ABSTRACT
It is generally confessed that in a democracy the supreme or arbitrary power of making laws is in a multitude; and so in an aristocracy the like legislative or arbitrary power is in a few, or in the nobility. And therefore by a necessary consequence in a monarchy the same legislative power must be in one; according to the rule of Aristotle, who saith, 'Government is in one, or in a few, or in many'. It is a shame and scandal for us Christians to seek the original of government from the inventions or fictions of poets, orators, philosophers and heathen historians, who all lived thousands of years after the creation, and were ignorant of it: and to neglect the scriptures, which have with more authority most particularly given us the true grounds and principles of government.
