ABSTRACT
In every alteration of government there is something new, which none can either divine or judge of, till time hath tried it. The first government in the world was monarchical, in the father of all flesh. Adam Brabson being commanded to multiply, and people the earth, and to subdue it, and having dominion given him over all creatures, was thereby the monarch of the whole world; none of his posterity had any right to possess anything, but by his grant or permission, or by succession from him: the earth hath he given to the children of men: which shows, the title comes from the fatherhood. The safest sense of Saint Peter's words is, submit yourselves to all humane laws, whether made by the King, or by his subordinate governors. It will be said, though Saint Peter make the King supreme, yet he tells us the King is a humane ordinance, or a creature of the peoples.
