Now no other command was delivered but that all things should conduce to order and edification.
Ib.p.

66.
And therefore how they could refuse to receive the King, till he consented to take the Covenant, I know not, unless the taking of the Covenant had been a condition on which he was to receive his crown by the laws or fundamental constitutions of the kingdom, which none pretendeth.

Nor know I by what power they can add anything to the Coronation Oath or Covenant, which by his ancestors was to be taken, without his own consent.
And pray, how and by whom were the Coronation Oaths first imposed?
The Scottish nation in 1650 had the same right to make a bargain with the claimant of their throne as their ancestors had.

It is strange that Baxter should not have seen that his objections would apply to our 'Magna Charta'.

So he talks of the "fundamental constitutions," just as if these had been aboriginal or rather 'sans' origin, and not as indeed they were extorted and bargained for by the people.