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authority_n	king_n	power_n	successor_n	2,893	5	9.1968	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84319	An eye-salve for the city of London: discovering unto them the great engagement that lyes upon them in point of duty and interest, to joyne speedily with the kingdome for the restoring of His Majesty, and the re-setling of the lawfull government and peace of this nation. / By a lover of peace and truth.	Lover of peace and truth.	1648 (1648)	Wing E3937; Thomason E445_7; ESTC R201958	14,736	22

Nationall miseries Were there no fountains in this City that fed the flood of these publike calamities that have so overwhelmed the King and people Was it not a seditious and seduced party in this City that by their tumults and mis-guided zeale first violated the liberty and freedome of the Parliament by threatning and over-awing the loyall and faithfull members thereof Was it not the undutifull carriage of some unruly people there unto His Majesty siding against Him with the forgers of Confusion that caused Him to withdraw Himselfe for the safety and preservation of His Person to avoid the fury of their popular tempests Was there nothing of the wombe and of the nurcery here of this accursed and monstrous rebellion had it no supply from the strength and riches of this City Was it not the Mony and the Plate and the Thimbles and the Bodkins and the Magazines and the Armes and the Contributions and the Forces of this City as well as others that hath continually supported and kept in motion that ungodly designe that hath brought such desolation upon these three Kingdomes were there no treasuries emptyed here to purchase the bloud and ruine of this Nation and turne this Paradice into an Aceldama Have there none of your plumes been carryed to the feathering that neast where the Cockatrices have layed and hatched up their poysonous Issues that have been so venemous and deadly in the destruction of our People Have none of those Seeds of Schisme and Faction of Heresies and Blasphemies sprung up out of your field that have since so over-spread the face of this wasted Church of England Can you say you are more free then all others from those oppressions and persecutions and injustices and destructions that have seized upon the King and People to the wasting of so many Families the utterundoing of so many thousands of poore people And is all this nothing to be Answered for Is there no restitution due from you for so many injuries you have caused were you with the first in the mischeif and can you hope that it will content either God or Man that you should be the last in the remedy Were you so active so busie so zealous so bountifull in the work of division and can you not so much as stirre a foot for peace for the restoring of your wronged and abused KING and for the recovery of your wasted and distressed Country mistake me not I lay not this charge upon your whole City I doubt not but there have been all this while and are still many loyall hearts that have groaned and sighed to see the growth of these mischiefs Neither yet would I be so understood as if I intended to imbitter the hearts of any against all those that have been heretofore engaged in unlawfull actions we shall easily admit the fault to have been more in your Leaders and False-teachers than in you we believe you have been seduced and abused and that your intentions were not halfe so bad as the actions have proved we presume many of you were cheated with pretences and colours of making the King Glorious and reforming the Church and State Though no such aymes had they been never so sincere in those that imposed upon you could have justified the actions which they were made use of to countenance which being in themselves evill can be made good by no circumstances But now that you see the plaine meaning of this wicked and accursed Rebellion and that God himself hath begun to shew himself against it Be not I beseech you still bewitched to side with it Are you so fast entangled in the snare of Sathan that you cannot so much as stir to get out of it consider the gracious dealings of God with you how he hath provoked you to emulation by the loyalty of others The good people of Surrey your neare neighbours are sensible of their Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and that no power on earth can absolve them from them have you not taken them as well as they Did not your Mayor take them at his Installation Have not all the Officers of your City taken them at their entrance upon their Offices are they not the tenure of your Authority and of your honour of your Charter and Freedome if you have any of these left Are these dreadfull bonds become meer formalities and ceremonies with you or what Pope have you to absolve you of them But perhaps you have ill memories since you have drunke of that Lethe of your Covenant it seems you have forgotten those sacred Oaths But give me leave to remember you a little and to set the great obligation of them before your eyes that you may examine your actions and know your duties by them The Oath of Supremacy is this I A. B. Doe utterly testifie and declare in my Conscience that the KING'S Highnesse is the only supreme Governour in this Realm and of all other His Majesties Dominions and Countries as well in all spirituall and Ecclesiasticall things or causes as Temporall and if he be the only supreme Governour there is none upon earth either above Him to correct or limit him to regulate or interrupt His Power and Authority or equall to Him to encounter it or justle with Him in it or that can require any duty of subjection from you but only in order to and subordination under His power and with reservation and maintenance of and without any prejudice to that obedience and subjection that we owe unto Him immediately under God who onely is higher than the highest and above the supreme upon earth whoever they be whether Houses or Armies you are sworne to acknowledge His superiority above them It followeth and that no forraine Prince Person or Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any jurisdiction power superiority preheminence or authority Ecclesiasticall or Spirituall within this Realme and therefore I doe utterly renounce and forsake all forraine Jurisdictions powers superiorities and authorities granted or belonging to the KING'S Highnesse His Heires and lawfull Successours The first clause of this Oath is in generall termes and doth clearly exclude all superiority or equality of power either in Parliaments or people either domestique or forraine to the power and authority of the King and that in all causes both Ecclesiasticall and Civill This part doth particularly exclude the power of the Pope or forraine Princes in Ecclesiasticall and Spirituall matters If any shall aske why intestine as well as forraine power is not mentioned in this clause I answer first it is abundantly provided for in the former part of the Oath and Tautologyes become not an Oath which ought to consist as of clearnesse for the judgments so of brevity for the memories of those that take it Secondly that the reason hereof might be something like that which was auntiently given for the omission of the expresse provision against Paricides that it was an offence so great that it was supposed that none would

