B22970:199
An appeal to thy conscience as thou wilt answer it at the great and…An appeale to thy conscience as thou wilt answere it at the great and…
An appeal to thy conscience as thou wilt answer it at the great and dreadful day of Christ Jesus.An appeale to thy conscience as thou wilt answere it at the great and dreadfull day of Christ Iesus.
London : s.n., 1643
An Appeal to thy Conscience. › An Objection.An Appeale to thy Conscience. › An Objection.
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.
An Objection.
But you will thus object. From whom the King receiveth His power, to them He is accountable; but from His people the King receiveth his power. As Fortescue delivers, c. 13. Ad tutelam Regis subditorum, ac eorum corporum & bonorum, Rex erectus est; & ad hanc potestatem a populo effluxam ipse habet. A King is ordained for the defence of the Law of his Subjects, and of their bodies and goods: whereunto He receiveth power of his people. Therefore to his people the King is accountable.
The Answer.
Did the maker of this objection rightly set down the words of Fortescue, he might easily answer himself. For it is not barely Rex, a King; but Rex hujusmodi, such a King; meaning a King whose government is merely politic. But the government of England is not merely politic▪ nor merely regal, but mixed partly regal, partly politic; as he saith presently after; Regnum Angl•e, ex Bruti comitivâ Trojanorum, in Dominium politicum & regale prorupit; The Kingdom of England out of Brutus his retinue of the Trojans, first grew into a politic and regal Dominion. And in the 9 cap. Rex Angliae principatu, nedum regali, sed & Politice, suo populo dominatur. The King of England governeth his people by Dominion, not only regal, but also politic.