ABSTRACT
Mankind agree in nothing more unanimously, than the Necessity there is of Government in the Civil Society; but to this Day it is undecided what sort of Government is the best. But this is no Encomium, where every Body will be honest and do their Duty, all Governments are good alike. All Subjects owe an unlimited Obedience to the high Magistrate in all Kingdoms, States and Principalities whatever, and no Form of Government can subsist without an Arbitrary Soveraignty. Kingly Government is of Divine Institution by the Canons of our Church. As to the Succession the Kingdom is Hereditary, as much as ever it was; the Hereditary Right has been set aside often, and as well formerly as at the Revolution. Hereditary right is what the Favourors of the Pretender, of late Years, have laid all their Stress upon, as if his Birth had never been suspected to have been spurious.
