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<HEAD><HI>The Di&s;covery of</HI> MALIGNANTS.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">By the knowne Lawes, and will of the KING, ab&s;urdly urged again&s;t the PARLIAMENT, by the People, Lawyers, Judges, Jury, Divines, and King forced from the Truth by willfull errour.</HEAD>
<P>_SAint <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> defines a people by their a&s;&s;ociation, and <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> by their Con&s;titution, and <HI>Forte&s;cue</HI> out of both by their intention, Electi|on, and &s;ubjection. A people (&s;aith the Father) is <HI>a company of men a&s;&s;ociated by the con&s;ent of Law, and communion of pro&s;it,</HI> and the Philo|&s;opher to give them an head addes, <HI>when one is con&s;tituted of many a|mong&s;t them&s;elves, one &s;hall be the Ruler, and the re&s;t the ruled.</HI> By one, he meanes not a per&s;on but a power, not a <HI>King</HI> but a Comman|der; for one is not <HI>unus homo,</HI> but <HI>unum Con&s;ilium,</HI> not one man, but one Senate or El|der&s;hip, which is the mo&s;t ancient and be&s;t approved Government both in Church and State, <HI>Numb.</HI> 11.16. <HI>Rev.</HI> 4.4. for it is Rea&s;on and prudence that Rules be&s;t, and both are found in the Elders of the people, which is the Rea&s;on the Almighty placeth the Councell, <HI>Deut.</HI> 17.8. before the <HI>King, V.</HI> 14. and referres all per&s;ons to the judgement of the Elders, and leaves it no where to the King, and the Lawyer I mentioned binds the <HI>King</HI> to the Law, which he compares to the ligaments of the body, that the head may not change; and he compares the people to the heart, that live fir&s;t and die la&s;t in any Kingdome, and all confe&s;&s;e that the &s;afety of the people is the &s;upreme Law. Their intention lives fir&s;t, and provides the meanes to make happy the head in direction, and the hand in execution, and I conceive that to be the Rea&s;on why <HI>Barons</HI> and <HI>Bi&s;hops</HI> refu&s;ing to come to Parliament, the <HI>King</HI> with his <HI>Commons</HI> may take care of the Kingdomes &s;afety: but without the Commons con|&s;ent, nothing may be done by either, for if the intention of the people live fir&s;t, ex|tingui&s;h that and life cea&s;eth; and now to di&s;cover Malignants without the touch of any mans per&s;on, I &s;hall by demon&s;tration teach it in two things. Fir&s;t, the knowne Lawes urged by ignorance again&s;t them, that onely know them by the confe&s;&s;ion of all. Secondly, the will of the King urged with as great error as the former, and followed by them that would by it e&s;cape the payment and puni&s;hment of Parliament.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Ignorance and Clamor of the People.</HEAD>
<P><HI>The People that know not the law are accur&s;ed,</HI> Joh. 7.49. So &s;aid the Rulers of envy, and <HI>Nicodemus</HI> one of them held a better opinion of him whom the people magnifi|ed
<PB REF="2">to &s;peake above all men. No law without hearing, and kowledge of the Fact, condemnes any man. The Rulers retort the Argument by reproach, and depart with di&s;daine every man to his owne hou&s;e. Such is our &s;udden reproach not of the people for a good opinion of the Parliament, but of mo&s;t Malignant parties that bid us &s;earch and &s;ee if any good come from &s;uch a Councell. <HI>Galilee</HI> was never a greater reproach to our Saviour, and <HI>Nicodemus,</HI> then this <HI>Parliament</HI> is to &s;uch as &s;uffer for it, and we have a law to condemne it, for we have heard &s;o much to be done by it, that all our knowne Lawes are again&s;t it.</P>
