in the Case of the County-Palatine of Wexford reported by Sir John Davys at that time Attorney-General of Ireland As also the County-Palatine of Tipperary formerly enjoy'd by the Ancestors of his Grace James Duke of Ormond c. the present Lord Lieutenant of the same and granted restored and confirm'd to him by Letters-Patents at Westminster the 22. of April in the 14th of this King and not long afterward confirmed by Act of Parliament in Ireland and whence also he bears it as a part of his Titles Dominus Regalitatum Libertatum Comitatus Palatini Tipperarii Nor is this all The Kings of England have created Kings within their own Dominions and for such has the world received them So King Henry the Second in the 13th year after his coming into Ireland made his Son John King of Ireland And Henry the Third his Son Edward the First Lord of Ireland and well own'd the doing it albeit until the 33 Henry 8. they wrote but Lords themselves for their Dignity was merely Royal as having their Justices Custodes or Lord Lieutenants and all things belonging to the Royal Estate and Majesty of a King And Sir Edw. Cooke tells us he has seen a Charter made in 20. H. 6. to Henry Beuchamp Earl of Warwick whereby he was created King of the Isle of Wight and as saith Mr. Selden Crowned King of the same 6. The Power of Pardoning which is a Royal Act of Grace whereby the King either before Conviction Sentence or Attainder or after forgiveth any Crime Punishment Execution Right Title Debt or Duty Temporal or Ecclesiastical on which account he may restore a man that has lost Liberam Legem by being recreant As also all that is forfeited to him by Attainder c. he may restore by his Charter but if by the Attainder the Blood be corrupted that must be restored by Act of Parliament of which more at large in Sir Edw. Cooke Titles Pardons and Restitutions 7. To appoint the Value Weight and Stamp of his Coin and make Forein Coin currant by Proclamation As to the first we need go no farther than the smallest Piece and that will tell us whose Image and Superscription it is and therefore called the Kings Money and so King John brought the Irish Mony to the English Standard And as to the other the same Sir Edw. Coke tells us That the King by his absolute Prerogative may make any Forein Coin lawful Mony of England at his pleasure by his Proclamation And in another place putting both together he says That lawful Mony of England is of two sorts viz. The English Mony either of Gold or Silver Coined by the Kings Authority or Forein Coin by Proclamation made currant within this Realm 8. To receive Liege Homage of another inferior King or Homager and such was our Henry the Second to the old Kings of Ireland who are stiled Reges Reguli and may more particularly appear in a grant of his to Roderick King of Connaught that he should enjoy his Territory under a certain Tribute Et quam diu ei fideliter serviet ut sit Rex sub eo Paratus ad servitium suum sicut homo suus And that Oneale is sometime stiled Rex and sometime Regulus denotes the Subject-Kings of that Country And long before the Conquest Edgar had eight Reguli or inferior Kings Homagers to him who at one time row'd him on the River Dee himself guiding the Helm and afterwards glorying to his Nobility that then every one of his Successors might boast himself to be King of England when he receiv'd the like Honor from so many Kings his Attendants So Reignald Lord or King of Man Cui etiam fas erat Corona aurea Coronari and those of Ireland did Homage to our Henry the Third And John Baliol King of Scotland and David Prince of Wales to Edw. the First and James the First to Henry the Sixth for the Kingdom of Scotland So that liege-Liege-Lord is he that acknowledgeth no Superior and a Liegeman is he that oweth Liegance to his liege-Liege-Lord and so the word is frequently us'd in our Statutes viz. The Kings liege-Liege-People And if such a one shall be in open War or Rebellion or joyn with a Forein Enemy against the King he shall not be ransom'd or proceeded with as an Enemy but as a Traytor because it is Contra Ligeantiam suam debitam and so the Indictment runs Such was the case of David Prince of Wales aforesaid who had judgment of Treason given against him for levying War against Edw. 1. for that his was within the Homage and Ligeance of the King 9. Lastly to bear those Titles only proper to Sovereign Princes apart from all others as being indivisible and incommunicable And here not to insist on the words Dei gratia which are familiarly seen in the Titles of the Kings of Europe and Princes of the Empire Spiritual Lords both abroad and at home have of elder times frequently us'd it in their Stiles and in a Summons to our Parliaments and Writs to Assemble or Prorogue the Convocation the King gives it to the Arch-Bishops as Rex c. Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Predilatoque fideli Consiliario nostro A. eadem Gratia Archiepiscopo Cant. c. But in Warrants and Commissions to them it is generally omitted and never us'd by themselves when they wrote to the Pope Emperor or a King but thus A. licet indignus c. Archiepiscopus or Episcopus B. c. whereby the present use of it among our selves is easily reconcil'd in that they receive the Attribute not give it The Kings of England are in the second and third person commonly stiled by that abstract of Majesty as your Majesty his Majesty which came into the Kingdoms of Christendom from the use of it in the Roman Empire the word in it self denoting all kind of special Dignity and if as we should say in English A Greatness And to peruse our Statutes from Magna Charta to our own time the most usual expressions are Our Lord the King The King our Sovereign Lord Most Excellent Highness Royal Majesty Noble Grace Most Excellent Majesty Most Royal Majesty Dread Sovereign Lord Most Gracious Sovereign and as we use it now Most Excellent Majesty and Sacred Majesty which are but the same Attribute in other words and in their own nature so unalienable from Sovereignty that they can by no process of time be Prescrib'd against or usurp'd upon neither can it at all be call'd an Usurpation as if it were proper only to God unless we as well deny Wisdom Power Clemency or any other quality to be attributed to men because those also as all else which is great or good are Primarily in him And so I have done with the marks of Sovereignty as they are generally receiv'd and now if there wanted any thing to
again Hath shewed mercy to his Anointed To which if any man shall object that this was spoken of a good King a man after his own heart I answer That not only Josiah who also was a good King is called the Anointed of the Lord but Saul a King whom God is said to have given in his anger has this sacred Title attributed to him in eight places in the first Book of Samuel and in two other in the second And the same also we find God giving to Heathen Emperors Thus saith the Lord to his Anointed Cyrus to Cyrus whose hand I have holden to subdue Nations before him And ver 4. I have surnamed thee tho thou hast not known me Howbeit tho he knew not his Founder at first it is not long e're we find him acknowledging him Thus saith Cyrus the King All the Kingdoms of the Earth hath the Lord God of Heaven given me c. And he that gave the title of Anointed to Cyrus gave the stile of his Servant to Nebuchadnezzar who yet had sack'd Jerusalem and led the People thereof into captivity when he calls him Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon my Servant which also is but the same wherewith he so often favours Moses Joshua and David Neither is this truth that Kings derive their power from God less acknowledg'd by the Heathens than us Christians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kings are from Jupiter saith Hesiod and elsewere you find 'em stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 born of Jove and nourish'd by Jove whereby God is made their procreant cause as well as their conservant not as deriving their pedigree from Jupiter but their Kingly honor And what the Poet ascribes to Jupiter the Apostle gives to God For saith he as certain of your own Poets have said we are also his off-spring And what other does the Psalmist's calling them Gods import than that they receive their Authority from God whose place they supply and whose person they represent Many also of the most ancient Philosophers acknowledg the Regal Office to be a Divine good and the King as it were a God among men and that God had given him dominion as we have it at large in The Power communicated by God to the Prince and the Obedience required of the Subject written by the most Reverend the late Lord Primate of all Ireland In short the Psalmist is direct in this point Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands And therefore when S. Peter calls Government an Ordinance of man it is not that it was invented by men but as proper to them and ordained of God for the good and conservation of human kind and exercised by men about the government of human Society SECTION II. That Adam held it by Divine right Cain a Monarch By the Kingdoms of the most ancient Gentiles not God's but Monarchs were denoted That the original of Power came not from the People by way of Pact or Contract The unreasonableness and ill consequence of the contrary Noah and his Sons Kings A Family an exemplary Monarchy in which the Pater-familias had power of life and death by the right of Primogeniture Examples of the exercise of it in Judah Abraham Jephthah Brutus Vpon the increase of Families they still continued under one head Esau. The four grand Monarchies Ancients and Moderns universally receiv'd it as precedent to all other Governments THat God Almighty