Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	king_n	law_n	legal_a	2,470	5	10.2354	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90938	Prerogative anatomized: or, An exact examination of those protestations and professions, whereby she hath attempted and indeavoured to preferre her selfe above the Parliament. By a lover of truth, peace and parliaments. Multa videntur quæ non sunt. Published by authority.	Lover of truth, peace, and parliaments.	1644 (1644)	Wing P3219; Thomason E20_4; ESTC R2844	10,786	15

and now makes that crying a maine argument of deserting the Parliament and of bringing open force to destroy that and the Kingdome and indeed Prerogative had good reason to be incens'd against these officious Assemblies for thereby not only all her designes were made abortive but all hopes of effecting any thing against the Parliament in the Southern parts of the Kingdome wholly frustrate therefore she must retire to a place of strength where her servants Fugitives and Traytors to the Parliament and Kingdome may be avow'd and protected and then for the better effecting a division in the Kingdome Prerogative begins to withdraw her partie from the Parliament some by especiall Letters upon their Allegiance others for feare of being put out of their Offices and services under His Majesty In a word all the trees were wind-shaken and those that were not fast rooted fell who though they had stood out all the tumults without danger or hazard yet two moneths after they must withdraw themselves from the Parliament as Prerogative saith for feare of tumults though themselves being summoned to returne and give their attendance according to their dutie in Parliament alledge only His Majesties command for their absence After this a journey is pretended into Ireland that an Army may be rais'd with lesse suspition then His Majesty that in the greatest heat of discontent went through London hunted at New-market past through the whole Kingdome secure and dangerlesse alone in the midst of that dutifull Country of Yorkeshire proposed as a patterne of affection and loyalty to the Kingdome must have a guard which now by the assistance of Papists and Delinquents at home and by meanes of forraigne supplies from abroad is growne a royall Army not only avowing His Majesties Servants but open warre against that trayterous Faction in both Houses of Parliament and yet His Majesties soule abhorres the very thought of warre against his Parliament and yet the Parliament are now declared abettors of that Faction against which the warre is maintained and nothing that will or malice can devise held bad enough sufficiently to asperse and blast their proceedings Now after all this he that can think Prerogatives nature changed because of a few good words and faire Protestations let him think so and he that will be deceived let him be deceived but wisdome is justified of her children in vain shall we expect figs of thornes or grapes of thistles such as the tree is such the fruit will be Yet suppose that Prerogative should really intend to performe her Protestations and ingagements to the Kingdome when this present Faction of both Houses of Parliament is subdued though no man ought to question His Majesties personall goodnesse yet no man can doubt but that this Army thus composed when it hath mastered the Parliament will also give Law to His Majesty as the Roman Army did to the Emperours after the conquest of the Empire and then the question is not Whether we will trust His Majesty which no man will question but whether we will subject our selves with the most desired and best deserving Parliament that ever was to Papists and Delinquents But here it is objected The Parliament is as justly to be blamed and there lie as cleere and manifold Objections against it as against Prerogative 1 It endeavours unnecessarily to perpetuate it selfe 2 It seekes the alteration of the ancient frame of Government and the abolition of the fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdome 3 It destroyes Property and Liberty as much as ever Prerogative did 4 They are seduced by a few factious Members who are wholly transported with private ends and aimes 5 They seek the ruine of the King and his Posterity To the first This Parliament endeavours to perpetuate it selfe unnecessarily Answ I do not wonder that Prerogative is impatient of this check and that it endeavours therefore to cut this Gordian knot it cannot untie but why the Parliament should not be infinitely more desirous to be dissolv'd then continue if the Religion peace and prosperity of the Kingdome were once throughly setled no wise man can give a reason The Prelaticall Party proclaime every where That if the Revenue of the Church be taken away which is all they feare though no man endeavours it Religion and Learning will utterly decay their very godlinesse will not stand without gaine and why the Parliament should be so much in love with a gainlesse uncessant labour I cannot devise Oh but every man is ambitious of power Truly power in a multitude where all equally beare the burden but the most active carrie the most honour will never be valued by the major part whose private interests and care of their family and estates is nearer and dearer to them then any other thing whatsoever after their ingagements shall be discharged to God and the publike And therefore that the desired dissolution of this Parliament might be effected it were much the readier way to endeavour the setling the distractions of the Kingdome then by multiplying the dangers to necessitate the continuance of the Parliament But to the second Objection The Parliament seeks the alteration of the ancient frame of government and the abolition of the fundamentall Lawes of this Kingdome Answ Of the Ecclesiasticall Laws and Government it doth for the reasons given before and because it ought to obey God rather then man but for the authority of the civill Magistrate and the common Law and Justice of the Kingdome it hath alwayes conformed to them having never endeavoured any thing without the Kings consent but only to preserve it selfe and the Kingdome in such a case and I doubt not but this Position of theirs will be found very legall That the Kings Authority signified by his Courts especially by the high Court of Parliament the representative Body of the Kingdom is more obligatory to the Kingdom then his personall Commands out of his Courts though his personall Commands are alwayes to be reverenced when they contradict not those Courts and the Law and therefore I assure my selfe in conclusion the loyalty and duty of the Parliament and of that part of the Kingdome which obeyes the Parliament will be found unblemisht But to the third Objection The Parliament invades the Property and Liberty of the Subject as much as ever Prerogative did An. When I consider how often and with how much art Prerogative inculcates this to the people pretending great affection to them and much care of their sufferings together with much displeasure against the Parliament for their oppression I look upon this as the maine designe of Prerogative to multiply the dangers and miseries of the Kingdome thereby necessitating the Parliament to lay excessive charges upon the people that the present sense of evills which alwayes make deepest impressions in mens minds might induce the people whose love lies most in their purses to desert the Parliament but the wise will consider that the searching of a deep wound is more painfull then the