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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67357	A vindication of the King· With some observations upon the two Houses. By a true sonne of the Church of England, and a lover of his countryes liberty.	Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.	1642 (1642)	Wing W533D; ESTC R203883	7,609	10

we will not unjustly charge them be pleased to observe with me their Orders in these few instances 1. Their countenancing these unwarranted Acts either by a seditious huddle of indigent people and so procuring Petitions to necessitate these premeditated proceedings or levying an absolute War against the King securing us upon no other reasons then that they are the representative body of the Kingdome and therefore our Obedience rather to be expected then our Reason satisfied which indeed is true enough if they proceeded upon that warranted rule to which no man could refuse observance or being entrusted by us with the power of preceding Parliaments that they would pursue points of so high concernment with the same mature reasons and deliberation as they have done and then they might well expect our readinesse to secure their actions But suppose we elect one that should speak or endeavour to exact Treason does our election bid as to secure him or will future Parliaments blame us hereafter for giving up so great a Delinquent to the Iustice of the Laws dare we countenance their Intentions who have fetcht Presidents from the weakest Princes nay and goe beyond them too is the disadvantage of as able a Prince as ever yet held the Sceptor nay and offer their suppositions to the Vulgar If the Prince be a foole a child c. ought he not to be governed by his Councell though it be against his consent if it stand with the publique benefit what Implication to make of this I understand not but I am sure that it was none of our meaning when we gave our voice in the Election Can an Ordinance of Parliament without the consent of the King renew a repeated Act and with so bold a countenance trample upon the heels of that Parliament in Richard the seconds time and this very repealed Act renewed this Parliament be within one step of it wherein the Parliament took the Crown and gave it to the then Earl of Bullingbrook which was the reason of so much Blood in our Civill Wars and was not well setled till of late yeeres And can we blame the King if He desires shelter from such a storme If it be their intentions sure one Bullingbrook will not serve their turns since there have been equall shares in this so great an adventure And to vouch the Oath of this Vsurper H. 4. which came in at their benevolence to a Prince of an unquestionable Title and never offered before or since to any English King that ever we read or heard of but with its limitations is so far from their Loyall pretences that they are rather to be beleeved studyed mischiefs and endeavours to embroyle the Kingdome in a Civill War 2. To disingage all that would out of affection or love interest themselves to secure the Kings Person and Dignitie it being too apparent to any ordinary understanding that such proceedings were never warranted by any presidents of preceding Parliaments or those Laws they call Fundamentall in our Kingdome they scandalize such with the name of Malignant Persons whereby His Meniall Servants either absolutely refused or durst not adventure His attendance and countenance this medley in such a sense that the King himselfe is perpetually traduced under this obstruse Dialect which though they dare not put down in plain English for feare the most violent amongst them should be ashamed to owne it yet by such an implication as the plainest capacitie cannot but blush and with admiration wonder whereto this may tend I would fain be satisfied what these might not do when they had once mastered these their malignants For if you will give us as much reason as the Ants you must beleeve a Winter may come as well as think a Summer is come durst any man then oppose their proceedings when they have reduced all to their owne Termes doe you not speak your selves the very Law and we as we ought to yeeld no appeale from Parliament being the highest Court in the Kingdome yet in this sense as the King is a part of it for otherwise I understand not by what right it hath the preheminence of those they call the Kings Courts being both conveened by the same Royall Authority 3. The discountenancing any Petitions whatsoever wherein we desire to interpose our advice for accommodation or otherwise though never so agreeing with our Laws unlesse they stand with the sence of their party as if all our Wisedom were shut up in so narrow limits and these the only men in England iafallible yet give me leave to aver that to the number of almost two hundred approved able men whose warranted judgement and sufficiencies were the onely inducement of their Countries Election have been faine to sit still and see things carryed in this disorderly confusion peremptorily against their earnest endeavours and have not been so much as askt their opinions in matters of greatest concernment but being unwilling to expose their Consciences to so high a Guilt have with drawn themselves as unusefull Members of such a Body 4. To insinuate a beliefe of their care to the Vulgar They have perpetually surmised terrible jealousies which have produced no other effect then a desired suspition of the King yet these offered upon most improbable conjecturs as every private Letter is sufficient grounds to piece up their designes or by such persons whose private discontents lead them to offer these high indignities to that sacred person they were never worthy to serve in the meanest office and though there lives were so notorious for their formes extravagancies they have by these superfluous invectives found countenance till presuming upon their merits which were none except to abuse the King can be called desert that they have been given up to rapine or some such damnable sin that nature would never have pardoned if we had had no Law Yet these Mens informations sufficient grounds to traduce the King these Letters most necessary Animaduersions to leavie Forces to maintain the Kings Forts Towns aed Magazines against him I and in his own name to as if they could derive that authority from him that has no power according to your Ordinance to leavie them in his own defence though his person is in never so apparant imminent danger yet they for his good and the good of the Kingdome can pretend to this power and beyond yet that all is not of that infallibility let Mr. Pims Letter from Sir Iohn Hotham witnesse with me I have committed these few Observations to the view of the Publique finding so many bold Pamphlets with so high impudence fly at the face of Majesty unreproved and every corner stinks of this unclean Doctrin yet since it is come to this height that we must declare our selves or lose our King wherein my purpose failes my Life shall make good to my last Breath but if Religion Reason and Law had not warranted so Iust a cause I should never have adventured to cleare a Glasse to so foule a countenance yet before I conclude let me propose one Question in Religion Whether the Church was not in its purity in the Primitive times the world agrees they had in those Dayes a King that was no Christian Whether Christ had not more power then ever any can or dare pretend to since to eclipse that Regall Dignity if it had been distructive to the Church yet He refused the lowest office of a Magistrate But gave to Caesar the things that were His for when the yong Man came to Him and said Lord command my Brother that he devide the Inheritance with me He Replies who made me a Ruler or a Iudge amongst You But now That we having a Christian King professing by his unblemisht Life the same way to salvation with us protesting to conserve our Liberties with his Life to make such an apparant difference which may be the occasion of the effusion of so much Christion Blood upon meere Iealousies will be the most unheard of disloyalty that can be committed to future Ages