<P>The faire&s;t glo&s;&s;e <HI>Malignants</HI> have for their illegall actions, is to argue again&s;t the Parliament, and the Engine is, that their proceedings are again&s;t the knowne Laws, which &s;o amu&s;e the people in reading their pamphlets and Rea&s;ons that they re&s;olve they better knew the Lawes then the Parliament it &s;elfe, and &s;uch mi&s;ery they &s;uffer from it, that they mu&s;t re&s;ume their owne power, and be their own Judges. When the King by ill Councell oppre&s;&s;ed them, O then a <HI>Parliament</HI> to relieve them, and now they would be relieved again&s;t it by the known Laws. The truth is the know|ledge of the Lawes is removed from common capacities, and they are as principles of Arts and Sciences, of the which we &s;ay they are virtually contained in them, and deducible from them, <HI>nemo na&s;citur artifex,</HI> no man is borne an Arti&s;t to argue the truth from the fir&s;t ground, and we &s;ay, <HI>t. ta &s;cientia virtute continetur in principijs,</HI> that all knowledge is contained in the principles, and by great indu&s;try and &s;tudy is fet|ched out of them and certainly &s;everall conclu&s;ions by di&s;cour&s;e &amp; Argumentation is brought to light from them. If our Laws be &s;o well known to the people, why do Lawyers take &s;o great paines to inform them? Students we call them vainly, if their Clients be &s;o learned, and the Lawyer takes money to advi&s;e for no advantage but his owne. What needs the Client to de&s;cend to Aguments, being armed &s;ufficiently by his owne skill? How comes the ca&s;e to fall out otherwi&s;e upon demurer or &s;pe|ciall Verdict then he was informed? Judgment is rever&s;ed by a <HI>Writ of error,</HI> and from Court to Court, is brought at the la&s;t to the highe&s;t, and there &s;etled for the &s;ounde&s;t and &s;ure&s;t re&s;olution. They doe but di&s;abu&s;e the people that tell them of <HI>knowne Lawes</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Parliament,</HI> and it is mo&s;t abominable Hypocri&s;ie to Angle their hearts to no other ends but to catch them in &s;nares, to devoure them, and Ty|rannize over them, by blind obedience as the Pope does.</P>
<P>For the &s;econd conveyance of the <HI>will of the King,</HI> the people tremble to thinke of it, and his per&s;onall commands come at the la&s;t to be their knowne Laws. Di|vines doe but dally with Con&s;cience, that we mu&s;t obey the will of the King, which is condemned, <HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 5.11. and no where commanded, and if we take obedience for &s;ubjection, it is not to the will, but the power of the Magi&s;trate, and &s;eeing all the care is taken for Kings, &s;ee what all the learned in the law &s;ay, <HI>pote&s;tas &s;ua juris e&s;t non injuriae,</HI> the Kings power is ju&s;tice, no injurie. <HI>Lex fraenum e&s;t potentiae,</HI> the Lawes are the bounds of the Kings power and command. <HI>Nihil pote&s;t, ni&s;i id &s;olum quod de jure pote&s;t,</HI> he can doe nothing but that onely which is ju&s;t. <HI>Vicarius Dei dum facit ju&s;ti|am, mini&s;ter Diaboli dum declinet ad injuriam,</HI> he is Gods Vicar in doing of Iu&s;tice, and the Devils agent declining to injury. The <HI>King</HI> is inve&s;ted with a judiciall power, not in his per&s;on but his Courts. His per&s;on is pre&s;umed by the Law to be ignorant of judicature, and the Acts of Mini&s;tery are below the Maje&s;tie of a <HI>King,</HI> and the Subject may &s;uffer prejudice in many acts of ju&s;tice, if &s;uch an <HI>Indecorum</HI> be admit|ted. It's too meane for a Prince to be an <HI>Informer, Accu&s;er, to arre&s;t and compound them,</HI>
<PB REF="2">and &s;uch actions are judged void in law, and the Rea&s;on is evident, becau&s;e the Sub|ject, upon &s;uch actions, if unju&s;t, can have no remedie again&s;t the Kings per&s;on, and &s;o wrong &s;hall be done, &amp; no law to right the oppre&s;&s;ed, or puni&s;h the wrong doer. They wrong the people again&s;t the <HI>Parliament,</HI> that by Prerogative above law call Con&s;cience to obey, which is <HI>Scientia cum Deo,</HI> and not again&s;t him to plea&s;e men.</P>
