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justice_n	act_n	king_n	law_n	3,507	5	4.7950	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89748	A clear optick discovering to the eye of reason; that regality is not inconsistent with the ends That episcopacy and presbytery are of the essence That independency is incorporated into the body That levelling is allowable in the constituting [brace] of government. And that the recusants are hugely mistaken in the constitution of their Roman hierarchy. Roughly set out in an humble addresse to the Parliament of England. / By Anthony Norwood, a cordial votary for the peace of the nation.	Norwood, Anthony.	1654 (1654)	Wing N1342; Thomason E809_21; ESTC R207599	13,811	22

power whatsoever it be under which their lot is fallen I shall leave it to your better judgement to calculate what a huge weight of bloud this doctrine if it be true will lay upon the then Parliament their Army and all those who did adhere or contribute to them and waving the dispute as that which hath been the subject of many satisfactory impressions apply my self only to shew how far the Authors opinion goes along with the Premises From whence first it may be concluded that if those primitive Christians who doubtlesse had then as much of the Spirit and thereby as great priviledges as any since their times were enjoyned by the Apostle to submit to an Infidel power certainly the gifts of the Spirit do not render the Receivers unquestionably capable of command Secondly He acknowledgeth that if Nero had attained the Throne by the suffrage of the people it had been more orderly then by the Senate which it seems by him was not so elected and if by the Senate lesse disorderly then by the artifice of his mother and help of the Cohorts and rest of the Souldiery All this comes very neer to what I have delivered And had he not been short of telling his Readers of the sin that Nero committed by falling upon the most disorderly way of the three he had fully justified my saying for I endevour to maintain that the right to chuse their own Magistrates is in the people and if it be granted that he that takes upon him to superintend them without their consent is guilty of sinne their right is fully asserted If not in Nero an Infidel yet to usurp a power upon a self-account is certainly a sin in a Christian and that not of the smaller size yet I will not determine that that Scripture in the Thessalonians wherein the Man of sin is said to sit in the Temple of God as God may in a degree be applied to any persons who being Members of Christs Church do under the pretence of some peculiar divine dispensation exercise a coercive jurisdiction over their brethren of the same faith though that in Peter wherein Christians are forbidden to Lord it over Gods inheritance seems very much to countenance the application But I may say and yet preach no false doctrine that it is not the vocall appellation but the actuall prelation or Prelating that contracts the guilt Be this the sense of the Holy Ghost or be it not it had not been unworthy the late self-voters serious thoughts to consider whether he that makes a Law to compell others to pay Subsidies and Contributions or to hazard their lives in the face of an enemy or by which any other is deprived of his Liberty Goods Lands or Life for counterfeiting the publique coyne or Seals do not thereby commit a sin little inferiour to that of Ahab and make himself obnoxious to the like punishment unlesse he have some such warrant as Solomon had to take away the life of his subject Shimei Liberty hath been proclaimed which amongst associated people who must live under a Law consists only in the freedome of electing Law-makers Indeed consent is that alone that takes the stain of oppression and antichristian usurpation out of the authority of Christian Magistrates It is the spring that gives motion to all the wheels in the Watch of National Government And whether the case of Government be handled under a Civil or under an Ecclesiastical notion your Authority springing from the consent of the people still remains the same sole and intire without any dependency or commixture what pretences soever have been interposed The peoples independent power is consigned over to you by which you are invested as well with the Supreme as with the Legislative power for they are twins not to be separated but by a mutual and total Annihilation This is the authority and priviledge of Parliament and you are the Guardians of this Priviledge and Authority If it miscarry through your default you fail in your Trust and the sin will lye at your own door You need not object the want of Presidents you have the example of the peoples last Representatives who undauntedly acted by these justifiable Principles and were cheerfully seconded by the people with liberal Contributions You have the concurrence of the Scottish nation before it was seduced and the agreement and cooperation of the Commanders in chief and of the rest of the Commanders Officers and Souldiers of both Armies You have the same Army still under the same Commanders who would not certainly have ingaged so deep in the quarrel had they not been fully satisfied of the justness of the Cause And therefore seeing your authority is the same and that you are not convened without their approbation to fear to proceed upon the same just and honourable principles were to seem to suspect them of the ignominious crime of Apostasie and that would be taken as ill as to tell a Souldier that he is run from his colours You have had a fair Copy set you and the people will have little cause to give you thanks if you suffer it to be fullied in your transcribing By their insisting upon their own power the Lawes of the land are rendred more authoritative for the legislative power being solely in the Representatives of the People there wanted not cause to apprehend that all the former Statutes and Charters of this Commonwealth not excepting Magna Charta or any other Statute or Charter whatsoever being hammered out under a kinde of controlment of Kings and Lords Spirituall and Temporal who seldome were remisse to improve their own pretentions were if not illegitimate and invalid yet not vertual enough to prevent unquiet expostulations and whatsoever virulent and exasperated tongues may suggest posterity will entertain it as an act of prudence justice and honour in your Predecessors who were intrusted with the interest of the people to free the legislative power out of the former Wardship and to reassume it to themselves by whose sole authority the Lawes and Statutes of the Nation might be tendred lesse subject to querulous censure and more obliging As it is in making so it is in executing of Lawes the power by which they are executed will be doubtfull and controvertable if it be not derived from the clear stream of the peoples consent This was plainly experimented the late Kings case whose claim being of another nature and his title and power therefore uncertain fill'd the Nation full of consuming dissensions Whereas had he insisted only upon the consent of the people he might have preserved the peace of the Nation rescued his person and family from those sharp encounters under which they have since suffered and secured his office from that hideous storm with which it was at last overwhelmed for had he owned his investiture from the People by which all those litigations that caused the distempers had been removed the Regall office besides that it had the trust of seeing the