was the first King will not be deny'd and that Adam was the next appears by his Commission as I have shewn before a large Commission and of as large extent as having made him a mighty King and universal Monarch and given him an unqestionable right to his Kingdom which was all the inferior world the Earth the Sea and all that therein were insomuch that it might not improperly be said of this matter Jupiter in coelis terras regit unus Adamus Divisum imperium cum Jove Adamus habet And now as all things were created in order and that the infant world might not sit in darkness nor their posterity want a light to guide and direct them what wonder is it that for the preservation of that order God erected a Dominion himself and declar'd his Vicegerent Afterward when the world began to enlarge and men liv'd so long that they begat a numerous posterity Cain with his own Colony went into a strange Land and built a City and called the name thereof after his Sons name Enoch which double act carries the character of a Kingdom in it and that he was as well the King as Father of the Inhabitants neither do the ancientest Gentiles otherwise speak of those elder times than with a clear supposition of Monarchy Those Kingdoms of Saturn Jupiter Neptune Pluto and the like denoting as much and that under those names applied to distinct Kingdoms not Gods but the Monarchs of Land and Sea in the first times were understood And so Cicero Certum est omnes antiquas gentes regibus paruisse And with him agrees Justin Principio rerum gentiumque imperium penes Reges erat But not a word all this while do we hear of the People or that the original of Government came from them by way of pact or contract for if the power of Adam upon his Children and his Posterity and so all mankind whatever depended not on any consent of his Sons or Posterity but wholly proceeded from God and nature then certainly the Authority of Kings is both natural and immediately Divine and not of any consent or allowance of man and consequently the people had no more right to chuse their Kings than to chuse their Fathers Besides to examin it a little farther if this power of paction or contract had been in the people then it must lie in all the people as an equal common right or in some particular part if in all of them they would do well to shew how they came by it or if in any more peculiar part by what Authority were the rest excluded it being a Maxim in Law Quod nostrum est sine facto vel defectu nostro amitti vel in alium transferri non potest Whatever is mine cannot be lost or transferr'd unto another without my own act or defect Nor would it be less enquir'd who were the persons suppos'd to have made the contract or whether all without difference of Sex Age or Condition were admitted to drive the bargain and if so Wives and Children were not sui juris and consequently could not conclude others nor themselves for any longer time than during the disability Which once remov'd they were free again Or if all were admitted whether it were with an equal right to every one or with some inequality was the Servants interest if yet such a thing could be among equals equal with the Masters and if not who made the inequality or if
And in another of the same Kings it is called The most Royal Estate of your Imperial Crown of this Realm and the same word Imperial made use of ten other times in the same Statute to the same purpose And with this agrees the Statute of Ireland where in express words also the Kings of England are entituled Kings and Emperors of the Realm of England and of the Land of Ireland and that too five years before the Title of Lord of Ireland was altered into King And by the Act that so alter'd it it is called The Majesty and State of a King Imperial And so in the first of Qu. Eliz. English in which the Oath of Supremacy was enacted the Crown of this Realm is three times called Imperial And in the third Chapter of the same year as often And in the 5th of the same Queen that requires all Ecclesiasticks Graduates in any University or Common-Laws Officers of Court Attorneys every Member of Parliament under the degree of a Baron to take the said Oath of Supremacy before he enter the House or such Election to be deemed void calls it The Dignity of the Imperial Crown And the Act of Recognition of King James uses the same expression of Imperial four times And upon a like ground of mere Supremacy was that Act of Scotland before the Union of the Crowns wherein 't is said Our Sovereign Lord his full Jurisdiction and free Empire within this Realm Scotland And the late Oath or Test prescribed to be taken by all persons in Publick Trust in that Kingdom declares the Kings Majesty the only Supreme Governor of that Realm over all persons as well Ecclesiastical as Civil And the Act of acknowledging and asserting the right of Succession in that