of Politicks, who agree, that the bare Title of Supream given to a King, is no proof that the whole Soveraignty (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, Honourary, 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.
5. I did and do believe that the King is singulis & universis subditis major quoad Fus regendi: and that the people quâ talis have no power of public Government, but that he is not Universis melior: And that meliority maketh the final Cause: And that salus populi, or bonum publicum is the Essentiating End or terminus of Humane Government: And it is no Government (save equivocally) which is destructive of this End.
5. I did and do believe that the King is singulis & universis subditis major quoad Fus regendi: and that the people quâ talis have no power of publick Government, but that he is not Universis melior: And that meliority maketh the final Cause: And that salus populi, or bonum publicum is the Essentiating End or terminus of Humane Government: And it is no Government (save equivocally) which is destructive of this End.