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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75365	Animadvertions upon the Kings answer, read at the Common-Hall, Ianu: 13, 1642. Published as a caveat to the common-wealth, Jan. 24.		1643 (1643)	Wing A3207; Thomason E86_4; ESTC R8852	5,629	8

Estates in one sublime power in it can be no subordination or division but a triple unity limited within the circumferance of Royall power or else in the intervalls of Parliament or when a King demiseth with them the triplicity ceaseth and with him the office dyeth I mean if it admit of essentiall division or personall concommitance so that there may be a personal absence or demise from it and yet the Regality remain absolute therefore the King one of this triple unity of State personally absenting and rejecting the other two cannot sensu deviso command Regally but Arbitrarily and those his commands in this absolute disjunction are directly opposite and destructive to the other two estates therefore in this sence as He is a KING his consent and commands before mentioned are none at all but meerly personall and irregall for regall commandes are tempered and compounded of the reason and judgement of the whole Kingdom not of the will of one man so then the Army raised by the Authority of Parliament is not against the Kings consent or command Regall for Regall consent command and authority is the inseperable adjunct of this triunity the King and two Houses of Parliament And whereas therein the King sayes That all possible means Treason and malice could suggest to them have been used to take away His life from Him and to have destroyed His Royall Issue Hence observe how odious and contemptible He would make the other two estates contrary to His many Protestations and Declarations that the hearts of people might in the highest measure be enraged against the faithfull members and Authority thereof to their and its utter dissolution and destruction Whence His Majesty should have this horrible mis-conception I know not surely His Counsell found not this Diabolicall clause within the confines of their Declarations Ordinances Votes Remonstrances and Petitions nor yet read it in the secret characters of their hearts but if the litrature of the heart by the outward actions and Indices of the minde their many Declarations and Petitions c. may be read I am sure envy it self nor the quintecense of malice can possibly and justly tax that Honorable Assembly of such nefarious guilt to kill the King and destroy His Royall Issue oh monstrous Treason and impious imputation not to be thought of a Parliament and never I believe layd to their charge before for tho it reflect more neerly upon the Army yet though it transpenetrates on them have they not and do they not still labour with all the wisdom and policy they can to rescue His Person from His pernitious pestilent and desperate seducers that His Throne might bee established in righteousnesse an judgement the very life of Kingly glory on Him and His Posterity generation after generation And whereas he sayes What hope His Majesty can have of safety there Whilst Alderman Pennington c. commit such outrages in oppressing robbing according to their own discretion c. His Mai●sty may understand that what they do is not Arbitrary and at their own discretion but by Authority and Ordinance of Parliament executing Justice and Judgement forceable compulsion upon obstinate resistance on such as are able and shall not contrary to their Protestation defend and supply with their fortunes the unresistable necessities of the State so that what they do in pursuance of the Ordinance of Parliament is not to be ascribed to their discretion as actions absolute and irrelative to the Regallity of the Kingdom and so meerly Arbitrary but in submission and obedience to the Legislative power of the Land which hath not only instituted and authorized the thing and them to it but the means order and manner of its accomplishment therefore their actions are of obedience and not of arbitrary discretion and so their exaction of legall mulcts is no robberry no more then the execution of the hangmans office is murther and the Tax it selfe which his Majesty asketh if it be so defend the Subjects liberty and right To wit to take the twentieth part is conducent thereto in regard it is done for the generall defence of the liberty and propertie of the subiect which cannot be without extraordinary expence therefore in case of iminent necessity and actuall hostility the Judgement of the state finding it conducent to its safty which is the end to all politique constitution the means of effecting and defending the same which must trangresse the bonds of ordinary supply is no more repugnant and destructive to the liberty and property of our goods c. then the liberty and property it selfe is to them But if it be objected as in divers scandalous Pamphlets is expressed that those judgements votes and ordinances of these two estates doth destroy the other namely the King and that they are the cause of our calamities which till they be buried in oblivion will not cease and therein all property and liberty of subject is smothered and destroyed For resolution let those that would have the King personally the absolute supream head and power of the Land without Parliament and its inseperable adjunct the judgements votes and ordinances thereof know that therein they make that head an empty scull or at best a politique head without reason for deprive the politique head of the Kingdom of its votes judgements c. The reason of the Kingdom and it remaineth irrationall and the government thereof vanishes into meere madnesse fitter for Bedlam then a Common-wealth if this seeme haish let them further know that as much as in them lyes they labour to make that head as blind as Bartimeus For as the reason of man is the eye of his soule so the Votes and Judgement of the two Houses are the two eyes of that head so that those that would extinguish their Votes c. though they extend to the twentieth part I tell them plainly that therein they pluck the Kings eves out and they say a blind man swallows many a fly yea some as bigg as forraign Ministers and be sure whilest those Flyes buze about his Majesty we shall hear nothing but hum drum which noyse threatens greater damage to the true Regality of the King and the liberty of the subiect then the twentieth part or the Judgement and Ordinances of the state Whereas his Maiesty promises the City to return unto them with his Royall and without his Martiall attendance provided they shall supprese all force and violence unlawfully raised there and shall apprehend and committ to safe custody the persons of those men c. This is like Sampsons fire-brands to the Philistims corn an absol●●● invitation to a bloody and direfull insurrection and yet a little 〈◊〉 he sayes His desires is to be with them that the Trade Wealth and 〈◊〉 thereof may be revived But first they must stand up in opposition and destruction of the State power and Authority Leg slative of the Kingdome and present-con●usion and desolation of the City veiled unde● the terms of defending themselves and suppressing any force c. and 〈◊〉 apprehend and commit to safe custody the 4 Men all which is as much 〈◊〉 say He does not intend to recide in the City as well as he loves it 〈◊〉 it be destroyed for let any rationall man iudge how it is possible bu● the City must be sweltred in its own bloud the streets filled with dea● bodies and their houses plundred and fired if such a prevalent insurrection should be as His Maiesty would ingage the Citizens into suppress● the Militia and Parliamentary power thereof by force Is this the Trad● Protect●on and glory he would bring to the City this much deviat● from that of David when he cryed out Lo I have sinned an● dealt wickedly but these sheep what have they done let thy hand I pr●● thee be upon me and my fathers house but not on the people that they shoul● perish And for the apprehension of the 4 Men the maner of it is altogether repugnant to His severall expresses and Protestations God so 〈◊〉 with Me and Mine as all my thoughts and intentions are for the observ●tion and preservation of the Laws of the Land is this the observation 〈◊〉 the Laws that affords not them that for their obedience to the Parl●●ment which every man may claim for his right due Processe and tryal● if this import the infringement of justice what confidence doth his 〈◊〉 verall Protestations give us of the common right and property of 〈◊〉 goods But to proceed His Majesty gives them only this warnin Th●● whosoever shall contribute or take up Arms under the Earl of Essex c. 〈◊〉 shall deny them the benefit of His protection and shall not only signifie to 〈◊〉 His Forreign Ministers That such person shall receive 〈◊〉 advantage by ●●ing His Subject c. Hence may be observed That His former Answer● Protestations and Declarations were slender fidutiaries for the people trust for that which formerly was contested and protested against 〈◊〉 God so deal with me and mine and We are confident no sober hon●●● man in our kingdoms can believe that We are so despetate or senslesse 〈◊〉 entertain such designs is now openly menaced therefore what 〈◊〉 the sober honest man think of all his former expresses in that kind 〈◊〉 itus acta probat he may conclude the ordinance of Militia not incon●●stent with the kingdoms safety the fears of Forreign force not causl●●● and thus threatned his adherents to the Parliament most safe FINIS