Kingdom calls it the Imperial Crown of Scotland In all which matters I have been the more particular that I might the better evince my Reader that this Independent Sovereignty and Supremacy of the Kings of England c. has not been the opinion of any one time but the general consent of all and that our Kings hold their Crowns in chief from God and owe no precarious acknowledgments to the courtesie of the People Nor is the Kings Immediate Personal Originary Inherent Power which he executes or may execute Authoritate Regiâ Supremâ Ecclesiastica as King and Sovereign Governor of the Church of England to be less consider'd it being one of those flowers which make up his Crown and preserve it in verdure And here I question not but it will be granted that the King is the Supreme Patron of all the Arch-Bishopricks and Bishopricks of England as being all founded by the Kings of England to hold Christi Baroniam excepting that of Soder in the Isle of Man which was instituted by Pope Gregory the Fourth and may perhaps be the reason why the Bishop thereof hath neither Place nor Voice in the Parliament of England and so were at first donative Per traditionem annuli baculi Pastoralis by the delivery of a Ring and the Pastoral Staff or Crosier And the Bishop of Rome persuading Henry the First to make them Elective by their Chapters refused it But King John by his Charter recognising the Custom and Right of the Crown in former times by the common consent of his Barons granted that they should be eligible as least doubting he had so far lockt up himself as that he might not be receiv'd to disapprove or allow for before that I find That when he had given a Conge d' eslier to the Monks of Canterbury to Elect an Arch-Bishop and Pope Innocent the Third notwithstanding the Kings desires of promoting the Bishop of Norwich to it whom also they had Elected had under a Curse commanded them to choose Stephen Langton with which for fear of Excommunicacation they comply'd the King banishes the Monks as Traytors and writes to the Pope that he had subverted the Liberties of his Crown by which it appears that he lookt upon himself as the Supreme Governor of the Church of England and that no Arch-Bishop or Bishop could be put upon him without his consent and what advantage the Kingdom got by this Usurpation may be gather'd from the effects when after a more than six years Jurisdiction the King Depos'd and a free Crown put in Vassalage it only open'd a way to those future Broils between him and his Barons which lasted all his time and wanted no fuel to feed 'em till towards the latter end of his Son men began to stand at gaze and as infatuated or startled at they knew not what thought it more safety to look on than lend a hand to master it nor had they fully resolv'd what to do until the Pope having demanded Homage of Edw. 3. and the Arrears of one thousand Marks per ann for the Kingdoms of England and Ireland which had been also demanded in the 3 of Edw. 1. and in case of non-performance threatned to make out Process against the King and Kingdom then at last the scales fell from their eyes and as men got out of a dream they began to consider what they had startled at and as an argument of their recovered Senses the Lords Spiritual by themselves the Lords Temporal by themselves and the Commons by themselves unanimously resolv'd and declar'd That the King could not put Himself his Realm or his People in subjection without their Assent and albeit it might it is as saith Sir Edw. Coke Contra Legem consuetudinem Parliamenti contrary to the order and custom of Parliament because it is a disherison of the King and his Crown after which to avoid all further dispute the manner and order of Election of Arch-Bishops and Bishops and all things relating thereunto is setled by Statute viz. 1. Negatively That no one thereafter be Presented Nominated or Commended to the Sea of Rome for the Dignity or Office of any Arch-Bishop or Bishop within this Realm or any other the Kings Dominions 2 Affirmatively That at every avoidance of any Arch-Bishoprick or Bishoprick as before the King our Sovereign Lord his Heirs and Successors may grant to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Churches where the Sea of such Arch-bishoprick or Bishoprick shall happen to be void a License under the Great Seal as of old time hath been accustomed to proceed to Election of an Arch-Bishop or Bishop of the Sea so being void with a Letter missive containing the name of the person which they shall Elect or Choose by virtue of which they elect the said person c. or in case of refusal incur the Penalties of a Premunire So that upon the whole the Election in effect is but a matter of form it is the Kings meer Grant which placeth and the Bishops Consecration which maketh a Bishop Neither do the Kings of this Land use herein any other than such
