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A56211	The soveraigne povver of parliaments and kingdomes divided into foure parts· Together with an appendix: wherein the superiority of our owne, and most other foraine parliaments, states, kingdomes, magistrates, (collectively considered,) over and above their lawfull emperours, kings, princes, is abundantly evidenced, confirmed by pregnant reasons, resolutions, precedents, histories, authorities of all sorts; the contrary objections re-felled: the treachery and disloyalty of papists to their soveraignes, with their present plots to extirpate the Protestant religion demonstrated; and all materiall objections, calumnies, of the King, his counsell, royallists, malignants, delinquents, papists, against the present Parliaments proceedings, (pretended to be exceeding derogatory to the Kings supremacy, and subjects liberty) satisfactorily answered, refuted, dissipated in all particulars. By William Prynne, utter-barrester, of Lincolnes Inne. It is on this second day of August, 1643. ordered ... that this booke ... be printed by Michael Sparke ...; Soveraigne power of parliaments and kingdomes	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1643 (1643)	Wing P4087A; ESTC R203193	824,021	610

to the warre with what reasons were they urged unlesse these that the Church was one that Christ called all whatsoever from all quarters to this service that common dangers were to be repulsed with common armes all which likewise doe plainely suite with this our cause Now and if this were lawfull for them against Mahomet yea not onely lawfull but likewise as a reward was appointed to the industrious so a punishment both to the sloathfull and delayers why not also against the enemy of Christ If I say against the Graecians be●ieging our Troy why not also against Sinon the incendiary Finally if it be a pious act to free Christians from bodily servitude for the Turkes compell no man to it is it not much more so to manumit the soules of miserable men and to restore them to liberty And verily these so many examples of pious Princes may be insteed of a Law But now heare what God himselfe by the mouth of his Prophets doth every where threaten against those who promote not the instauration of the Church or neglect its affliction The Gadites Reubenites and halfe Tribe of Manasses desire of Moses that their portion might be given to them and their families on this side Iordan and Moses truly gave it them but with this Law and condition that they should not onely helpe their brethren the other Israelites in conquering the Land of Canaan but because they had first obtained their portion that they should goe before them and be placed in the forefront of them Which if they should not doe he accurseth them smites them with anathema and compares them to those who had beene judged Rebels at Cadesbernea For what saith he shall your brethren goe to warre and you in the meane time sit still here But rather you shall passe over Iordan neither shall you returne againe hither to your houses before that God hath expelled his enemies from before his face and given rest to your brethren as he hath given unto you Then verily you shall be innocent before the Lord of Israel verily those on whom the great and good God hath bestowed so great a benefit unlesse they assisted their Brethren unlesse they were companions of their labours unlesse they went before them should without doubt receive most grievous punishments Likewise when under the conduct of Deborah those of Nephthali and Zebulon had taken up armes against the Tyrant Iabin and in the meane time the Tribe of Reuben which ought to be first in Armes delighted themselves with the Pipes among the Pastures of the flockes Dan boasted of the Empire of the Sea Asher finally trusted in the asperity of Mountaines all of them are most expresly condemned by the Spirit of God speaking by the Prophetesse Curse ye Meroz saith the Angel of the Lord curse ye bitterly the Inhabitants thereof because they came not to the helpe of the Lord against the mighty But blessed above women shall Iael the Wife of Heber the Kenite be who although she might have pleaded a truce with the heathens yet notwithstanding shee slew Sisera the Captaine of the enemies Hoast Therefore piously spake Vriah The Arke and Israel and Iudah abide in tents and oft times passe the night without sleepe in the open fields shall I then feast with my Wife eate drinke and follow my pleasures As the Lord liveth I will never doe this Contrarily the Princes of Israel did impiously who trusting in the difficulty of the mountaines of Samaria and in the munition of Sion flowed with luxury feasted dranke slept on beds of Ivory anoynted their heads but in the meane time wonderfully despised contrite cruciated afflicted Ioseph neither were any way moved with his affliction Therefore saith the Lord of Hoasts I abhorre the excellency of Iacob and hate his palaces I have sworne by my soule that I will deliver up the City and all that is therein yea these who so greatly rioted shall soone goe with the first into captivity Impiously also