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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61098	The case of our affaires in law, religion, and other circumstances examined and presented to the conscience	Spelman, John, Sir, 1594-1643.	1643 (1643)	Wing S4935; ESTC R26250	27,975	42

without any claime of right made by the two Houses and our Law hath not a surer badge of right than continuall and unquestioned possession Besides the Parliament it selfe 7. E. 1. declares unto the King that To him of right belongs straightly to defend that is to forbid all force of Armes and thereunto they are bound to assist him as their Soveraigne Lord The Statute 11. H. 7 18. reciteth Where every Subject by the dutie of his Alleageance is bound to serve assist his Prince and Soveraigne Lord at all seasons when need shall require c. In the 3. of Edw. 3. The House of Commons disclaime the having cognizance of such matters as the guarding of the Seas and Marches of the Kingdom And by the Statute 25. E. 3.2 It is made High Treason for any to meddle with the Militia so farre as To levie Warre against the King or to aide them that do it And we all know that to levie Warre without Commission from the King or to give aide unto it is by our Law to levie War and give aide against our Soveraigne Lord the King His Crown and Dignitie And we never knew of any exception out of that Law in case the Warre were levied by Authoritie of the two Houses And when we have not in our power to search the Parliament rols for clearing these things If besides our published Statutes our law-Law-bookes have any authoritie we have not onely Bracton whom they insist upon but other authentique law-Law-bookes concurring with him who all speaking of the King and the Houses do expresly say that seeing The King hath no Peere The King cannot be iudged by them So that whatsoever authoritie is in the constant practice of the Kingdom and whatsoever authoritie in the known and published Lawes and Statutes all do conclude the Soveraignitie in the person of the King and the alleageance faith obedience of the Subject even of the Subject virtually united in the Bodie Representative to be inevitably devinct and obliged to the person of the King The Soveraignitie both of the frame of the State and positive Lawes of the Kingdome being fixed in the person of the King and the Alleageance of the Subject by Law inevitably thither assigned then comes in Religion and fortifies and enforces all those bonds of dutie and obedience and that under the severe menace of damnation which when it is in divers precepts and examples well known unto us abundantly set forth in the Scriptures It will not be safe for us to let slip the consideration of two examples especially The Children of Israel being redeemed out of Egypt baptized in the Red Sea and brought for triall into the wildernesse as they were the type of the Church of God in all Kingdomes whatsoever in this world so Moses their Governour was the type of that regall power under which the Church of God in this world was generally to be governed so as though he were not a King in point of interest for the people were not yet in the Countrey that was to be the Kingdom neither was Moses of the Tribe to whom the Kingdom was promised yet saith the Text He was King when the heads of the people were assembled Moses so personating the kingly Office when as yet there was no expresse command concerning obedience and subjection more than Honour thy father and thy mother and he that curseth father or mother let him die the death It happened that Corah Dathan and Abiram rebelled against him and their rebellion was but this they in the behalfe of the Congregation of the Lord because that it was holy every one of them and the Lord among them question Moses his Soveraignitie charge him and Aaron that they exalted themselves above the Congregation of the Lord and that Moses had not kept touch with them to bring them to a Land that flowed with milke and honey but sought to starve them in the wildernesse while blinding the eyes of the people he might in the mean time make himselfe a Prince over them and out of jealousie of this they refused obedience to Moses and would not come at him when he sent to call them and so much was their cause believed to be just and right as that they were seconded with two hundred and fifty Princes of the Assemblie famous in the Congregation all of them so confident that they durst joyne issue with Moses and put themselves upon triall by Gods immediate judgement in the case and they were also backed with many thousands of the people This was the Rebellion the Judgement we all know to be most exemplar Judgement that ever was given in any case The Heads of the Rebellion Corah Dathan and Abiram with their wives their children and all their substance were swallowed up of the earth they went down quicke into Hell saith the Psalmist The two hundred and fifty that invaded the holy Office were slain with fire from Heaven and fourteen thousand and seven hundred of the people that favoured their attempts and murmured at the Judgement were in an instant in lesse than Aaron could get his Censer with fire from the Altar and run among them consumed in a speedy plague It will be objected that Moses was a man of extraordinary calling and that Rebellion against an ordinary Governour though a soveraigne King is not like Rebellion against a Governour of so extraordinary calling and priviledge all that granted yet this exemplar Judgement comes home to manifest the hainous sin of rebelling against Kings at this day Moses had an extraordinary calling he could not else have been a type of regal Authoritie but in type He was King when the heads of the people were assembled He had the Priest made subordinate to him He shall be unto thee instead of a mouth and thou shalt be unto him instead of God And had the Magistracie derived from his Authoritie to beare the burthen with him God took off the spirit that was upon him and put it upon the seventie two Elders So Moses was clearly endued with regall power and for trangression against that very Authoritie of his was the Judgement made so exemplar It could not be exemplar in regard of any other Authoritie which he had then and no other since either had or could have but that we may know the Judgement was exemplar against Rebellion against regall Dominion which would often be committed in the later dayes the holy Ghost speaking against the seducers deceivers wch in the later dayes should make perilous times describes them not onely by being Cursed speakers disobedient to parents that is as well to Civil parents as Natural traiterous headie high-minded resisting the truth like them that resisted Moses Despising Dominion despising Government speaking evill of Dignities of those that are in Authoritie of those things which they know not c. but by this likewise that They perish in the gainsaying of Corah The other

those that sent them And then the remainder of the Peeres and Commons which are scarce a fourth part of them call themselves the Parliament and all the known rights of Soveraignitie does this Epitome of Parliament assume unto themselves and exercise yea the House of Commons alone notwithstanding their Protestation to God for the Defence of the Lawes and Libertie of the Subject by warrant under their Speakers hand beyond all Law and example imprison Subjects that were never Members of their House and deny them their Habeas Corpus And not onely invade the Libertie of the Commons but presse upon the House of Lords the voting of things which in a full House they had before upon mature advice orderly rejected They seconded a tumultuous Petition that demanded the names of the Lords that had dissented from the Commons House though the dissenters were the major part of the House of Lords This Epitome of Parliament hath taught that which never Parliament knew before That their Members may not without the Order of their House be restrained no not for Treason And professing tender care of the Kings Honour and safetie hath authorised Bookes wherein His Soveraignitie is made subject to the Representative of His Subiects and wherein the deposing of our English Kings by their Subiects is declared warrantable and upon the authoritie and warrant of this Parliament must the poor Christian Subiect that is under their power against his Conscience act and give aide to the Armie which against the Kings expresse Command and Proclamations they have levied when though conscious horrour and shame will not suffer it to be acknowledged to be raised against the King yet are their Souldiers sure they shall meet with no other opposite than with their rightfull Soveraigne and His Followers arming for the safetie of His Person for defence of the iust rights of the Crown for the due Priviledges of the first of the three Orders of Parliament and for the necessary power wherewith He is to protect Religion Lawes and Subiects of His Kingdom Who that makes conscience of what he does as one that must make account for it before the great Tribunal where a little integritie though now despised and a little innocence of cause shall bring one more support than either King on the one side or Parliament on the other or Armie on either side who I say thereof mindfull can against the thousand witnesses of his conscience recede from the dutie which all his life till now hath both by Law and Christian Religion been inculcate to him and reiecting all cast himselfe soule bodie and fortunes wholly upon the new-found warrant of strangely conditioned apparition of Parliament These and other particulars that may be instanced in take off the confidence and repose that one would otherwise have in the two Houses especially when they setting on foot claimes and pretences not agreeing with the dutie that men from their youth have found their consciences ever bound unto go not the faire and open way of satisfaction to have in so high concernments the Parliament Rolls as freely and fully searched on the Kings behalfe as on the Parliaments and to have their new and strange learning as freely argued by the Kings Councell and by the Judges as by the instruments of the Parliament but as the Papacie in invading the Soveraignitie of the Church Voted her selfe into the Supremacie and then suppressed all examination of the Truth by damning all Writings to the contrary and branding the Authours and users of them with the name of Heretickes So we invading the Soveraignitie of our own State Vote our selves into it brand with the name of Malignants all that concurre not with us in it interdict them the freedome of search and discoverie of the Truth and damne their Writings as scandalous and seditious Pamphlets and so making them Vote-convicted State Heretickes We thenceforth hold no Faith nor Truth to be kept toward them but prosecute them as Enemies to the State for no other offence but because we have made them Malignants popishly affected dissolute desperate blood-sucking Cavaliers and plunderers Yet truly if we consider the qualitie of them that adhere unto His Maiestie and to His Cause do now lie under that censure we shall finde them the flower and greater part of our Nobilitie and Gentrie of the Kingdome the greater part of His Majesties Honourable Privie Counsell yea and of His Great Councell too even of the Peeres and Commons the chiefe of the Judges and with them the opinion of the residue even of that whole Profession the spirits and prayers of the farre greatest part of the Clergie and the hearts of the greater part of the most substantiall men of the Commonaltie whose soule and conscience presented with the consideration of these things would not shrinke with inward horrour to thinke he should either attempt or give aide to the cutting off not like David of a lap of his Soveraignes ordinary garment but of this lively apparrell-politique of his Soveraigne wherewith for safetie as well as ornament His Majestie is now begirt nay to cut off the very limbes of his Civill bodie and not without eminent danger to His Sacred Person how loud and frightfull would the spirit of David crie in the eares of his guilty conscience The Lord forbid I should do this thing to lift up my hand against the Lords Anointed O but Religion is now at stake and it is not to be believed that popishly affected Counsellours and Commanders with the helpe of a popish Armie should so much forsake their own ends as to fight for Establishment of the true Protestant Religion truly it is sincerely confessed it is not likely and therefore I shall never believe that the Designe of Reforming our Religion by the hands of Brownists Anabaptists and Sectaries which by a constant and credible report is believed to have been so much fostered and advanced by the Cardinall Richelieu and the late French Embassadour as that Chambers the Cardinals Secretarie was on purpose sent into the Scotish Armie here in England was ever with intent of Establishing the true Protestant Religion or that for the Protestant Religions sake the death of the Cardinall was by some of our active Parliament men in our hearing lamented as of a great friend of the Parliament or that the great correspondence and intercourse observed to be between the late French Embassadour and Master Pym was for the advancement of the Protestant Religion But where is any popish Armie under the conduct of popish Commanders that according to the Designe of popish Counsellours is likely to oppresse the Protestants and advance Poperie Certainly both his Maiestie and his Protestant Followers are well assured that not any part of the Warre is managed by the Designe of persons that are so affected but who knowes not the ground of calumnie The King must either denie his Subiects that are Papists the protection of his Armie and refuse their aide and service or