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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

Legislative Povver IN PROBLEMES Published for the INFORMATION of all those who have constantly adhered to the GOOD CAUSE AND For the Reformation of all those who had embraced the BAD CAVSE BY PETER CHAMBERLIN Docter in Physick LONDON Printed by John Clowes 1659. PROBLEMES 1. WHether God or Man Jesus Christ or a Parliament have the Supreme Authority of England 2. Whether it be lawful to say that Jesus Christ is the One Law-giver Ja. 4.12 Is 33.22 Or whether that Epistle and Prophecy are Apochrypha in England 3. Whether it be not Treason to say Parliaments are not Law-givers or have not the Legislative Power 4. Whether if Jesus Christ and the Parliament are both Law-givers there be not more Law-givers then ONE 5. Whether Parliaments have known what to do with this Law-giving or Legislative Power And whether it hath not been a Burdensome-stone to Kings Zech. 12.3 Parliaments Armies Protectors Councils and People and hath not been ross'd up-and down from the One to the Other like the Atk of God stolen from Eben-Ezer and set up by Dagon and so carried from Ashdod to Gath and Ekron till it returned to Israel again 6. Whether it was not greater Policy and Wisdom in Lycurgus Numa Pompilius and Mahomet to entitle their Lawes to the Oracle of Apollo the Nymph Egeria and the Holy Dove And whether the people became not more conscienciously obedient thereto then when Parliaments entitle Laws and Legislative Powers to themselves yet acknowledge it Derivative which necessarily renders them obnoxious and accountable to them from whom they derive it 7. Whether it were not better for Parliaments to accept of the Legislative Power of Jesus Christ and of the Law Statutes and Judgments ready offered them from God with the whole Platform of Government prepared by the Word of God and practicable within one Moneth and easy to be established Ezek 22 27. then still to be overturn'd overturn'd overturn'd and trouble and hazard themselves and the Nation to find out another Legislative Power and other Laws whichlast no longer then the Men that make them nor that but during the Power of the Sword 8. How much blood and Treasure had been saved had the Parliament been pleased to acknowledge the Legislative Power of the Lord Jesus Christ Ja. 4.12 Is 33 22. 1 Tim. 6.15 Deut. 1.17 17.18.19 2 Chr. 19 6. the only Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and the Law Statutes Judgments of Almighty God 9. Whether it were not far more honourable for Parliaments to have their Authority from God in judging for God by the Laws of God then derived from Kings as some would have it or as others say from the People who themselves never had it but conceit it their Due because acknowledged by Parliament and so con ceive that Parliament men cosen them of their due 10. But if it must be acknowledged that Jesus Christ and the Parliament have each a Legislative Power Whether do they both give One and the same Law 11. If One and the same Whether the Prerogative of Jesus Christ or of a Parliament ought to take place in calling the Law by their Title whose Prerogative it is Act. 4.19 5.29 12. If it be different Whether it is more lawfull to obey God or Man unlesse Jesus Christ be not God or His Law not Gods Law 13. As it is more honourable for Parliaments and more sure to have their Authority from God than man So whether it be not more honourable and safe for the People to be governed by the Law of God then Man And whether it doth not more bind andasatisfie the Conscience as being the very Answer of every Mans Prayer though some know not what they say that Gods Kingdom might come and His Will might be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Matt. 6.10 rather then be enslaved one sort of Men to another and often times the best and most peaceable to the most unjust and Tyrannical whereof the most formidable hath been a single person though He that makes all men afraid must needs be afraid of all men 14. Whether it be not easier and better to be governed by a Law which every Child knowes then by Laws which all the wise Lawyers Serjeants and Judges of the Land know not 15. Whether the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament thwart each other Or whether they both agree to be the Faithful and Authentick Records of the Law of God 16. If not Why are