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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

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

to shelter themselves from the hand of justice and keepe the good subjects from all use and benefit of the Laws and destroy their properties by forcible pillaging and plundring which every man sees to be the ends of their said practises and therefore first in their intentions but also Alexander like by the Sword to cut the gordian knot they could not otherwise untie I meane to destroy this perpetuall Parliament before the grievances of the Kingdome contracted before by their wicked counsels be redressed that the reformation intended and desired shall never receive birth and perfection distilling into the Kings mind a wicked and irrationall conceit that a perpetuall Parliament and his Kingly office and power cannot consist The Parliament I say to defend themselves and the Kingdome from these diabolicall designes and practises and to bring these grand-Delinquents to justice and rescue his Majesty out of their hands tooke up Armes and at Keinton and else where made use thereof Shall the Parliaments performance of their duty and trust become Treason or unlawfull by what Lawes reason or sence Is it no Treason for an inferiour Court to raise force to execute the Proces thereof though the King expresse his Personall will ever so strongly even under his great Seale to the contrary and shall it be unlawfull or treasonable in the supreame Court to do it which hath power to stay and check the proceedings of all inferiour Courts which the King cannot doe by his Personall command Hereby may appeare that the Parliament hath proceeded in the way of Religion in this great case and this Libeller hath his desire but that he cannot see the wood for trees and there is no need of troubling such able Divines as he Names to convince his ignorance they are or may be better imployed And for Brownists and Seperatists it is notorious that the Kings taking up Armes is so farre from being against them as it is the only cause that wholesome provisions for the right governing of the Church are not made and setled that they may be suppressed and wholy rooted out and that they are fomented incouraged and increased daily by the continuance of those Forces in obstruction of the Parliaments power and proceedings against them If a right discipline according to Gods word and a painefull preaching Ministery were once setled in this Kingdome such Sectaries and Schismaticks would be quickly subdued To the two most honourable Houses of Parliament the representative body of the most glorious legitime and Christian Kingdome of England the humble Petition of some Well affected Patriots dispersed here and there WHereas there is a Petition spread abroad pretending the number of millions alledging distresse of conscience who in all likelihood never felt any except in the feare of a pure Reformation as may appeare by their verball arguments abusing the Scripture to their politick end viz. Dan. 4.17.25.32 1 Sam. 26.9 Psalm 89.20 Isa 45.1 with the Booke of Common Prayers attributing to the King Gods authority from which they urge a literall appearance to their own overthrow and the enslaving of all to more then Turkish servitude Not understanding or considering that Cirus is onely stiled God Annoynted in a figurative phrase for the service of Christ whereunto he was destined even the restauration of the Temple otherwise no more the Lords Annoynted then was Eglon King of Moab whom Ehud stab'd to the heart for the deliverance of Gods Church and people Jud. 3.12.19 20 21. Then grossely distorting that of Rom. 13. for though it be onely a direction unto particular Christians that they should not living under such government or ordinance abuse their Christian liberty to the scandall of profession or the Gospell 1 Pet. 2.12 13 14 15 16. yet would these politick glossers hereby over-rule the irrationall rabble if not to a rebellious opposition against at the least to an absolute disdaine and desertion of Gods ordinance Rom. 13.1 2. a necessary counsell and indissoluble by the people elected and the King established as the onely soule and intelligence of the English State the last remedy and only security against those pernicious seducers and crafty politicians which alwayes aime more at their owne ends then either at the publike good or their Masters honour authorized thereby if our Divinity and reason faile us not Prov ch 25.5 1 Cor. 7.27 not only to the declaring of Law but the executing of that which being according to the divine Law and our municipall right no way thwarting the principles of nature or universall reason doth best conduce to the enfranchizing of the Gospell and worship from all servile bonds and superstitious obligations the establishing of the subject in his true and native liberty the King and his Progeny in a constant glory and durable felicity And whereas these deceitfull workers 2 Cor. 11.13 15. pretend the divine constitution of particular Kings in their severall Kingdomes This shaddow of reason they have greedily catched from the superficiall Pamphlets of Court parasites who being infected with that Popish errour in the cacozelous imitation of the Aaronicall Priesthood which was first practised by that flattering Pope who annoynted Charles the Great unto the Empire and then madded to astonishment with the eye dazeling splendour of Courtly glory they would of a King create a demi-god though to the utter subversion of the Churches rights the English glory and the scope of Scriptures as shall be maintained against them in a faire dispute at the forfeiture of life upon defailance Thus we say infatuate and made furious they would foster in the people a pernicious opinion of the Kings superiority not only to the State as it is now established But to the Church also which is Gods annoynted truly so called according to the tenour of the old and new Testament Psal 105.14.15 2 Cor. 1.21 with 1 Joh. 2.27 and the apple of his eye Zach. 2.8 for whose liberty protection and edification the King as chiefe member of the same is tyed by the tenour of his Baptisme for the maintaining of unity and uniformity according to the Law of charity and a sincere conscience regulated by the word to improve all the power and prerogative wherewith be is vested Isa 49.7 23. with 1 Tim. 2.2 Tho' these prophane Esaus renouncing both their Baptisme and birth-right would make gracious Princes of nursing Fathers to become hard Masters tyrannizing over the Church by their Praelaticall vassals who ever contrary to their office and the Kings authority Ezek. 34.4 Heb. 5.2 3. are found to have shorne the sheepe of Christs pasture to the quick under pretext of suppressing some silly fantasticall Sectaries who in their obstinate self particular humours are more shame then assistance to the Parliament and insensibly side with the Caviliers designe being much more justly and effectually to be quell'd by a sincerely judicious Synod and found government sutable to the word then either by an high Commission or any servile and typhonicall Synod derived