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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70879	Some few observations upon His Majesties late answer to the declaration or remonstance of the Lords and Commons of the 19 of May, 1642	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1642 (1642)	Wing P424; ESTC R20105	11,346	16

these do not alwayes passe for good and strong proofs yet I in my experience did never here before that they were rejected as light discourses though the King now contemn them so Neither is the meer miscarriage of the plot without the prevention of the Parliament any good argument that no such plot was for so the Irish may be excused in all those places which they failed to surprise for treason were no treason if it were not more obscure and hard to be discovered and that as well by the ill as good successe of it As for those tumults about Westminster how farre the Londoners were ingaged in them offensively and defensively and how farre the souldiers which were entertained at Whiteball were raisers of them and how farre theeves and boutifures intermingled themselves for rapines sake rests yet in judgement and I conceive the Parliament is as desirous to have justice seasonably done therein as the King But sure the English Nation nor the City nor the Parliament cannot be suspected of having any intent to raise Arms against the Kings Person or His Children this were a great scandall and unmerited and if the Kings flight was for fear of any cursed Assassinates for which the English have not been infamous His ordinary Guard had been as safe to him here as it is at York Here it is supposed that Parliaments may make an Ordinance contrary to Law Nature Reason Sence and it is inferred therefore That they are dangerous and may bring the life and liberty of the Subject to a Lawlesse and Arbitrary subjection this supposition is inconsistent with one of the most sacred and venerable pillars of all Law and policy and yet here it is insisted upon Let all Chronicles be searched and let one Story be cited of any Parliament which did tyrannize over King and Subiect or ordain any thing to the mischief of both yet Kings I think will not make the same challenge the best of them have done Acts of oppression and the Reasons are apparant for it but no Reasons can be given why Parliaments should usurpe or how they can usurpe yet the Kings inference runs against all Parliaments He doth not say this Parliament tyrannizeth and therefore he resides from them and pronounces their Votes invalid but because Parliaments may tyrannize therefore they have no power in their Votes at all at any time whatsoever further then the King ratifies them The Parliament sayes not so much they say he is now seduced by wicked Councell and therefore rejects their requests to the danger of the State In such cases they conceive there is a power in them to secure the State without his concurrence At other times when the Kings are not seduced they ought to do nothing without their consent for non recurrendum est ad extraordinaria in iis quae fieri possunt per ordinaria Whether this or that Doctrine enwraps the greatest danger let all the world judge As for seditious Preachers and Pamphlette●rs the Parliament will not protect any when greater matters are provided for the Law shall have a free course against them and account shall be given by all which have favoured them In the mean time the Parliament only desires That it may not be put is these times of generall extremity to intend universall enormities and in the le●all pursuance thereof be made Informers Solicitors Witnesses and Judges and that they may not be bound to give an account for all misdemeanors or to remedy all mens abuses in an instant and not withstanding all opposition give generall satisfaction to all the world or aspire to a condition above man We hold Parliaments in England as the Apples of our eyes and we know all liberty must stand or fall with them And we conceive Parliaments were never more endangered nor by more conspiracies assayled then they have been since this Parliament began And the persons which possesse the King against them we cannot nominate but he knows and favours and employes them If he have any Councellors which suggest advice to him as his late papers carry in them they are the malignant party and their study is That some way may be found out so to master and quell this Parliament as that is may president future times to do the same Nothing is more visible then that Parliaments are odious to Court parasites and the same disposition which discontinued them so long and dismissed them so often still labours to frustrate and ruinate them for ever What parties have been framed in the Country in the City in the Parliament it self in England in Scotland in Ireland in other Nations to blast this Parliament and to make it scandalous and yet we all see they are Traytors they are unheard-of parallel'd Traytors for seeking their own defence for entertaining any jealousies or for mentioning any plots what late change there is in the King or alienation from the defendors of arbitrary