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The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their principles about civil and ecclesiastical authority and obedience ... : mostly written many years past, and now published to save our lives and the kingdoms peace, from the false and bloody plotters ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
IV. Is it the new Philosophers; such Cartesians as Spinosa, and such as Hobbes that you prefer? I shall tell you after, what are their politics.
IV. Is it the new Philosophers; such Cartesians as Spinosa, and such as Hobbes that you prefer? I shall tell you after, what are their politicks.
V. Is it the famous Lawyers and Politic writers of Europe, Papists or Protestants? I have told you after what they hold. What heaps of Testimonies doth the Great Lawyer Hottoman in his Franco-Gallia bring, to prove the Power of Nobles and Parliaments limiting the Monarch formerly in France? And Bodin is against him as to the Constitution of France, and by the information of Dale the English Ambassador, taketh England also to be an Absolute Monarchy, and that the Parliament hath no Authoritative part in making Laws, but only a requesting and advising part, and the King the only Legislative. Yet see what are even Bodin's Principles. 1. Pag. 98. He saith [Sovereign ⟨image 9⟩Majesty and absolute power, consisteth principally in giving Laws to the Subjects in general without their consent.
V. Is it the famous Lawyers and Politick writers of Europe, Papists or Protestants? I have told you after what they hold. What heaps of Testimonies doth the Great Lawyer Hottoman in his Franco-Gallia bring, to prove the Power of Nobles and Parliaments limiting the Monarch formerly in France? And Bodin is against him as to the Constitution of France, and by the information of Dale the English Embassador, taketh England also to be an Absolute Monarchy, and that the Parliament hath no Authoritative part in making Laws, but only a requesting and advising part, and the King the only Legislative. Yet see what are even Bodins Principles. 1. Pag. 98. He saith [Soveraign ⟨image 9⟩Majesty and absolute power, consisteth principally in giving Laws to the Subjects in general without their consent.