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§. 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,¹ as also in his actual Laws and Judgements. This is the true and plain resolution of the Question of the Title of God to his Kingdom, or fundamentum of the Relation of Universal King.

Having proved that God is the Ʋniversal King, I come to shew his title to his Kingdom •itulus est fundamentum juris. Soveraignty or summa potestas, is Jus supremi Regiminis. Where this Right is founded, great ignorance hath made a great controversie, the thing to men that are of competent understandings in such subjects, being most easie and past controversie. 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 qualifie one to be a Subject, and the other to be the Governour, 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 specifick nature of Man, as a Rational, free, sociaile 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 rightfull Governour: 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,