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The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667
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.
Answ. Absolute Propriety in a Governable creature, is a plenary title. But no man hath absolute Propriety in another. Yet Parents, and the Masters of Slaves, who come nearest it, have an answerable Power of Governing them. But mans fullest Propriety is in Brutes and Inanimates, which are not Creatures capable of Government.
Answ. Absolute Propriety in a Governable creature, is a plenary title. But no man hath absolute Propriety in another. Yet Parents, and the Masters of Slaves, who come neerest it, have an answerable Power of Governing them. But mans fullest Propriety is in Bruits and Inanimates, which are not Creatures capable of Government.
§. 18. The Relation then of Sovereign King or Rector in God to man, is founded in the forenamed Relation of a Proprietor; supposing the Aptitude of the Subject and the Owner.
§. 18. The Relation then of Soveraign King or Rector in God to man, is founded in the forenamed Relation of a Proprietor; supposing the Aptitude of the Subject and the Owner.
Having proved that God is the Universal King, I come to show his title to his Kingdom •itulus est fundamentum juris. Sovereignty or summa potestas, is Jus supremi Regiminis. Where this Right is founded, great ignorance hath made a great controversy, the thing to men that are of competent understandings in such subjects, being most easy and past controversy. God having made man, is immediately his Owner, because his maker. Having made him a Rational free Agent, and so to be Governed, he hath the Jus Regendi by Immediate Resultancy from his Absolute Propriety; supposing the Nature of the Creature, and the Perfection of the Creator alone, which so qualify one to be a Subject, and the other to be the Governor, that they are as it were the remoter fundamentum Relationis. From the being of Man Hoc aliquid à Deo creatum, resulteth the propriety of God: From the specific nature of Man, as a Rational, free, sociable Creature, he is by immediate Resultancy Gubernandus: and being such, his Creator, remotely for his Infinite Perfections and sole aptitude, and proximately, because he is Mans absolute Owner, is by Resultancy his rightful Governor: And that he neglecteth not this his Right, but actually Governeth him, appeareth in the very making man such, and continuing him such as is made to be Governed,