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A35697 Jus regiminis, being a justification of defensive arms in general and consequently, of our revolutions and transactions to be the just right of the kingdom. Denton, William, 1605-1691. 1689 (1689) Wing D1067; ESTC R2231 155,945 104

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may learn wisdom and not fall away Wisd chap. 1. ver 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. THE Right of Government AND JUSTIFICATION OF DEFENSIVE ARMS c. THough there can be nothing so exactly so accurately so cautiously written that prevaricating and searching Wits and Men of different Principles and different Interests who take and measure only by their own Plummets and their own Lines will not quarrel and throw Stones at when sound Reason and solid Arguments are wanting to refute Yet I presume to expose my Sentiments concerning Government and Governors and to run the same fortune and risk with others not vainly expecting to pass currantly without snaps and snarles laying a very short but firm Foundation as a solid Rock able to bear and justifie all the Superstructures which I shall Build thereon relating to any Form of Government whatsoever thereby avoiding multiplicity and ministring less occasion of Disputes and less Fuel to kindle the fire of Contention and less scope to pick and make Disputes and Quarrels upon I shall not particularly meddle with the several Forms of Government nor how rightly or abusively exercised in any Nation State or Kingdom but shall endeavour quantum in me to set the Right of Governors and Government on a right Foundation in general without respect to this or that Form or to this or that Nation Commonwealth or Kingdom and without particular Reflections as much as is possible unless by way of instance on any particular Kingdom or Commonwealth CHAP. I. Shews the absolute necessity of Government of what Nature it ought to be and how Governors ought to behave themselves in the Management thereof To what Governors Obedience is due I Shall First shew the absolute necessity of Friendly Assotiations and Government Secondly Of what Nature it ought to be Thirdly Who of right have the Power of Government It is a Maxime most Christian an undeniable That pure Religion and undefiled Holiness of Life and Conversation is every Man's bounden Duty in particular and is and ought to be the highest of all the Cares and Concerns of all publick and private Governors and Governments in many respects 1. In respect of gratitude towards God who hath done so great things for us Men and for the Eternal Welfare of our Immortal Souls and who giveth to all Men liberally and upbraideth not and not only for necessity but for delight also 2. In respect of his Almighty Power who is Lord alone of all the Kingdoms of the Earth and doth whatsoever he pleaseth in Heaven above and in Earth beneath and in the great Waters 3. In respect that righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne Psalm 97. 2. and he will judge the World with Righteousness and all Persons with his Truth and who only can give Peace within our Walls and Plentiousness within our Pallaces but that only Hypothetically on condition that our ways do please him 4. In respect of the great power Religion hath to qualifie all unnatural exorbitant humors and passions of Men even most rebellious against God or Men and to incline all Governors to Rule with Conscience and the Governed to obey for Conscience sake It is no Phanatick whim but a matter of ●ound and undeniable consequence That all Duties both of the Governors and Governed are by so much the better executed by how much they are the more Religious For it 's not possible that good Government can continue without good Governors which being most certainly true Policy must submit and be subordinate and d● homage to Religion This is more demonstrable in that all good Christians do own these very Truths in their very Prayers to which the several Lyturgies of several Nations give abundant undeniable Testimony Besides they have God's own Command and own Pattern for such Government and Governors viz. H● that ruleth over men must be just ruling in the fear of God 2. Sam. 23. 3. Before the Israelites God's own peculiar People for whom God has done so much and shewed so many Miracles by bringing them out of the Land of Egypt by a strong Hand entred that good Land beyond Jordan he taught them by his Servant Moses Laws Statutes and Judgments to govern themselves by saying Behold I have taught you Statutes and Judgments even as the Lord my God commanded me that ye should do so in the Land whether ye go to possess it keep therefore and do them for this is your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the Nations which shall hear all these Statutes and say Surely this great Nation is a wise and understanding People For what Nation is there so great who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God is in all things that we call unto him for and what Nation is there so great that hath Statutes and Judgments so righteous as all this Law which I have set before thee Only take heed to thy self and keep thy soul diligently and teach them thy Son and thy Sons Sons c. What human Oracles can contrive and dictate better Laws Statutes and Judgments than is commanded in Holy Writ And therefore greatest prudence and safety to make them their Pattern But we have not only Divine but Human Sanctions also for what is averred That great Prince Augustus was wont to say That Religion did Deifie Princes And Tully tells us That the Roman State did increase and flourish more by Religion than by any other means All the Laws of Solon and Lycurges of Greece and Rome c. come far short of the Laws of God for the most pure just and excellent Government And whoever shall consult the Antients of the very Heathens themselves as Plato Aristotle Cicero and others shall find that they all center be the Form of Government what it will in just Laws and just Execution without creating Subtilties or coyning Evasions to sham good Laws made in simplicity and in sincerity Thus by Testimony both Divine and Human Religion is the best and surest Basis of Human Society Union Peace Liberty Plenty and distributive Justice to all indifferently without respect of Persons high or low rich or poor Consider also what Edward I. hath left as a Pattern of good Government concerning the Office of a King Rex autem c. The King because he is the Vicar of the great God is ordained to this That above all he should reverence Holy Church that he should govern the Earthly Kingdom and People of God and defend them from injuries and should discountenance and dispel all lewd People out of Church and State which if he do not the name of King remains not in him But Pope John testifying he loseth the name of King to whom Pepin and Charles his Sons not yet Kings but Princes under the French King wrote foolishly complaining that if so the Kings of France ought to be content with the Name and Title of King by whom it was answered That it belongs to them to be called Kings