A treatise of civil policy

Ans. 1. A fatherly power is in a father, not before he have a child, but indeed before his children by an act of their free-will consent that he be their father, yea & whether the children consent or no, from a physical act of generation he must be the father; & let the father be the most wicked man & let him be made by no moral requisite, is he made a father, nor can he ever leave off physically to be a father, he may leave off morally to do the duty of a father, & so be non pater officio, but he cannot but be pater naturae generantis vi. So there never is nor can be any need, that children's free consent intervene▪ to make Kish the Father ⟨p. 408⟩of Saul because he is by nature a father, to make Saul a King & a moral father by analogy and improperly, a father by ruling, governing,¹ guiding, defending Israel, by good laws, in peace and godliness, I hope there is some act of the peoples free-will required even by Spalato's way, the people must approve him to be King, yea they must King him, or constitute him King, say we, no such act is required of natural sons to make a physical father, and so here is a great halt in the comparison, and it is most false that there is a Kingly power to govern many families in the same father, before these many families can transfer their power to make him King. Put Royalists to their Logic, they have not found out a medium to make good, that there is a formal Kingly power, whereby Saul is King and father morally over all Israel before Israel chose him and made him, as Kish was Sauls father formally, and had a fatherly power to be his father, before Saul had the use of free-will to consent, that he should be his father. Royalists are here at a stand; The man may have Royal gifts before the people make him King, but this is not (regia potestas) a Royal power, by which the man is formally King. Many have more Royal gifts then the man that beareth the Crown, yet are never Kings, nor is there formally, (regia potestas) kingly power in them. In this meaning Petrarcha said, Plures sunt reges quam regna.

Ans. 1. A fatherly power is in a father, not before he have a child, but indeed before his children by an act of their free-wil consent that he be their father, yea & whether the children consent or no, from a physical act of generation he must be the father; & let the father be the most wicked man & lethim be made by no moral requisite, is he made a father, nor can heever leave off physically to be a father, he may leave off morally to do the duty of a father, & so be non pater officio, but he cannot but be pater naturae generantis vi. So there never is nor can be any need, that childrens fre consent interveen to make Kish the Father