power is not evident by his papers for if they do truely represent him and his Councellors to us we may doubt that Parliaments are not gotten into better grace at Court then they were in my Lord of Straffords time and yet it is undoubted That if we suffer in the Rights of Parliaments no other rights can be done us And as we were better have no Parliaments then Parliaments maimed in their priviledges so we had better have no being at all in England then no Parliaments The main thing begged by the Parliament is the Kings return and that all subordinate power and honour especially during our distractiors may be put into mens hands as the generality is assured of How this should be contrary to His conscience and understanding here and not in Scotland I do not see and yet that which was there reasonable is here treasonable nay and though we be denyed in it yet we must not believe cur eyes for still it is pressed that the Parliament has done nothing for the King and have been denyed nothing from the King in the least degree necessary to the peace plenty and security of the Subiect and yet in publike matters conscience and understanding are not alwayes to be too farre trusted where we depart from Maior-parties or such who are more to be trusted then our selves few Cases are in Law or policy beyond all dispute and scruple and if the King in disputable Cases will charge His Own Apprehension rather then His other Judges and Councellors His brest must prove at last the sole unappealable Judge of all things How the King is to given an account of His Royalty here to His other Kingdoms more then to this or how it is beyond the cognizance of Parliaments because he is accountable to God for it I apprehend not subordinate Magistrates are also accountable to God and their power is derived from God and yet it is not beyond humaine determination but some Courtiers do suggest that all supream dignities are so founded by Gods immediate hand alone as there remains nothing humaine in them and that publike consent of such and such Nations as to such and such limits and conditions is nothing at all requisite this is the ground of all Arbitary unbounded sway for if Nations by common consent can neither set limits or judge of limits set to soveraignty but must look upon it as a thing meerly divine and above al humain consent or comprehension then all nations are equally slaves and we in England are borne to no more by the Laws of England then the Asanine Peasants of France are there whose Wooden shoes and Canvas Breeches sufficiently proclaim what a blessednesse it is to be borne under a meer divine Prerogative but I hope that Prerogative in defence of which the King intends to sacrifice his life is that which is setled and bounded by the known Laws of the Land and whose surest Basis is the common consent and whose most honourable end is the common good and not such a divine Prerog●ti●e which none understand but our ghostly Councellors which alwayes expresse sufficient Enmity and Antipathy to the publike Acts and Pacts of Men It is generally believed That these late expressions of the Kings had not been so sharp if there had not been more of the divine then either of the Lawyer or Statesman in them But God send our Schollers more grace to think more honourable of their Pulpits that the Church may be more edified and the State lesse pert●●●ed by them hereafter t was heretofore Levi and Simeon the heads of the main Malignants whose union breeds our disunion were Papists and Hierarchists they now are Hierarchists and Papists FINIS Pag. 10. 11. That no retractation made by us nor no actions since that time committed against us and the Laws of the Land under pretence of vindication of priviledges can satisfie the contriver of that Declaration Pag. 12. Such a Minister might be punished for executing such Authority Pag. 15. And if such be about us or any against whom any notorious malicious crime can be proved if we shelter or protect any such let our injustice be published to the world Pag ibid. They have implyed our connivance as want of zeal against the Rebels in Ireland Pag. 17. When with our privity the Army was in agitation Pag. 19. We will have Iustice for those tumults Page 21. Where is every mans property every mans liberty if a major part of both Houses declare That the Law is That the younger Brother shall inherite what becomes of all the families and estates in the Kingdom Pag. 27. Seditious Pamphlets and Sermons Pag. 24. That such are continually preferred and countenanced by us who are friends or favourers or related unto the chief authors or actors of that arbitrary power heretofore practised and complained of Pag. 27. VVe require no other Liberty to our wills then the meanest of them do we wish they would alwaies use that liberty not to consent to any thing evidently contrary to our conscience and understanding and we have and shall alwayes give as much estimation and regard to the advice and counsell of both Houses Page 27 28. The office and dignity of a King is not within their determinations and of which we must give an account to God and our other Kingdoms