they suffered to disturb the Conscience of Honest Men against any Government that is not according to that Law 17. If any part of those Scriptures ate false Why do not our Teachers Teach and Rulers command those places to be left out And why the Assemblies of Divines both of England and Scotland do own them and yet publish in Print such notorious and manifest contradictions against them in some particulars of their Confession of Faith and Catechisms And whether the Pope who hath left out and changed some places of Scripture which made against him though he assume to himself an Authority above them hath not dealt more honestly with his People herein then some of our Teachers and Rulers have hitherto done with us 2 Tim. 3.16 17. Rom. 15.4 Exo. 20.1.31.18.34.1.4 Deut. 5.22.9 10. 10.2.4 Lu. 19.14 Mal. 3.6 Heb 1.12 13.8 18. But if all the Scriptures are compleat as given by Inspiration of God Whether is that Text to be believed which saith the Law is Holy Just and Good Rom. 7.12 And why do not men so own and obey them Or can we say the same of the Acts Lawes and Statutes of the Land 19. Whether the ten Commandements spoken by God and twice Written with the finger of God Ordinarily taught to Children and written on most Church Walls and Windows and acknowledged so in all Confessions and Catechismes are not the Law of God 20. Whether God be bound to make any other Law for Mankind any more then He is bound to give an other Messias to the Jews because they will not have this Man to reign over them 21. Whether Time or Place Nation or Sex alter that Law or whether God be altered that made it so that What was Idolatry Blasphemy Murther Adultery Theft or Fals Witness so long agoe in Palestine among the Jewes is it not so now in England among the Gentiles 22. Whether King David knew what he said when he affirmed the Law of the Lord is Perfect His Statutes Right and his Judgements True and Righteous altogether Psal 19.7 8 9. And whether Moses and Solomon knew what they said when they Commanded Men neither to Add nor Diminish Deut. 4.2 12.32 Pro. 30.6 And whether God Himself may it be spoken with reverence to shame this wicked World knew what He did when He Commanded Joshua as Moses also Commanded Israel from the Lord that they should turn neither to the Right Hand nor to the Left Jos 1.7 Deut. 5.32

17.20 28.14 Or indeed whether Lawyers or Judges or any humane Authority know what they say or what they do when they say the Law of the Lord is imperfect and that they must and do Add and Diminish and that they Will and Do turn both to the Right Hand and to the Left and will Make and Compell others so to do also 23. Whether the Statutes and Judgments Recorded in the Old and New Testament or the Statutes and Judgments Recorded in Parliament Courts of Record do most properly belong to the Law ten Commandements of God Or whether the great God was Wise enough to appoint Statutes and Judgments for His own Law 24. Whether Moses meant Gods Statutes and Judgments to be fit for all Nations when he challenged all Nations to Compare with them Deut. 4.8 25. Whether the Apostle Paul meant the Law of God when he pleaded the things contained in the Law to be by Nature written in the Heart and whether ●e meant the Statutes and Judgments of God when he brought the Conscience bearing Witness and Mens Judgment or Reasoning Thoughts as Judges Accusing or Excusing Rom. 2.14 15. 26. Whether our Maxime in the Law of the Land mean the Law of God as it is in the Old and New Testament with the Statutes and Judgments thereto belonging Or whether there be any other Law of God that is or can be meant when it saith that Whatsoever is contrary to the Law of God is Void ipso facto 27. Whether ipso facto All other Lawes but the Law of God are not voyd since it is the Statute of God that none should Add nor Diminish Exod. 4.2 12.32 Pro. 30.6 Rev. 22.18 19. Nor turne to the Right Hand nor to the Left Jos 1.7 Deut. 5 32.17.20.28.14 28. Whether God 's Law be not the Fundamentall Law of all the World 29 Whether God's Law be not the Fundamentall Law of England 30. If it be true which some of our Judges and Lawyers have said that Reason is the Fundamental Law of the Land whether the Law of God be not that Law of Reason unless Parliaments Judges or Lawyers can shew a Law more Reasonable 31. If it be true what Judge Jenkins in Print and others have said that Precedent is the Fundamental Law