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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	law_n	lord_n	4,135	5	3.8427	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96658	Jus regium coronæ, or, The King's supream power in dispensing with penal statutes more particularly as it relates to the the two test-acts of the twenty fifth, and thirtieth of His late Majesty, King Charles the Second, argu'd by reason, and confirm'd by the common, and statute laws of this kingdom : in two parts / auctore Jo. Wilsonio J.C.	Wilson, John, 1626-1696.	1688 (1688)	Wing W2921A; ESTC R43961	44,210	87

difference as to the main whither a parcel of Thieves kill a Man's Servants or bind them so that they cannot defend their Master 2. The King is sole Judge of the danger of the Kingdom and how and when it is to be prevented or avoided Which also was acknowledg'd by Hutton and Crooke in the Case before and Mr. St. Johns in his Argument against the King Ibid. An. f. 483. says thus The Sheriff has the Posse Comitatus and therefore it follows that the Posse Regni is in Himself And shall the King have the Power of the Kingdom and be thought not to know how to use it Or if He does where lies the Quarrel Ought not the Judge of the danger to direct the means for avoiding it Surely yes It is not the Tenant by Castle-guard but the Lord that gives warning of the Enemy and the Reason is given by Sir Edward Coke lest the defence come too late The King by His Commission says Such or such a Person is fit for His Service no averment lies against it The King in a Ne exeat Regno affirms 1 Eliz. f. 105. That I. S. will go beyond Sea It is not traversable What a Judge doth as in his Office Dyer 163. 7 H. 7.40 shall not be assign'd for Error And shall any thing be wanting in the Fountain that issues in the Stream Shall the Delegate have more power than him that Delegates him If no averment or traverse shall be against the Act of a Judge how much less then where the King is absolute Judge Suppose there were but Vulgaris Opinio in the case Even common Fame is a sufficient ground for prevention for Lord Bacon Fames are no less the preludes of Seditions to come than the Relicks of Seditions past and will the People never believe a Treason unless the Prince be kill'd The King has secret Intelligence we know not and must He make no preparation without He reveal it And if He should how long would it be a Secret 3. The Law requires nothing to be done but it permits the way and means how it may be done else the Law were Imperfect Lame and Unjust Imperfect for want of Provision Lame for want of Power and Unjust in requiring an Impossibility A kind of sending forth a Messenger as Solomon and cutting off the Feet whereupon it is a Maxim in our Law That when the Law gives a Man any thing 1 Inst 153. 11 Coke 52. it implies also of that without which the thing it self could not be As a Man takes Ground of another the Law implies he shall have a way to it 9 E. 4.35 Or has a Pipe running through another Man's Ground he may enter to mend it 8 Coke 146. 9 Coke 11. 1 Inst 161. as cause requires So may the Lord to distrein He in Reversion to view what waste and the like for to take away the means were to destroy the end In like manner here The Law says The Interest and Soveraignty of defending is the King 's and shall it not also allow Him the means of doing it The King has the absolute Power of Peace 19 E. 4.6 13 Car. 2. c. 6. and War. The Supream Government of all Forces by Sea and Land And shall He be fore-judg'd the choosing His Souldiers 'T was the short pro Repub honesta Saying of Galba Tacitus when He refus'd a Donative to some Mutinous Legions Legi à se Militem non emi That he us'd to choose his Souldiers not to give Mony for 'em As well knowing that the next demand had been the Empire as indeed it fell true in him for what was that Power of the Sword when he was not secure of not having it turn'd upon himself Or of what better use to any Prince with a Pad-lock on the Scabbard The Scots have a pat Word for it A Feckless Tree-Sword 4. Lastly there remains yet another Argument that carrys in it both Law and Reason there was a necessity upon His Majesty at the time when he granted those Commissions A Necessity of preventing a Necessity And who knows not but Necessity is the Law of time and action and regulates the Law of the place As that of David's eating the Shew-Bread and our casting over Goods in a Storm And who also is so great a stranger at home that has not at least heard of those preparatory Libels and Scandalous Declarations for some time before nightly scattered and daily communicated to Friends What was the meaning of those hollow Blasts Were they ever the Forerunners of Fair Weather Or not of the contrary 'T was a shrewd Argument all was not well or not like to continue well But before I go further I must be forc't to look back the way in this case to make haste being to stand a while and consider 1. The time when this first Test for I shall not speak to the other till my second part was made 2. By whom carry'd on 3. To what end As to the First It was in the Year 1673 at what time the Fears and Jealousies of 1640 like China-Earth laid in by the Grandfather had fermented into a better condition of being wrought The old Chase was foil'd but not so absolutely lost to the despair of a Retrieve they had their Fathers Plat-form most of the Materials would serve again and who knew but they might improve upon 't If they fail'd 't was but what others had done before 'em and if it hit there was a full amends for all So readily do Drowning Men catch at Twigs and Epimetheus like keep Hope in the bottom of the Box when it had been better to have forborn the opening it Then as to the Carriers of it on What were they but two or three First-Rate-Discontents who being out-witted in their point gave themselves up to that peaceable resignation of taking no notice of it till they had contriv'd a Revenge The Word was The King hated them or lov'd them not which to such Men was all one nor could they believe his Heir presumptive as they call'd him should be much fonder and therefore a Bill of Exclusion must secure all And however the House of Lords to their Eternal Honour threw it out yet was it never set on foot again among the Commons or that weakly Let it perish as it lies nor will I rub the Nap too hard for fear of discovering the Thread And Lastly for the end of it The Title 't is true calls it an Act for preventing dangers that may arise from Popish Recusants But what says every Man that wears not a Bibb and who if he belies not his Conscience cannot but confess That the main drift and end of it was to keep His now Majesty from the Crown by undermining Him in His Dependencies first that they might the better afterward attack Him in His Person It was against their Interest that He should come to be King and therefore 't was but