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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81540	A discovery of the iuglings and deceitfull impostures of a scandalous libell against the Parliament. Published in the forme of a petition to the Houses of Parliament, in the name of the inhabitants of London and Westminster, and inhabitants of Southwarke, pretended to be distressed in point of conscience. Hereunto is added the said petition, in the name of the inhabitants of London and Westminster, &c. Together with a free, cleare and conscientious answer in way of petition, to the foresaid scandalous pamphlet.		1643 (1643)	Wing D1657; Thomason E247_8; ESTC R206810	9,439	7

THE Petition in the Name of the Inhabitants of the Cities of London and Westminster And the Borough of Southwarke In the behalfe of themselves and of Millions in this Kingdome distressed in point of Conscience WHereas your Petitioners having formerly contributed freely and literally to the King and Parliament in coniunction deo now refuse further to contribute or pay conceiving them in opposition as by reson His Maiesties person was invaded in battell at Keinton contrary to the many Declarations of taking of Armes for the safety of His Maiestiesties person so in regard theat is no expresse care of His person and honour in your late Ordinance for the assessing the Twentieth part in London nor in your Declaration for levying of moneyes in the Counties And whereas this their refusall is meerely out of Conscience according to that information they have concerning the Divine constitution of particular Kings in their severall Kingdomes and of Subiection to them both Active and Passive and of the Damnablenesse of Resisting from First The Word of God Dan. 4.17 25.32 where thrice in one Chapter it is said That the Kingdomes be Gods and he gives them to whom he will 1 Sam 26.9 Who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords Annointed and be guiltlesse And the same blessed spirit which calls David the Lords Annoynted Psalm 89.20 doth call Cyrus a Heathen Prince the Lords Annoynted also Esa 45.1 Rom. 13. Let every soule be subiect to the higher Powers for there is no Power but of God The Powers that be are ordained of God whosoever therefore resisteth the Power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation Yea we acknowledge in our Book of Common Prayer that King Charles is Gods Minister and that he hath Gods Authority and so fighting against him we fight against God himselfe Secondly M. Calvin and other Protestants their exposition on Rom. 13. 1 Pet 2. Thirdly The Harmony of Reformed Churches concerning Magistracy Fourthly The Doctrine of the Church of England in the Bookes of Homilies delivered concerning civill obedience Fifthly From the Lawes of the Land which declare it to be Treason to Levy Warre against the King in this Kingdome and to encounter in fight and kill such as are assisting to the King or come to helpe him or to aide in those cases And the Action of the Earle of Essex was adiudged Treason though he pretended nothing but removing evill Councellours from the Queene Now that which is evill in its owne nature cannot be the subiect of any Command nor induce any obligation upon any man by any Authority whatsoever Remonstrance May 19. And we may not doe evill that good may come of it Rom. 3.8 Sixtly Also in regard of the late Protestation relating to the said Doctrines and to His Maiesty respectively which Protestation you have bound your selves to maintaine and all those that doe any thing in pursuance of it You would at least be pleased in your present undertakings for Religion and for the Law of the Land and the Liberty and Property of the Subiects to proceed in the way of Religion without violence to the Conscience in a case that concernes no lesse then Salvation or Damnation As you professe your tendernesse of the Conscience even in matters of Indifferency And that first your Authenticall Divines D. Burgesse M. Marshall c. may publish something for the resolving of Conscience in this way cleerely out of the Word of God and home to the Action of Keinton taking notice also That his Maiesty tooke up Armes for the maintenance of the Lawes concerning the publick worship of God and for the priviledges of and freedome of Parliament notoriously invaded by Brownists and Separatists and that now He continues them also for the necessary defence of His Person manifestly in danger since the battle at Keinton To which satisfying the Premises your Petitioners farre from contemptuousnesse and obstinacy against the cleere Word of God and Lawfull Authority shall ingeniously condescend and readily make payment of these severall Rates accordingly And pray for c. A Discovery of the juglings and deceitfull impostures of a scandalous Libell against the Parliament Published in the forme of a Petition to the Houses of Parliament In the Names c. THE Author of the Libellous paper stiled A Petition to the Houses of Parliament of the Inhabitants of London and Westminster and Bourough of Southwarke in the behalfe of themselvs and of millions in this Kingdome distressed in point of conscience like the Devill disguises himselfe in Samuels mantle and takes upon him the forme of an Angell of light pretending conscience and falsely personating the honest inhabitants of those Cities and that Bourough who remaine to all posterity and future ages justly and worthily renowned for their love and zeale to Religion the liberties of their Countrey and to the Parliament the great and chiefe conservator of them under Heaven But you may discerne him by the cloven foote by which he enters into his Petition deviding it selfe into two apparent lyes one that he hath freely and liberally contributed to the King and Parliament conjoyn'd and the other that his Majesties Person was invaded in battle at Keinton The grounds of his pretended conscience are of like nature manifestly fallacious for first in his Scriptures cited by him as the Devill did in tempting our Saviour he changes divine truth into a lye by curtailing it For it is true God gives Kingdomes to whom he will but it is not all the truth for God also gives them in severall manners with severall sorts of power Some Kingdomes he gives to one man alone and invests him with absolute power that his will is law which is commonly called an Absolute Monarchy But such power he hath not given to the King of England as this man would have us beleeve His Majesty in his Declarations disclaimes it and pretends to no other power then to governe according to the Lawes made by the supreame power of this Kingdome residing by divine providence and ordinance in the three estates which are coordinate and not subordinate in authority though the trust of convening them be by them committed to the King in confidence that he will according to Law call them together when there shall be neede thereof for the Kingdomes good and in the meane time see to a just execution of the Lawes made by them And when Parliaments are conveened to them belongs the care of the Kingdome and of the Lawes and the examining punishing and reforming of whatsoever is done against the Lawes and Kingdome by the Kings personall command or pretence of his authority And farewell Religion Law Liberty and all good if the Parliament be and continue obstructed as now it is from questioning examining or punishing and reforming things done against Law by colour and countenance of the Kings Personall will which is subject to be deceived misled corrupted to the prejudice of the

