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…

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.

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 naturall way of descent of governing Kingly power by a paternall right, pag. 9. of his Reply. That Monarchicall government is not a meere invention of man, as Democracie and Aristocracie are; but that it is rather ductunaturae, though not jure naturae, we being led there unto through the veines of Nature in a paternall or fatherly rule, pag. 8. as is plaine by the Booke of God, that the first fathers of mankinde, were the first Kings and Rulers: For we see (saith he) that the earth was divided amongst Noah and his three sonnes, and still as they increased, new Colonies were sent out, who had the government both Regall and Sacerdotall, by primogeniture; whence it appeares, (saith he) that Monarchy was the first government, it being late ere any popular rule Aristocraticall or Democraticall 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 Monarchicall still in Moses, Judges and the Kings of Israel, pag. 8.