.. [ 40~ J Cbrirchhath had no SdpremeCouncil jull a thou· fan_d years : And was it this !houfand years nd ·Church? or of .another Spectes ? Or can the Church be a thoufand yeai·s without .its Supremd Government ? · . . Arg. 4· If General Councils·be the Supreme ·Legi11ttive Power, then the Church bath had no fuch Councils-Laws for all the forefaid va~,ancies · (300 years firft, and fince 6or., a rhouf~d years after.) But the Adverfaries will not allow the confequent ; (that all the Canons ofGeneral Coun": cils were no Laws fo long:) But the antecedent is·proved from the definition ofLaws, which are~ · ' the ftgnification tf the Saveraigns Will to be the RHIC of the S~tbjeEfs Right (aCtions and dues.) There is no Law wHich is not the Rulers Law ; and if the Ruler be dead, the Law/is dead: For a dead man bath neither Authority nor WilJ. Obj. Our Laws die not with the King, not t~.i thl' . dijfolution ~~P4r/iaments. . . Anf. I. TheLaw faith, Re~ - nan ihoritur. As foon as he is dead, the·nexc Heir is King, and /clni .Law is his Law, he being by theConfiitution (bY, ContraCt) obliged to own it, and Govern by lt.; . z_. AndParliarnents_have their partin t,heLegi11a– tiOn as Reprefentat1ves or Tru!lees ofthePeople,; . and therefore ~he Laws.are catled thofe ilJIA-ivul~ ~m elegerit. 'But the· People die not at the diC. folving of a Parliament. 3· At lea~ it's of ap~ parent necefficy that the Supreme E:recutive Power· / fur7Jive, or elfe the·. Laws die : I For whofe Law~ . · are they,if we had no King or Soveraign ? Whom do we obey or d~fobey in obeying, or difobeying fuch .Laws? .But our oppofers fay, that even the, Supreme Executive as well as Legillatei'le Powet T'\.J ' ,. . o . M~ :!! .ifS;. I , •
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