. I [ 349J 111ocracy of the worfi: fort ; And can fuch men cry down Republicans ? yea, and raife a fufpicion of Nonconformifts as Republicans? 0 what ava:– frl.cious fort of ·men do fometime appropriate the Name of the Ch14rch f' · . ·· 2. It is true of no fort of Political Society· in · the World, but only of ungoverned Communi- · ties or Confederacies , except thofe by Conrtacr turned ~ meer Community into the worft fore of Popular Policie: And in Arifcocracies it is not the Major Vote of the whole Society that Rulech,but of thofe few who make up One Political Perfon or Power. , And yet could you appeal to Reafon, Nature, and common Confenc ? · ' 3. It is againfi:·the Eifence of the Government of this Kingdom? Shall Kings, Parliament and Magifirates be bound to obey the Major pare of · the Kingdom ? No, nor King and Lords to obey the Major part of the Houfe of Commons? Nor Mayors and BailiflS b.e bound to obey the Major part of the·Cities and Corporations ? 4· It is contrary to GodJs Law of Nature and Scripture. God bath anticipated humane popular pretences of being either naturally.Rulers, or the , Fountain of Governing Power: For God haeh in– fiituted in Nature, ·the Genus of this Power, and fo much' of the Spedes as is to execute God's Laws : He hath made the Fifth Commandment : · and as he alloweth not the Major part 'of the Children to govern Father and Mother , or of Scholars to rule their Mafiers, fo neither ofSub· jeets to rule the Soveraign or the Miaor parr. , 5. It is contrary tQ Oaths that are taken by the SubjeCts of this Land. 6. It' ..
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