be so wicked to commit it so it may seem to be the candour and charity of this law not to seem to admit of any such thing as possible in this Common-wealth That any domestique members of this body should forget so clear and so evident a duty or fall into so high and so heynous a sin as to violate the power and authority of their own King But yet if any thing be wanting here it is supplied in the last clause which is generall also and runs thus and I doe promise that from hence forth I shall bear faith and true allegiance to the KING'S Highnesse His Heires and lawfull Successours and to my power shall assist and defend all jurisdictions priviledges preeminences and authorities granted or belonging to the KING'S Highnesse His Heires and Successours or united and annexed to the imperiall Crowne of this Realme Where note first that you have bound your selves to keep faith true allegiance to His Majesty His Heirs and lawful Successours that is That you will faithfully performe your duties of allegiance obedience and subjection unto Him and them after Him Secondly that you will to your power that is as much as you shall be able by strength counsell personall service intelligence supply by your estates or otherwise Defend first all the Jurisdictions belonging to the King and His Crowne such is the Jurisdiction of the supreme Government in this and all other His Kingdoms and Dominions with all the Branches thereof The generality and fulnesse whereof is set downe in the Statute of the 24 of Hen. 8. ch 12. where this Realme of England is declared to be an Empire governed by one supreme head and King and the Body politick compact of all sorts and degrees of people said to be bounden and to owe and beare next to God a naturall and humble obedience and sure the Houses of Parliament in the most perfect and uncorrupted constitution thereof are yet no Gods and therefore can challenge nothing of the subject before or in prejudice of or in competition with the King and the King is there said to be institute and furnished by the goodnesse and sufferance of Almighty God with plenary whole and entire power preheminence authority prerogative and jurisdiction to render and yeild justice and finall determination to all manner of folke resi●●●s or subjects within this Realme c. The severall branches of this Jurisdiction of His you may see declared in the severall Laws of this Kingdome See Parliament Writs 1 K. Iam c. 1. as the power to Call prorogue and dissolve Parliaments of making Lawes by His royall and free Assent 25 H. 8.19 and his Negative voice of Calling Convocations or Assemblies of the Clergy of Pardoning Treasons Murders Manslaughters 27 H. 8.24 Felonies c. of making Justices in Eyre Justices of Assize Ibid. Justices of Peace and Justices of Gaole-delivery by Letters Pattents under the Kings Great Seale in his Name and by authority of the King's Highnesse and His Heires Kings of this Realme in all places of His Dominions at their pleasure and wills The power of raising Armies 7 Edw. 1.11 H. 7.18 19 H. 7.1 f. 42. Stat. at large 4 5 P. M. cap. 3. and making War and concluding Peace granting Commissions to Commanders and Officers c. The power of all Cities Castles Forts c. within His Dominions Secondly You have sworne that you will defend all His Priviledges preheminences and authorities Such is sure the Liberty of His Person that He ought not to be made a Prisoner by His Subjects Such is His priviledge to come when He pleaseth and to sit in Parliament Such is His exemption from all Judiciall proceeding against His Person or Authority See Iudge Ienk. p. 11. The power to dispose of His owne Estate To choose His owne Counsellours and Servants The Conferring of the great Offices of the Kingdome The making and disposing of the Great Seale See Iudge Ienk. pag. 45. 25 Ed. 3. c. And all these you have promised to assist and defend to your power binding your selves with that dreadfull and sacred bond So help you God and the Contents of the Gospell so that your wilfull failing herein is a renouncing of Gods help by the Gospell and so of the salvation of your souls And now Consider this all ye that forget God lest he pluck you away and there be none to deliver you Assure your selves this Oath of yours is upon Record in the Court of heaven and will one day be produced and you called to a reckoning for it Consider how you have behaved your selves in order to this sacred Oath and the Contents thereof for these seven years last past and repent oh repent London Consider what this Oath requireth of you now Doe you not clearly see that all the Jurisdictions and Priviledges and Preheminencies and Authorities of His Majesty are invaded and spoiled by the insolencie of wicked and ungodly Rebels You have sworne and engaged your soules to defend and assist them to your power and you have pawned your salvation for it how doe you performe this when you see His Crowne ravished from his head His Sword wrested out of His hand Himselfe robbed not onely of all His Kingly Power but of the liberty and comfort that belongs unto the meanest Subject of the liberty of His Person and the liberty of His Conscience and you sit still and will not so much as stirre in His defence and assistance Oh how will this be answered at the day of Judgement Doe not say you have not power to doe it if you would make use of that power that you have by Gods blessing and the assistance of the whole Kingdome which is even ready to joyne with you and so many whereof have begun before you to your shame you may quickly make an end of the businesse and prevent the shedding of much blood and the ruine and destruction of your selves and this whole Nation By thus doing you may satisfie the duty of your Oathes and of your Consciences and make some recompence unto your Soveraigne and your Country for those great injuries and mischiefs that they have suffered by the meanes of your City-disturbers They expect this restitution from you without which how can you ever look that your sins should be forgiven you Doe not bring an incurable odium from your King and Country upon your selves it may have heavy consequences hereafter At least doe not heape Gods wrath upon your selves by continuing in perjurious leagues with bare-fac'd impieties Reade the 17. Chapter of Ezekiel ver 11 12 13 14 15 16. and see what a severe revenger God is of perjury of perjury unto Kings mediate seriously upon that question of God it is a threatning question v. 11. Shall he escape saith God that doth such things or shall he breake the Covenant and be delivered he meanes not your Nationall Covenant but the Covenant of fidelity made unto