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…

And whereas the Doctor tells us, that this Regal Monarchical government is natural, though not jure, yet ductu naturae, we being led thereunto through the veins of Nature, in a paternal or fatherly rule, as is plain by the Book of God, that the first Fathers of mankind were Kings, and so Regal government to descend upon the first borne by primogeniture, as their families increased and spread further, &c. pag. 8.

And whereas the Doctor tells us, that this Regall Monarchicall government is naturall, though not jure, yet ductu naturae, we being led thereunto through the veines of Nature, in a paternall or fatherly rule, as is plaine by the Booke of God, that the first Fathers of mankinde were Kings, and so Regall government to descend upon the first borne by primogeniture, as their families increased and spread further, &c. pag. 8.

I refer him to what Molina and Pineda say,^u Molina will tell him, that power is of two sorts, some that hath its rise ex solo jure naturali, and therefore called natural, as the power of the Father over his children, and those that descend from him: Other power there is, which hath its origination from the will of Men, they being willing to subject themselves to the supreme, and is therefore called a civill power. So that paternal and civill power are not the same, but have two originals.

I referre him to what Molina and Pineda say,^u Molina will tell him, that power is of two sorts, some that hath its rise ex solo jure naturali, and therefore called naturall, as the power of the Father over his children, and those that descend from him: Other power there is, which hath its origination from the will of Men, they being willing to subject themselves to the supreame, and is therefore called a civill power. So that paternall and civill power are not the same, but have two originals.

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