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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44969	An humble addresse to the right honourable Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament in vindication of kingly power and government against the damnable positions of Jesuits and phanatiques desiring they would be pleased to call in the king without dishonourable conditions according to his just right / written by the author of a letter to a member.	Author of A letter to a member.	1660 (1660)	Wing H3391; ESTC R31130	13,534	20

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT An Humble ADDRESSE To the Right Honourable LORDS COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT In vindication of KINGLY POWER AND GOVERNMENT Against the Damnable Positions of Jesuits and Phanatiques desiring they would be pleased to call in the King without dishonourable conditions according to his Just Right Written by the Author of a Letter to a Member Rom. Chap. 13. ver 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let every soul be subject to the higher Powers for there is no Power but of God c. LONDON Printed by Peter Lillicrap for Henry Marsh and are to be sold at his Shop at the Princes Arms in Chancery-lane 1660. An Humble ADDRESSE To the Right honourable LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT In vindication of Kingly Power and Government against the damnable Positions of Jesuites and Phanatiques desiring they would be pleased to call in the King without dishonourable conditions according to his just rights NOthing in this world can present this sad nation with so pleasant a sight as your Honourable Session in Parliament which giveth a rapture of joy to all Loyal and Religious hearts transporting them with the high contemplation of the inexhaustible Treasure of Divine mercy that God out of the wise conduct of his ever to be admired providence after our great and various Tragick scenes of Governours and Governments acted by the politick Jesuits the great State-mongers in their secret influence on the Counsels of this nation should dispose your much prayed for Convention the delight of our hearts and desire of our souls as the onely expedient left us under God to reedifie the ruined Church and to repair the sad breaches of the decaied State You are the expected Center in which the several lines of different interests meet that after their diverse unhappy motions in you their proper place they may receive rest and perfection you are that benigne Constellation in the sphere of Government by whose propicious influence all things in our lower orbe receive the more refined production of their better being in the conception birth and maturity of our blessed restauration Me thinketh these many years in the sad winter of our afflicted Clymate all things seem to have been void of fire and spirit but your pre ence like a warm spring reviveth our withered expectations and inliveneth our dull bodies with a new soul full of like opperations and after the long Lent of our most low condition we are blessed with an Easter of your meeting which after the death of our hopes giveth a resurrection of our happines which offereth us an argument for ever to magnifie Gods unspeakable goodness and an opportunity to congratulate the prosperous estate of the Kingdom in you our most faithfull Trustees and to speak our thanks that you are pleased to take upon you the trouble to redress our intolerable grievances and to redeem the distressed Nation long groaning under many heavy pressures from high slavery and eminent ruine The best way to prevent it is to find out the first original on which as a prime cause the great complication of our miseries dependeth and truly without any curious disquisition you may perceive it to flow from disobedience to that Authoty which God hath set over us and the grand Error in principles hath proved so fruitful that it hath had many branches springing out of it according to the Phylosophers received maxime in his Physicks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one Capital Error begetteth a thousand It is that unhappy dispute which the two Houses had with the King first embroiled the Nation in a Civil war and then involved it in a Labrinth of miseries when blood is once drawn it is very dissicult to stench the flux of it the surviving always being acted with a bitter animosity to revenge the quarrell of their murdred friends each party being ambitious to gain the glory of a conquest and soverainty over others are so much biassed with their own interest of an earthly enjoyment of them●elves as they aim to be Masters of other mens estates and fortunes which giveth a high disturbance to the conquered party who will be always unwilling to sit down with loss of liberty and livelyhood Pray be pleased to use the utmost of your industry in your prudent Counsels to make such a provision for the future to take away all occasions and lay aside such disputes which will inevitably produce a new War which to hinder nothing is so rational as to fix the Government of the Kingdom upon the antient basis which is the means to satisfie all honest interests and as for the other it is as fond as disingenious to gratifie them they being so inconsiderable cannot pretend to merit any bodies esteem I know it is your Christian intention and the peoples great advantage to make a firm and lasting peace which will be crowned with so good a product as the Kingdoms flourishing estate and the con●ec●ation of your blessed memories to posterity Nothing can be more honourable to the Nation and suitable to the genius of the people then the antient established Government which speaketh great Attributes of glory and wisdom to our forefathers who have founded such an admirable fabrick of Polity among us that after ages have rendred themselves no less miserable then contemptible in the alteration of it The late unfortunate revolutions will easily convince the refractory opposers that Monarchy is the best modell of all Polities whatsoever holding a correspondence in some manner with Gods Government all inferiour Creatures as his subjects by a natural impress serving each other in an admirable order Naturals serving the Plants and Plants the Animals and Animals the Rationals and at last Heaven and Earth and all the several orders of Entities out of a principle of Nature reason or religion pay a tribute of obedience and devotion to God their supreme omnipotent Monarch This Loyalty of the Creature is presidentary to men indued with a more sublime principle of Reason and united in a common society are oblieged to be subservient to each other in their superiour or inferiour degrees of subjection or command to promote the common wellfare and most conscientiously to perform all service and duty to the King by his lawful inheritance and Gods divine institution their supreme governor And as more naturals that Elements ought of a universal dictate move upwards and downwards contrary to their particular inclinations in silling up a vacuum to serve the common good of the universe and to keep inviolable the law of the Creator I wish none placed in a sphere above them being courted by their example would be so farre elevated above their private concerns and endeavour though contrary to their self advantages by all means possible to advance the publike good in their regular subordination to the King the supreme Governour of the Nation And therefore I desire you would nighly di●countenance that base Jesuiticall principle a fundamental

