to Law without money and whether the Proverb be not true the Law is Costly 47. Whether he that must deliver his Purss upon the High way or he that must deliver the best part of his Estate in a private Study have the better choice 48. Whether Lawyers do it upon a Gospel account when they teach men by Experience to give the Coat also rather then go to Law Mat. 5.40 proving that half a Loaf is better then no Bread 49. Whether two or three Millions are not spent in Law and whether it be not better deserved of the Army and Navy since the one enslaves us to the Norman Tyranny and the other hath given us some Breathings of God 50. Whether the Hercules Pillars of the Law be not the Chancery and of the Chancery an Arbitrament if not life and when people will be wise to see this 51. Who ever got by Sutes in Law besides Lawyers and wicked men for if Justice were done what had the honest man but his own made now more precious to him by his Vexatious trouble and charges And if Injustice were done the Knave and the Lawyer shared stakes And whether our Lawes be not contrived to fill the Lawyers Coffers and satisfie Revengefull Mindes and Tyrannicall Purses And when it will be otherwise since they are alwayes uppermost to share in making as well as executing their own Lawes 52. Whether Lawyers pretend best for the Lawes vvhen they say their Law is good but blame the Corruption Or when they say their Law is good but blame the Execution their Courts and Judges As if a Lavv could be both Good and Corrupt Or a good Law could have bad Execution for if men Execute the good Law they Execute what is good If otherwise they Execute an Evil. But being beaten out of all these lurking holes at last they indeavour to Anchor in the Law of God and say it is ACCORDING Do not they then inferr that the Law of God is most perfect vvhen they hope for justification of theirs by being but ACCORDING 53. What Benefit have vve by the Law of the Land 54. Is any mans Person safe vvhen his life lies at the mercy of any one Perjurd or Malicious Vilain that vvill svvear him out of it at the Sessions oâ— is that Lavv to be valued by Englishmen that value an Englishman but at 13 pence-half-penny Is that Lavv to be Adored vvhich like Esops Stock devour the â—roglike Adorers that are fond of it so that if an Attorney Gen. vvere let lose to plead their ovvn Lavves no Head could be safe on any mans Shoulders in Army or Parliament and this can be by every Puny demonstrated 55. Is any mans Estate secure when his utmost satisfaction being cheated of it is but to have the Tip of the Cheaters Ear if he can get it And if he be robbed of it he may for the bestowing of more time and money see the thief swing in a halter and all what he hath forfeit to the State Or if he please be hanged himself for receiving his own stolen Goods if he be not wary in the doing of it 56. Is any mans good name safe when it is lawful to accuse him of all villany in Chancery Bills or at Sessions 57. Is any man sure of Liberty though it be the Pedro Inganno's Box so often held up with the Title of Salus Populi and so dearely paid for with Blood and Treasure Whereas it lies at the Mercy of Arrests and Imprisonments by every malicious Knave that will be at the charge of a Luo Minus a Latitat a Capias a VVrit of the Counter or a Bill of Middlesex 58. VVhether all these Glorious Lawes and Priviledges are worth two Millions a year to the people And whether the Army and Navy do not better deserve it 59. Whether the People can be said at all to have their Liberty when two or thee Lawyers keep it Or whether Trade can prosper so long as Excise Assessements and Taxes continue 60. Whether Excise and Taxes are occasioned by the Army since Offers have been made to maintaine the Army without them 61. Whether some do not find it sweeter to continue Taxes then to hearken to Dr. Chamberlin for the taking them off And whether they be not sure that the people will be content to be alwayes Taxed though the taking off Taxes and Excise might very much quicken Trade 62. Whether there be not a great Gulf between the Army and People since it could swallow up some yeares two Millions of Taxes between the Payer and Receiver 63. Whether the Bottomless-Pit be not some-where neere England when almost all Ireland and Scotland and most of the Kings Bishops Deans and Chap. and Delinquents Lands Estates and Houses besides about 60 Millions of the Peoples Treasure are gone Yet the Parliament never the better for it 64. VVhether Quintus Curtius ever attempted a greater work in closing up the Gulf at Rome then the Author who offers to close up this Gulf which seemes to grow wider and wider And who knowes what will become of us if the Parliament leave us in May next and leave this Gulf open when there are no more Irelands nor Scotlands nor such great Estates nor so many Jewells and Millions in England lest to be thrown in 65. VVhether the Army have not been the Parliament and Peoples best friend in time of need 66. VVhether the Soldier vvho fought against the King or all the Lavvyers vvho vvere and are for the King and fled to him in the VVarrs leaving their desolate places to VVomen be the best Common-vvealths Men 67. Whether the Army be not the Representative of the Power as the Parliament of the Authority of the People 68. Whether it be not fit for Power and Authority to Unite together 69. Whether Oliver left not the experience of which is strongest if they divide 70. Whether when we are divided France may not Alarm England whilst Spain takes Ireland Then whose friendship can we invite but the Plump Hollanders if not too late 71. Whether our Laws and Lawyers will not more and more divide them and help on the work of the Jesuits for where can he find better shelter then under a Barr Gown 72. Whether a Kingdom divided can stand 〈◊〉 26. 73. Whether it be possible to unite them but by the Legislative Power of Jesus Christ and the Law of God 74. Ezek. 21.27 Ps 2.6 Jo. 5.44 Whether God be not bound by His word to overturn overturn overturn Kings Parliaments Armies Protectors people till Jesus Christ be set up upon his Holy Hill 75. Whether Men can believe this that receive honour one from another and not that honour that cometh from God only Jo. 5.44 76. Exod. 18.21 Act. 19.25 Ast. 5.39 Matt. 7.12 Ps 50.22 Luke 19. Whether ever men that receive 1000 li. 5000 li. 10000 li. per annum by these Laws will consent to a Law that gives up their place and Office to Men