The same Game playing over again Prognostications c. The ill consequence of such Impressions The examples of Cade Tyler and others Holy League in France Solemn League and Covenant at home c. New Trains to the old Fuel Our Saviours advice to his Disciples touching the leven of the Pharisees What that and they were made applicable unto our selves 210 Sect. X. A Close from the whole by way of Enquiry Whether an Exclusion of his Royal Highness the Duke of York may be of more advantage or disadvantage The advantage propos'd and whether an Act for security of Religion may not be as safe as a Bill of Exclusion The moral impossibility of introducing the Romish Religion tho the Prince were of that Persuasion The reason why the Kingdom follow'd the Reformation under Edw. VI. Qu. Mary Qu. Elizabeth That the case cannot be the same at this day The Crown of England an ancient Entail with the danger of Innovations Objection That such things have been done So has a King been murder'd More particularly answered in Edw. IV. Qu. Mary and Qu. Eliz. all three excluded by Parliament yet came to the Crown No man changes but in hopes of better The advantages of continuing as we are It is a bar to Pretenders The same as to Competitors Disorders avoided No new Family to be provivided for The indignity of a Repulse avoided Suppose Scotland and Ireland be of another Opinion the former of which has by Parliament asserted the Right of Succession of that Crown notwithstanding any Religion c. Lastly all occasions of Jealousie taken away Objection answer'd Disadvantages that have attended the laying by the Right Heir Examples from old Rome and Vsurpations at home The Revolt from Rehoboam our loss of France With a conclusion from the whole More particularly as it relates to his Royal Highness 236 A DISCOURSE OF MONARCHY c. SECTION I. That Monarchy or the Supreme Dominion of one person was primarily intended by God when he created the World That it is founded in nature As consonant to the Divine Government And of Divine Institution Acknowledg'd by Heathens as well as Christians GOvernment is of that absolute necessity if not to the being at least to the well-being of every thing that without it nec domus ulla nec civitas c. nor House nor City nor Nation nor Mankind nor Nature nor the world it self could consist inasmuch as the stronger would devour the weaker and the whole run back again to its first Chaos and therefore the eternal Wisdom when he had created the world and stockt it with living Creatures according to their kinds as if he had done nothing while there yet wanted something more excellent to govern it made man Sanctius his animal mentisque capacius altae Deerat adhuc qui dominari in caetera possit Natus homo est A creature not only capable of it and that he might the better go thro with it furnish'd out accordingly Cognati retinebat semina coeli but primarily design'd to it and however last in act yet first in projection for says the Text Let us make man c. And God created man after his own likeness c. and blessed them and said Increase and multiply c. and have dominion c. and over every thing that moveth upon the earth by which what other can there be rationally understood but the supreme Sovereignty or Dominion of one for if God Almighty had intended otherwise how easie had it been when he created our first Parents to have form'd a multitude and given them a joynt Commission to have govern'd one another or at least bade 'em gone together and agree among themselves but he foresaw it would not be and therefore to avoid confusion the inseparable companion of a multitude created but one and erected an exemplary Monarchy in him Neither will this less appear if we consider that the very laws of nature lead us to a Monarchy Natura commenta est regem saith Seneca de Clem. As among all irrational creatures who having least of reason are wholly govern'd by sense we find some one that has a preheminence above the rest of its kind And thus Birds have their Eagle Beasts their Lion and among them also every Flock its vir gregis the Fish of the Sea their Leviathan a King over the children of Pride for so Job calls him and the shout of a King may be found among Bees Rege incolumi mens omnibus una est Amisso rupere fidem Nor is it more founded in nature than consonant to the Divine government of God and a lively image and representation of him who as sole Monarch ruleth and guideth all things Look up to Heaven and we find an Hierarchy among Angels and one Star differ from another in glory yet every of them paying this homage to the Suns sovereignty that they veil their faces at his least appearance Take back again to Earth and this little world of man has but one Body and all the members of this body but one head whereon depends the will motion and sense and the greater world but one God He ruleth over the Angels than