ABSTRACT
The relation between Common and Natural Law and Church or Canon Law is of supreme importance. The responsibility of monarchy was the upholding of God's order within each kingdom over which a king rules, and that order is by the upholding of common and natural law, for the true welfare of all things and their proper establishment and existence, and for the holding back of chaos and lawlessness. This chapter discusses Andrewes's appeal to the natural law whereby the head moves all the other members of the body, and the familiar description of the human body as a microcosm. It examines the function ascribed to Monarch and Parliament as the authorities responsible for law, common or statute. The chapter presents a comprehensive and scholarly list, beginning with the time of Moses, through all the generations and into the Christian era of the General Councils of the early Church and beyond, of Assemblies called and authorized by Kings and Emperors.
