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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89087	The Bishop of Carlile's speech in parliament, concerning deposing of princes Thought seasonable to be published to this murmuring age.	Merke, Thomas, d. 1409.	1679 (1679)	Wing M1827; ESTC R225562	8,159	8

THE BISHOP of CARLILE's SPEECH IN PARLIAMENT Concerning Deposing of PRINCES Thought Seasonable to be Published to this Murmuring Age. Nutrum modo mas modo Vulgus LONDON Printed in the Year 1679. THE BISHOP of CARLILE's SPEECH IN PARLIAMENT Concerning Deposing of PRINCES THis question Right Honourable Lords concerneth a matter of great Consequence and Weight The determining whereof will assuredly procure either Safe Quiet or dangerous disturbance both to our particular Consciences and also to the common State Therefore before you resolve upon it I pray you call to your considerations these two things First whether King Richard be sufficiently deposed or no Secondly whether King Henry be with good Judgement or Justice chosen in his place For the first point we are first to examine whether a King being lawfully and fully instituted by any Just Title may upon impution either of Negligence or of Tyranny be deposed by his Subjects Secondly what King Richard hath omitted in the one or committed in the other for which he should deserve so heavy Judgment I will not spake what may be done in a Popular State or in a Consular in which although one beareth the Name and Honour of a Prince yet he hath not Supreme Power of Majesty but in the one the people have the highest Empire in the other the Nobility and chief Men of Estate in neither the Prince Of the first sort was the Common-Wealth of the Lacedaemonians who after the form of Government which Lycurgus framed oftentimes Tranquil in Caligula Tacitus in Proaemio Fined oftentimes Fettered their Kings and sometimes Condemned them to Death Such were also in Caesars time the petty Kings of every Citty in France who were many times Arraigned upon life and death and as Ambiorix Prince of the Leodienses consessed had no greater Power over the People than the People had over them Of the second condition were the Roman Emperours at first of whom some namely Nero and Maximinus were openly Condemned others were suddenly surprized by Judgment and Authority of the Senate and such are now the Emperors of Germany whom the other Princes by their Aristocratical Power do not only restrain but sometimes also remove from their Imperial State such are also the Kings of Denmark and Sweedland who are many times by the Nobility dejected either into Prison or into Exile Such likewise are the Dukes of Venice and of some other free States in Italy and the chiefest cause for which Lewes Earl of Flanders was lately expelled from his place was for drawing to himself cognisance in matters of Life and Death which high Power never pertained to his Dignity In these and such like Governments the Prince hath not regall Rights but is himself subject to that Power which is greater than his whether it be in the Nobility or in the Common People But if the Soveraign Majesty be in the Prince as it was in the three first Empires and in the Kingdom of Judea and Israel and is now in the Kingdoms of England France Spain Scotland Muscovia Turky Tartaria Persia Ethiopia and almost all the Kingdomes of Asia and Africke Although for his Vites he be unprofitable to the Subjects yea Hurtful yea Intollerable Yet can they lawfully neither harm his Person nor hazard his Power whether by Judgment or else by Force For neither one nor all Magistrates have any Authority over the Prince from whom all Authority is derived and whose only presence doth silence and suspend all inferiour Jurisdiction and Power As for Force what Subject can Attempt or Assist or Counsel or Conceal Violence against his Prince and not incurr the high and Henious Crime of Treason It is a common saying thought is free Free indeed from Punishment of secular Laws except by Word or Deed it break forth into action Yet the secret thoughts against the sacred Majesty of a Prince without attempt without endeavour have been adjudged worthy of death And some who in auricular Confession have discovered their Treacherous Devises against the Person of their Prince have afterwards been Executed for the same All Laws do exempt a Mad Man from Punishment Because their Actions are not governed by their will and purpose And the will of Man being set aside all his doings are indifferent neither can the Body offend without a Corrupt or Erroneous mind Yet if a Mad Man draw his Sword upon his King it hath been adjudged to deserve Death And left any Man should surmise that Princes for the maintenance of their own safety and Soveraignty are the only Authors of these Judgments Let us a little consider the Patterns and Precepts of Holy Scripture Nebuchadnezzar King of Assyria wasted all Palestine with Fire and Sword oppugned Hierusalem a long time and at the last expugned it Slew the King Burnt the Temple Took away the Holy Vessels and Treasure The rest he permitted to the Cruelty and Spoyl of his unmerciful Souldiers Who defiled all places with Rape and Slaughter and ruinated to the ground that flourishing Citie After the Glut of this bloody Butchery the people which remained he led Captive into Chaldaea And there erected his Golden Image and commanded that they which refused to Worship it should be cast into a fiery Furnace What Cruelty what Injustice what Impiety is comparable to this And yet God calleth Nebuchadnezzar his Servant and promiseth Heir and Wages for his Service And the Prophets Jeremiah and Baruch did Write unto the Jews to pray for the life of him and of Baltazar his Son that their days might be upon Earth as the days of Heaven And Ezechiel with bitter terms abhorreth the disloyalty of Zedechia because he revolted from Nebuchadnezzar whose Homager and Tributary he was What shall we say of Saul Did he not put all the Priests to Execution because one of them did revile Holy and harmless David Did he not violently Persecute that his most Faithful Servant and Dutiful Son in Law During which pursuit he sell twice into the Power of David who did not only spare but also protect the King and reproved the Pretorian Souldiers for their negligent Watch and was touched in Heart for cutting away the Lap of his Garment And afterwards caused the Messenger to be Slain who upon Request and for Pitty had lent his hand as he said to help forward the voluntary Death of that Sacred King As for the contrary Examples As that of * So did Domitian put to death Epaphroditus Neroes libertine because he helped Nero although in love to kill himself So did Serverus kill all the killers of Pertinax his Predecessour and likewise Vitellius did put to death all the Murtherers of Galba Theophilus Emperour of Greciae caused all those to be Slain who had made his Father Emperour by killing Leo Armanius And Alexander the great put to cruel Execution those that had Slain Darius his Mighty and Mortal Enemy Jehu who Slew Jehoram and Ahazia Kings of Israel and Juda They were done by express Oracle