their own personal interest to the apparent danger of of common safety say the Phanaticks they determine their authority and having quitted their care of the Peoples protection they quit the People from their Allegiance and Obedience To this I answer That Kings though most absolute Tyrants cannot be justly deposed by the People I confess the end of all Government is the common good in a due administration of Justice to the promotion of which all their royal endeavours as so many lines ought to concenter themselves as in a point in the publick safety of their subjects And although Kings do not perform their duty in governing according to Law yet their Authority doth not determine it being supreme is lyable to give an account onely to God who onely determineth both the Power and Person And although the people do by Election or Consent confer a trust on Kings and Governors which is absolute no Governour being so weak as to take it on the condition of his good behaviour durante Populi beneplacito the will of the people being as mutable as fond and having not alwaies Reason for its Conduct and solid principles for its Basis under pretence of ill managery will speak a determination to the lawful power of a supreme Governour and the best modelled Government of a Nation It is very reasonable to grant that the people do give a very high trust to Kings and those in Authority which is sealed to them by Gods power Be subject to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake from whom Kings receive the Patent of their Authority which no body under any gloss how fair soever can cancel he being in no capacity to forfeit that power to man which he hath immediately derived from God alone I mean the sword of Justice it being not in the power of the people originally to kill one another without a Magistrate they being endued with an equality in nature and cannot exercise this soveraignty over each other And if the King could forfeit his trust by not discharging it according to the intention of the Donors and the Laws to which he hath obliged himself that the people cannot resume that trust when it hath received the approbation and confirmation of Gods power which the people cannot assume to themselves without the most impious arrogating one of the supreme Attributes of God to themselves But then it will be replyed that the people are in a sad condition having no sence against the arbitrary power of Kings to which I briefly answer they have for their refuge Tears and Prayers the Arms of the Church in their greatest straits and perplexities and God in whose hands the hearts of Kings are to turn them as he pleaseth according to his holy wisdom and for my part I shall ever deem it better to live under the Tyranny of Kings then under the Anarchy of the people I desire you would be pleased to make a deep inspection into those two erroneous principles so much cried up by the Phanaticks that salus populi est suprema lex and Rex est singulis major universis minor which they conceive are most absolute rules to walk by and a firm basis to secure their cursed actions from the titles of rebellion perjury sacriledge murder oppression c. To the first that the safety of the people is the supreme law I thus answer the safety of the people in strict speech is not a law but an end of it the law being made for the just conservation of the peoples safety but grant it in common language to be a law and then sure none is so void of sense and reason if an end may be called a law but to give to the ultimate end the attribute of supremacy and then Gloria Deiest suprema lex and indeed his word is a law and it is his glory to maintain it Rom. 13.1 Let every soul be subject to the higher powers and God so far condescendeth as to give a reason of it for the Powers that are are ordained of God Now the debate will be who is supreme the King or the people I confess the people de facto have of late made themselves so but I hope they have not the boldness de jure to think so the Legislative power being ultimately in the King by whose Royal consent the results of the two Houses who are called and dissolved by his power receive the signature of Laws the house of Commons being Commissioned by him ad inquireddum and the house of Lords ad consulendum and in him their legal head is the supreme power ad determinandum de ordine negotiis regni it is his right with the advice of Parliaments his great Council to determine what is the safety peace and the just Rights of the nation and not in the people who are not a head of law but the body of the kingdom to be governed by it And if the People should deem in their private sense which cannot be so discerning and impartial as the publick judgement of those that are placed on the hill of government who see much more then they that kneel in the valley of subjection that the known fundamental Laws instituted by them who are Gods Ministers are diametrically opposite to the just interest of a nation yet if they cannot it being repugnant to their conscience to give an active observance to those laws made as they apprehend against the safety of the people yet they are oblieged to give a passive obedience to the Governours who as they are ordained if good are to give him onely an account of their actions in an humble submission to whatsoever punishments shall be imposed by them And here the people are readily to write after our blessed Saviours excellent copy who submitted to an unjust power in the loss of his life contrary to all law rather then dispute his own ordinance and so it is better for them in Christian patience to die Martyrs then by an illegal resistance to be rebells To that their maxime being a main foundation upon which the Phanaticks have at first built and still endeavour to support that most unhandsome superstructure of Rebellion Sacriledge Perjury and in a word their violation of all humane and divine Laws that Rex est singulis major universis minor the King is greater then any single person and lesser then the community of the people to which I reply that the body of the people cannot pretend to be superior or rival with him except his two Houses of Parliament who have no being unless they receive birth by his summons consulere de arduis negotiis regni and so they may be justly styled his Counsellours to advise and not his superiours to command The Legislative power which to vindicate he is armed with the Militia of the Nation being principally seated in him that those wholesome laws which derive their rough draught and first delineation of parts from the two Houses and