of the Land Whether any can shew more Authentick Precedents then the Law of God throughout the Scriptures 32. If Antiquity as some plead to be the Fundamental Law of the Land Whether any Hictory in the whole World can shew any Law more Auncient or by many hundred of yeares so Auncient as the Law of God 33. Whether our own History and Chronicles do not in particular relate that King Lucius and King Alfred did set up the Law of God to be the Law of this Land And if so Whether have we any Law of the Land more Auncient then their Reign 34. Since then the Law of God is the Law of Nature the Law of Nations the Law of Reason the Law of Precedent the Law of Antiquity Rom. 2.14.15 Deut. 4.8 and by all these the Fundamental Law of the whole World and by our own Maxime the Fundamentall Law of England And that whosoever Opposeth Contriveth Acteth or Abbetteth in any thing against the Fundamental Law of England is guilty of the highest Treason and by all meanes Ordinary or Extraordinary to be Cutt off Why will some go on to Act Execute and Contrive Lawes Statutes and Judgments contrary to the Law of God against their own Heads and most certainly against their own Souls For if God spared not a King a Vice Roy an Arch Bishop and divers Nobles for sinning against no Ordinary Law of the Land how shall meaner persons escape if they sin against All 35. Nevertheless whether all the Lawes and Execution of Lawes of this Land are not Different or Contrary to the Law of God Let every man speak what he hears and sees and feels Oh the Divine Law of God Oh the Devilish Lawes of Men What Good is not in the Law of God what Evil is not in the Laws of Men 36. Whether is not the summ of Gods Lawes Love the Execution Do as you would be done by doth it not end all sutes in a day payes all Debts without Arrests or Imprisonments and might be practicable throughout the Land in one moneth 37. Was there ever sutes for Title of Land heard of in all the worst of Kings of Israel And where is ever a Sute in Chancery among the vilest Barbarians Might not Justice be Ordered throughout the Land by the Law of God in a moneth and is our Justice in order to this day And where was ever any Family free from Sutes in England 38. Are not the Lawes of men Innumerable causing Strife and Contention Theft and Murder O Blessed Holland the worst of all Lands yet made an Artificial Paradize by industrie and Government Oh Happy England the Garden of the World but most accursed in Government beyond all other Lands untill amended by God and our Governours 39. What do Priviledges signifie saving thou shalt not Steal but I may with two supportors 1. Valet factum quod non valet fieri Things done are lawfull which are not lawfull to be done the 2 an Act of Indemnity or Oblivion signifying Steal no more till next time 40. What doth Possession signifie to be a 11 Points of the Law but catch that catch may that none should play the Thief but hold fast so that a Posse Comitatue can hardly restore it to the right owner Oh the Vile Law of Men 41. Whether Soldiers have not several times with their Officers Vowed and attempted to Free the Nation and hang up the Lawyers Gownes by the Scottish Colours which bosting was answered by the Author that when Lawyers were Cajoled out of Westminster-Hall by Soldiers with their Tongues then Soldiers should be Cudgeled out of the field with their own Scabbords 42. Whether the first noise of Reformation made not the Inns of Court as empty of Lawyers as now the Temple Trees are empty of Rooks in token that Lawyers and Reformation are inconsistent 43. Whether every Familie in England doth not curse both Lawes and Lawyers of England and that for the most part not without cause Yet whether some bigotteed Lawyers do not think as the Rulers in John 7.49 That Moses Christ and Paul with their Followers were accursed that knew not the Lawes of Englands 44. What Lawes are practised in England that are not the Remaines and Reliques of Antichristian Superstition and Tyranny according to the Ignorance of our Fore-Fathers And whether they are not contrived to maintain Tyranny enrich Lawyers and empoverish the People 45. Whether most of the great Lordships in England are not gotten into the possession of the Families of Lawyers since Queen Elizabeth dayes that Serjeants went a begging for Clients in Pauls and to be entertained for ten shillings 46. Whether any can have Justice or go