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lord_n	aforesaid_a	king_n	say_a	23,782	5	7.5787	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77919	The povver of kings discussed: or, An examen of the fundamentall constitution of the free-borne people of England: in answer to severall tenents of M. David Jenkins. By Will: Ball of Barkham, Esq;	Ball, William.	1649 (1649)	Wing B594; Thomason E540_21; ESTC R205769	11,588	15

of the Law advise with Himselfe and His owne Councell as well as with the Councell of His Covenantee before He make or doe Acts tending to the End of His Covenant and great Reason it is that the King should have as great or rather greater Freedome in that He is the supreme Ruler or highest Magistrate of the Common-wealth a freedome to advise or to deny untill advise be taken doth not Nul nec in foro conscientiae nec in foro Juris ☞ the tie or obligation of Oath or Covenant so farre forth as such Oath or Covenant tieth or obligeth Furthermore concerning the Kings Oath aforesaid although He be tied and obliged by vertue thereof to passe Bills touching Civill Government as aforesaid yet I conceive that He is not tied and obliged by vertue of His said Oath to passe Bills touching Religion tendred unto Him by the Commons or both Houses of Parliament for at the making of that Oath neither the Commons nor their Representatives or Trustees nor the King or His Lords or Peers had any thing to doe or did meddle with matters touching Religion to define frame or alter any thing therein such things were then altogether performed by Ecclesiasticall Councels and Assemblies nor would the People nor did they tie or oblige the King by Oath to doe that which as then they conceived He had no Power to doe and the Kings who have successively taken that Oath since the first making thereof have taken their Oathes according to the intent and meaning of that Oath when first compiled and no otherwise so that I doe not conceive the King to be obliged by vertue of His said Oath to passe Bills touching Religion tendred unto Him by the Commons or both Houses of Parliament But some it may be will say that the King is tied otherwise Ex Officio to passe such Bills touching Religion as the Commons or both Houses shall tender unto Him it may be so but if so yet both the King and both the Houses ought to be very cautelous and conscientious how they make Acts touching Religion in which they may erre themselves and by which they may ensnare and molest other mens Consciences however the Kirk-men having borrowed I suppose some infallible Night-caps from the Roman Bishops dreame exceedingly that they interpret the holy Scriptures without errour of the least Iota Master Jenkins saith that the King is Principium Caput Jenkins in his Lex Terrae finis Parlamenti the King is Principium I grant Him for that the King by His Writ appoints the time and place of Parliamentary Conventions and that the King is Caput I also grant it Him in that the King is the supreme Ruler or highest Magistrate of the Common-wealth but that the King is Finis at leastwise Finis integer aut tetalis Parlamenti I deny it for Finis or causa finaelis is causa propter quod the cause for which a thing is ordained and certainly salus Populi which is suprema Lex the safety of the People their generall good and welfare is the end at leastwise the principall end of Parliamentary Conventions and Master Jenkins seemeth in his Cordiall to the good People of London to acknowledge as much for whereas Master H. P. Barrister of Lincolns Inne affirmeth that the safety of the People is the supreame Law as indeed it is Master Jenkins replying to him Jenkins in his Cordiall faith Neither doe we sweare but His Majesty and we will sweare to the contrary and have sworne and have made good and will by Gods grace make good our Oath to the World that the KING is not above the Law nor above the safety of His People the Law and the safety of His People are His safety His Honour and His strength these are Master Jenkins his words whereby he acknowledgeth That the safety of the People are the Kings safety honour and strength so that if the King be the end or a partiall end of the Parliament according to his Assertion the Peoples safety must needs be the principall or ultimate end Master Jenkins saith That it cannot be said the King doth wrong and that it was declared by all the Judges and Serjeants at Law Tempore The Reason is saith Master Jenkins Nothing can be done in this Common-wealth by the Kings Grant or any other Act of His as to the Persons Goods Lands Liberties of the Subjects but must be according to the established Lawes which the Judges are sworne to ebserve and deliver between the King and His People impartially to rich and poore high and low and therefore the Justices and the Ministers of Juctice are to be questioned and punished if the Lawes be violated and no Reflection to be made on the King By Master Jenkins favour if it be granted that the King doth not wrong in ministring the Lawes but that the Ministers of the Lawes whom the King intrusteth doe the wrong will it therefore follow that it cannot be said that the King doth the wrong otherwise both in His naturall and politique capacity surely no! The King may usurp and yet be a King de Facto as did Henry the first his Brother Robert being alive and William the second also notwithstanding his Fathers Will Stephen Richard the first and John his Brother for Arthur Sonne of Geoffry Duke of Britaine third Sonne of Henry the second was right Heire to the Crowne Richard being the fourth Sonne and John the fift Sonne of the said King Henry Edward the third while his Father lived for though his Father were a dissolute Prince yet the Son ought not to have usurped his Right and albeit a People may as did the petty Kings and People of Sodom and Gomorrah the Jewes Athenians Romans and divers other Nations free themselves from tyranny and slavery yet they ought not Depose their King for vice Henry the fourth that subtile Usurper Richard the third that politique Tyrant The King may break his faith and promise with his own People and others as did the Norman and some of his Successours very constantly as if it had descended to them with the Crowne The King may break his Oath as did Henry the third and some others The King may through his owne covetous and ambitious desire impose illegall Taxes upon the People he may also engage himself and his People in unnecessary Wars and Broiles as Kings have done either and if it be said that Kings are in such things many times misled by their Councels and therefore they themselves ought to be excused I answer no ● for Kings ought not to be misled by their Councels Privatio Rectitudinis in debito esse Actus Peccatum est Kings have the meanes not to be misled in such matters if they will make use of it but many times Kings will be led by Cabinet Counsellours Creatures of their owne making who depend upon them and endeavour to humour and please their Princes for their owne Ends and not to