Royalists plead for a power due to the King, as King, and that from God; such as Saul had, 1 Sam. 8. 9, 11. 1 Sam. 10. 25. But this power should be a power of grace and goodness in the King, as a good man; not in the King, as a King, and due to him by law: And so the King should have his Legal power from God, to be a Tyrant. But if he were not a Tyrant, but should lay limits on his own power, through the goodness of his own nature; No thanks to Royalists that he is not a Tyrant: For, actu primo, and as he is a King, (as they say) he is a Tyrant, having from God a Tyrannous power of ten degrees, as Saul had, 1 Sam. 8. and why not of fourteen degrees, as well as the Great Turk, or the King of Spain? if he use it not, it is his own personal goodness, not his official and Royal power. 4. The restraint of Providence laid by God upon any power to do ill, hindereth only the exercise of the power not to break forth in as Tyrannous acts as ever the King of Spain, or the great Turk can exercise toward any. Yea, Providence layeth Physical restraint, and possibly moral, sometimes, upon the exercise of that power that Devils, and the most wicked men of the world hath: but Royalists must show us that Providence hath laid bounds on the Kings power, and made it fatherly, and not masterly; so that if it the power exceed bounds of fatherly power, and pass over to the despotical and masterly power, it may be resisted by the Subjects. But that they will not say. 4. This paternal and fatherly power that God hath given to Kings, as Royalists teach, it trencheth not upon the liberty of the Subjects, and property of their goods; but in, and by lawful and just acts of Jurisdiction (saith the P. Prelate:) Well; Then it may trench upon the liberty of soul and body of the Subjects; but in, and by lawful and just acts of of jurisdiction: But none are to judge ⟨p. 183⟩of these acts of Jurisdiction, whether they be just or not just, but the King, the only Judge of supreme and absolute authority and power. And if the King command the idolatrous service in the obtruded Service-book, it is a lawful and a just act of jurisdiction: For to Royalists, who make the Kings power absolute, all acts are so just to the Subject, though he command Idolatry and Turkism, that we are to suffer only, and not to resist. 5. The Prelate presumeth that Fatherly power is absolute:
Royalists plead for a power due to the King, as King, and that from God; such as Saul had, 1 Sam. 8. 9, 11. 1 Sam. 10. 25. But this power should be a power of grace and goodnesse in the King, as a good man; not in the King, as a King, and due to him by law: And so the King should have his Legall power from God, to be a Tyrant. But if he were not a Tyrant, but should lay limits on his own power, through the goodnesse of his own nature; No thankes to Royalists that he is not a Tyrant: For, actu primo, and as he is a King, (as they say) he is a Tyrant, having from God a Tyrannous power of ten degrees, as Saul had, 1 Sam. 8. and why not of foureteen degrees, as well as the Great Turke, or the King of Spaine? if he use it not, it is his own personall goodnesse, not his officiall and Royall power. 4. The rastraint of Providence laid by God upon any power to doe ill, hindreth only the exercise of the power not to breake forth in as Tyrannous acts as ever the King of Spaine, or the great Turke can exercise toward any. Yea, Providence layeth Physicall restraint, and possibly morall, sometimes, upon the exercise of that power that Devils, and the most wicked men of the world hath: but Royalists must shew us that Providence hath laid bounds on the Kings power, and made it fatherlie, and not masterly; so that if it the power exceed bounds of fatherly power, and passe over to the dispoticall and masterly power, it may be resisted by the Subjects. But that they will not say. 4. This paternall and fatherly power that God hath given to Kings, as Royalists teach, it trencheth not upon the libertie of the Subjects, and propertie of their goods; but in, and by lawfull and just acts of Jurisdiction (saith the P. Prelate:) Well; Then it may trench upon the libertie of soule and body of the Subjects; but in, and by lawfull and just acts of of jurisdiction: But none are to judge ⟨p. 183⟩of these acts of Iurisdiction, whether they be just or not just, but the King, the only Iudge of supreme and absolute authoritie and power. And if the King command the idolatrous service in the obtruded Service-booke, it is a lawfull and a just act of jurisdiction: For to Royalists, who make the Kings power absolute, all acts are so just to the Subject, though he command Idolatrie and Turcisme, that we are to suffer only, and not to resist. 5. The Prelate presumeth that Fatherly power is absolute:
