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A56182
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The contra-replicant, his complaint to His Maiestie
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Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.
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1643
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Wing P400; ESTC R22502
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it is Major or Minor be entertained in grace and equipage proportionably and this difference is composed 10 But sayes the Replicant the Kings party is the more just and therefore to be preferred and this is to be judged of by rule as thus the Parliament intrenches upon our Liberty by imprisoning without cause according to pleasure and claimes to be unquestionable therein The Parliament intrenches upon Religion by committing our best Professors and planting Sectaries in their stead the Parliament proceeds according to reason â—f State not Law and this places an arbitrary power in them aâ—d makes ordinances equall to acts of Parliament Heâ—re in a breif suâ—me all that ever has been spoken or can be spoken against the Parliament and all this is grounded upon an ungâ—aâ—â—ed proposition that the Parliament has no right to defend it self For if it be lawfull for both Houses of Parliament to defend tâ—emselves it must of necessity follow that they may and must imprison levye moneyes suppresse seditious preachers and make use of an arbitrary power according to reason of State and not confine themselves to meere expedients of Law Enough has been said oâ— this 't is impâ—ssible that any wise man should be opposite herein and the Kings party have more recourse â—o reason of State and arbiâ—raâ—y power by far than we have But iâ— it be said that the Houses abuse arbitrary power in imprisoning â—evying moneyes c. cauâ—â—lâ—sly this is a false calumny and not tâ—â—e granted without particular and pregnant proofes of which the Replicant produces none at all were it not for this great noise aâ—d boast of Arbitrary power our Academians would want matter to stâ—ffâ— their in numerable pamphlets withall and the sillyer sort of Malignants would want â—uell to feed their enmity And yet we know Arbitrary power is only dangerous in one man or in a â—ew men and cannot be so in Parliaments at any time much lesse in times of publick distresse for then it is not only harmlâ—ssâ—â— uâ—necessaâ—y The House of Commons without the other States hath had an arbiâ—rary power at all times to dispose of the treasure of the Kingdome and whâ—re they give away one subsidy they may give 20 and where they give 50000â— at one subsidy they may give fifty times so much and all this whether war or peace be Yâ—t when did either King or Subject complaine of this arbitrary power Nay if any parts of the Kingdom have repined at the abuse of this arbitrary power and refused to pay subsidys assessed by the house of Commons what Kings would suffer it when was it not held a good ground of War so both Houses have an arbitrary power to abridge the freedom of the Subject and to inlarge the Kings prerogative beyond a measure they may repeale our great Charter the Charter of Forrests and the petition of right if they please they may if they please subject the whole Kingdom for ever to the same arbitrary rule as France grones under nay they have often been with force and all manner of sollicitations almost violented into it and yet notwithstanding all this we are neither terrifyed nor indangered at all by this arbitrary power in both houses To have then an arbitrary power placed in the Peers and Comm. is naturall and expedient at all times but the very use of this arbitrary power according to reason of State and warlick policy in times of generall dangers and distresse is absolutely necessary and inevitable but 't is a great offence that both Houses should make ordinances generally binding They which would take from us all meanes of defence if they could dispute us out of the power of making temporary Ordinances hâ—d their wils upon us for defence without some obliging power to preserve order and to regulate the method of defence would be vaine and absurd but this is but one branch of arbitrary power and reason of State and to wast time in proving it necessary in times of extremity if defence be granted lawfull were childish and ridiculous I have now done with the Replicant so far as he hath spoken to the matter I shall now come to his emergent strange calumnious speeches against the persons of such and such men but this were Caninos rodere dentes I forbeare it only rehearsing some raylings which need no answer but themselves The two houses are generally railed at as guilty of Rebellion against the King All adherents to Parliament are railed at as Anabaptists Separatists c. The Lord Major is railed at for preventing bloudshed in the City when the Petitioners under the pretence of seeking for Peace had many of them plotted dissention and this his Office is stiled the stiffling of peace in the womb The City Preachers are railed at for satisfying our Consâ—ieâ—ces in the justifiablenesse of a defensive war for this they are charged to fight against the King in the feare of God and to turn the spirituall Militia into weapons of the flesh The framer of the Answer is rayled at for giving the Petitioners just satisfaction in peaceable language Though his words be confessed to be softer than oyle yet 'ts said that the poyson of Aspes is under his lips he is called a Cataline the firebrand of his Countrey whose sophistry and eloquence was fit to disturbe a State but unable to compose or setle it The judgment of all these things is now submitted to the world what the intent of the Petition was in some master-plotters and contrivers of it will appeare by the arguments of this â—ell Replicant Whereby it is now seconded That the name of an Accomodation was pretended to force the two Houses under colour therof to cast themselves upon a meer submission or to be made odious and lookt upon as foes to peace which was a Scilla on one side and Charybdis on the other is here manifested Whether the Answer to the Petition favour of so much malice and enmity to peace as this Replication does let indifferent men censure Lastly whether the soule of that man which thirsts for a firme Peace may not dislike these practises of pretending to it and the soule oâ— that man which hates peace may not make advantage of the name of peace let all wise men proved and examine FINIS