England and Scotland Quotations

Question 1

Buchanan - origins of political authority 1

Answer 1

For the moment, I really want it understood as nothing other than a light divinely shed upon our minds.’

Question 2

Buchanan - origins of political authority 2

Answer 2

The underlying meaning of all these terms is such as to show that kings are created, not for themselves, but for the people.’

Question 3

Buchanan - law 1

Answer 3

as a colleague, or rather as a curb on his passions

Question 4

Buchanan - law 2

Answer 4

the law maintained a single, unchanging course

Question 5

Buchanan - law 3

Answer 5

the king should be ‘the law speaking’ and the law ‘a silent king’

Question 6

Buchanan - law 4

Answer 6

Maitland - Buchanan subjects the king to the ‘prison of the laws’

Question 7

Buchanan - stoic king 1

Answer 7

Let the king constantly bear in mind, therefore, that he stands on the world’s stage

Question 8

Buchanan - resistance 1

Answer 8

The definition of a power laid down by Paul does bot apply to tyrants at all, since they devote the strength of their authority to the fulfilment of their own desires, not to the benefit of the people

Question 9

Wiliam Allen

Answer 9

if he obeye not, or hear not the Church, let him be taken for an ethnike

Question 10

Whitfgift and Cartwright - Whitgift 1

Answer 10

I make no difference betwixt a christian commonwealth and the church of Christ

Question 11

Whitgift and Cartwright - Whitgift 2

Answer 11

There is no reformed church that I can hear of but it hath a certain prescript and determinate order, as well touching ceremonies and discipline as doctrine, to the which all those are constrained to give their consent that will live under the protection of it.

Question 12

Whitgift and Cartwright - Cartwright - 1

Answer 12

As for the making of the order and ceremonies of the church, they do (where there is a constituted and ordered church) pertain unto the ministers of the church, and to the ecclesiastical governors.

Question 13

Thomas Smith - 1

Answer 13

Certaine it is that it is always doubtful and hazardous matter to meddle with the changing of the lawes and government, or to disobey the orders of the rule or government, which a man doth find already established

Question 14

Thomas Smith -2

Answer 14

By this process and discourse it doth appear that the mutations and changes of fashions of government of common wealth’s be natural, and do not always come of ambition or malice.

Question 15

Thomas Smith - 3

Answer 15

The mist high and absolute power of the realm of Englande is in the Parliament.