of Truth Fearing God and hating covetousness And whether it will not be worse then the self denying Ordinance and whether they will not know that by this Craft they have their wealth and cry up great Diana of the Ephesians Oh the admirable Law of God! Oh the prodigious Law of Man When will men leave fighting against God Oh the Divine Law of God which teacheth all men to do as they would be doneby Oh the devilish Law of men where we can have no peace or safety in Body Goods or Mind Leave off for shame ye Prodigies of men that resist the Holy Ghost and fight against God Lest he tear you to pieces and there be none to deliver lest he say Bring those mine enemie before me that would not have me to Reign over them and slay them before my Face Lest the fury of the People and Army and tumultuous rage of the poor be made Vials to power out the vengeance of God upon you Have we not Clouds gathering beyond the Seas Have we not gripings in our Bowels at home Is any Man in England this day satisfied Have we not Jesuits spawning over all the Land Is not Trade decayed and Money fled away into all parts beyond the Seas 77. And what King Judge or Common-wealth did ever come near the keeping of Gods Law whom God rewarded not with Safety and Honour long Life Peace and Prosperity 78. And what Law did or could ever cause a people to dwell in peace and safety every man under his Vine and every man under his Figg-tree eating and drinking and making merry And Silver to be as Stones in Jerusalem save the Law of God only 1 King 4.20.25 10.27 And when Men remember that Law Mal. 4.4 as remembred it shall be when the little Stone becomes a great Mountain Dan. 2.34 35. when his Kingdom shall come and his will shall be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Matt. 6.10 then it shall be so again Mica 4.3 4. Oh how blessed and happy a thing it were that God would grant Wisdom to this present Authority Ja. 1.5 Ps 2.10 Deut. 1.17 2 Chro. 19.6 Deut. 15.32 17 20. 28.14 Jo. 1.7 Amos 5.24 Dan. 2.24 25. Rev. 5.10 Matt. 6.10 Rev. 9.1.11 Rev. 13.1.11 Is 1.26 Psa 144.14 and power to kisse His Son and be no more the Representatives of Man but the Representatives of God to Judge for God by the Laws of God without respect of persons turning neither to the right Hand nor to the left and be Crowned with the glorious Title of LIBERATORES ANGLIAE and not CUSTODES LIBERTATIS Then should Righteousness run down as a mighty stream And they be Judges as at first and Councellours as at the Beginning Then shall the little Stone fill the whole EARTH The Saints shall Reign on EARTH Gods will shall be done on EARTH No more shall Apolluon Abaddon Scorpionize Men. No more shall Beasts arise out of the Sea or Earth to Stygmatize men Then shall the Oppressor cease and no more complaining be heard in the streets Taxes should be no more And Trade and industry should abound more than in our Neighbours blessed Bee-hive The poor should have bread and the Army no more in Arrears Prison doors should be open and Debtors satisfied without Arrests The youth and flower of our Nation instead of being infected with the crabed nonsensical study of the Laws or drawing streight lines by crooked Rules raise up their noble Fancy to the wisdom of Arts Arms The Depths of Nature and knowledge of the whole world to the Honour of God and themselves and not imbesling but enriching of their Estates and Posterity Then Peace and safety plenty and prosperity should overflow the Land For I P.C. as a Servant Witness of the word of God do Testifie with my right hand lift up to Heaven that if our present Parliament and Army shall hearken to the Word of God and fulfil the humble desires of his servant That all these blessings shall immediatly ensue But if they despise and harden God will overturn and make them desolate as in the twinkling of an eye And will raise up an other Authority and Power more wise and glorious on whom he will power his Spirit and they shall do these great things and more For the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Isa 1.20 40.5.58.14 Read and Believe or Read and Tremble
