112 CASE OF THE POST-NATI OF SCOTLAND. 



of the conformity of a monarchy with a divine 

 Majesty : never to a senate or people. And so you 

 find it twice in the lord Coke s Reports ; once in the 

 second book, the bishop of Winchester s case ; and 

 in his fifth book, Cawdrie s case ; and more anciently 

 in the 10 of H. VII. fol. 10. &quot; Rex est persona 

 &quot; mixta cum sacerdote ;&quot; an attribute which the 

 senate of Venice, or a canton of Swisses, can never 

 challenge. So, we see, there be precedents or plat 

 forms of monarchies, both in nature, and above 

 nature ; even from the monarch of heaven and earth 

 to the king, if you will, in an hive of bees. And 

 therefore other states are the creatures of law : and 

 this state only subsisteth by nature. 



For the original submissions they are four in 

 number : I will briefly touch them : The first is pa 

 ternity or patriarchy, which was when a family grow 

 ing so great as it could not contain itself within one 

 habitation, some branches of the descendants were 

 forced to plant themselves into new families, which 

 second families could not by a natural instinct and 

 inclination but bear a reverence, and yield an obei 

 sance to the eldest line of the ancient family from 

 which they were derived. 



The second is, the admiration of virtue, or grati 

 tude towards merit, which is likewise naturally in 

 fused into all men. Of this Aristotle putteth the 

 case well, when it was the fortune of some one man, 

 either to invent some arts of excellent use towards 

 man s life, or to congregate people, that dwelt scat- 

 tered, into one place, where they might cohabit with 



