' I ' I I I r 210 1 . . 3. The words indeed are ,nothing for a Viea.: rwus Soveraign Power. Every Political Body is elfentiated by the Pars imperans, and the Pars(ub– ~ita: Chrijl is the only elfentiating Pars imperans mSupream Power : Chrill: then is the' Prime part of the Church: The wovd [Church] then is not put for [Chrill:J alone, but for the Society con– filling of King and SubjeCts , and fomecimes for the SubjeCts alone. Ic's oft faid that many Na- . · , tions f-erved the Ifraelites : we fay, many Coun-· treys were fubjecl: to the Romans , \the Medes, Perlians, Greeks , Turks: and .we do-not mean that either the Turki!h, Roman, .,Perfian, &c. Common Subjects did govern all thefe Nations,. nor-that ·their ·Baa1aws, Judges, ·Magifirates, &c. as one Perfona Politica in fumma potefl-ate ruled them by a Major Vote :· If the King will fay that all the Corporations in MiJdleftx fhall be under London, or obey or ferve it : Who would feign fuch a fenfe of ~t, as to fay that there mull: be therefore fome Power to rule them by a Vica– rious Supremacy belide the ordinary Government, or that all the City muft Govern by a Ma_jor Vote. ·The fenfe is ·plain. As we all I. Obey the King as the Univerfal Confiitutive Head, z. And 'the Judges, Jufiices, Mayors, as :.-riling under him per partes, in their feveral Places. 3· And .we ·ferve all the Kingdom , as we ferve its common good, wlikh is the finis regiminis ; So.other Coun– tries ferved the Romans,Greeks, Turks, &c. And fo all Kingdoms ihould ferve the Churc;h or King- _ d6m of·Chrift ; that is , I. Chriff as the :only Head and Univerfal Governour : ·2· All his Offi– cers as particular ~ Governours In their feveral Limits and Places (but none a~ Rulers of the ;hX~J
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