<P>I have touched two &s;innes in the People di&s;contented by deceivers. Fir&s;t, <HI>Igno|rance</HI> in judging of the Laws when they wring them. They are penny wi&s;e pound fooli&s;h, and follow a common opinion in compa&s;&s;ion of them&s;elves. The Parlia|ment exacts payments in forme of Law, and nece&s;&s;ity compells them unto it, and Malignants &s;ay it is again&s;t law, as if they under&s;tood more then lawyers doe, which all of them pitch upon this Maxime, <HI>illud quod alias licitum non e&s;t, nece&s;sitas fa|cit licitum, et nece&s;sitas inducit privilegium, quod jure privatur.</HI> It's mo&s;t certain the <HI>Parlia|ment</HI> in being judgeth of all accidents; and hath power to make lawfull that which without their judgement is unlawfull, and if nece&s;&s;ity did not urge them, they would of it make no law, and the priviledge they have is warrantable upon the ground granted the King for the good of the Kingdome. Impo&s;itions and Ship money have been complained of as illegall, and by them that can condemne them, and therefore greater Judges then they that approved them, and yet their judgment had bin ju&s;tifiable, if nece&s;&s;ity had induced the priviledge, as now it does, and that in the judgement of them that cannot be contradicted, and yet does not every Ma|lignant manife&s;t his malice to &s;ay there is no nece&s;&s;ity becau&s;e they cannot &s;ee it, and would have every man as blind as them&s;elves. How irrationall is it that the King &s;hould declare the law again&s;t his great Coun&s;ell, when a&s;&s;uming it in his grants, Commi&s;&s;ions, Proclamations under his great Seale, he is commonly judg|ed in all Courts to be abu&s;ed, and the &s;ame made voyd, when the law is again&s;t them, and &s;o judged to be by them that are &s;worne to doe Ju&s;tice to &s;uch as &s;uffer injurie by &s;uch unju&s;t proceedings. His Maje&s;tie may ea&s;ily prote&s;t what he will doe, and erre in the doing of it, by mi&s;information, and what credit can be given to any thing done or laid when the &s;ubjects are barbarou&s;ly u&s;ed for executing on|ly legall commands, and refu&s;ing illegall; by the <HI>Kings</HI> Army, his Coun&s;ellors and Abettors, and his &s;upreme Coun&s;ell neglected and oppo&s;ed, as able to doe nothing to &s;ave the people from de&s;olation and de&s;truction. If Subjects were not be&s;otted with &s;enceles men, they would &s;uffer never them&s;elves to be &s;o circumvented by the will of the <HI>King,</HI> and known Laws again&s;t the <HI>Parliament,</HI> as if the will of the King were above Law, or Law to be judged by it, and not by them that have alwaies to the King, and all &s;worne Judges declared laws. The will of the King may bee nece&s;&s;ary to make a Law, it was never held &s;o to declare it in any Court of Ju&s;tice, and if Lawes may neither be, nor be expounded, but as the King plea&s;eth, we are in a mi&s;erable ca&s;e in the proceedings of <HI>Parliaments,</HI> and if that be true that is written and Printed in the conclu&s;ion of one Parliament, that it &s;hall interpret the Lawes no otherwi&s;e, then the King and his &s;worne Judges will have it, Ship money and all Impo&s;itions &s;hall &s;tand good, that he and they judge to be law, and knowne laws &s;hall be as the multitude murmure now for their money, and clamour out of the Parliament, &s;hall they exact our e&s;tates again&s;t knowne Lawes, and the will of the King. When the King calls for it for his owne plea&s;ure they cry our of oppre&s;&s;ion, and when the Parliament would have it for their owne good, they are &s;till oppre&s;|&s;ed, and would &s;hift off all payments, caring for no common good, but that they may live at their owne ea&s;e without charges.</P>
