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doctrine_n	church_n	england_n	reform_a	3,931	5	9.9167	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46088	An impartial account of the arraignment trial & condemnation of Thomas late Earl of Strafford, and Lord Lievtanant of Ireland before the Parliament at Wesminster, Anno Dom, 1641.	Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641, defendant.	1679 (1679)	Wing I68; ESTC R11824	83,221	54

the Oath and Law-giver is the party only some have observed two remarkable things upon this First Some think it strange that seeing the House of Commons have lately fined the Convocation House upon this ground especially that they enjoyned an oath which is a Legislative power say they and only due to Parliaments how they at this time as if all the Legislative power were in them without the advice of the Lords I say not of the Church though in matters Ecclesiastical or approbation of the King which is conceived to be a mighty encroachment upon his Prerogative should offer either to prescribe or subscribe such an Oath as if it were essential to our Reformation ever to be done by the people without Authority of the Superiour Powers and yet before it pass into a Statute it must come in by a Bill ●steron proteron but perhaps it is hoped that by this Anti-dated subscription they shall find out the more easy passage for the Bill when it comes to be propounded Secondly That the House of Commons were four hours pleading upon that one expression in the Protestation The true reformed Religion expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England Some who were more tender toward the Church and desiring that the word Discipline might be adjoyned to the word Doctrine but others mainly opposed that reasoning that no Discipline could be admitted but all to be esteemed as Popish that was not conteined in the Doctrine that is in the word of God which party at the last did prevail though the other affirmed that there was more express warrant in the word of God for Bishops than for ruling Elders but if some Hint be not there intended against the Deans and Chapters the Lyturgies and Ceremonies yea the very Bishops of the Church of England let any man judge and of what dangerous consequence that may be if those who pretend to have authority in all Church Affaires may be permitted to give Sentence is not difficult to determin This day the people met again but in smaller numbers they have threatned to come to morrow with all their main forces and not to des●●t till the Lieutenant be executed and their other petitions obteined The Oath was likewise presented to the Lords and some say all of them except the eight Recusant Lords and four of the Bishops have signed the same but others say they have only admitted the Bill which is more likely I think it is Luca● tells us the tale That when the 100 handed Gyant Briareus whom the Mithologizers of Poems use as a Type of the multitude was first brought into the world his Father Jupiter desired Mercury to set his Scheme and calculate the Stars of his Nativity no Father said Mercury that is needless a little time will shew his disposition for so many hands cannot belong Idle A very lively Idea of this business now in Agitation Your self may make the application by the events Upon Saturday May the eighth the Bill against the Lord Strafford past the Lords there were forty five present of which nineteen voiced for him and twenty six against him the greatest part of his friends absented themselves upon pretence whether true or suppositious that they feared the multitude otherwise his Suffrages had more than counterpoised the Voters for his death In the Bill he is condemned of Treason and all his English Lands the other part of the Coat is left for those in Ireland forfeited with an especial Proviso that this Act shall in no wayes he forceable against others than if it never had been made which to his friends of Judgment smells strongly of a particular hatred against him as if the same common way of Justice should not equally strike against all which it should do in true Justice but that Crimes did differ in their Subjects Two ways there were to have proceeded against him by a Legislative or by a Judiciary power both did strike home alike at his life and his Estate both alike ready both sure by reason of the proofs the Difference only this this might have been done without the King that only by him because this is a Sentence that a Statute A man would think the Judiciary way had been the more sure and that the King would rather have connived and not exercised his Prerogative by a Reprival than to have Intressed himself in the Legislative proceedings by consenting to the Act against him in whom the world conceived for by past and future services he had so great an Interrest But they it seems notwithstanding his Majesties late Attestation of the Gentlemans Innocency in point of Treason were more confident of his gracious Inclination to Justifie their own Act and more desirous too that he should demonstrate his willingness in punishing such transgressors and therefore the Bill went on by the Statute The same day another Bill passed both the Houses that because of the important business of the Kingdom the Parliament should not be broken up by the King without the special advise and consent of both the Houses till all their grievances were redressed and their safety provided for which space of time for any thing I know may last till dooms day some would have had the prefinition of 5 some 7 some 9 years put to it others replyed that this would be both odious and dangerous odious in that it should seem so long a Parliament dangerous in that the time may happen out possible to be longer some think it an honour I rather ● fatality or to sweeten the word a Providence that both their Bills should pass at once as if Generatio ●nius were Corruptio alterius And this new Government should take life from the death of the Earl of Strafford In the afternoon the House of Commons desired access to the King in the Banqueting House and having stayed there an hour for his coming in three words they propounded these two great Bills desiring that he would give his Royal Assent to them both Quod si non prosint singula Juncta Jubant Withall humbly shewing that the present danger of the Kingdom could admit of no delayes The King told them they should expect an answer on Monday Morning The Court at this time was surcharged with a confluence of People quasi Civitas tota sedibus suis mota as if the whole City was come to petition for Justice a Government indeed worse than a Democracy where the people do not rule but play the Tyrants If there were no Monarchy there needs no conscience to obey it But where it is and cannot protect it self the good subject must either forget himself or his loyalty A two edged sword killing either the body or the soul nor in this are men in better case than the winged Fishes that our Southern Mariners tell us of which if they swim beneath the water are catch'd by Dolphins if they fly above for refuge snatch'd away by the hungry Ravenous souls Lord help then the