whom he made Man only inferior they over Men Men over Beasts the Soul over the Body Man again over Woman and Reason above Affection by which means every good commanding over what is less good by a certain combination of Powers all things are kept in their order whereas were there a duplex Principium of equal power as the Ancients fabled the commands must be contrary and consequently thereby either ruine one another or at least by their continual jarring disturb the harmony of the whole and therefore it is observable that albeit God who comprehended the whole system at once and unblotted nature thro all her Meanders and to every days work but that of the second said And behold it was good yet until he had put to his last finishing hand i. e. made man and giv'n him his Commission of having dominion It is not said And God saw all that he had made and they were very good and by that Divine Commission have Kings ever since reign'd there being no power but what is appointed of God who according to the similitude of his heavenly Kingdom hath given unto them the Scepters of their earthly Principalities Nor need we go far for examples we find it every where for such was Abraham taken and acknowledged by the Inhabitants when they call'd him Principem Dei and albeit Heaven be the Throne of God yet we meet with another of his on this Earth his Foot-stool for so we find it express'd Solomon sate on the Throne of the Lord as King And in like manner the Queen of Sheba God set thee on his Throne to be King for the Lord thy God As also David is called his King and his Anointed He giveth strength to his King c. and
of the said Interdict and thereby also promises them a re-payment with thanks so that He only borrows Mony of them on that particular occasion but does not in the least hint or direct them to send their Proxies or Representatives to any Great Council to be then call'd as we have it and the History of that time more at large in the said Answer to Mr. Petit. And now having offer'd thus far to this matter I shall go on with the reason of those times which I take to be thus William the Conqueror having subdu'd England began now to consider the way of securing it and to that purpose as it is in the Proverb cut large thongs out of other mens hides and as a reward of the Service done him granted a certain compass or circuit of Land unto such of his Chief men as had assisted him in the acquisition to them and their Heirs to dwell on and exercise such Jurisdiction therein as he thought good to grant performing also such Services and paying him such yearly Rent as the Grant required they again parcell'd this Land to such other meaner men as had follow'd them in the Expedition under such Services and Rents as they thought fit and by this means as those Great men became Tenants to the King in Chief so the Inferiors became Tenants to them who as Superiors exercised a kind of little Kingship over them The King and his Successors being Supreme Lords of the whole and imposing from time to time such Laws as by the advice and assent of those his Barons were thought expedient and unto which Consentire inferior quisque vis us est in persona Domini sui capitalis prout hodie per Procuratores Comitatus vel Burgi quos in Parliamentis Knights and Burgesses appellamus to which every inferior saith he was presum'd to consent in the person of his Chief Lord from whom he held as at this day by the Representatives of Counties and Burroughs in Parliament whom we call Knights and Burgesses and certainly there is no doubt to be made but that if there had been any such privilege of ancient time belonging to the People that the Historians of those times would not have pass'd so material a thing in silence especially considering how many of lesser account are every where found among them Polidor Virgil would have the Commons to have been brought into those great Councils in the 16th of Henry I. Sir Walter Raleigh about the 18th of that King but Sir Henry Spelman will not allow it his words are these Sine ut sodes dicam collegisse me centenas reor conciliorum edictiones tenoresque ipsos plurimorum ab ingressu Guilielmi 1. ad excessum Hen. 3. existentium nec in tanta multitudine de plebe uspiam reperisse aliquid nil in his delituerit Give me leave saith he to speak frankly I believe I have collected an hundred Acts of Councils and the forms of most from the coming in of William the First to the going off of Henry the Third nor in so great a number have I any where found any thing of the Commonalty nothing of it lies in them And yet it may be probable that Henry the Third toward the end of his long but troublesome Reign brought them in to counterpoise the Factions of his seditious Barons for tho at the making of the Statutes of Merton there is not the least mention of the Commons yet in those at Marleborough they are thus