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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08555	To the Right Honourable, the Parliament of England Right Honourable, I once more the name of the most high God beseech you, to remove the old Earth and set up the new, as God hath ordained, by setting up the government among us, with the laws, the statutes, and judgements of God contained in the word; it being the alone foundation on which God will establish the nations which he hath now shaken, and is about to shake, when things shaken shall be removed ...	Brayne, John.	1651 (1651)	Wing B4332A; ESTC R175577	7,894	9

TO THE Right Honourable THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND Right Honorable I Once more in the name of the most high God beseech you to remove the old Earth and set up the new as God hath ordained by setting up the Government among us with the Laws the Statutes and Judgements of God contained in the Word it being the alone foundation on which God will establish the Nations which he hath now shaken and is about to shake when things shaken shall be removed that his Law and Rule which cannot be shaken may remain Right Honorable this only work saves the Nation from ruine and presently possesseth this people of unspeakable happinesse and puts an end to our Nationall differences with God and those among our selves and wi l make your memory precious to the Ages and Generations to come and acquit you of your souls Vows to God which tender I therefore renew and humbly lay before you because Mr. R. Vaughan hath put up his Plea before you for and in defence of that we call the Common Law whereunto I return him the insuing Answer beseeching you to judge between us and that a liberty be granted to God his Law and Cause to be pleaded before you at your Barr against all humane Laws that stand in competition with it that when you come to stand before his Bar you may have his Law speak for you and not against you in that day which is the unfained desire of Your affectionate servant in the witnesse of the Lords truth JOHN BRAYNE To Mr. R. Vaughan of Grayes Inne Sir THe ingenuousnesse of your appeal to the Magistrate in your Answer to Mr. Peters Proposalls concerning the Law and its Reformation occasioned these indigested lines to let you know it is the cause of God and to be deduced from the Word by which the Teachers thereof are chiefly in the way of advice concerned therein and Mr. Peters or my selfe come rightly to take cognizance thereof equally with you if not before you Sir the Lawyers of old addressed themselves to the Divine Law of God you to the humane Law of Heathens which is too low to be pleaded for in these daies of light and profession especially before the High Court of Parliament who are bound to God to reforme things according to the Magna Charta of God and not of men your Law is grounded only on the corrupted reason and judgements of rude men this on the Will Justice and Holinesse of God the just measure and true tryall of actions so that those that judge by the one and have the other are lyable to the Judgement thereof and those onely that judge by it free their souls from guilt and punishment Sir in your Epistle to the Parliament the greatest happinesse you wish the Nation is the continuance of the Common Law is this wish of yours for your own Interest or purely for the good of the Nation if for the Nation Sir think again whether the Common-weal would be more happy in the Law of God or in yours it having so many precious promises of all temporall good and deliverance from temporall evill together with the protection of the Almighty God which your Law hath nothing to do withall but deprives the people thereof and all else that can be called a peoples happinesse and for the lopping of the Law you will find it is but lost labour God hath laid the Axe to the root thereof as being corrupt therein as well as in the branches and the Scripture tells you That every plant which the Father hath not planted shall be pulled up which the Lawes and Governments of men are Alas Sir what is it to compare your Lawes with those of other Nations to keep them up and to passe by the Divine Law of God as if there were no such thing in being to the Law therefore and the testimony that will destroy and condemne your Law and it's Rule your Law you say was not the Conquerors Dictate yet it was the Dictate of corrupt men and that it was not Lex Scripta which was it's want and weaknesse the Morall Law of God was written with his owne finger your Law is a Law on wheeles uncertaine and changeable which you terme reason and conveniency which are infinitely short of the grounds of the Divine Law to which every soule must submit to every tittle or be damned but not so to yours your Law you say hath lost it's Face it may be you mean it's Head which Gods Law hath not nor can it for ever your Law as other Popish trumpery you say is baptized with the name of the Common Law this is owned for the Divine Law of God whose Image and superscription of Holinesse and Justice is ingravened thereon and at last shall judge Law Lawyers and all men else your Law is but almost a comprehensive Rule and measure as you say but Gods altogether Gods is the Rule and Measure yours nor rule nor measure for as he is one so with him is but one Law which is his own and for what the former Parliament affirmed concernes not this whose soules are under a Vow to God to reform this State according to the Word by which only is to be produced the Nations Freedome and the Peoples happinesse though it be granted that your Law hath the likenesse of gold in it yet it is not Gold as the Law of God is nor will it bear the purifying once alone much lesse seven times seven but like drosse it consumes before the fire comes near it of which you have not feared to say as much as God hath said for his own eternall truth without any ground or warrant which as fire will speedily devour the drosse and corruption of the Nations their Laws and Governments For your Epistle to Mr. Peters I doubt not but he will sufficiently returne you a seasonable answer to it onely in generall I observe you in your expressions to be extremely differing from your selfe and him one whiles as with kisses you speak him fair and anone as a foe you use contumelies and debasements as of one illiterate rude irtationall prejudicate in his Opinion and rash in judgement which I only mention to prevent offences between you for the future being men have ingaged as you say in the same cause which proves offensive to your selfe and others being in your writings but as unsavoury salt Sir For the retreat of all good things it is to God his power safety and being whence things that are good and just did proceed now if God protects yours he must decline his owne if he protect his owne he must destroy yours for there can be no more two Lawes with God then two Gods yours therefore cannot retreat to this safety because it is none of his but as Moses Serpent eat up the Sorcerers so will Gods Law eat up yours for as there is but one God so there is but one authorized Law of his his came out from him yours from