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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
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53. They that think it possible for one only to have the […] Civitatis j[…]s, do much err: For Right is determined only by Power; But one mans power is very unable for such a burden p. 202. When the people choose a King, he must choose Commanders, Councillors, friends, to whom he committeth both his own and the common safety, so that the Government which is taken to be Absolute Monarchy, is really in practice Aristocracy; not indeed manifest, but latent, and therefore the worst.
53. They that think it possible for one only to have the 〈…〉 Civitatis j〈…〉s, do much err: For Right is determined only by Power; But one mans power is very unable for such a burden p. 202. When the people choose a King, he must choose Commanders, Councellors, friends, to whom he committeth both his own and the common safety, so that the Government which is taken to be Absolute Monarchy, is really in practice Aristocracy; not indeed manifest, but latent, and therefore the worst.
Besides that a King, that's a child, sick, heavy with age, is a precarious King: But they have indeed the chief power, who do the chief business of the Government, or are next the King: to pass by, that a King liable to last, doth oft manage all by the lust of one, or another Whore or Pander. p. 293.
Besides that a King, that's a child, sick, heavy with age, is a precarious King: But they have indeed the chief power, who do the chief buness of the Government, or are next the King: to pass by, that a King lyable to last, doth oft mannage all by the lust of one, or another Whore or Pandor. p. 293.
54. Hence it followeth that a King is so much the less sui juris, and the Subjects condition is so much the more miserable, by how much the more absolutely the Civitatis jus, (the public power) is transferred on him.— A Monarch is most sui juris, when he most consults the safety (or good) of the multitude. p. 293.