Ergo, All Governments, except Democracy, or Government by the people, must be sinful and unlawful. 1. Because Government by Kings is of Divine institution, and of other Judges also, as is evident by Gods Word, Rom. 13. 1, 2, 3. Deut. 17. 14. Prov. 8. 15, 16. 1 Pet. 2. 13, 14. Psal. 2. 10, 11, &c. 2. Power of choosing any form of Government, is in the people: Ergo, There is no Government lawful, but popular Government; it followeth no ways, but presupposeth that power to chose any form of Government, must be formally actual Government, which is most false, yea, they be contrary, as the prevalency or power, and the act are contrary, so these two are contrary, or opposite; neither is Sovereignty, nor any Government formally inherent in either the Community, by nature, ⟨p. 54⟩nor in any one particular man, by nature; and that every man is born free, so as no man, rather then his brother, is born a King and1 Ruler, I hope, God willing to make good, so as the Prelate shall never answer on the contrary. 3. It followeth not, that the Posterity living, when their Fathers made a Covenant with their first elected King, may without any breach of Covenant on the Kings part, make void and null their Fathers election of a King, and chose another King, because the lawful Covenant of the Fathers in point of Government, if it be not broken, tieth the children; but it cannot deprive them of their lawful liberty naturally inherent in them to chose the fittest man to be King: But of this hereafter more fully. 4. Spalato addeth, (the Prelate is not a faithful thief) If the Community by the Law of nature, have power of all forms of Government, and so should be, by nature, under popular Government, and yet should refuse a Monarchy, and an Aristocracy; yet Augustine addeth, If the people should prefer their own private gain to the public good, and sell the Common-wealth, then some good man might take their liberty from them, and against their will erect a Monarchy, or an Aristocracy: But 1. the Prelate and Augustine, supposeth the people to be under Popular Government; this is not our case, for Spalato and the Prelate presupposeth by our grounds, that the people by nature, must be under Popular Government; Augustine dreameth no such thing, and we deny that by nature, they are under any form of Government. 2.
Ergo, All Governments, except Democracie, or Government by the people, must be sinfull and unlawfull. 1. Because Government by Kings is of Divine institution, and of other Iudges also, as is evident by Gods Word, Rom. 13. 1, 2, 3. Deut. 17. 14. Prov. 8. 15, 16. 1 Pet. 2. 13, 14. Psal. 2. 10, 11, &c. 2. Power of chosing any form of Government, is in the people: Ergo, There is no Government lawfull, but popular Government; it followeth no wayes, but presupposeth that power to chose any form of Government, must be formally actuall Government, which is most false, yea, they be contrary, as the prevalency or power, and the act are contrary, so these two are contrary, or opposite; neither is Soveraigntie, nor any Government formally inherent in either the Communitie, by nature, ⟨p. 54⟩nor in any one particular man, by nature; and that every man is born free, so as no man, rather then his brother, is born a King and1 Ruler, I hope, God willing to make good, so as the Prclate shall never answer on the contrary. 3. It followeth not, that the Posteritie living, when their Fathers made a Covenant with their first elected King, may without any breach of Covenant on the Kings part, make voyd and null their Fathers election of a King, and chose another King, because the lawfull Covenant of the Fathers in point of Government, if it be not broken, tieth the children; but it cannot deprive them of their lawfull libertie naturally inherent in them to chose the fittest man to be King: But of this hereafter more fully. 4. Spalato addeth, (the Prelate is not a faithfull theef) If the Communitie by the Law of nature, have power of all forms of Government, and so should be, by nature, under popular Government, and yet should refuse a Monarchy, and an Aristocracie; yet Augustine addeth, If the people should preferre their own private gain to the publike good, and sell the Common-wealth, then some good man might take their libertie from them, and against their will er•ct a Monarchie, or an Aristocracie: But 1. the Prelate and Augustine, supposeth the people to be under Popular Government; this is not our case, for Spalato and the Prelate presupposeth by our grounds, that the people by nature, must be under Popular Government; Augustine dreameth no such thing, and we deny that by nature, they are under any form of Government. 2.
- 1Spalato 16. August. de lih. arb. l. 1. c. •. Si depravatus populus rem privatam Reipub. preferat. atque haheat venale suffragium cor ruptusque ab iis qui honores amant, regnum in s•factiosis cons•eleratisque committat; non ne item rectê, si quis tunc extilerit vir bonus qui plurimum posfit, adimat huic populo potestatem dandy honours, & in pavcorum bonorum, vel etiam unjus red regat arbitrium? Pag. 97. sacr. sanc. regum majest.Spalato 16. August. de lih. arb. l. 1. c. •. Si depravatus populus rem privatam Reipub. preferat. atque haheat venale suffragium cor ruptusque ab iis qui honores amant, regnum in s•factiosis cons•eleratisque committat; non ne item rectê, si quis tunc extilerit vir bonus qui plurimum posfit, adimat huic populo potestatem dandi honores, & in pavcorum bonorum, vel etiam unjus red regat arbitrium? Pag. 97. sacr. sanc. regum majest.
