The golden law and emperial principle, or, The universal monarch: viz. the soveraignty of salus populi (not voluntas nor voluptas populi) over all powers and potentates whatsoever ... : besides many other usefuls, to rectify and so to satisfie the conscience scruples of all sorts about the high and disputable point of this time, as, who hath right to the government of our three countries ...
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- The golden law and emperial principle, or, The universal monarch: viz. the soveraignty of salus populi (not voluntas nor voluptas populi) over all powers and potentates whatsoever ... : besides many other usefuls, to rectify and so to satisfie the conscience scruples of all sorts about the high and disputable point of this time, as, who hath right to the government of our three countries ...
- Author
- Hunton, Samuel.
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- London :: Printed by J.M. for William Lee, and are to be sold at his shop ...,
- 1656.
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- Divine right of kings
- Great Britain -- Politics and government
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"The golden law and emperial principle, or, The universal monarch: viz. the soveraignty of salus populi (not voluntas nor voluptas populi) over all powers and potentates whatsoever ... : besides many other usefuls, to rectify and so to satisfie the conscience scruples of all sorts about the high and disputable point of this time, as, who hath right to the government of our three countries ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A86921.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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TO HIS HIGHNES, THE Lord Protector.
May it please Your Highness,
SHould I either of ignorance, or as fearing to presume (as it may be call'd) not Dedicate this to You, yet the thing it self so relates to Your Highness, as that it self-ly doth it, do I what I can: I hope then it will not be notion'd Presumption, if I bear it company, and come along with it in these Lines, reverently to dictate for it, as Aa∣ron for Moses, also, as so postur'd, to wait
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on your Highness, and withal, to crave pardon, if I make bold to subscribe my self
Your Highness most humble Servant, S. H.