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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47289	Christianity, a doctrine of the cross, or, Passive obedience, under any pretended invasion of legal rights and liberties	Kettlewell, John, 1653-1695.	1691 (1691)	Wing K358; ESTC R10389	73,706	109

Troubles were the Preservation of Liberty and Property of Religion and Laws of the Privileges of Parliament who are the Conservators of all our Rights and for keeping out of Foreign Forces which the King was said to be endeavouring to bring in to inslave this Kingdom Which Pretences are the best that can be invented for Forcible Defence and so as oft as they are bent on change will probably be made use of by Men of like Minds in latter Ages Indeed so far as Words and plain Declarations can do it our Law seems to have taken all the Care the Wit of Man can take before hand to prevent all Recourse to this way of Defence against our Lawful Sovereigns by leaving none in this way to be our Defenders or capable to pretend a Power of making use thereof If any could list Armies against the King not only in Defence of private Rights but of the Laws or the very Constitution it self when the Kings chance to break in upon them It would certainly be the two Houses of Parliament But the Act about the Militia 13. Car. 2. c. 6. and 14. Car. 2. c. 3. declares the Power of the Militia so much contested by the Parliament in King Charles the First 's time yea and that on this very Pretence that they might therewith Defend the Laws and Liberties against him to be solely in the King And that neither one nor both the Houes of Parliament can or lawfully may Levy any War either Offensive or Defensive against him So that take even the most Defensible Rights which seem best to deserve a War and put them into their Hands who have the best Claim to be their Defenders and yet t is plain by this Act that they are not to defend them against the King by Levying War or Listing Soldiers T is true our Parliaments are taken into the Government and have a share in the Highest Acts as making Laws Whence some have argued that upon the Princes Breaking in upon the Legislative Power the Parliament may take Arms against such an Invader as one Sovereign may against another This Inference is directly against the Act last mentioned which declares they have no Power against him either for any Offensive or Defensive War But to clear this Point this Share of theirs in the Legislation as I conceive is not a Sovereign's but a Subject's Part. They are called in to consult and with Authority of Negative upon all Laws to be imposed on them which is a great Security indeed of their being well-governed and bound to nothing but what is for their Benefit no Law being to be made or repealed without their own Consent But this Liberty of consulting and Authority of Negative is still under the King the only Sovereign nor on equal Terms with him as two Independant Sovereigns Agreeably we find the Stile in the Acts so often is Be it enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord with the Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same As 37. H. 8. c. 4. 25. H. 8. c. 11. 19. H. 7. c. 18. 23. 3. Edw. 4. c. 4. 7. Edw. 4 c. 3. passim Or our Lord the King by the Advice and Assent of the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and at the Request of the Commons in this Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same hath Ordain'd and Establish'd c. 12. Edw. 4. c. 8. Tho the King is not Absolute without Rules in Governing nor alone without Partners in Legislation yet is theirs only a Subjects Part not a Coordinate Sovereigns and he alone is Supreme both in Legislation and Execution For our Law and Church too fixes all the Sovereignty of the Realm solely in the King The Kings Majesty hath the Chief Power in this Realm of England c. unto whom the chief Government of all Estates of this Realm whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil in all Causes doth appertain Say the 39. Articles of Religion He is the only Supreme Governor of this and all other his Realms in all Temporal things as well as Spiritual says the Oath of Supremacy His Realm recognizes no Superior under God but only his Grace says Stat. 25. H. 8. c. 21. His Parliaments when they meet both sit and Act only as his Subjects not as his Compere Sovereigns he not having Parem in Regno suo as Bracton says For by order of Law they were to take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance professing by those Solemnities of Religion that he is the sole Sovereign and that they whilst acting there are only his Subjects When during their Session they make to him any Addresses they Stile themselves his Majesties most Loyal and Dutiful Subjects Yea in Acts and Statutes themselves they have often used the same Stile calling as him their Gracious Leige Lord and Sovereign so themselves his Humble Loving and Dutiful Subjects in those Acts of Legislation In all Humble manner shew unto your most excellent Majesty your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Lords and Commons c. says Stat. 12. Car. 2. c. 30. We your Majesties most Faithful and Loyal Subjects the Lords and Commons c. says Stat. 1. Jac. c. 1. We your Majesties most Loving Faithful and Obedient Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons c. representing the three Estates of this Realm so bearing only the Part and Place of Subjects in that Representation says Stat. 1. Eliz. c. 1. and the like may be seen in the Acts under Q. Mary as in Stat. 1. Mar. Sess. 2. c. 1. under King Edward 6. as Stat. 1. Edw. 6. c. 14. and K. Henry 8. as Stat. 37. H. 8. c. 4. c. 17. By all which I conceive it plainly appears that the two Houses sit with the King in Parliament and concur in making Laws not as Coordinate Powers that are equal to him but as Subordinate under him not in Place of Sovereigns but of Subjects under him their sole Sovereign So that if any Parliaments head Insurrections against our Kings they are Wars of Subjects still against their Sovereigns and such as they neither can nor Lawfully may make no not in their own Defence as the Statute says But some Appeal from the Letter of these Laws and Legal Declarations to the Equity of them and think tho the Letter of the Law condemns resisting Subjects that the Equity thereof will acquit and justifie them This Plea of Equity against the Letter of these Laws and Legal Declarations is for excepting some particular Cases from being meant and comprehended in the general Terms used therein and that is by way of Presumption that the Makers of those Laws and Declarations would have excepted them had the Cases been foreseen or particularly put to them But there is no Place for presumptions of a thing against express Declarations to the contrary or for supposing such exceptions