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The truth of the times vindicated whereby the lawfulness of Parliamentary proceedings in taking…The truth of the times vindicated whereby the lawfulnesse of Parliamentary procedings in taking…
The truth of the times vindicated whereby the lawfulness of Parliamentary proceedings in taking up of arms, is justified, Doctor Ferns reply answered, and the case in question more fully resolved / by William Bridge ...The truth of the times vindicated whereby the lawfulnesse of Parliamentary procedings in taking up of arms, is justified, Doctor Fernes reply answered, and the case in question more fully resolved / by William Bridge ...
London: printed by T.P. and M.S. for Ben. Allen, 1643
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First, when God gave the power of the Sword to men, Gen. 9 6. he gave it indiscriminatim, without difference, to all the world, Noah and his sons being all the men that were then alive in the world; and he gave not the Sword only to Noah, but to all his sons that then were upon the face of the earth; not that every one might ordinarily use it, but that they might, as they thought fit, appoint one or more who might exercise that power that was given to all, as the first seat of it.
First, when God gave the power of the Sword to men, Gen. 9 6. he gave it indiscriminatim, without difference, to all the world, Noah and his sonnes being all the men that were then alive in the world; and he gave not the Sword onely to Noah, but to all his sonnes that then were upon the face of the earth; not that every one might ordinarily use it, but that they might, as they thought fit, appoint one or more who might exercise that power that was given to all, as the first seat of it.
Secondly, because the power of ruling and governing is natural, and what ever is natural, doth first agree to the community, or totum, and afterward to the particular person or part, as the power of seeing and hearing (ask Facultas Parisiensis observes to this purpose) is firstly in the man and from the man in the eye or ear or particular member.
Secondly, because the power of ruling and governing is naturall, and what ever is naturall, doth first agree to the communitie, or totum, and afterward to the particular person or part, as the power of seeing and hearing (ask Facultas Parisiensis observes to this purpose) is firstly in the man and from the man in the eye or eare or particular member.