* "At the first, when some certain kind of regimen was once
approved, it may be that nothing was then further thought upon for the
manner of governing, but all permitted unto their wisdom and
discretion, which were to rule till, by experience, they found this
for all parts very inconvenient, so as the thing which they had
devised for a remedy did indeed but increase the sore which it
should have cured. They saw that to live by one man's will became
the cause of all men's misery. This constrained them to come unto laws
wherein all men might see their duty beforehand, and know the
penalties of transgressing them." Hooker, Eccl. Pol. 1. 10.
112. Thus we may see how probable it is that people that were
naturally free, and, by their own consent, either submitted to the
government of their father, or united together, out of different
families, to make a government, should generally put the rule into one
man's hands, and choose to be under the conduct of a single person,
without so much, as by express conditions, limiting or regulating
his power, which they thought safe enough in his honesty and prudence;
though they never dreamed of monarchy being jure Divino, which we
never heard of among mankind till it was revealed to us by the
divinity of this last age, nor ever allowed paternal power to have a
right to dominion or to be the foundation of all government.
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