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<HEAD>The Science and Con&s;cience of Lawyers.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Woe unto you Lawyers, for you have taken away the Key of knowledge,</HI> Luk. 11.52. No marvell wee have &s;o many Malignants of the multitude, when the Men of better parts mi&s;leade them, and keepe from them the key of knowledge. <HI>Ignoramus</HI> was once a plea&s;ant comedy to play with the lawyers, but now Divines de&s;erve the name, who ignorantly re&s;olve Con&s;cience without the Law. Dr. <HI>Ferne</HI> fell into his error by medling with a matter he under&s;tood not, for no Divine can rightly &s;tate the que&s;tion between the King and <HI>Parliament, Parliament</HI> and People but he that knows the Lawes of the Land: and I wonder the Divine &s;hould deale with Supre|macy, not knowing where it is, for it is properly where all Cau&s;es may bee handled, and that is onely in Parliament, for it is not in the Kings power to handle any Cau&s;es out of the Courts of Ju&s;tice, and of all Cau&s;es no one Court is capable, but the high Court of Parliament, and as the Per&s;on of the King is over all per&s;ons, &s;o his power is onely in all Cau&s;es where their cognizance is, and if he will judge them out of Parliament, he pa&s;&s;eth his limits, and the rule is, <HI>extra territorium jus di|centi, non paretur, impune,</HI> he that obeyes the command of any power, out of it's juri&s;|diction, &s;hall be puni&s;hed for it, and the Parliament mu&s;t ju&s;tly puni&s;h Delinquents that de&s;ert it, and &s;eeke for &s;afety and &s;ecurity in the &s;hadow of their Soveraigne in his private capacity, for no law allowes him to protect offendors, kill and plun|der, &s;poile and de&s;troy his Subjects without proce&s;&s;e of law (again&s;t <HI>Magna Charta c.</HI> 29.) whom he is bound by oath and Office to defend and pre&s;erve. It were well the Lawyers that pen the Kings papers would with their Science of the lawes u&s;e their Con&s;ciences to comfort and confirme the ignorant with more knowledge, then ignorantly the Divines have done; and &s;eeing they &s;peake &s;o much of known lawes, they would know them better from tho&s;e that the Kingdome hath alwayes made the be&s;t guides, and chiefe Judges, &s;o much reproached for their care to curb the contentious, and cau&s;e the hone&s;t Subjects to bee &s;upported again&s;t their vio|lence and wicked proceedings, in all their workes by open violation of laws.</P>
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<HEAD>The Oath and Office of Iudges.</HEAD>
<P>Lawyers have liberty to plead their clyents cau&s;es according to their Science and Con&s;cience, and they that are bad abu&s;e both, and for their Fee feare not to &s;ay any thing: but Judges are &s;worne to doe right, and &s;werve as much as the other to &s;a|tisfie his humor, who hath given them their honour, and in hope of higher places hazzard heaven it &s;elfe, and &s;ee no more then the blind, for bribes and brave places plea&s;e them more then truth and; equity and when the King &s;aies he and they &s;hall interpret the lawes to the Parliament, and they &s;hall pa&s;&s;e no other judgement then warranted by them, we may be &s;ure the wi&s;e men of our Kingdom &s;hall be made fooles if they follow any &s;uch Verdict, as a Royall, but no righteous Edict to rule us all.</P>
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<HEAD>The Iury of <HI>12.</HI> men conclude every cau&s;e and Crime.</HEAD>
<P>Witne&s;&s;es in the Word of God are counted mo&s;t worthy of tru&s;t for the truth, and our Law with them proceeds further, to finde a <HI>Iury</HI> to heare the evidence, and the Judge to declare Law upon it, and then they pa&s;&s;e the <HI>verdict,</HI> or finall fate of mens for unes, and what farre excells them, their very lives, when both now pa&s;&s;e without Law again&s;t the Parliament, the &s;upreme Judge of all cau&s;es kept from it
