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cause_n	body_n	life_n	soul_n	5,160	5	5.5664	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93196	A short but full discourse of the power of parliaments and how far their intrusted power may extend. As also the great interests of the King therein, acknowledged heretofore in all ages. Sent from the army to a worthy friend in London, and writen there by a learned divine, who upon some high imployments hath been conversant late amongst them.	Learned divine.	1647 (1647)	Wing S3564; Thomason E399_34; ESTC R201733	6,201	9

witnesse Magna Charta 30 times confirmed by the Princes of this Island Let no man dream then that the Prince may trench boldly thereon without check for such conceit doth but aggravate the offence For whatsoever devoureth his own kind we justly account unnatural and heart-burning is easily kindled when our own fellows begin to dominiere over us Firmissimum Imperium quo obedientes gaudent that government under which the people rejoyce and live cheerfully is most safe and durable It is a sad case that a member of the body represented a freeborn subject of life conversation without just exception should contrary to the tenor of Magna Charta contrary to the Petition of Right yea and Scripture it selfe should be imprisoned without shewing cause as many have been by a Parliament professing reformation professing defence of lawes and liberties and without any urgent or apparent necessity of State enforcing it it is a riddle to me beyond any thing this monstrous and degenerate age hath brought forth Those Rulers and Rules of justice at first ordained for our comfort preservation and liberty are now perversly wrested to enslave ruine and destroy Surely when after Ages shall ponder and discusse this proceeding in cold and sober blood in a deliberate and rationall consideration they will be ashamed to own the actors for their Parents or predecessors nay it is to be feared that the stones out of the now modest walls will rise in judgment one day against the abusers of the trust committed to them much dishonour will arise to the Parliament in the breach of the known law Magna Charta which they say is but suspended not abrogated that they provide for generations and have not time to attend particular grievances This may satisfie men of a shallow capacity and small understanding or such as suck profit under their commands None but the mad would yeeld obedience to them that are regardlesse of their lawes and liberties or negligent of the means of their subsistance lively hood and safety the main ends for which they were convened and not to provide Offices for themselves Omne imperium in co●sensu assensis parentium fundatur all lawfull Empire or Soveraigne command hath its basis or foundation in the consent approbation good liking of the people Is any so absurd to expect good liking from those who daily see themselves abused in their persons liberties or estates nay almost ruined in all hopel●sse of ●edresse or remedy when no petition from few hands or many wi●● b●e accepted without great friends in the House so that there wa●●s but a good occasion to be tendred for the delivery of them from that condition under which they mourn and sigh For men toucht to the quick in their liberties and means of living do naturally incline to shake off all ●onds of obedience and to cast the blame of their sufferings upon the authors as false to their trust judging them uncapable of the great weight of authority committed to them and being stung with a lively sense of their lost freedoms and means of subsisting will by some sudden attempt endevour the repairing thereof the most ill that can happen cannot reduce them to a worse condition then they are in I cannot but be very sensible that I have incurred the mis-fortune to fall under the misapprehensions of divers who cut of the premi●es will conclude I goe about to alienate all men from the Parliament but knowing my owne integrity that I am altogether cleane from the guilt of such a thought I passe by them as not worth the taking notice of much lesse the answering and onely make the Apollogy for my selfe as one lately did I will as neare as I can remember doe it in his own words I must confesse t is no way pleasing to mee to dispute the power either of a King or of a Parliament but had I fortunes of mine owne so farre as those would reach I would not urge propriety against my Soveraignes commands and no man ought to complaine of my grievance but my selfe and if I were content to losse that which the Subjects liberty cals meum I hope it is no prejudice to that it cals trum But when I look on the generall cause as at this time it is otherwise therfore I hold every man bound to lay particular cases aside and sacrifice his best indevours for a timely composure of these generall and unseasonable distractions and the best way I could think on is this viz. Neither for private ends on the one side to flatter the King by giving him more power then the Law hath setled in him nor for by-respects on the other side to abate the Kings due and give it to the Parliament but with Allegiance to the one and submission to the other as neer as I can give unto both their rights Having therefore spoken thus much I cannot but say something of the Kings power although as I said before it is no pleasing Subject See what King James saith Kings are not onely Gods Lieutenants upon earth and sit upon Gods Throne but by God himselfe they are called Gods If Kings be Gods Lieutenants they have their power of God and they that resist the power or Ordinance of God receive to themselves damnation Rom. 13. But you may see this better explained by King James Kings are justly called Gods for that they exercise a manner or resemblance of Divine power upon earth if you will confider the attributes of God you shall see how they agree in the person of a King God hath power to destroy or create make or unmake at his pleasure to give life or send death to judge all and to be judged or accountable to none to raise low things and to make high things low at pleasure and to God are both soule and body due The like power have Kings they make and unmake their Subjects they have power of raising and casting down of life and death Judges over all the Subjects and in all causes yet accountable to none but God only They have power to exalt low things and abase the high and make of their Subjects like men at the Chesse a Pawn to take a Bishop or a Knight and to cry up or down any of their Subjects as they do their money and to the King is due both the affections of the Soule and the service of the body of their Subjects But now in these our times we must distinguish between the state of Kings in their first original and between the state of setled Kings and Monarchs that govern in civill Kingdomes In the first originall of Kings some had their beginning by Conquest some by election of the people yet so soon as Kingdom●s began to be setled in civility policy then did they ●et down their mindes by Laws which are properly made by the King onely but at the request of the people the Kings Gr●nt being obtained thereunto for of old Le Roy●s '