That kings are not obliged by voluntary oaths, iii. 90. This principle animadverted on, iii. 125, 126.
That obedience is due to a command, though contrary to law, iii. 207, 209. That the king's perogative to be above the law, is only for the good of them that are under it, iii. 139. His equivocal king, iii. 146. His opinion that the law is no better than a tyrant, iii. 155. That a perfect kingdom, wherein the king rules by his own will, iii. 159. That the first power was the kingly in Britain, iii. 167. That all judges receive their authority from the king, iii. 184.
That the power of kings can- not be restrained by act of parliament, iii. 199. That the king is the author,
corrector, and moderator of both statute and com- mon law, iii. 206. His trivial conceits about par- liaments, the time when they began, &c. iii. 206, 213
His notion about usurpers and
lawful kings, iii. 243. That the liberties claimed in parliament, are liberties of grace from the king, and not of nature to the peo- ple, iii. 248. That the people's language is submissive to the king, but his is haughty to them, iii. 270.
That kings may call and dis- solve parliaments at pleas- ure, iii. 288.
Admires the profound wis- dom of all kings, iii. 303. A bitter enemy to all man- kind, iii. 353, 354. His book, here lately reprint-
ed, as an introduction to a Popish successor, iii. 354. His meaning of "le roy le veut," iii. 372, 375, 377. Flatterers, what the vilest of them all dare not deny, i.
What called by Tacitus, ii.
The Hebrew kings not with- out them, ii. 251. Their pernicious advices, to
what end given, ii. 258. Weak princes most subject to them, ii. 269, 270, 287, 292, 327. Cleanthes, to Aristippus, ii.
By what handle they lead their princes, ii. 313. Have made their valour ri- diculous, ii. 332.
By whom thought the best friends, and msot worthy of great trusts, iii. 150. The author's wish that prin- ces would abhor these wretches, iii. 194.
Almost ever encompass
crowned heads. iii. 348. Fleets, where the British were not very famous, ii. 334. Florence, the sedition there, and
in Tuscany, ii. 304. More depopulated now than any part of that province, though formerly in a few hours it could bring togeth- er 135,000 well armed men, ii. 305. iii. 141. Folly, mankind does not univer- sally admit, and perpetu- ally persist in any, i. 392.
Some are fools at forty years
of age, ii. 338. Lord Chancellor Egerton said he did not sit to relieve fools, iii. 93. Force, where it is the only law
that prevails, iii. 147. What the Romans gained by the valour of their force, ii. 122, 123.
All defence terminates there-
in, ii. 213, 365. Those that use it, must per- fect their work, or perish, ii. 228.
Of fraud, in opposition to the laws of one's country, is absolutely monarchical, ii. 331.
When the Spartan kings were
overthrown by it, ii. 356. Is generally mortal to those
that provoke it, ii. 366. To be used when there is no
help in law, ii. 377. iii. 48, 325.
Can never create a right, ii.
383, 410. iii. 256. The French under a force
they were not able to re- sist, ii. 440, 441. What is gained by it may be recovered the same way, iii. 104, 257.
When all disputes about right naturally end in force, iii. 287. Forfeiture, of liberty' how can it be, iii. 295. Fortune, of all things the most variable, ii. 101.
How right is made a slave to it, ii. 263, 264.
Of a prince supplies all natu- ral defects, ii. 336. France, when the salick law was there, i. 403. ii. 48. iii. 101, 102.
Her ancient kings' right, how conferred on them, and what was her ancient gov- ernment, ii. 45. iii. 254. Her revenge on England for all the overthrows she re- ceived from their ancestors, ii. 137. Frequently divided into seve- ral parties, ii. 149. Her races of kings then, had been four times entirely changed, ii. 150, 268, 270, 339, 356.
The miserable condition of her people, ii. 191, 272, 273, 332, 333. iii. 285, 374. Her greatest advantages have been from the mistaken councils of England, ii. 192, 193.
Her bloody contests and slaughters for the crown, ii. 268, 272, 274, 376, 377, &c. Had ten base and slothful kings, called "les roy fai- neans," ii. 270, 339. The regal power limited, ii. 275, 362.
Had four kings deposed with- in 150 years antecedent to the year 1670-ii. 275. Civil wars were frequent there though less cruel than in more ancient times, ii. 276. Compared with Venice, ii.
Her soldiers running from
their colours, ii. 333. Her general assemblies con- tinued the exercise of the sovereign power, long after the death of Lewis the XI. ii. 359, 360.
Had never any kings but of
her own chusing, ii. 359. Henry V. of England most terrible to her, ii. 360.
Their laws made by them- selves and not imposed on them, ii. 360.
The people have understood their rights, ii. 363. The reason of the people's miseries, ii. 440, 442, 451, 453.
The right to the crown is in a great measure from the law of that country, instan- ces hereof, iii. 112, 114. She did not allow her kings the right of making a will,
By whom the power of con- ferring the sovereignty was exercised, iii. 252. By the people's increasing the power of their master, they added weight to their own chains, iii. 285. Her king cannot be called the head of his people, and why, iii. 3.16.