<PB REF="3">by a Civill warre, the wickedne&s;&s;e whereof will pre&s;ently appeare in adding the <HI>Divine</HI> and the <HI>King,</HI> mo&s;t coupled in this my&s;tery, and without feare I will forme them both into &s;uch a compo&s;ition as the world dreames not of; and the <HI>Prince</HI> and <HI>rie&s;t</HI> &s;hall take no prejudice by mee, except the truth be prejudiciall to them to heare their errours, in the corruption of the pure&s;t calling. They are the two <HI>prin|cipall pillars</HI> that beare up two bodies, that now lye dead in the &s;treet of the great Ci|ty, <HI>Rev.</HI> 11.8. <HI>Witne&s;&s;es</HI> they are called, when they maintaine the truth, and <HI>Bea&s;ts</HI> when they oppo&s;e it; and they are two to two, <HI>Rev.</HI> 11.3. <HI>&amp;</HI> 13.11. <HI>Magi&s;trates</HI> and <HI>Mini&s;ters</HI> are the great my&s;teries in the matters that now maintaine the warres, and they ri&s;e up one again&s;t another, even in the &s;ame Kingdome, and the common ca|lamity is come to our dores, and to open it will be evidence enough why <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> are become <HI>Prote&s;tants,</HI> in Divine <HI>Sermons, Service,</HI> and <HI>Sacraments.</HI> Our Sermons, they &s;ay, are morall per&s;wa&s;ions, and our Religion without all <HI>formall here&s;ie,</HI> or <HI>morall malignity:</HI> Our Service is a piece of their Ma&s;&s;e-booke, and therefore &s;o far good to heare it, and hope a part will bring in the wholes; and Ma&s;&s;e, and Mattens, with all the marrow-bones, will be like <HI>Ezekiels boyling pot,</HI> where &s;cumme and filth, with fle&s;h, &s;hall all boile together, and nothing be purged our of it, till all be con|&s;umed in the fire, <HI>Ezek.</HI> 24.12.13. Fire and fury in our Nation is divine, and will not be done away, till all Romane mixtures be made to pa&s;&s;e out of our land, and we left better then we have been. The Pot mu&s;t be filled with the choice bones, and bones mu&s;t burne under the pot. The &s;cumme is in us, and woe be to us till it be out, and a thorough Reformation made, which God pro&s;per.</P>
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<HEAD>The two Witne&s;&s;es, and the two Bea&s;ts.</HEAD>
<P>As the truth findes friends, &s;o it hath enemies, <HI>Veritas odium parit,</HI> hatred is borne as a Mon&s;ter again&s;t nature, which is regular, and if errour be, the birth is unna|turall, and &s;o it happened in Paradi&s;e. <HI>God &s;aw every thing he had made to be very good, Gen</HI> 1.31. The <HI>tree of good and evill, Gen.</HI> 2.17. was not &s;o in being, but in u&s;e, and that was, to know mans maine temptation, though now the love of the creature tempt him more then the knowledge of the Creatour. The mon&s;ter appeares in mans apparell, <HI>Gen.</HI> 3 7. and the leaves cover them, who&s;e fruit made them naked; and ever &s;ince the &s;hels of truth have been the &s;hadowes to hide errours, which makes the Apo&s;tle call this <HI>la&s;t Apo&s;la&s;ie,</HI> 1 Tim. 4.1. <HI>hypocri&s;ie,</HI> ver&s;. 2. and it is of &s;uch lyers as live neare&s;t Chri&s;tians, <HI>Rev.</HI> 11.2. as the Court of the Temple is &s;o neare it, that it containes it, and corrupts it, and nothing but the fir&s;t mea&s;ure can make good truth again&s;t it, from the which we have declined ever &s;ince the end of the <HI>fourth Century,</HI> which followes the <HI>Red Dragon, Rev.</HI> 12.8. and appeares in <HI>two Bea&s;ts,</HI> wherof the one bears his <HI>Crownes, Rev.</HI> 13.1. and the other his <HI>Prie&s;thood, Rev.</HI> 13.11. The fir&s;t is an Army of Seculars that fight with the Lamb with ten horns, <HI>Rev.</HI> 17 14. and the other of &s;acred per&s;ons, that &s;et upon him with his owne Hornes which are two, <HI>Rev.</HI> 13 11. the &s;ecular Hornes are &s;educed, <HI>Rev.</HI> 17.13. or &s;ubdued, <HI>Dan</HI> 7.8.24.25. The &s;ecular Hornes held the &s;acred Hornes under till they were expul&s;ed quite out of Rome, and the &s;ervile province thereof to Emperours and Kings, became the Soveraign Lord&s;hip of the Pope and for whom <HI>Princes</HI> and <HI>Prie&s;ts</HI> &s;educed or &s;ubdued have made all the &s;tirre and they that will not &s;tand for him are with&s;tood with all the &s;ubtilty and cruelty that wit or wickedne&s;&s;e can worke by warre, or &s;ecret contrivances. No marvell our King prote&s;ts our pro|tection without the <HI>Parliament,</HI> nay again&s;t it, for &s;o are both the Mon&s;ters of Po|pi&s;h
