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A generall cry: for the king to come sit with his Parliament in his former splendor, honour, and royall Majesty; or the kingdom is undon, &c.
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A Generall Cry FOR THE KING To come sit with his PARLIAMENT IN HIS Former Splendor Honour and Royall Majesty or the Kingdom is undon c. GEN 49. 9. 10. Iudah is a Lyons Whelp from the Prey and as an old Lyon who shall rouse him up the Septer shall not depart from Iudah nor a Law-giver from between his feet Printed in the Year 1648. A generall Cry for the King to come sit with his Parliament in his former Splendor c. THe generall Cry hath been a Personall Treaty and is now aaking aking The King must come home to sit with his Parliament in his former Splendor Honour and Majesty or the Kingdom is undone His Person is no wayes lyable to Justice for he is the Lords Anointed His Person is Sacred the Kings of Izraell were so they were immediately set up by God and he only hath power to pull them down It is granted that the Kings of Izraell were tipes of our Lord Jesus the King of the Church and in that respect were only Anointed and Sacred but not as his Anointed ones whom Jesus Christ hath made Kings and Priests or Princes unto God and his Father Rev. 1. 6. concerning whom God saith he reproved Kings for their sakes saying touch not mine Anointed nor do my Prophets no harme Nay Kings shall be given for them and these Kings of the Gentiles were immediately constituted set up by the people And thus the Kings of England have received their ancient Splendor Honour and royall Majesty and have been interressed entrusted and absolutely authorized and impowered with the execution of Law both for their own and the publike good and safety of the people that all being regulated and protected might be every one contented with their own propriety and right the Person of the King being subject to Law and all his actions ruled by it Thus the Kings Prerogative is the bounds of liberty and the peoples obedience declares their allegiance they may not contest one against another The Kings power doth not extend to act any thing contrary to Law nor hath he power to make Lawes that hath been alwayes reserved unto the people as their principall Prerogative inherently in themselves the only meanes for the publike good and safety of each every of them but wholly committed at all times unto their grand Trustees Next under God the high Court of Parliament the heads of their Tribes the Kingdom representative persons chosen from among themselves who should be of singuler wisdom and integrity Exod 18. 21. such as fear God men of truth hating covetuousnesse and well acquainted with the peoples necessities that they may thereby be able to make good and sutable Lawes for the good and relief of all and every one the King by his Office and his Oath being only bound to confirme and maintain all those Lawes so made in a Parliamentary way for the publike good and safety of the people this is the supream rule all Lawes are derived from hence as their Fountain and end in this as their proper Center All Actions that oppose this rule are against Law and the eminency of the person so acting agravates the offence and declares the fowlnesse of the Rebellion and treason nor ought any such to be protected in life limb or Estate but whosoever shall any wayes contrive or endeavour to subvert the fundamentall Law of the Land by acting in an arbitrary and destructive course shall suffer for it as the highest Treason because t is against the publike good and safety of the people this was the Earl of Straffords and William Land Arch Bishop of Canterbury their Case who were adjudged condemned and executed for it But it is well known that the King hath done far worse then they did not only endeavoring but with a high hand practising the subvertion of the fundamentall Lawes of the Land and the destruction of the Kingdom not only for many years together in the times of peace but at last by setting up his Standard and proclaiming open Warre upon his Parliament invading the Kingdom and people fighting against them so long as he was able persisting in full opposition to the Parliaments humble suits and Declarations made unto him shewing the manifest danger he would expose his person and people unto when he should so do and that therefore they were bound in duty and Conscience to defend the Kingdoms against him and all his wicked Councellers and adherents most trayterous proceedings against their lives Estates and liberties whensoever he should make Warre upon the Parliament who proposed no other end unto themselves but the care of his Kingdoms and the performance of their duty and loyalty to his person and therefore that whensoever the King maketh Warre upon the Parl. it is a breach of the trust reposed in him by his people contrary to his Oath and tending to the dissolution of this Government that whosoever shall serve and assist him in such Warre are Traytors by the fundamentall Lawes of this Kingdom and have been so adjudged by two Acts of Parl. and ought to suffer as Traytors Parl. Declara 20. May 1642. 11. Rich. 2. 1. Hen. 4. And yet the King did proceede in seting up his Standard and waging an open Warre upon the Parl. and against all his good and loyall Subjects contrary to his Oath and duty not regarding their publike good and safety and thereby put them out of his protection and dissolved their allegiance to him And this may be one reason the right Honourable Sir Thomas now Lord Fairfax his Excellency and the now Army took their Commissions only for the defence of the Kingdom and Parl. and have done most righteously in it God sealing unto it by his blessing in giving them extraordinary and unheard of successe to the subduing of all those traytorous forces and captivating the King so that we see by the Parl. Declarations and the Kings practices compared that the King is wholly elapsed in his Splendor Dignity Honour and Majesty and stands guilty of all the precious blood shed in these 3. Kingdoms besides all the rapine and ruines of milions of people now providencially confessed by him in his signing the preamble the first Proposition fully justifying the Parliament of performing thir duty in all their proceedings in defence for the safety and preservation of the Kingdom and people and hath made himself culpable in the eye of the whole world surely then it is but a foolish thing to think he shall ever be granted a negative Vote that were to take away the priviledge of Parl. for making any Lawes but such as the King wills be they never so usefull for the people And to grant him the Militia were to arm him with power to wreake his wrath upon all that have opposed the pernitious courses of him and his adherents to exclude the Parl. and people in the future from all meanes of defence when their enemies shall invade them in