"Le roy, le veut," and "telle est notre plaisir," French rants; but no edict there had the power of a law, till it was registered in Parliament, iii. 376. The conquest of her, only to be effected by the brave- ry of a free and well satis- fied people, iii. 381. Franks, soon incorporated them- selves with the Gauls, ii. 203.
Fraud, accounted a crime so
detestable, as not to be im- puted to any but slaves, iii. 196.
All wicked designs have been
thereby carried on, iii. 188. Who delight in it and will have no other ministers but such as will be the instru- ments of it, iii. 380. ree, what pations so esteemed,
i. 329. iii. 140, vide popular
Men, how to know ourselves such, i. 329. ii. 19, 20, 76. iii. 98, 141.
People scarce ever conquered by an absolute monarch, ii. 83, 97.
Phillip of Macedon confes- sed his people to be free men, ii. 98.
The Britons were so because governed by their own laws, iii. 208, 209.
Men, or noblemen, exempt from burdens, and reserved, like arms, for the uses of war, iii. 225.
Free cities, what and who made them, iii. 265. Frugality, the virtues that are upheld by it, ii. 449. Fruits, of our corrupt nature, ii. 62.
Our labour, ii. 68.
Recovered liberty, ii. 141. Victory, how gained and lost,
Always of the same nature of the fruits from whence they came, ii. 326.
G Genealogies, the Hebrews exact in observing them, i. 360. ii. 388.
Of princes nicely to be search- ed into, would be dangerous to some crowns, i. 394, 396, 400. iii. 256.
Of mankind, very confused, i. 392. ii. 388. Of being the eldest son of the
eldest line of Noah, ii. 383. Geneva, and Rome, wherein
they only can concur, i. 316. Genoa, how it was governed, ii. 139, 207.
By whom that city was infect- ed, H. 207.
'Gentlemen, at this day compre- hends all that are raised
above the common people, iii. 224. Germanicus, his modesty in re- fusing the Empire, was the occasion of his death, ii. 267. iii. 94.
Germany, how governed, ii. 139. iii. 210, &c.
Equal to the Gauls in fortune,
so long as Rome was free, ii. 221, 222.
The power of the German kings, ii. 357.
The power of this Emperor, (viz. in 1643.) ii. From thence the British o- riginal and government is drawn, ii. 26.
When she had no king, iii. 42.
The Emperors thereof re-
strained by laws, iii. 48. The western Empire, how it came to Germany, iii. 106. Tacitus, his account of the people's valour, iii. 210. Not imaginable, that there people, jealous of liberty, should conquer the country to enslave themselves, iii. 214.
No monarchy more limited, iii. 270.
Gibeonites, got Joshua to make
a league with them, by de- ceit, iii. 92.
Gladiators, were slaves, ii. 116,
Their fury extinguished with their blood, ii. 129. God, with an equal hand gave to all the benefit of liberty, i. 333.
What sort of kings he ap-
proves in scripture, i. 338. Can save by few as well as by many, i. 340.
of distinguishing between them, i. 363.
Good men, who deserve to be called so, i. 310.
How they obey their princes, i. 290.
Know the weight of foreign power, and doubt their own strength, iii. 321.
Goodness, is always accompanied with wisdom, iii. 65.
Gospel, the light of the spiritual man, ii. 312.
Goths, their polity, ii. 159. iii.
For above 300 years never contracted marriages, nor mixed with the Spaniards, ii. 205.
Seized Rome while Honorious was looking after his hens, ii. 222.
Subdued by the Saracens in
one day, ii. 332.
Grew famous by the over- throw of the Roman tyran- ny, ii. 474. Concerning succession to the
crown during their reign, iii. 99.
Not above four, in 300 years time, were the successors of their fathers, iii. 108. In Spain overthrown by the Moors, iii. 109, 334. Their kings in Spain never ventured to dispute with the nobility, iii. 205. Their kingdoms never restor- ed, iii. 334. Government, the original prin, ciples of it to be examined, our own in particular, i. 322. ii. 80.,
An ordinance of God, i. 334, ✔ 337.
The several forms thereof
left to man's choice, i. 334, 337, 359, 382, 383, 395, 397, 406, 444. ii. 9, 17, 18, 21, 60, 109, 138, 179, 184, 370.
Of the lawfulness of chang, ing it, considered, i. 335. ii. 109, 142, 463. Despotical, differs from the regal, i. 340, 341, 429.
The ground of all just gov- ernments, i. 352. ii. 167, 190. iii. 189.
No man has it either for, or from himself, i. 363. ii. 55, 234, 351. iii. 74. None ever began with the pa- ternal power, i. 370. To whom the constitution of every government is refer- red, i. 385.
All for the good of the peo-
ple and their posterity, i. 422, 433, 451. ii. 21, 55, 65, 80, 123, 179, 213, 214, 219. iii. 78, 174, 277. Is a coalition of every man's private right into a public stock, i. 429, 481. ii. 17. Where just, it has ever been the nurse of virtue, i. 430, 442. Popular, for whom best, i.
For whom instituted, i. 451, 455. ii. 168, 169. What sort was ordained by God, ii. 68.
The effects of one well order- ed, ii. 103.
What only deserves praise,
How the best has been com- posed, ii. 138, 205. Regal had a mixture of aris- tocratical and democratical in them, ii. 144.
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