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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.
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.
6. I believe that the same God that Instituted Political Government, did also make, 1. Self-Government. 2. Paternal Government. 3. Marital Government. 4. And Pastoral Church Government: And that no King hath any Right to null any of these, or alter them in Essentials or Integrals; but only to over rule them.
7. I believe that all Power is of God, and no King hath any but what God hath given him: And that God hath given none against himself, or any of his own Laws: And all Laws are nullities that are against them. And are not Acts of Authority but Usurpation, (as Hooker saith.)