The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…

¹§. 9. VI. If God have not the Sovereignty over all the world, then no man on earth can have any Governing Power: But Princes and Rulers have a Governing Power: Therefore the Sovereignty is in God.

¹§. 9. VI. If God have not the Soveraignty over all the world, then no man on earth can have any Governing Power: But Princes and Rulers have a Governing Power: Therefore the Soveraignty is in God.

1. 1There is scarce any thing that the world needeth so much as good Governors, nor that is a greater blessing to them: Which Diogenes intimated when he was to be sold, and bid the Crier cry, Who will buy him a Master: and when they ask'd him what he could do, he said, He could tell how to command or rule men. Laert. in Diog. Dicebatque cum intueretur in vita gubernatores, medicos, & philosophos, animalium omnium sapientissimum, hominem esse: cum autem inspiceret somniotum interprets, conjectores, vates, vel qui gloriae aut divit•is addicti essent, tunc demum nihil se stultius existimare homine. Id. ibid.There is scarce any thing that the world needeth so much as good Governours, nor that is a greater blessing to them: Which Diogenes intimated when he was to be sold, and bid the Crier cry, VVho will buy him a Master: and when they ask'd him what he could do, he said, He could tell how to command or rule men. Laert. in Diog. Dicebatque cum intueretur in vita gubernatores, medicos, & philosophos, animalium omnium sapientissimum, hominem esse: cum autem inspiceret somniotum interpretes, conjectores, vates, vel qui gloriae aut divit•is addicti essent, tunc demum nihil se stultius existimare homine. Id. ibid.

The reason of the major is, because Kings can have no power but what they receive from some or other: there is no effect without a cause. And if they receive it, it is either from God or Man as the Original. Not from Man, for the people themselves have no governing power to use or give, as to the government of Commonwealths: for their personal power over themselves is of another species, and cometh short of this in many respects, (as else-where I have proved): And if it were otherwise, yet they have nothing themselves but derivatively from God, as is proved before: and therefore they themselves must have their power from him, from whom they are, and have all that they possess: But God cannot give that which he hath not himself, either formally or eminently: Therefore he hath governing power formally or eminently, or else no Prince, or Man, or Angel can have any, no more than they can have being or reason without him. And though his power be transcendent, his exercise of it must be according to the capacity of the subject: and therefore morally by Laws and Executions. So that as all things else in the creature are derived, so is power. And as in beings, aut Deus aut nihil is an undeniable truth, so as