Of princes, where they have been decided with their own swords, ii. 264. What would make a perpetu-
al spring of irreconcilable and mortal quarrels. ii. 263. Such as arise between the no- bles and commons, fre- quently produce good laws, ii. 284.
The English quarrel with the Dutch, when, ii. 310. Queen Athalia, destroyed the king's race, and was killed herself by Jehoida, ii. 252. R Rawleigh, Sir Walter, reflected on by Filmer, iii. 247. His morals no way exact for a well qualified gentleman,
iii. 247.
Reason, is man's nature, ii. 183, 427. iii. 62. Universal, is that to which all nations owe an equal vene- ration, iii. 37.
Rebellion, the greatest empire of the east overthrown by that of the Mamelukes, ii. 119.
People driven to it by misery and despair, ii. 119, 120, 422, 423.
There can be no such as that of a nation against its magis- trates, iii. 279.
What it implies, iii. 279. Is nothing but a renewed war, iii. 280, 284, 285. What is compared to witch- craft, iii. 285.
Regal power, never exercised by
Abraham, i. 345.
The first fathers after the flood had not the exercise of it, ii. 580. Regicides, their abominable sin,
iii. 150.
Regnum, the signification of the word, ii. 400.
Rehoboam, a sad account of him, ii. 90, 175.
His power far from being ab-
solute, ii. 475, 476. Had good counsel but would
not hearken to it, iii. 76. Was not the head of his peo-
ple, and why, iii. 3:3. Religion, always dangerous in the times of the best Ro- man emperors, ii. 92. Of the same nature with vir- tue, ii. 313.
The principles of the Popish, iii. 354, 355. Remedies, to government appli- ed according to the neces- sity of circumstances, ii. 110, 151. iii. 319, 320, 321. What children have against
their too severe parents, ii. 404.
None to the Hebrews' cries and prayers under their miseries, ii. 411. Must be tried, however so
difficult, iii. 324, 325. Which most fit to be applied, the best time to apply them, and who the properest judges, iii. 332, 333, &c. Representations, how, and by whom they came to be de- puted, iii. 212, 213, 224, 227, 299.
Whether the people should
judge of their behaviour, iii. 300, 301. Republics, vide commonwealths. Resignation, of one's liberty, what, iii. 264, &c.
Of the crown, iii. 97, 98, 327.
Resistance, in what cases justifi- able, ii. 312, 414, 418, 419, 437, 438.
Rome, whether the government was paternal, i. 382. Overthrew all the monarchies within their reach, i. £82. iii. 102, 132. Its extent at first, ii. 14, 123. Wherein she excelled other
nations, ii. 83, 124, 125. When she met with defeats
and ruin, ii. 85, 323, 324. All that ever was desirable in her proceeded from liberty, ii. 101.
Never produced a brave man since the first age of her slavery, ii. 104.
How it was conquered, ii. 139. Sought her grandeur by war, ii. 146, 202, 203. Her fortune when she became
a monarchy, ii. 148, 149. None so free from crimes of wilful injustice nor guilty of so few errors as she, ii. 160.
The generosity, ii. 160. The mildness of her govern- ment for 300 years, ii. 162, 169, 170. Strugling for liberty was at last ruined by the barba- rians, ii. 165, 166.
Not enslaved when Brutus was killed, ii. 217. Was jealous of Valerius Publicola, and why, ii. 226. The peace she had under
Augustus, ii. 253. When filled with blood and
ashes, ii. 255.
Her condition afterwards, (say in 1640) ii. 305, 304, &c. Suffered more by one villain
than from all the defeats of Hannibal, ii. 306. A perpetual spring of brave and valiant men so long as liberty lasted, ii. 325.
How he behaved himself as head of the Israelites, iii. 314.
Sanhedrim instituted by Moses, ii. 69, 138. How permanent, ii. 71. Always to be advisers of the
Jewish kings. ii. 352. iii. 24. Where said that kings can do nothing without them, ii. 423, 424.
For what end constituted judges, ii. 424.
Saul, his first sin by which he fell. ii. 64, 138. Opposing God's command he
pretended to fulfil it, ii. 90. The effects of his various fits
of fury, ii. 89, 90, 460. His vices never discovered till he was on the throne, ii. 296.
Gave the Israelites no law, ii. 402, 403.
Chosen king in the most de- mocratical way, by lot, ii.
408, 415.
How he overthrew his own right, ii. 4 7.
Not made king by virtue of God's election only, ii.
418.
Savoy, the duke of. found out thirteen halves in the year, iii. 283.
Saxons, set up kings and depos- ed them as they pleased, iii. 27. 215, 216. The brave saying of king
Offa, i 94, 252, 268. Laws to which all the British kings were sworn continue still in force there, iii. 96. Several assertions of their liberties and laws, iii. 171, 209, 236.
The English chiefly derive
their origin and manners from them, iii. 209, 267. Their assemblies, the same in power as the British par- liaments, iii. 212, 213. In their own country, scorned all employments but that of the sword, iii. 230. By what means they and their general assemblies were called, iii. 230.
Came there (into England) under Hengist and Horsa, iii. 233.
How they came to reform their manners and to frame laws, iii. 268.
Their great wisdom in ma-
king laws, iii. 370, 371. Schoolmen, an unjust imputation on them, i. 313, 315, 331, 428.
To what a nicety they have minced oaths, iii. 85. Scientes Temporum, who, ii. 322. Scipio Africanus, the first that disdained the power of the law, ii. 162.
Scotland, the mischiefs brought upon the country by their contests, ii. 279. When and how conquered, ii. 331.
Their small number of foot beat the kings army at New- born, ii. 334.
James III. the apt scholar of Lewis XI. in subverting the laws, ii, 358. Many of their kings punish- ed with death, imprison- ment, and exile, iii. 326, 333.
Scripture, the places therein re-
lating to government, how best interpreted, i. 338. What it says concerning
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