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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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Object. But the Scripture tells us, that the powers that be are ordained of God Rom. 13 1. And it ordained of God, then not of man, nor by any Fluxus, or appointment from or of man.
Ans. Not to speak of the word [Greek or Hebrew], which signifies rather ⟨p. 9⟩ordered then ordained: Government is of God two ways, either by immediate donation, as that of Moses, or by mediate derivation, as that of Judges, and the Kings of Israel. The government of Princes now is not by immediate donation or designation, but by mediate derivation, and so it is both of God and man too, as Fortescue speaks, Quicquid facit causa secunda, facit & causa prima.
Ans. Not to speake of the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which signifies rather ⟨p. 9⟩ordered then ordained: Government is of God two wayes, either by immediate donation, as that of Moses, or by mediate derivation, as that of Iudges, and the Kings of Israel. The government of Princes now is not by immediate donation or designation, but by mediate derivation, and so it is both of God and man too, as Fortescue speakes, Quicquid facit causa secunda, facit & causa prima.
But the Doctor tells us, that Kings at first were not by choice of the people, but that election was a defection from, and a disturbance to that natural way of descent of governing Kingly power by a paternal right, pag. 9. of his Reply. That Monarchical government is not a mere invention of man, as Democracy and Aristocracy are; but that it is rather ductunaturae, though not jure naturae, we being led there unto through the veins of Nature in a paternal or fatherly rule, pag. 8. as is plain by the Book of God, that the first fathers of mankind, were the first Kings and Rulers: For we see (saith he) that the earth was divided amongst Noah and his three sons, and still as they increased, new Colonies were sent out, who had the government both Regal and Sacerdotal, by primogeniture; whence it appears, (saith he) that Monarchy was the first government, it being late ere any popular rule Aristocratical or Democratical appeared in the world: And that Monarchy, how ever we cannot say that it was jure divino, yet it was exemplo divino, the government which God set up over his people, being Monarchical still in Moses, Judges and the Kings of Israel, pag. 8.