reat and manifest a Distinction they made between the King
and the Kingdom? For thus the Case stands. The _King_ is one principal
Single _Person_; but the _Kingdom_ is the whole Body of the _Citizens_
and _Subjects_. "And _Ulpian_ defines him to be a Traytor, who is
stirred up with a Hostile Mind against the Commonwealth, or against the
Prince." And in the _Saxon_ Laws, _Tit._ 3. 'tis Written, "Whosoever
shall contrive any Thing against the Kingdom, or the King of the
_Franks_, shall lose his Head."--And again, "The King has the same
Relation to the Kingdom that a Father has to his Family; a Tutor to his
Pupil; a Guardian to his Ward; a Pilot to his Ship, or a General to his
Army."--As therefore a Pupil is not appointed for the Sake of his Tutor,
nor a Ship for the Sake of the Pilot, nor an Army for the Sake of a
General, but on the contrary, all these are made such for the Sake of
those they have in Charge: Even so the _People_ is not designed for the
Sake of the _King_; but the King is sought out and instituted for the
Peoples Sake. For a _People_ can subsist without a King, and be governed
by its Nobility, or by it Self: But 'tis even impossible to conceive a
Thought of a _King_ without a _People_. Let us consider more Differences
between them. A _King_ as well as any private Person is a Mortal Man. A
_Kingdom_ is perpetual, and consider'd as immortal; as Civilians use to
say, when they speak of Corporations, and aggregate Bodies. A _King_ may
be a Fool or Madman, like our _Charles_ VI who gave away his Kingdom to
the _English_: Neither is there any Sort of Men more easily cast down
from a Sound State of Mind, through the Blandishments of unlawful
Pleasures and Luxury. But a _Kingdom_ has within it self a perpetual and
sure Principle of Safety in the Wisdom of its Senators, and of Persons
well skill'd in Affairs. A _King_ in one Battel, in one Day may be
overcome, or taken Prisoner and carried away Captive by the Enemy; as it
happen'd to St. _Lewis_, to King _John_, and to _Francis_ the First. But
a _Kingdom_ though it has lost its _King_, remains entire; and
immediately upon such a Misfortune a Convention is call'd, and proper
Remedies are sought by the chief Men of the Nation against the present
Mischiefs; Which we know has been done upon like Accidents. A _King_,
either through Infirmities of Age, of Levity of Mind, may not only be
missed by some covetous, rapacious or lustful Counsellor; may not only
be seduced and