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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.
First he supposes that the King is the supreme, as Peter calls him, or the higher power, as here.
1. It is true, Peter calls the King Supreme, but in the same place he is made an ordinance of man, and therefore to be limited by man.1 He may be the chief man in authority, and yet limited in that authority; he is supreme, but not absolute; We grant that the Houses of Parliament, and we all, are his Subjects, but not Subjects to his will, but to that power of his that Law gives him.
1. It is true, Peter cals the King Supreame, but in the same place he is made an ordinance of man, and therefore to be limited by man.1 He may be the chiefe man in authority, and yet limited in that authority; he is supreame, but not absolute; We grant that the Houses of Parliament, and we all, are his Subjects, but not Subjects to his will, but to that power of his that Law gives him.
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2. He takes for granted the King is the higher power. Here observe his mistake. Let it be granted that the King hath the highest power, yet what propriety of speech is it to say that he is the highest power? It is proper to God to say that he is Power in the abstract.