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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78542	Legislative povver in problemes [sic], published for the information of all those who have continually adhered to the good cause: and for the reformation of those who had embraced the bad cause. By Peter Chamberlin Docter in Physick.	Chamberlen, Peter, 1601-1683.	1659 (1659)	Wing C1896; Thomason E1079_1; ESTC R207818	8,902	9

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 o● 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 ●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