are born in ſubjection to their parents, and therefore cannot be free. And this authority of parents, he calls royal authority, p. 12, 14. Fatherly authority, right of fatherhood, p. 12, 20. One would have thought he would, in the beginning of ſuch a work as this, on which was to depend the authority of princes, and the obedience of ſubjects, have told us expreſly, what that fatherly authority is, have defined it, though not limited it, becauſe in ſome other treatiſes of his he tells us, it is unlimited, and [1] unlimitable; he ſhould at leaſt have given us ſuch an account of it, that we might have had an entire notion of this fatherhood, or fatherly authority, whenever it came in our way in his writings: this I expected to have found in the firſt chapter of his Patriarcha. But inſtead thereof, having, 1. en paſſant, made his obeyſance to the arcana imperii, p. 5. 2. made his compliment to the rights and liberties of this, or any other nation, p. 6. which he is going preſently to null and deſtroy; and, 3. made his leg to thoſe learned men, who did not ſee ſo far into the matter as himſelf, p. 7. he comes to fall on Bel-
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In grants and gifts that have their original from God or nature, as the power of the father hath, no inferior power of man can limit, nor make any law of preſcription againſt them Obſervations, 158.
The ſcripture teaches, that ſupreme power was originally the father, without any limitation. Obſervations, 245.
