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The children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? and they despised him, and brought him no presents.
THis latter, and therefore this wicked age, hath broached three seditious questions: the questions were here∣tofore brewed by Bellarmine and his fellow Jesuites, by Buchanan and his fellow Schismaticks: and this age, this Jesuiticall, Schismaticall age hath practically broached, what they but speculatively brewed. Viz.
1. Whether God or the people bee the author and efficient of Monarchy?* 1.1
2. Whether the King be onely Singulis major, but Univer∣sis minor.
3. Whether it be lawfull for Subjects to beare armes, or to contribute for the maintenance of a warre against the King?
And this age, this wicked age, resolves these questions just to the peoples humour; and saith,
1. The people are the author of Monarchie:
2. The people represented, are greater then the King.* 1.2
3. It is lawfull to contribute for the maintenance of a War, or to beare armes against the King.
But to make good that old Adagie, Quod vulgo placet, sa∣pienti displicet, the Prophet Samuel, in this Chapter, in this verse, resolves cleane contrary, and tells us,
1. That God, and not the people, is the efficient of Mo∣narchie: So he saies, v, 24. See yee him,* 1.3 Quem populus ele∣git? at no hand; but Quem elêgit Deus, see ye him whom the