<PB REF="4">braines, which they beleeve not when they have hatched them in hatred of us and our King. The <HI>Councell of Ba&s;il</HI> decreed a generall <HI>Synod</HI> to be above the <HI>Pope,</HI> and the rea&s;on is from a <HI>Senate</HI> above the King, and the Rea&s;on thus, all States have remedies to right them&s;elves again&s;t ruine by a &s;elfe pre&s;ervation again&s;t one man. That all by one &s;hould peri&s;h is unrea&s;onable, and therefore in kingdomes the highe&s;t Courts command all, and take care for common &s;afety. The&s;e mi&s;creants of mi&s;chiefe have &s;ince the <HI>Councell of Ba&s;il</HI> made one Bi&s;hop above all Synods and Senates, and becau&s;e the great Senate of <HI>England</HI> is not under their errour, they cre|ate one again&s;t both Pope and Councell, and &s;ay, certainly the King is &s;upreme, not over all per&s;ons, but the very <HI>Parliament.</HI> A doctrine they never taught before this day; for all <HI>Popi&s;h Bi&s;hops</HI> and <HI>Barons</HI> ever held the King to be under them in <HI>Parliament,</HI> and God forbid the <HI>Bi&s;hops</HI> removed, the <HI>Lords</HI> and <HI>Commons</HI> &s;hould doe as they have done, remove the King. But marke the&s;e men that are for the King, and what they &s;ay in both <HI>oaths of Allegeance and Supremacy.</HI> They &s;ay the oath of &s;u|premacy was unlawfull in the dayes of <HI>Henry the eighth,</HI> the fir&s;t that found it out, and <HI>Bi&s;hop Fi&s;her</HI> and Sir <HI>Thomas Moore</HI> dyed Martyrs, becau&s;e he was of their Reli|gion, and to &s;weare any man but the <HI>Pope</HI> head of the Catholike Church, is an horrible &s;inne: but his &s;onne <HI>King Edward</HI> was head of another Church of his own making, and to be head of that all good Catholikes may &s;weare it; but that the King is their head is mo&s;t hatefull in their Religion. We &s;ay the Catholike Church hath no head but Je&s;us Chri&s;t, and that Kings are no heads of it, but of all &s;uch per&s;ons as profe&s;&s;e it in their Dominions, which <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> will not profe&s;&s;e, for as Catholikes they have no head but the <HI>Pope,</HI> and to him they are &s;worne to defend his Catholike Church again&s;t Prote&s;tants, and to die as <HI>Fi&s;her</HI> and <HI>Moore</HI> died Mar|tyrs, that is, Rebells, for they dyed not for Religion, <HI>King Hemy</HI> &s;till profe&s;&s;ing their Catholike Faith, but not the Popes &s;upremacy in his kingdome. But now the&s;e wi&s;e men, like <HI>weather-cockes,</HI> turning with the times, and &s;eeing the Parlia|ment again&s;t them, &s;et the King again&s;t it, and above it, that he may do for them, to undoe him&s;elf and whole Kingdom. And now &s;ee the <HI>two</HI> and <HI>ten hornes</HI> &s;et again&s;t <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> &amp; meditate &s;eriou&s;ly on the my&s;tery. The mo&s;t of the <HI>Mini&s;ters</HI> are malignants; for what makes them with the Papi&s;ts to put the king above his Parliament, and plead con&s;cience to the people, but that they may obey the King again&s;t the <HI>Parliament,</HI> becau&s;e the king mu&s;t do all things, and without him nothing can be done, and yet all he can doe is to <HI>Bills of new Laws,</HI> which is only this, if he grant them <HI>le Roy voet,</HI> if he wil advi&s;e before he grant them he &s;aies, <HI>le roy ad vi&s;era,</HI> &amp; good rea&s;on the <HI>king</HI> &s;hould be ruled by his own <HI>judgment,</HI> the judgment of his &s;worn judges, his Coun&s;ellers, both privie and publique, and til he find ju&s;t cau&s;e to grant to &s;u&s;pend his voie, but not by violence compell his <HI>coun&s;ell</HI> to do nothing, becau&s;e he cannot or will not do this: the parliament is bound by the great tru&s;t of the kingdom to do all things to pre&s;erve it.</P>
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<HEAD>The Conclu&s;ion to all Benevolent and Malevolent Engli&s;h men.</HEAD>
