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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

214.

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.

323.

What called by Tacitus, ii.

131.

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.

291.

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.

327.

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,

iii. 114.

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.

were

"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

governments.

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,

ii. 216.

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.

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'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,

129.

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.

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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.

147.

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

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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.

434.

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,

ii. 125, 129.

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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