named The more discreet men of the Realm being called together as well of the higher as of the lower Estate And in the Title of the Statute of Westminster the first made in the third of Edw. 1. who as he was first of his name after the Conquest so he was the first that setled the Law and State and freed this Kingdom from the Wardship of the Peers it is thus said These be the Acts of King Edward Son to King Henry made at Westminster at his first Parliament c. by his Council and by the Assent of Arch-Bishops Bishops Abbots Priors Earls Barons and all the Commonalty of the Realm being thither Summoned c. And so that word Parliament which as Sir Henry Spelman says in King John's time nondum emicuit was not yet got up other than by the name of Commune Concilium Regni The Common-Council of the Kingdom came in use as it is now taken and the Commons as they are at this day an essential and constituent part of the same and a third Estate 6. That the Lords Temporal are one Estate of the Realm was never doubted Mr. Selden begins his Privilege of Baronage with it and when the Commons came in to be another I question not but I have fully prov'd and if now I shall make it appear that the Lords Spiritual are one other Estate of the Realm distinct and separate from the Lords Temporal I hope I shall have gain'd my point and that the King is not one of the Three Estates In order to which 1. The Lords Spiritual sit in Parliament by a different Right from the Lords Temporal viz. by Succession in respect of their Counties or Baronies parcel of their Bishopricks and the others by reason of their Dignities which they hold by Descent or Creation 2. They sit in Parliament in a different Robe and on a different side of the House from the Lords Temporal and are commanded thither by a different form in the Writ viz. In fide dilectione c. And the Lords Temporal In fide ligeancia c. 3. They have a Convocation by themselves consisting of an Upper House viz. Arch-Bishops and Bishops and a Lower House viz. the Procuratores Cleri called together by the Kings Writ and have the same Privilege for themselves their Servants and Familiars as other Members of Parliament and grant their Subsidies apart and distinct from the Lay Nobles as may be seen by the respective Acts by which they have been granted as also ratifi'd and confirmed 4. The general stile of all Acts of Parliament hath been such that sometimes the Ecclesiastical Lords are respectively named as Arch-bishops Bishops Abbots Priors as well as the Temporal Lords and sometimes by the inclusive name of the Prelates and so to the 10th of Richard 2. where it is said By the Assent of the Lords and Commons under which general words of the Lords they seem at first to be included as if they were but one Estate with them were it not in the 13th of the said King again said Of the Assent of the Prelates and Lords Temporal and Commons And in another of the 20th By the Assent of the Prelates Lords and Commons and in the 14.15.16 and 17. of the same King By the Assent of his Parliament and the Parliament and none of them named apart from which time till the 4th of Henry 4. the word Prelates was again continued
a King like a Chinese god might be whipt into a compliance or if that will not do thrown in the fire and another set up in his room during the same pleasure or better behaviour In a word I spake erewhile of flight and supplications but they that are too stiff for the one will rarely bend to the other unless when they can do no more they appeal from the King to Alexander from himself unto himself as presuming that private Spirit which knows not how to deny will yet so prevail on his publick capacity that he will remit any thing SECTION IX The Arts of the late times in working the People from this Obedience It was to be done piece-meal The Kings Necessities answered with Complaints Plots discovered Fears and Jealousies promoted Religion cants its part Leading men some to make it Law others Gospel The examples of Corah c. The same Game playing over again Prognostications c. The ill consequence of such Impressions The examples of Cade Tyler and others Holy League in France Solemn League and Covenant at home c. New Trains to the old Fuel Our Saviours advice to his Disciples touching the leven of the Pharisees What that and they were made applicable unto our selves I Have brought it thus far that Princes are to be obey'd and yet ere I close the Argument it will not be from the purpose if we examin how the People were wrought from it in the late times and of what ill consequence the like impressions may be at present Wise men are safe they have wit enough to keep within themselves but 't is the Mobile vulgus the Ignota Capita Sine nomine turba that only fall within my discourse And truly considering this Kingdom in its self Potens armis atque ubere glebae A Land so