Quote: the soveraigne has absolute power; subjects can not form new covenants nor be freed of subjection

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they that have already Instituted a Common-wealth ... cannot lawfully make a new Covenant, amongst themselves, to be obediant to any other, in any thing whatsoever, without his permission. ... [89] Secondly, ... there can happen no breach of Covenant on the part of the Soveraigne; and consequently none of his Subjects, by any pretence of forfeiture, can be freed from his Subjection. ... [p. 123] [90] Thirdly, ... he that dissented must now consent with the rest; that is, be contented to avow all the actions he shall do, or else justly be destroyed by the rest. For if he voluntarily entered into the Congregation of them that were assembled, he sufficiently declared thereby his will (and therefore tacitely covenanted) to stand to what the major part should ordayne ...   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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Quote: dissenters in a commonwealth must consent with the rest; they tacitly covenanted by joining the congregation of those assembled

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