A30577:163
The glorious name of God, The Lord of Hosts opened in two sermons, at…
The glorious name of God, The Lord of Hosts opened in two sermons, at Michaels Cornhill, London, vindicating the Commission from this Lord of Hosts, to subjects, in some case, to take up arms : with a post-script, briefly answering a late treatise by Henry Ferne, D.D. / by Jer. Burroughs.The glorious name of God, The Lord of Hosts opened in two sermons, at Michaels Cornhill, London, vindicating the Commission from this Lord of Hosts, to subjects, in some case, to take up arms : with a post-script, briefly answering a late treatise by Henry Ferne, D.D. / by Jer. Burroughes.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1643
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2. Whatsoever quality any man is of before he be invested with power, should be no prejudice to his §2power when once he is invested with it. If a Prince should be chosen out of a mean condition, as many have been, must not he be obeyed as a Prince, notwithstanding that, as Saul, Agathocles, and others? would it not be accounted an high offence, yea Treason ⟨p. 52⟩for any to refuse obedience to a Prince upon this ground, that when he and that Family was chosen, perhaps neither he nor his family was the fittest and ablest that might have been had? No, we are to rest in the choice being made. Is not the reason the same in this, although the degree inferior? The one is the supreme man in authority, the other a Member of the supreme Court of Judicature, and regulating all authority.
2. Whatsoever quality any man is of before he be invested with power, should be no prejudice to his §2power when once he is invested with it. If a Prince should be chosen out of a meane condition, as many have been, must not he be obeyed as a Prince, notwithstanding that, as Saul, Agathocles, and others? would it not be accounted an high offence, yea Treason ⟨p. 52⟩for any to refuse obedience to a Prince upon this ground, that when he and that Family was chosen, perhaps neither he nor his family was the fittest and ablest that might have been had? No, we are to rest in the choice being made. Is not the reason the same in this, although the degree inferiour? The one is the supreme man in authority, the other a Member of the supreme Court of Judicature, and regulating all authority.
3. Yet further, the honour of the Members of the §3House of Commons consists much in this; although personally some of them are not of very high quality, yet they are representative of whole Shires, Counties, Cities; whereas the Noble-men themselves are not thus representative; every one is there for himself, and for the good of the Kingdom, because in regard of his estate and honour that he is born to, he hath a deeper share then other men in the good of the kingdom.