considerable abroad and fruitful at home That Virtue and Fortune which according to Florus seem'd to have contested about the raising of the Roman Empire might have been truly said to have concenter'd here And withal considering the evils we have past and the happy days we might enjoy if we pleas'd our selves it would confound Astrologers to observe such Planets such masculine Planets Ascending in Conjunction in the Houses of their Exaltation and yet the Kingdom Planet-struck Pudet haec opprobria dici Et dici potuisse non potuisse refelli To examin it a little further and the rather for this that by viewing the Cards by which the last Game was play'd we need not be once more cheated unless we please our selves That the People were so beset is agreed of all hands Whither do Rheumes and Humors resort but to the weakest parts yet this was not to be done all at once no they were first to be prepar'd and then so dispos'd that they saw nothing but sub imagine lusca by a dull false light To have askt the People about sixty years since if they would have taken Arms against their Prince That Prince whose Ancestor had given them so much they could not readily tell what to ask more no doubt but they had startled at the question and answer'd as Hazael to Elisha Is thy servant a dead dog he should do this thing No that was a gobbet too large for their throats but given bit by bit there was no danger of the swallow were it never so raw Seldom appears the Devil so ugly as the Painters make him that were enough to convince an Atheist but when he offers himself as an Angel of Light who would suffer him to shake off the dust of his feet on them And here Religion was a main instrument but it must stay its time no man serves up the last course till the first and second are over the King was to be first reduc'd to necessity to the end that being forc'd to extraordinary means for supply he might attract an odium nor must he be supply'd but from hand to mouth however what he might want in that he had it otherways press'd down and running over complaints of Grievances Treasure mis-spent Necessities contracted by mis-providence Remonstrances against Favourites not forgetting the Old Ingredients of Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government and if this was not the Art of that time my Author has done them wrong and that he is seldom guilty of By this time the People were shod with the Preparation of the Work and now the French are ready to land and the old Vault smells rank of Powder again The Kingdom must be put into a posture of Defence and the Militia into Confiding hands Fears and Jealousies promoted Bishops and Popish Lords Excluded the Well-affected Counties Associated Monies raised themselves Perpetuated Publick-Faith set up the Excise slurr'd on the People for repaying it and the holy Covenant to pin the Basket And one would think they had laid in well enough and yet besides the 11 Millions which the Plate Rings Bodkins c. within London Essex and Middlesex besides other Counties amounted to it is publickly declar'd That if any Papists would bring in any considerable Sums upon the Propositions they should be received albeit they tax'd his Majesty for raising an Army by the help of Papists as their Disciples some years afterward hired Owen Roe O Neal to raise the Siege at London-Derry in Ireland then Beleaguer'd by his Majesties Forces not without suspicion that they over-paid him his Wages in a Parting Glass And now 't is time that Religion Trump up and justifie all they had already laid or were to act for the future A painful Gospel-Ministry must act its part and S. Ant'lins Lectures lead the way to the Artillery-yard in order to which they beat down morality that having swept the house of one Tenant it might be the readier for another Ye must not said they plant Gospel-Truths on legal Foundations or the rotten Crab-stocks of carnal Principles who ever found fault with Fresh Herrings and shall we despise Truth because 't is a novelty 't is a sign men have a mind to sleep when they draw their Curtains and will have no more light come in whereas it is your work to enquire after further light To call out what of the night How much of the night of Popery and darkness remains How near are we to the taking the possession and how long may we be kept off ere the Scepter of the Kingdom be advanced And is not this fine stuff And yet the Pulpit-Drums of that time beat no other March And all this by Scripture too nor as to themselves without reason Don't we give Children Hony and Raisins with their Worm-seed and gâ—ld Pills for men of riper years Did ever Dog swallow a Cork without Butter or even a Fool Angle without hiding his Hook in a Bait No no the Needle must be first in and the Thred follows of course Absalom had never gotten the People to him had he not mask'd his Rebellion under a Vow at