Royalist Replies
Initially, the Observations of 1642 provoked replies that did not name it or engage directly with its arguments, but attacked its slogans. Two important examples were works from Dudley Digges and John Spelman, in A view of a printed book intituled Observations upon His Majesties late answers and expresses (1642). Robert Filmer in Patriarcha held up Parker's contractarian views as an artificial construct.
John Bramhall attacked both Parker and Thomas Hobbes, at different times, but using similar language. John Maxwell took Parker as a typical specimen, in Sacro-sancta regum majestas of 1644, published anonymously. He argued strongly against the concept that the king had his power through popular consent, and placed Parker in a tradition going back to William of Ockham and Marsilius of Padua.
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