Despotic prince

In despotic governments, as well as in all the monarchies of Europe, standing armies are kept up to execute the commands of the prince or the magistrate, and are employed for this purpose when occasion requires But they have always proved the destruction of liberty, and are abhorrent to the spirit of a free republic. In England, where they depend upon the parliament for their annual support, they have always been complained of as oppressive and unconstitutional, and are seldom employed in executing of the laws never except on extraordinary occasions, and then under the direction of a civil magistrate. 

He [Faustus Socinus] condemns subjects taking up arms against their prince and those Protestant theologians who say that it is permissible to resist oppressors of liberty of conscience and with such ardour that perhaps never did partisan of the despotic and arbitrary power of sovereigns seem to speak more vehemently. He writes more as a monk who had sold his pen to arouse hatred for the Reformation than as a fugitive from Italy.. . 

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