<P>Country-men, what is your contention ene with another? can you tell the cau&s;e of your combate? call to mind your mu&s;tered mi&s;taken truths. Fir&s;t, you &s;peak of known laws, have you any <HI>again&s;t, above, be&s;ide,</HI> or <HI>without</HI> the <HI>Parliament?</HI> If you have, who told you &s;o? Malignants without doubt, and never deny your &s;elves to be &s;uch, if you hold &s;uch an opinion again&s;t the <HI>Parliament,</HI> for never dur&s;t any per&s;on declare what was law without the <HI>Parliament,</HI> and now every man will be a judge, and re&s;ume his power to pa&s;&s;e &s;entence upon them he hath elected to be the mouth
<PB REF="4">to declare without contradiction the mind and meaning of all ju&s;t and legall pro|ceedings. Secondly, you make much of the will of the King, and his per&s;onall com|mands and hold them good again&s;t both Hou&s;es, and that you are bound in con|&s;cience rather to obey &s;uch Edicts of inju&s;tice, then the verdicts of Judges above all Juries, and proce&s;&s;es what&s;oever. An infallible evidence of error to argue obe|dience to the will of one man, when many are to be obeyed in the &s;ame power. It is not the will of the king that makes any law, and if law be the rule of our wills, the &s;ole will of the king cannot warrant what we doe. The judgement of any Court is more to be obeyed then the plea&s;ure of the king, <HI>Quod principi placet, legis non habet vigorem,</HI> and the po&s;ition is true, that <HI>Kings &s;edneed, may injure the Common-wealth, but the Parliament cannot,</HI> becau&s;e they are mo&s;t proper Judges of the Kingdome, and the imminent dangers therof. Thirdly, the right of the Subject as it is in him&s;elfe by inherence or inheritance is not known or held again&s;t the <HI>Parliament.</HI> His per&s;on is free, fortunes firme, and what he hath he may hold, but not by his own will, the tru&s;t is out of his own hands, and for common good nothing may be kept to our owne u&s;e, required from us by them we have tru&s;ted. The king and kingdome hath com|mitted all to the two Hou&s;es, and if they were not worthy, we &s;hould never have bin &s;o ra&s;h as to have left &s;uch a power in them by whom we may peri&s;h. We may peri&s;h by the King but the people never peri&s;hed by the <HI>Parliament</HI> Many are tran&s;|ported again&s;t both Hou&s;es to hate their proceedings, that &s;o great tru&s;t by the Act of Continuance is committed unto them and &s;uch confidence repo&s;ed in them, that the King hath le&s;t his Royall prerogative in their hands, not to di&s;&s;olve the <HI>Parlia|ment</HI> till they plea&s;e, and make his grant &s;o great ingratitude in them, that they would have all men grieve with the King that he hath lo&s;t his wonted power to di&s;&s;olve at plea&s;ure that body he hath convented to correct the whole Kingdome, &s;uch are the words of Malignants to make them odious, as if they had circumvented the King, and drawne him into a &s;nare, <HI>promi&s;ing to make him great, rich and honourable,</HI> and doing the contrary. The &s;candalls ca&s;t upon the <HI>Parliament</HI> are &s;uch &s;landers as may be wiped off from them with ea&s;e, if men were as earne&s;t to under&s;tand as they are to argue. His Maje&s;tie had rea&s;on to call and continue his <HI>Parliament</HI> to pacifie his people in <HI>Scotland,</HI> pay them for their wrongs, and &s;upport &s;uch-publique charges both by Sea and Land, and that in all his Kingdomes as is almo&s;t incre|dible. The cau&s;es may be knowne by all. <HI>Scotland</HI> was provoked by our Bi&s;hops to receive their Di&s;cipline by compul&s;ion. <HI>Ireland</HI> is in Rebellion to rai&s;e up Po|pery with the perdition of all the people that are Prote&s;tants. A Popi&s;h Army is rai&s;ed in <HI>England;</HI> the <HI>Parliament</HI> de&s;erted, Delinquents protected, the People de|&s;troyed, Malignants &s;uffered to mu&s;ter forces to fall upon the quiet People, drive them from