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act_n	day_n	parliament_n	session_n	3,425	5	10.6408	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40719	A review of the grand case of the present ministry whether they may lawfully declare and subscribe as by the late act of uniformity is required? : in reply to a book entitled A short surveigh of the grand case, &c. : wherein all their objections against both the declarations are considered and answered / by the same hand.	Fullwood, Francis, d. 1693.	1663 (1663)	Wing F2514; ESTC R20121	61,527	240

Case you only return a discovery of three Principles which you affirm I take for granted though they are denied by my Adversaries 1. That the Long Parliament is dissolv'd 2. That the Covenant is only private and personal 3. That each single person is concluded by my subsequent Arguments These you call ungranted Principles but if they may not be granted though they are Principles I shall endeavour that they may be proved though I hope very few of the people of England need satisfaction in such points as these SECT 1. Of the dissolution of the long Parliament 1. TOuching the Dissolution of the Long Parliament I could not dream that so ingenuous persons had any scruple I would fain hope that you want a Refuge when I find you in so bad a Sanctuary 2. Yet when I read your words so warily conditioned in this great particular I find some small encouragement to think that though you now stumble at this stone if every other stone were removed you would stumble over it You say it hath been said you dare not say it and in obedience to present laws you are submissively silent 3. Are you indeed Obedient to what to the present Lawes Who made them the Parliament How comes this to be a Parliament if the Long Parliament be not dissolv'd 4. If the Long Parliament be yet in being the Present is none their Laws are none your Obedience is none if you acknowledge the present Laws you acknowledge the present Parliament and thereby you are over the stone of stumbling before you are aware for you acknowledge the Long Parliament dissolv'd 5. Now there are but two ungranted principles for one you have granted upon a better Argument then I had thought of your own Obedience to the present Laws 6. Truly I took you to be so ingenuous before hand and therefore I presumed to take this for granted and thought I might do it without offence For it is not only the ground of Obedience to the present Laws but the Foundation of our Peace our Liberty our Pardon our Lives and indeed of all we are worth in this world and such a stone not of stumbling but of the Comer that it is hardly safe to touch it though with an intent to fasten it But blessed be God it is fast enough already in our constitution and I hope not much loosned in your opinions 7. Yet if you are in doubt of what disease that great body died I refer you to Judge Jenkins and Mr. Prin who though in other things they differed too much agree very well in this great point 8. Indeed the Name Parliam●●t which signifies to consult and treat together with the Writ whereby the two Houses are Assembled are a full Demonstration of its departure or dissolution long agon They are thereby called to consult and treat with the King therein it signified that Rex est habiturus Colloquium Tractatum cum praelatis magnatibus proceribus Rex in hoc individuo 9. Hence Judge Jinkins argues that the Parliament dissolved upon the Kings being forced from them and put into an incapacity of Treating with them however at his death they died on course 10. The King dying with whom they are to Treat and for which end they have their being the end of their assembling and consequently of their being is gon with him and they are no longer a Parliament A Parliament is a Relative term the Relate and Correlate die together Therefore the King in our Laws is Principium Caput finis Parliamenti 11. It may be said the Act secured them against the Kings death 12. 'T is plainly otherwise indeed it secured themselves from any violence to be done to that end by the King himse●f there is no such clause in the Act that they should not be capable of dissolving any other way much less in particular by the Kings death no security to save the Body when the Head was off 13. But a Parliament may be dissolved or dissolve die or be kill'd the Act secured them from being dissolved by the Kings power without their Consent not against the law of Mortality or their dissolving on course at his decease 14. This is very evident in ull Parliaments if the Kings favour shall continue a Parliament his whole time that Parliament hath all that the long Parliament desired or obtained by the Act specified yet upon the Kings death such a Parliament dissolves according to the nature of the thing and the constitution of the Nation 15. Who can be so fond as to imagine that it was ever intended either by the King or both Houses especially if the Reasons be weighed with which this Act was prosecuted that the constitution of the Nation or the nature of a Parliament should be altered by it or more then that the King should not dissolve them by violence that is without their own consent 16. 'T is as frivolous to mention that the King never dies in this respect For 〈◊〉 is evident that as the King is the Head of the Parliament the Relate Reasons of a particular Parliament so he doth die For as was said a Parliament 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dissolv'd by the King in his life time dissolves of it self at his death and why but because in this sence the King dies 17. I never heard such Arguments as these following answered though indeed we need them not They are Judge Jenkin's He affirms that the Act for the continuance of the long Parliament is Repugnant to those for Annual and Triennial Parliaments which being all Acts of one Session are all Acts of one day and repugnant to common Right and common Reason and impossible by the Kings Mortality and maintains that when an Act of Parliament is thus against common Right and Reason and repugnant and impossible to be performed the common Law shall control and adjudge such an Act to be void and that these are the words of the Law 1. Par. D. Downhams Case fol. 11S 8E 3. 3. 30. 33. E. Cessavit 32. 37. H. O. Annuity 41. 1. Eliz. Dier 313. 18. I hope you will not demand who shall judge of such a Case since all parties have practically resolved this long agon 19. The Rump thought that Parliament too long the whole Nation were offended at the Rump The Long-Parliament men themselves when they were together again in order to the blessed Restauration of the King had a desire to be dissolv'd and did what they could themselves to do it and you know that both King Lords and Commons have since made a Law to which you say you yield Obedience that brandeth it for an high offence for any to say that the Long Parliament is not dissolv'd 20. But my dear brethren because you intimate that you are not fully satisfied in this point out of my hearty desire to do you any service I have advised with a very learned Sergeant in the Laws from whom I received these 3. Reasons every one