A30564:117
A brief answer to Doctor Ferns book tending to resolve conscience about the subjects…A briefe answer to Doctor Fernes booke tending to resolve conscience about the subjects…
A brief answer to Doctor Ferns book tending to resolve conscience about the subjects taking up of arms / by Jer. Burroughs.A briefe answer to Doctor Fernes booke tending to resolve conscience about the subjects taking up of arms / by Jer. Burroughes.
London? : s.n., 1643?
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
He further argues, It is probable indeed that Kings were at first by choice here, as elsewhere; but can Conscience rest upon such remote probabilities for resistance, or think that first election will give power against Princes that do not claim by it?
He further argues, It is probable indeed that Kings were at first by choice here, as elsewhere; but can Conscience rest upon such remote probabilities for resistance, or think that first election will give power against Princes that do not claime by it?
1. Is it but a remote probability that Kings were here first by election?1 I demand, what first invested such a Family with Regal power, more then another? It must be either God from heaven designing it, as David, or men appointing it, ⟨p. 8⟩or taken by force: there is no quartum. It was not the first, and to say the third is the right, is an extreme wrong to the King. • mere force can give right, then whosoever is most forcible hath right; it must therefore be something else: what can that be but the consent of people to such a family? which is in effect all one with election. You may give it what name you will, it is not therefore a remote probability, but a near certainty, that even here Kings were at first either by choice, or by that which in effect is all one.
1. Is it but a remote probabilitie that Kings were here first by election?1 I demand, what first invested such a Family with Regall power, more then another? It must be either God from heaven designing it, as David, or men appointing it, ⟨p. 8⟩or taken by force: there is no quartum. It was not the first, and to say the third is the right, is an extream wrong to the King. meer force can give right, then whosoever is most forcible hath right; it must therefore be something else: what can that be but the consent of people to such a family? which is in effect all one with election. You may give it what name you will, it is not therefore a remote probabilitie, but a neere certaintie, that even here Kings were at first either by choice, or by that which in effect is all one.