subject And they have also power to provide and prepare for the Kings royall assent further Lawes profitable for the Kingdome And he that resists these powers of Parliament though it be the King himselfe or by colour of his command resists the powers ordained of God and the ordinance of God See the vindicatiof Psal 105.15 lately published and the revindication thereof falsifies the late Protestation and shall receive for it if the word of God be true damnation without repentance For the annoynting of Kings before Christ exhibited it was commanded and used as the annoynting of Priests and Prophets because tipicall of the true annoynted Jesus Christ in his Kingly Priestly and Propheticall offices But now thereis neither rule use or necessity of any such annoynting Christ and his members being the only annoynted of the Lord under the Gospell Romans 13. commands every soule even Kings where they be not the supreame power to be subject to the higher powers so as the King of England is and ought to be subject to the Lawes which are the powers established by the 3 estates for the regulating of all persons and things within the Kingdome not alterable by the Kings power which is subordinate and given him by the Lawes and by them supported and conserved unto him And this Scripture speakes only of powers Legall commands have power in them and are to be subjected unto but illegall commands are the sins and weakenesses of the personall will of the King and are not to be submitted unto and the authour of this Libell hath by chance stumbled upon a reason for it where he saith that that which is evill cannot be the subject of any command nor induce any obligation upon any man by any authority It is certaine that King Charles is Gods Minister while he executes the Lawes which are the immediate issues of the supreame power the 3 estates and so he hath Gods authority but where he proceeds by a deceived and misled will against the Laws he is saith the Lawyer the minister of the Devill a Bracton Minister Diaboli And to fight against such as take up Armes against the Parliament to protect themselves and other offenders against the Lawes and to hinder and obstruct the said lawfull powers and priviledges of Parliament is to fight for God and the powers ordained by him and such as take up Armes against such powers of Parliament though they have the personall commands of the King for it doe fight against Gods authority and against God himselfe Secondly from Calvin and the harmony of reformed Churches concerning Magistracy nothing can be produced in any wise contrary to what I have said and if this Authour had expressed what they say it would have evidently appeared and both their writings and practises cleerely confirme it and the Doctrine of the Church of England cannot be conceived to fight against the Laws and politick Monarchy of England But this deceivers wicked purpose to delude his readers is further expressed by his hiding himselfe in generalls and shunning the cleere directing and convincing light of distinct knowledge Thirdly The law declaratory of Treason is the Statute of 25 E. 3. cap. 2. Which first declares it to be Treason to compasse or imagine the Kings death Secondly To levy war against the King c. The first provides for the Kings safety in his Person and the other for his Kingly power that it be not obstructed by the hand of force and violence And as to rescue the Kings Person out of the hands of enemies or thieves by force of Armes and to fight against them that wickedly captivate and carry him away is not any offence against the first branch of this Statute So to raise Armes and to fight against them that resist and obstruct his most eminent power which is in his Parliament and Laws is not any offence against the latter And they that by wicked counsels seduce the King from the Parliament and from his Lawes and his care of seeing them executed to the danger and dammage of his Kingdome and from his Oath by which he is obliged to both and draw him to adventure his Person in most imminent dangers to protect them in their rebellion against the Law and just punishment thereof by the high Court of Parliament are cleerely Traitors within the first branch of this Statute And they that take up Armes to obstruct and oppose the Lawes and justice of the Kingdome and the due execution thereof are evidently Traitors within the other branch thereof which is meant of the King in his politick capacity b Rex est Nomen officij his legall Kingly authority most eminently exercised and apparent in his high Court of Parliament This latter clause being distinct in sence and meaning from that former concerning his Person And I confidently beleeve every man not wilfully blinded by malice against God and goodnesse will easily grant that the King may be more certaine and assured of safety in White-Hall and of Angellicall protection in the way of his Kingly office and duty then in the hands and power of the Dammees that for their wicked and damned base ends pretend to assist and helpe him in wayes contrary to his office and destructive to his Kingdome and people Fourthly The Earle of Essex in taking up Armes against Queene Elizabeth to remove such from her as he counted his Enemies offended against the said Statute because upon a private quarrell against some Peeres and great Officers neere about the Queenes Person he being a private man without legall authority and contrary to Law took up Armes and raised force to goe to the Queenes Court to the apparent endangering of her royall Person and so it was in Law both an imagining of her death and a levying of War against the Law and her regall power But how impertinently yea malitiously this is applyed to the Parliaments present case is manifest to him that hath but halfe an eye The difference betweene the King and Parliament is no private quarrell the Parliament which is no private person but the highest Court of justice in the Kingdom the representative body of the Kingdome to whom the preservation of the Kingdome and of the peace and safety thereof and of the Lawes doth properly and primarily belong discovering sonnes of Belial wicked men practising to undermine the Parliament and our Laws and liberties by false and scandalous aspersions cast upon the Parliament and lying suggestions against the power of Parliaments and against the proceedings and priviledges thereof whispered into the eares of the King to seduce and draw him away from his Parliament and his affections from his people to improve his Personall illegall commands to resist and frustrate the lawfull proceedings of his Parliament against them to withdraw the great Seale from them and the members of either House of Parliament from their attendance upon the service thereof and to raise a force against the Parliament not only