The prerogative of popular government. A politicall discourse in two books. The former containing the first præliminary of Oceana, inlarged, interpreted, and vindicated from all such mistakes or slanders as have been alledged against it under the notion of objections. The second concerning ordination, against Dr. H. Hamond, Dr. L. Seaman, and the authors they follow. In which two books is contained the whole commonwealth of the Hebrews, or of Israel, senate, people, and magistracy, both as it stood in the institution by Moses, and as it came to be formed after the captivity. As also the different policies introduced into the Church of Christ, during the time of the Apostles. By James Harrington.

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The prerogative of popular government. A politicall discourse in two books. The former containing the first præliminary of Oceana, inlarged, interpreted, and vindicated from all such mistakes or slanders as have been alledged against it under the notion of objections. The second concerning ordination, against Dr. H. Hamond, Dr. L. Seaman, and the authors they follow. In which two books is contained the whole commonwealth of the Hebrews, or of Israel, senate, people, and magistracy, both as it stood in the institution by Moses, and as it came to be formed after the captivity. As also the different policies introduced into the Church of Christ, during the time of the Apostles. By James Harrington.

Author

Harrington, James, 1611-1677.

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London :: printed [by G. Dawson] for Tho. Brewster at the three Bibles at the west end of Pauls Church-yard,

1658. [i.e. 1657]

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Harrington, James, 1611-1677. -- Common-wealth of Oceana -- Early works to 1800.

Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660 -- Early works to 1800.

Seaman, Lazarus, d. 1675 -- Early works to 1800.

Political science -- Early works to 1800.

Ordination -- Early works to 1800.

Church and state -- Early works to 1800.

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"The prerogative of popular government. A politicall discourse in two books. The former containing the first præliminary of Oceana, inlarged, interpreted, and vindicated from all such mistakes or slanders as have been alledged against it under the notion of objections. The second concerning ordination, against Dr. H. Hamond, Dr. L. Seaman, and the authors they follow. In which two books is contained the whole commonwealth of the Hebrews, or of Israel, senate, people, and magistracy, both as it stood in the institution by Moses, and as it came to be formed after the captivity. As also the different policies introduced into the Church of Christ, during the time of the Apostles. By James Harrington." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A87137.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 12, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• The Epistle Dedicatory.
• An Answer to three Objections against Popular government, that were given me after these two Books were Printed.
  • Object. 1.
  • Object. 2.
  • Object. 3.
• Epistle to the Reader.
• half title
• A full Answer to all such Objections as have hitherto been made against OCEANA.
• Preface.
• book - 1
  • Antient and Modern Prudence. CHAP. I. Whether Prudence be well distinguished into Antient and Modern.
  • CHAP. II. Whether a Commonwealth be rightly defined to be a Go∣vernment of Laws and not of Men, and a Monarchy to be the Government of some Man or few Men, and not of Laws.
  • CHAP. III. Whether the Ballance of Dominion in Land be the Na∣tural Cause of Empire.
  • CHAP. IIII. Whether the Ballance of Empire be well divided into National and Provincial; and whether these two, or Nations that are of distinct ballance, comming to de∣pend upon one and the same head, such a mixture create a new ballance?
  • CHAP. V. Whether there be any Common right or interest of Man∣kind distinct from the parts taken severally; and how by the Orders of a Commonwealth it may best be distinguisht from private interest.
  • CHAP. VI. Whether the Senatusconsulta or Decrees of the Roman Senate had the power of Laws?
  • CHAP. VII. Whether the Ten Commandements were proposed by God or Moses, and voted by the People of Israel.
  • CHAP. VIII. Whether a Commonwealth comming up to the perfection of the kind, come not up unto the perfection of Go∣vernment, and have no flaw in it.
  • CHAP. IX. Whether Monarchy comming up to the perfection of the kind, come not short of the perfection of Government, and have some flaw in it? In which is also treated of the ballance of France, of the Original of a landed Clergy; of Arms and their kinds.
  • CHAP. X. Whether a Commonwealth that was not first broken by her self, were ever conquer'd by the Arms of any Monarch?
  • Chap. XI. whether there be not an Agrarian, or some Law, or Lawes of that Nature, to supply the defect of it in every Common wealth: and whether the Agrarian, as it is stated in Oceana, be not equal and satis∣factory unto all Interests.
    • The first is Aristotle, in these words.
    • The second is Plutarch, in these words.
    • The third should have been the Considerer, but he is at fewd with us all.
  • body
  • Chap. XII. Whether Courses or Rotation be necessary unto a well-or∣dered Common-wealth? In which is contained the courses or Parebole of Israel before the Captivi∣vity, together, with the Epitome of Athens and Venice.
• Advertisement to the Reader, or direction contained in cer∣tain Quaeries, how the Com∣mon-wealth of Oceana may be examined or answered, by divers sorts of men, with∣out spoiling their high Dance, or cutting off any part of their Elegance, or freeness of Ex∣pression.
  • To the Scholar that hath passed his Novitiate in Story.
  • To the godly man.
  • To the Grandee, or Learned Common-wealths-man.
  • To the Rationall Man.
• The Errors of the Presse in the first Book.
• title page
• ADVERTISEMENT To the READER.
• Order of the Discourse.
• A POLITICAL DISCOURSE CONCERNING Ordination.
  • THE INTRODUCTION, OR First Chapter.
  • CHAP. II. That the Cities, or most of them named in the Per∣ambulation of the Apostles, Paul and Barna∣bas were at that time under popular Govern∣ment. In which is contained the administrati∣on of a Roman Province.
  • CHAP. III. The deduction of the Chirotonia from Popular Government, and of the Original Right of Ordination from the Chirotonia. In which is contained the institution of the Sanhedrin, or Senate of Israel by Moses, and of that of Rome by Romulus.
  • CHAP. IV. The deduction of the Chirothesia from Monar∣chical or Aristocratical Government, and of the second way of Ordination from the Chirothesia. In which is contained the Common-wealth of the Iews as it stood after the Capti∣vity.
  • CHAP. V. Whether the Chirotonia mentinoned in the fourteenth of the Acts be indeed as is pretended by Dr. Ha∣mond, Dr. Seaman and the Authors they fol∣low, the same with the Chirothesia or a far diffe∣rent thing; in which are contained the divers kindes of Churchgovernment, introduced and ex∣ercised in the age of the Apostles
• Advertisement to the Reader, or Dire∣ction to the Answerer.
• The Errors of the .