for to me it is a Fiction unconceivable, because the people hath the Royalty radically in themselves, as in the Fountain and Cause, and conferreth it on the man who is made King; yea, the people by making David ⟨p. 410⟩King, confer the Royal power on the King: this is so true, that Royalists forgetting themselves, inculcate frequently in asserting their absolute Monarch from Ulpian, but misunderstood, that the people have resigned all their power, liberty, right of life, death, goods, chastity, a potency of rapine, homicides, unjust wars, &c. upon a creature called an absolute Prince, even, saith Grotius, as a man may make himself a slave, by selling his liberty to a master. Now if the people make away this power to the King, and this be1 nothing but the transcendent absoluteness of a King: certainly, this power was in the people; for how can they give to a King, that which they have not themselves? As a man cannot make away his liberty, to a master, by becoming a slave to him, if his liberty were immediately in God, as Royalists say, Sovereignty is immediately in God, and people can exercise no Act about Sovereignty, to make it over to one man, rather then to another. People only have an after-approbation, that this man to whom God hath given it immediately, shall have it. Furthermore, they say, people in making a King, may make such conditions, as in seven cases a King may be dethroned, at least resisted, saith Hu. Grotius. Ergo, people may give more, or less, half or whole, limited or absolute Royal power to the Prince; but if this power were immediately in God, and from God; how could the people have the husbanding of it, at their need to expend it out in ounce weights, or pound weights, as they please? And that the people may be Taverners of it, to sell, or give it, is taught by Grotius de jur. bel & pac. l. 1. c. 4. Barclai. advers. Monarch. l. 4. c. 6. Arnisae. cap. 6. de majest. an princeps qui jurat subditis, &c. n. 10. n. see Aventiun. Anal. l. 3. Chytreus, l. 23. l. 28. Saxon Sleid. lib. 1. in fi; yet Arnisaeus is not ashamed to cite Arist. po. c. 12. l. 3. That he is not a true and absolute King, who ruleth by Laws: The point black contrary of which Aristotle saith.
for to me it is a Fiction unconceiveable, because the people hath the Royaltie radically in themselves, as in the Fountain and Cause, and conferreth it on the man who is made King; yea, the people by making David ⟨p. 410⟩King, confer the Royall power on the King: this is so true, that Royalists forgetting themselves, inculcate frequently in asserting their absolute Monarch from Ʋlpian, but misunderstood, that the people have resigned all their power, libertie, right of life, death, goods, chastitie, a potency of rapine, homicides, unjust wars, &c. upon a creature called an absolute Prince, even, saith Grotius, as a man may make himself a slave, by selling his liberty to a master. Now if the people make away this power to the King, and this be1 nothing but the transcendent absolutenesse of a King: certainly, this power was in the people; for how can they give to a King, that which they have not themselves? As a man cannot make away his liberty, to a master, by becoming a slave to him, if his libertie were immediately in God, as Royalists say, Soveraigntie is immediately in God, and people can exercise no Act about Soveraignty, to make it over to one man, rather then to another. People onely have an after-approbation, that this man to whom God hath given it immediately, shall have it. Furthermore, they say, people in making a King, may make such conditions, as in seven cases a King may be dethroned, at least resisted, saith Hu. Grotius. Ergo, people may give more, or lesse, half or whole, limited or absolute Royall power to the Prince; but if this power were immediately in God, and from God; how could the people have the husbanding of it, at their need to expend it out in ounce weights, or pound weights, as they please? And that the people may be Taverners of it, to sell, or give it, is taught by Grotius de jur. bel & pac. l. 1. c. 4. Barclai. advers. Monarch. l. 4. c. 6. Arnisae. cap. 6. de majest. an princeps qui jurat subditis, &c. n. 10. n. se Aventiun. Anal. l. 3. Chytreus, l. 23. l. 28. Saxon Sleid. lib. 1. in fi; yet Arnisaeus is not ashamed to cite Arist. po. c. 12. l. 3. That he is not a true and absolute King, who ruleth by Laws: The point black contrary of which Aristotle saith.
- 1A people may give Royal power to the King by limitation and measure: but people can give no gift which is solely and immediately from God, by measure: they cannot measure God.A people may give Royall power to the King by limitation and measure: but people can give no gift which is solely and immediately from God, by measure: they cannot measure God.
