tical Polity. Here's a Quietus est for above the Third Part of the 29. The reasonableness of the church of England's test and just- C. L. ness of her reformation, asserted; in answer to the Bp. of Oxon's fallacious reasons and precarious assertions against it. Also the worship of images, adoration of the host, and invocation of saints proved idolatry; by the catholick doctrine of the holy scripture, the ancient fathers, and all reformed churches. By which the writings of the doctors, Stillingfleet, Tillotson, More, &c. are cleared from the charge of anti-catholick, antichristian, phanatical, &c. pp. 22, 4to 1688 "That men as loyal as himself and as far from being fanatical or unlearned entertained different notions of idolatry I shall insert the following passages," &c. p. xi. The authors here quoted are Whitgift, Abbot and Laud. Another contemporary equally learned might have been cited, viz. Bilson in The True Difference betweene Christian Subjection and Unchristian Rebellion," &c. 4to Lond. 1685. The fourth part. 30. Vox cleri pro rege; or the rights of the imperial sovereignty of C. L. the crown of England vindicated in reply to a late pamphlet [No. 27 supra] pretending to answer a book, entitled The judgment and doctrine of the clergy of the church of England, concerning the King's prerogative in dispensing with penal laws. In a letter to friend. pp. Pref. xv., 68, 4to 1688 There was a second edition, with an Historical Account appended of the Convocation, 1689. In 1690 was published An Answer to Vox Cleri, &c. Among other works here cited as concurring in this judgment is Patriarcha: or the Natural Power of Kings, Lond. 1680, 8vo, by the Learned Sir Robert Filmer Baronet, "one of the most learned and loyal Gentlemen of the last Age, who as the Author of the Epistle Dedicatory to his Grace the present Duke of Beaufort (Edm. Bohun) says of him, dared to be true to the Crown when his C. L. Fidelity could entitle him to Nothing, but the glory of living and dying a Good Subject, with the hazard of his Life and Fortunes." His "Power of Kings and in particular of the King of England," Lond. 1648-1680, concludes thus: "The Councel of Many wise men may be better than of One; but to resolve, determine, and to command, One will always perform it better than Many; He which hath advisedly digested all their Opinions, will soon resolve without contention: the which many cannot easily perform it is necessary to have a Soveraign Prince, which may have Power to resolve and determine of the Opinions of his Council." He wrote several other political works, e.g. The Anarchy of a Limited and Mixed Monarchy; in answer to Phil. Hutton's Treatise on Monarchy, 8vo. Lond. 1646, 1648, 1679. Observations concerning the Original of Government against Hobbes, Milton, Grotius, Hutton, &c., 4to. Lond. 1652. The Freeholders Grand Inquest touching the King and his Parliament, written by Sir Richard Hobhouse, 8vo. Lond. 1679. Defense against the Mistakes and Misrepresentations of Algernon Sidney Esq. in a Paper delivered by him to the Sherifs upon the Scaffold in Tower Hill, on Friday December 7, 1683, before his Execution there, fol. Lond. 1684. Sidney's Paper will be found in State Tracts 1660-1689. The most celebrated of his works, the "Patriarcha," in which the author derives all power from paternal authority and from Adam, occasioned some of the best works on government not only in this country but likewise on the continent, e.g. Locke's Two Treatises of Government. In the former, the false Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer and his Followers are detected and overthrown. The latter, an Essay concerning the true Original Extent and End of Civil Government, 8vo Lond. 1690. Sir James Tyrrel's Patriarcha non Monarcha. The Patriarch Unmonarch'd: being Observations on a late Treatise and diverse other Miscellanies, published under the name of Sir R. F. Bart, In which the falseness of those Opinions that would make Monarchy Jure Divino are laid open; and the true Principles of Government and Property (especially in our Kingdom) asserted. 