did the Ephramites who did not onely not gratulate Gideon and Iephtha attaining the victory and triumphing but likewise envyed them though yet they deserted them when they were in danger Likewise the Israelites who when David reigned cryed out saying Behold we are thy flesh and thy bones when he was reduced into straites said We have no part in David nor in the Sonne of Iesse Impiously doe all those Christians onely in name who will communicate in the sacred feasts of the Church and yet will not so much as taste the cup of bitternesse with their Brethren who seeke salvation in the Church and yet take no care for the salvation and safety of the Church and of its Members Finally they acknowledge one Father God one Family the Church professe themselves to be one body in Christ yet neither yeeld any aide to Christ afflicted in his Members or bestow their wealth on him being poore What thinke we shall be the future punishment of their impiety Moses compares the deserters of their Brethren to the Rebels at Kadesbarnea now none of those by Gods owne decree entred into Canaan Therefore they can seeke no place for themselves in the co●lestiall Canaan who assist not Christ most miserably crucified and dying a thousand times every day and implores as it were their helpe from doore to doore Christ himselfe condemnes those to eternall fire who harboured him not when he was a stranger who fostered him notwhen he was a cold who cloathed him not when he was naked who relieved him not when he was poore who freed him not when he was captive Therefore they ought to know that eternall fire is prepared for them who passe him by with a deafe eare daily suffering such things although in the meane time they may seeme to worke great miracles and therefore verily it shall be easier for certaine insidels than for them For what doe the Jewes the Scribes and Pharisees properly cruci●ie Christ Doe the Ethnickes Turkes ●inally some Christians persecute crucifie vex Christ in his Members The Jewes professe and beleeve him an Imposter the Ethnickes a malefactor the Turkes an In●idell others an Heretique Therefore if they consider the minde of them all from whom we commonly measure the crime they all seeme to persecute noxious impious men deserving punishment not properly to slay Christ But they onely doe truely persecute truely slay him who willingly suffer him whom they professe their Messiah Redeemer God to be tortured and crucified in his Members when they might hinder it In summe he who delivers him not from death when he may is equally guilty with him that slayes him For because he would not helpe him he willed he should be slaine Now in a crime the will it selfe ought to be regarded But certainly the murther especially of Christian Princes who helpe not those who are persecuted for Religion is so much the more grievous by how much the more they slay whom they might set free and by how much it is more wicked

in your Nostrils and God forbid but that I and all other true Members of our State and Church should cordially concurre with you in this Heroicall Covenant which the desperate Confederacies of our Romish Adversaries long prosecuted among us and now almost promoted to perfection have necessarily engaged Your Honors and the whole Kingdom to enter into for their Preservation Now the God of Peace and Lord of Hoasts be ever mightily present with and in Your Honourable Assembly to counsell direct protect prosper all your sincere endevours to promote his Gospell Truth Honour the publike welfare liberty tranquillity security of our endangered lacerated Church and Realmes Till the Lord shall looke mercifully upon Zion the City of our solemnities and till our eyes shall see our English Jerusalem a quiet habitation a tabernacle that shall not be taken downe not one of the stakes whereof shall ever be removed neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken notwithstanding all the mighty oppositions against it And till you shall have built up the old waste places raised up the Foundations of many generations yea erected the very Top-stone of an exact universall Ecclesiasticall and civill Reformation in Church and State with shoutings crying Grace grace unto it That so all future Generations may really blesse and call you The Repairers of our manifold breaches the Restorers of Pathes to dwel lin Which is and shall be the dayly prayer of Your Honours most affectionately devoted Servant to live and die with You in the Common Cause of God Religion and our Native Country WILLIAM PRYNNE THE TREACHERY and DISLOYALTY OF PAPISTS TO THEIR SOVERAIGNES IN DOCTRINE AND PRACTISE Together with The first part of the SOVERAIGNE POWER OF PARLIAMENTS and KINGDOMES Wherein the Traiterous Antimonarchicall Doctrines Practises and Attempts of Papists upon the Persons Crownes Prerogatives of their Soveraignes with the dangerous designes effects and consequences of their present illegall Arming and accesse to the Kings Person Court Army by meanes of evill Counsellours are briefely discovered related The Iurisdiction Power Priviledges claimed exercised by our Popish Parliaments Prelates