17.20 28.14 Or indeed whether Lawyers or Judges or any humane Authority know what they say or what they do when they say the Law of the Lord is imperfect and that they must and do Add and Diminish and that they Will and Do turn both to the Right Hand and to the Left and will Make and Compell others so to do also 23. Whether the Statutes and Judgments Recorded in the Old and New Testament or the Statutes and Judgments Recorded in Parliament Courts of Record do most properly belong to the Law ten Commandements of God Or whether the great God was Wise enough to appoint Statutes and Judgments for His own Law 24. Whether Moses meant Gods Statutes and Judgments to be fit for all Nations when he challenged all Nations to Compare with them Deut. 4.8 25. Whether the Apostle Paul meant the Law of God when he pleaded the things contained in the Law to be by Nature written in the Heart and whether â—e meant the Statutes and Judgments of God when he brought the Conscience bearing Witness and Mens Judgment or Reasoning Thoughts as Judges Accusing or Excusing Rom. 2.14 15. 26. Whether our Maxime in the Law of the Land mean the Law of God as it is in the Old and New Testament with the Statutes and Judgments thereto belonging Or whether there be any other Law of God that is or can be meant when it saith that Whatsoever is contrary to the Law of God is Void ipso facto 27. Whether ipso facto All other Lawes but the Law of God are not voyd since it is the Statute of God that none should Add nor Diminish Exod. 4.2 12.32 Pro. 30.6 Rev. 22.18 19. Nor turne to the Right Hand nor to the Left Jos 1.7 Deut. 5 32.17.20.28.14 28. Whether God 's Law be not the Fundamentall Law of all the World 29 Whether God's Law be not the Fundamentall Law of England 30. If it be true which some of our Judges and Lawyers have said that Reason is the Fundamental Law of the Land whether the Law of God be not that Law of Reason unless Parliaments Judges or Lawyers can shew a Law more Reasonable 31. If it be true what Judge Jenkins in Print and others have said that Precedent is the Fundamental Law of the Land Whether any can shew more Authentick Precedents then the Law of God throughout the Scriptures 32. If Antiquity as some plead to be the Fundamental Law of the Land Whether any Hictory in the whole World can shew any Law more Auncient or by many hundred of yeares so Auncient as the Law of God 33. Whether our own History and Chronicles do not in particular relate that King Lucius and King Alfred did set up the Law of God to be the Law of this Land And if so Whether have we any Law of the Land more Auncient then their Reign 34. Since then the Law of God is the Law of Nature the Law of Nations the Law of Reason the Law of Precedent the Law of Antiquity Rom. 2.14.15 Deut. 4.8 and by all these the Fundamental Law of the whole World and by our own Maxime the Fundamentall Law of England And that whosoever Opposeth Contriveth Acteth or Abbetteth in any thing against the Fundamental Law of England is guilty of the highest Treason and by all meanes Ordinary or Extraordinary to be Cutt off Why will some go on to Act Execute and Contrive Lawes Statutes and Judgments contrary to the Law of God against their own Heads and most certainly against their own Souls For if God spared not a King a Vice Roy an Arch Bishop and divers Nobles for sinning against no Ordinary Law of the Land how shall meaner persons escape if they sin against All 35. Nevertheless whether all the Lawes and Execution of Lawes of this Land are not Different or Contrary to the Law of God Let every man speak what he hears and sees and feels Oh the Divine Law of God Oh the Devilish Lawes of Men What Good is not in the Law of God what Evil is not in the Laws of Men 36. Whether is not the summ of Gods Lawes Love the Execution Do as you would be done by doth it not end all sutes in a day payes all Debts without Arrests or Imprisonments and might be practicable throughout the Land in one moneth 37. Was there ever sutes for Title of Land heard of in all the worst of Kings of Israel And where is ever a Sute in Chancery among the vilest Barbarians Might not Justice be Ordered throughout the Land by the Law of God in a moneth and is our Justice in order to this day And where was ever any Family free from Sutes in England 38. Are not the Lawes of men Innumerable causing Strife and Contention Theft and Murder O Blessed Holland the worst of all Lands yet made an Artificial Paradize by industrie and Government Oh Happy England the Garden of the World but most accursed in Government beyond all other Lands untill amended by God and our Governours 39. What do Priviledges signifie saving thou shalt not Steal but I may with two supportors 1. Valet factum quod non valet fieri Things done are lawfull which are not lawfull to be done the 2 an Act of Indemnity or Oblivion signifying Steal no more till next time 40. What doth Possession signifie to be a 11 Points of the Law but catch that catch may that none should play the Thief but hold fast so that a Posse Comitatue can hardly restore it to the right owner Oh the Vile Law of Men 41. Whether Soldiers have not several times with their Officers Vowed and attempted to Free the Nation and hang up the Lawyers Gownes by the Scottish Colours which bosting was answered by the Author that when Lawyers were Cajoled out of Westminster-Hall by Soldiers with their Tongues then Soldiers should be Cudgeled out of the field with their own Scabbords 42. Whether the first noise of Reformation made not the Inns of Court as empty of Lawyers as now the Temple Trees are empty of Rooks in token that Lawyers and Reformation are inconsistent 43. Whether every Familie in England doth not curse both Lawes and Lawyers of England and that for the most part not without cause Yet whether some bigotteed Lawyers do not think as the Rulers in John 7.49 That Moses Christ and Paul with their Followers were accursed that knew not the Lawes of Englands 44. What Lawes are practised in England that are not the Remaines and Reliques of Antichristian Superstition and Tyranny according to the Ignorance of our Fore-Fathers And whether they are not contrived to maintain Tyranny enrich Lawyers and empoverish the People 45. Whether most of the great Lordships in England are not gotten into the possession of the Families of Lawyers since Queen Elizabeth dayes that Serjeants went a begging for Clients in Pauls and to be entertained for ten shillings 46. Whether any can have Justice or go