8vo Lond. 1681. Algernon Sidney's Discourses concerning Government, fol. Lond. 1698. On the doctrine of an Original Contract, or Compact, the following works may also be consulted : · Lex, Rex: The Law and the Prince. A Dispute for the just Prerogative of King and People. Containing the Reasons and Causes of the most necessary Defensive Wars of the Kingdom of Scotland, and of their Expedition for the ayd and help of their Dear Brethren of England. In which their Innocency is asserted, and a full answer is given to a The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates; proving that it is lawful, and hath C. L. 4to 1650 A Sermon preached at Scoon in Scotland, Jan. 1, 1651, at the Coronation of 1660 De Corpore Politico, or the Elements of Law, Moral and Politick. By See Worthington's Diary, part i. p. 277, note. The the Frames of the Commonwealths of Israel and of the Jews. C. L. C. L. C. L. On Hobbes' and Harrington's Models of Government see Tenison's Epistle Dedicatory to his Examination of Hobbes's Creed Examin'd. 4to Lond. 1670 A Brief History of the Succession of the Crown of England, &c., collected C. L. out of the Records of the most authentick Historians. From a Folio, printed in the year 1688-9. In State Tracts 1660-89, fol. 1693, part i. p. 383, and in the Harleian Miscellany,vol. i. p. 448. This treatise was answered by the intrepid advocate of an indefeasible hereditary right of the Crown, Robert Brady, in A True and Exact History of the Succession of the Crown of England, &c. Lond. 1681. The Second Edition much inlarged. Together with Reflections upon the Bill of Exclusion, and a full and satisfacfactory Answer to Mr. Hunt's Argument in his Postscript about the succession of the Children of Robert the Second, King of Scotland, by Elizabeth Mure his pretended Concubine and Eufame his Wife. One of the Three Tracts of the Author's Introduction to the Old English History. Fol. Lond. 1684. There was another Answer, entitled, The Great Point of Succession Discussed. C. L. C. L. C. L. C. L. C.L. An Essay on the Original and Nature of Government. By Sir William 8vo 1705 Both Hobbes and his adversary Cumberland, Sanderson, Overall, and Paley, the advocates of divine right, as well as Sir W. Temple, were of opinion that civil government originated in Patriarchal power. The Tryall of Dr. Henry Sacheverell before the House of Peers for High Especially the Extracts from Divines, pp. 154-186. On the tendency of Dr. Sacheverell's Sermons see A New Catechism with Dr. Hickes's Thirty-nine Articles, in the twelfth vol. of Somers Tracts, p. 178. Scripture Politicks; or an impartial Account of the Origin and Measures of Government, ecclesiastical and civil, taken out of the Books of the Old and New Testament. With a Postscript relating to the Report of the Committee of Convocation about the Bishop of Bangor's Preservative and Sermon before the King. To which is subjoined The Supposal, or a New Scheme of Government. By William Whiston. Svo 1717 Lord Bolingbroke's Dissertation on Parties, in vol. ii. his Works. 4to 1754 A Treatise of the Social Compact; or the Principles of Politic Law, translated from the French of John James Rousseau. 12mo Lond. 1763 An Utopian government! See Coleridge's Friend, vol. i. p. 324, On the Grounds of Government as laid exclusively in the Pure Reason; or a statement and critique of . . . . . . . the Theory of Rousseau and the French Economists. "All the different philosophical systems of political justice," says Coleridge, "all the Theories on the rightful Origin of Government are reducible in the end to three classes, correspondent to the three different points of view, in which the Human Being itself may be contemplated." The system of Hobbes ascribes the origin and continuance of Government to fear. The second system derives it from human prudence, the invisible powers of our nature, whose immediate presence is disclosed to our inner sense. The third and last system denies all rightful origin to government except as far as it is derivable from principles contained in the Reason of Man, and judges all the relations of men in society by the laws of moral necessity, which is the common duty of all men. Coleridge declares himself an adherent of the second system, in which the human being is considered as an animal gifted with understanding, or the faculty of suiting measures to circumstances. This theory appears to be supported by Aristotle, who ascribes Government to connate principles or moral sentiments, those life-blent characteristics of humanity by which it is instinctively impelled as well to civil as to domestic society. The origin and constitution of Human Society, considered as the necessary result of the physical and moral conditions impressed on our nature by the Creator, is beautifully exhibited in the fifth, sixth and seventh chapters of Dr. Chalmers' Bridgewater Treatise; and in the sixth Lecture of Archbishop Whateley's Political Economy. Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, first edit. 4to Oxf. 1765-69. Book i. chap. 6. "As to the terms of the original contract between king and people, these I apprehend to be now couched in the coronation oath, which by the statute 1 W. and M. st. i. c. 6 is to be administered to every king and queen, who shall succeed to the imperial crown of these realms, by one of the archbishops or bishops of the realm, in the presence of all the people; who on their parts do reciprocally take the oath of allegiance to the crown." The Spiritual and Temporal Liberty of Subjects in England, &c. By Anthony Ellys, D.D. 4to Lond. 1765. Part ii. pp. 226–257. Lord Hardwick's State Papers, vol. ii. p. 401, "Notes of what passed in the C. L. Jan. 1688-9. Some of the objections which have been urged against the doctrine of the Social Contract are noticed by Whewell in the second volume of "The Elements of Morality, including Polity," Lond. 1848. See also Burke's "Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs." In opposition to the notion of an original Contract and in favour of the Divine Right of Kings, the following works may be consulted: The Rebels' Catechism; composed in an easy and familiar way to let them see the heinousness of their offence, the weakness of their strongest subterfuges, and to recall them to their duties both to God and Man. 4to 1643 In the Harleian Miscell. vol. vii. p. 434. supra. Sacrosancta Regum Majestas; or the Sacred and Royal Prerogative of Christian Kings. Wherein Sovereignty is by Holy Scriptures, reverend Antiquity and sound Reason asserted, by discussing of five Questions. And the Puritanical, Jesuitical, Anti-Monarchical Grounds are disproved, and the untruth and weakness of their new devised State-principles are discovered. 4to Oxon, 1644: 8vo Lond. 1680 An example of a royalty thus emanating directly from on high is seen in the line of David established on the throne of Judah; and a claim to a resemblance to this right is expressed or implied in the language of Oriental monarchs, and of many princes of the house of Stuart (see A Defence of the Right of Kings by James I.) and of the house of Bourbon. "It is," writes Louis XIV. (see his Mémoires Historiques in the second and third volumes of his works, 6 vols. 8vo 1806), "the will of Heaven who has given kings to man that they should be revered as his vicegerents, he having reserved to himself alone the right to scrutinise their conduct." On the doctrine of the Jesuits, the Majesty of the People, see Baxter's Key for Catholics, edit. by Allport, 1839, p. 412. The Serpent-Salve; or a Remedy for the Biting of an Aspe. Wherein the Observators Grounds are discussed and plainly discovered to be unsound, seditious, not warranted by the Laws of God, of Nature, or of Nations, and most repugnant to the known Laws and Customs of this Realm, &c. First printed in the year 1643. The Catching of the Leviathan; or the Great Whale. Demonstrating out of Mr. Hobbs his own Works, That no man who is thoroughly an Hobbist, can be a good Christian, or a good Commonwealths-man, or reconcile himself to himself. Because his Principles are not only destructive to all Religion, but to all Societies: extinguishing the Relation between Prince and Subject, Parent and Child, Master and Servant, Husband and Wife; and abound with palpable contradictions. 1658. Schism Guarded, and beaten back upon the Right Owners, &c. Sect. v. 1658. By John Bramhall, D.D., Abp. of Armagh. Folio, Dubl. 1677. 5 voll. 8vo. Lib. of Anglo-Cath. Theology. Oxf. 1842-45. Three Sermons, preached at Lancaster, and in the late Guild of Preston. Wherein the nature of Subjection to the Civil Magistrate is explained, the duty proved, and the Clergy justified in pressing the same upon C. L. C.L. C. L. C. L. |