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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97037	A vindication of the King, with some observations upon the two Houses: by a true son of the Church of England, and a lover of his countries liberty.	Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.	1642 (1642)	Wing W533C; Thomason E118_3; ESTC R22675	7,649	15

onely undermined but clearly taken away by what reason can we imagine the Structure may continue firme that you may be sure 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 leavying an absolute War against the King securing us upon no other reasons then that they are the represent ative body of the Kingdom 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 intrusted by us with the power of preceding Parliaments that they would pursue points of so high concernment with the same mature reasons and deliberations as they have done and and then they might well expect our readinesse to secure their actions But suppose we elect one that should speak or endeavour to enact Treason does our election bid us to secure him or will future Parliaments blame us hereafter for giving up so great a Delinquent to the Justice of the Lawes dare we countenance their Intentions who hath fetcht Presidents from the weakest Princes nay and go beyond them to to the disadvantage of as able a Prince as ever yet held the Scepter nay and offer their suppositions to the Vulgar If the Prince be a foole a childe c. ought he not to be governed by his Counsell 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meaning when we gave our voice in the Elections Can an Ordinance of Parliament without the consent of the King renew a repealed Act and with so bold a countenance trample upon the heeles of that Parliament in Richard the seconds time and this very repealed Act renewed this Parliament be within one step of it wherein the Parliament took the Crown and gave it to the then Earl of Bullingbrook which was the reason of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 settled till of late Years 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 turnes since there hath been equall shares in this so great an adventure And to vouch the Oath of this Usurper 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 out with it's limitations is so far from their Loyall pretences that they are rather to be believed studied mischiefes 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 Dignity it being too apparant to any ordinary understanding that such proceedings were never warranted by any precidents of preceding Parliaments or those Laws they call fundamentall in our Kingdom they scandalize such with the name of malignant Persons whereby His Meniall Servants either absolutely refus'd or durst not adventure His attendance and countenance this medley in such a sense that the King himselfe is perpetually traduc'd under this obstruse Dialact which though they dare not put down in plain English for feare the most violent amongst them should be ashamed to own it yet by such an implication as the plainest capacity cannot but blush and with admiration wonder whereto this may tend I would faine 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 believe 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 own Termes doe you not speake 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 has the preheminence of those they call the Kings Courts being both conveen'd by the same Royall Authority 3. The discountenancing any Petitions whatsoever wherein we desire to interpose our advice for acommodation 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 onely Men in England infallible 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 fain to sit still and see things carried in this disorderly confusion peremptorily against their earnest endeavours and have not bin so much as askt their opinions in matters of greatest concernment but being unwilling to expose their Consciences to so high a Guilt have withdrawn themselves as unvsefull 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 conjectures as every private Letter is sufficient grounds to piece up their designes or by such Persons whose private discontents leade them to offer these high indignities to that sacred Person they were never worthy to serve in the meanest Office and though their Lives were so notorious for their former 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 capine or some such damnable sin that nature would never have pardoned if vve had had no Law Yet these Mens informations sufficient grounds to traduce the King these Letters most necessary Animadversions to leavie Forces to maintaine the Kings Forts Towns and 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 owne 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 infallability let Mr. Pims Letter from Sir John 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 Doctrine yet since t 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 Just 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 Primi●ive 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 young 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 Judge 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 bethe occasion of the effusion of so much Christian Blood upon meere Jealousies will be the most unheard of disloyalty that can be committed to future Ages FINIS