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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67336	The maid's tragedy altered with some other pieces / by Edmund Waller, Esq. ; not before printed in the several editions of his poems.	Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.	1690 (1690)	Wing W502; ESTC R6612	29,067	108

taking a sacred Oath not to infringe them I am sorry these Men take no more care to gain our Belief of those things which they tell us for our Souls Health while we know them so manifestly in the wrong in that which concerns the Liberties and Priviledges of the Subjects of England But they gain Preferment and then 't is no matter though they neither believe themselves nor are believed by others But since they are so ready to let loose the Consciences of their Kings we are the more carefully to provide for our Protection against this Pulpit-Law by declaring and reinforcing the Municipal Laws of this Kingdom It is worth observing how new this Opinion is or rather this way of rising even among themselves For Mr. Hooker who sure was no refractory Man as they term it thinks That the first Government was Arbitrary till it was found that to live by one Mans Will became the Cause of all Mens Misery these are his Words concluding That this was the Original of inventing Laws And if we look further back our Histories will tell us that the Prelates of this Kingdom have often been the Mediators between the King and His Subjects to present and pray redress of their Grievances and had reciprocally then as much Love and Reverence from the People But these Preachers more active than their Predecessors and wiser than the Laws have found out a better Form of Government The King must be a more Absolute Monarch than any of his Predecessors and to them he must owe it though in the mean time they hazard the Hearts of his People and involve him in a Thousand Difficulties For suppose this Form of Government were inconvenient and yet this is but a Supposition for these Five hundred Years it hath not only maintained us in safety but made us Victorious over other Nations but I say suppose they have another Idea of one more convenient we all know how dangerous Innovations are though to the better and what hazard those Princes must run that enterprize the change of a long establisht Government Now of all our Kings that have gone before and of all that are to succeed in this happy Race Why should so Pious and so Good a King be exposed to this Trouble and Hazard Besides that Kings so diverted can never do any great Matter abroad But while these Men have thus bent their Wits against the Laws of their Country whether they have neglected their own Province and what Tares are grown up in the Field which they should have tilled I leave it to a second Consideration not but that Religion ought to be the first thing in our Purposes and Desires but that which is first in Dignity is not always to precede in order of time For Well-Being supposes a Being and the first Impediment which Men naturally endeavour to remove is the want of those things without which they cannot subsist God first assigned unto Adam Maintenance of Life and gave him a Title to the rest of the Creatures before he appointed a Law to observe And let me tell you if our Adversaries have any such design as there is nothing more easie than to impose Religion on a People deprived of their Liberties so there is nothing more hard than to do the same upon Freemen And therefore Mr. Speaker I conclude with this Motion that there may be an Order presently made that the first thing this House will consider of shall be the restoring this Nation in general to the Fundamental and Vital Liberties the Propriety of our Goods and Freedom of our Persons and that then we will forthwith consider of the Supply desired And thus we shall discharge the Trust reposed in us by those that sent us hither His Majesty will see that we make more than ordinary haste to satisfie his Demands and we shall let all those know that seek to hasten the matter of Supply that they will so far delay it as they give Interruption to the former Mr. WALLER's Speech July 6. 1641. MY LORDS IAm commanded by the House of Commons to present you with these Articles against Mr. Justice Crawley which when your Lordships shall have been pleased to hear read I shall take leave according to custom to say something of what I have collected from the sense of that House concerning the Crimes therein contained Then the Charge was read containing his extrajudicial Opinions subscribed and judgment given for Ship-money and afterward a Declaration in his charge at an Assize That Ship-money was so Inherent a Right in the Crown that it would not be in the power of a Parliament to take it away My Lords NOT only my Wants but my Affections ronder me less fit for this Employment For though it has not been my happiness to have the Law a part of my breeding there is no Man honours that Profession more or has a greater Reverence towards the Grave Judges the Oracles thereof Out of Parliament all our Courts of Justice are governed or directed by them and when a Parliament is call'd if your Lordships were not assisted by them and the House of Commons by other Gentlemen of that Robe Experience tells us it might run a hazard of being stiled Parliamentum indoctorum But as all Professions are obnoxions to the malice of the Professors and by them most easily betrayed so my Lords these Articles have told you how these Brothers of the Coif are become fratres in malo how these Sons of the Law have torn out the Bowels of their Mother But this Judge whose charge you last heard in one expression of his excels no less his Fellows than they have done the worst of their Predecessors in this Conspiracy against the Commonwealth Of the Judgment for Ship-money and those extrajudicial Opinions preceding the same wherein they are joyntly concern'd you have already heard how unjust and pernicious a proceeding that was in so publick a Cause has been sufficiently express'd to your Lordships But this man adding despair to our misery tells us from the Bench that Ship-money was a Right so Inherent in the Crown that it would not be in the Power of an Act of Parliament to take it away Herein my Lords he did not only give as deep a Wound to the Commonwealth as any of the rest but dipt his Dart in such a Poyson that so far as in him lay it might never receive a Cure As by those abortive Opinions subscribing to the Subversion of our Propriety before he heard what could be said for it he prevented his Own So by this Declaration of his he endeavours to prevent the Judgment of Your Lordships too and to confine the Power of a Parliament the only Place where this Mischief might be redrest Sure he is more wise and learned than to believe himself in this Opinion or not to know how Ridiculous it will appear to a Parliament and how Dangerous to himself And therefore no doubt by saying no Parliament could abolish