so that it standeth for an axiom in this case, The King is singulis major, but universis minor—Neither can any man with Reason think but that the first institution of Kings (a sufficient consideration wherefore their power should always depend on that, from which it did always flow) by original influence of power from the Body into the King, is the cause of Kings dependency in power upon the body. By Dependency we mean subordination and subjection: A manifest token of which dependency may be this; As there is no more certain argument that lands are held under any as Lords, than if we see that such lands in defect of heirs fall unto them by escheat; In like manner it doth follow rightly, that seeing Dominion when there is none to inherit it, returneth to the body, therefore they which before were inheritors of it did hold it in dependence on the body; so by comparing the body with the head, as touching power it seemeth always to reside in both, Fundamentally and Radically in one; in the other derivatively: In one the Habit, in the other the Act of Power (vid. caet. passim)—When all which the wisdom ⟨p. 66⟩of all sorts can do, is done for devising of Laws in the Church, it is the general consent of all that giveth them the form and vigour of Laws; without which they would be no more to us than the Counsels of Physicians to the sick: well might they seem as wholesome admonitions and instructions; but Laws could they never be without consent of the WHOLE CHURCH to be guided by them, whereunto both nature and the practice of the Church of God set down in Scripture, is found every way so fully consonant, that God himself would not impose his own Laws upon his people by the hand of Moses, without their free and open consent. May a body Politic then at all times withdraw in whole or in part, the influence of dominion which passeth from it, if Inconveniences do grow thereby?—It must be presumed that supreme Governors will not in such cases oppose themselves, and be stiff in detaining that, the use whereof is with public detriment.—And pag. 205. [ If Magistrates be Heads of the Church, they are of necessity Christians.]
so that it standeth for an axiom in this case, The King is singulis major, but universis minor—Neither can any man with Reason think but that the first institution of Kings (a sufficient consideration wherefore their power should always depend on that, from which it did always flow) by original influence of power from the Body into the King, is the cause of Kings dependency in power upon the body. By Dependency we mean subordination and subjection: A manifest token of which dependency may be this; As there is no more certain argument that lands are held under any as Lords, than if we see that such lands in defect of heirs fall unto them by escheat; In like manner it doth follow rightly, that seeing Dominion when there is none to inherite it, returneth to the body, therefore they which before were inheritors of it did hold it in dependence on the body; so by comparing the body with the head, as touching power it seemeth always to reside in both, Fundamentally and Radically in one; in the other derivatively: In one the Habit, in the other the Act of Power (vid. caet. passim)—When all which the wisdom ⟨p. 66⟩of all sorts can do, is done for devising of Laws in the Church, it is the general consent of all that giveth them the form and vigor of Laws; without which they would be no more to us than the Counsels of Physicians to the sick: well might they seem as wholsome admonitions and instructions; but Laws could they never be without consent of the WHOLE CHURCH to be guided by them, whereunto both nature and the practice of the Church of God set down in Scripture, is found every way so fully consonant, that God himself would not impose his own Laws upon his people by the hand of Moses, without their free and open consent. May a body Politick then at all times withdraw in whole or in part, the influence of dominion which passeth from it, if Inconveniences do grow thereby?—It must be presumed that supream Governours will not in such cases oppose themselves, and be stiff in detaining that, the use whereof is with publick detriment.—And pag. 205. [ If Magistrates be Heads of the Church, they are of necessity Christians.]