their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, purloine as they have, wa&s;t their habitations, and cau&s;e the two Hou&s;es to be loaden with all the cares of the <HI>Kingdom,</HI> and yet the&s;e cry out, <HI>how much have they promi&s;ed his Maje&s;tie, and how little doe they performe. They tell the King they can doe him no wrong, becau&s;e he is not capable to doe it or receive it. That they take no|thing from him, becau&s;e he had never any thing of his owne,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>It were end le&s;&s;e to heare the hatred of the&s;e horrible Malignants, that are &s;orry the King hath &s;o little to give them, and therefore they &s;ay all is his, and make his authority &s;ufficient to take away every mans e&s;tate, which to &s;ue out of their hands, the two Hou&s;es can handle nothing of any other concernment, then to prevent im|minent dangers, as fa&s;t as their enemies create them, and if the &s;afety of the People
<PB REF="5">be the &s;afety of the Prince, and their riches and plenty the way to make him great, rich, and honourable, they can effect nothing for him before their good and pro&s;pe|rity bee procured. His Maje&s;tie makes the interpretation of the Statute of the 25. <HI>Edw.</HI> 3. to provide for the meane&s;t Subject in the Kingdome above the King, and why? Becau&s;e they are for Trea&s;on that de&s;troyes the Kingdome, and &s;ay no|thing of the King. I hope the King is &s;afe in that Subject, and am &s;ure out of it he hath no &s;afety, and as the ca&s;e now &s;tands, the Kingdome is in danger by an Ar|my with him, which to pre&s;erve the Kingdome no man can &s;ee it, and truely how it &s;hould pre&s;erve the King in a riddle too, whom they have expo&s;ed to ruine with them&s;elves, not by the Kingdome, but the pre&s;ervation of it out of their hands, which if they prevaile, they may promi&s;e the per&s;on &s;ecurity, but the King can have none, if his Kingdomes peri&s;h. Take all, and wonder at the Wi&s;dome of them that &s;eeke to make us all Fooles.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t knowne Lawes again&s;t the <HI>Parliament.</HI> Secondly, the will of the King again&s;t the <HI>Parliament.</HI> Thirdly, the Liberty of the Subjects again&s;t the <HI>Parliament.</HI> Fourth|ly, their property in their goods again&s;t the <HI>Parliament.</HI> Fiftly, their power again&s;t the <HI>Parliament.</HI> Sixtly, their Commi&s;&s;ion of <HI>Array</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Parliament.</HI> Seventhly, their Army again&s;t the <HI>Parliament.</HI> Eightly, the exaction of the Peoples goods again&s;t the Parliament. Ninthly, the arming of Papi&s;ts again&s;t the <HI>Par|liament.</HI> Tenthly, the per&s;onall Commands of the King again&s;t the <HI>Parliament,</HI> and all becau&s;e the King will not joyne with them from whom he cannot bee di&s;|joyned, or doe any thing without them, and if they aske whether they can doe any thing without him? I an&s;wer all things but the making of new Lawes. They may declare Lawes without him, as a Court having his Authority, and the Authority of the whole Kingdome. <HI>Le Roy voet,</HI> and <HI>le Roy ad vi&s;era</HI> are onely per&s;onally re|quired in new grants, but what is granted they may execute, as to declare doubis of Lawes, redre&s;&s;e injuries, puni&s;h offenders, cancell the Kings grants; provide for imminent dangers, and by Ordinances command &s;uch obedience as may &s;ecure the Kingdome, and the fallacy the <HI>Parliament</HI> can make no new Lawes without the King, therefore they can doe nothing, is from one particular to conclude a gene|rall, not this therefore nothing, as if this were all, when many things may be done that require neither <HI>Le Roy voet,</HI> or <HI>Le Roy ad vi&s;era,</HI> for if the King may grant or de|nie, and &s;o to deale, determine all, he may dally and delay judgement, as he plea&s;|eth, which God forbid.</P>
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