Lords and Commons in former ages exactly paralleld with those now claimed by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament which are manifested to be farre more loyall dutifull moderate more consistent with lesse invasive on and destructive to the pretended Soveraigne Power and Prerogative of the King then those of former ages And the high Court of Parliament proved by pregnant Reasons and Authorities To be the most Soveraigne Power of all other in this Kingdome in severall respects And superiour to the King himselfe who is not above but subject to the Lawes Together with a punctuall Answer to the chiefe Calumnies and grandest Objections of Royallists Papists Malignants Delinquents against the Parliaments Power and Proceedings with other Particulars worthy Observation The Second Edition Enlarged By WILLIAM PRYNNE Utter-Barrester of Lincolnes Inne Isai 24. 16 17. Woe unto me the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously yea the Treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously Feare and the pit and a snare are upon thee O Inhabitant of the Earth Psalme 120. 5 6. My soule hath long dwelt with them that are enemies unto peace I labour for peace but when I speake unto them thereof they make them ready to Battle It is this second day of May 1643. Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament for Printing that this Booke Intituled The Treachery and Disloyalty of Papists to their Soveraignes c. with the Additions be re-printed by Michael Sparke senior Iohn White Printed at London for Michael Sparke Senior 1643. To the Reader Courteous Reader THE importunity of some Members of Parliament hath induced me to enlarge the first Part of this Discourse with sundry pertinent Additions and to Re-print it in a greater Character then before yet distinct from the following part for the ease the benefit both of Stationer and Buyer When I first entred upon this necessary publike Theame my Primitive Intention was to have Collected the chiefe Heads Reasons Authorities of this and the ensuing Members into one compendious Summulary and so to publish them all together in an intire Briefe But afterwards considering the extraordinary weight and consequence of that Grand common Cause both of Parliament and Kingdome which I was to plead the Novelty and Rarity of the Subject matter the extraordinary Prejudice of the ignorant long-deluded world against it the Potency Policy Multitude of learned Advocates as well Divines as Lawyers of the opposite Royall and Malignant party the insufficiency and unsatisfactorinesse of all late Printed Pleas for the Parliaments Interest through defect of punctuall Precedents and Authorities to backe their rationall Discourses and that a Summary slight debate of these important publicke differences would give but small satisfaction to the Adversary and rather prejudice than advance the Parliaments Kingdomes Native Rights and Priviledges I did thereupon enlarge my Meditations my Collections so farre forth as straites of Time with other avocating Imployments would permit seconding all my Arguments fortifying all my Reasons with such Domesticke Foraine Precedents and Authorities of all sorts as well Divine as Humane Politicall Historicall as Legall as through Gods concurrence with and blessing on my impotent endevours may effectually convince the obstinate wils abundantly satisfie the most seduced prejudicated Judgement finally resolve the most scrupulous Consciences and eternally silence the ignorant the most malicious Tongues and Pennes of all Royallists c. Anti-parliamentary Malignants who are not wilfully wedded to their long-espoused Errors or more enamored with sordid Court flattery for private selfe-ends then fairest though hated ungainfull verity which aimes at nothing but the Publicke good For my part I seriously protest before the great Judge of Heaven and Earth that I have herein wittingly maintained nothing at all but what my Judgement and Conscience both byassed with no sinister ends no private respects ayming at nought else but the Glory of God the settled weale and Tranquillity of our distracted bleeding dying Church and State the onely Motives engaging me in this Service informe me to be a well-grounded ancient pregnant though lately over-clouded undiscovered neglected much-oppugned Truth and albeit most particulars therein debated have for many yeares hitherto beene deposed that I say not stigmatized for seditious dangerous Antimonarchicall Paradoxes if not worse by the generall Torrent of Court-Parasites Lawyers Religion Nature Law Policy the various Precedents and Authorities of former ages and throughly digested without prejudice or partiality they will appeare yea shine forth as most necessary profitable loyall State-securing Peace-procuring verities yea as the very Nerves and sinewes to unite the Pillars to support the Bulwarkes to protect both Church and State against all invasions of heresie or tyranny and to keepe all the Potent Members of them within their Legall bounds Peruse it therefore with an upright heart a dis-ingaged Judgement an unbiassed affection and when