But to come to a Matter of greater Consequence, wherein the Prudence and Wisdom of our Ancestors does most clearly shew it self.  Is it not apparent how great 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 depraved by debauch’d Youths of Quality, or of equal Age with himself; may be infatuated by a silly Wench, so far as to deliver and fling up the Reins of Government wholly into her Power.  Few Persons, I suppose, are ignorant how many sad Examples we have