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

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 ⟨p. 49⟩to governing power, or Sovereignty, either it is, Primitively, Supremely and Transcendently in God, or there is none in any Prince or Parents: for if they have it not from Him, they can have none at all.

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