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nation_n	english_a	king_n	scot_n	1,287	5	9.2947	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89603	A corrector of the ansvverer to the speech out of doores. Iustifying the vvorthy speech of Master Thomas Chaloner a faithfull Member of the Parlement of England.	Marten, Henry, 1602-1680.	1646 (1646)	Wing M818; Thomason E364_9; ESTC R201240	7,462	16

end in this His case that hath so generall an influence upon all Nations they shall certainly perish Shall a poore indigent wretched inconsiderate man suffer death forfeit the wel-being of his posterity for a particular offence against a particular Law and shall He and His escape scot-free that for sixteene yeares without intermission brake the Law turned the government up-side downe Null'd Parlements and when craft and cruelty would not suffice rais'd a most unnaturall Warre against this Parliament intermixing the most devillish plots that ever were to destroy both Parlement and City murthering and destroying the most Religious and peaceable People in all places and never by all intreaties Treatyes Covenants and indulgence in all these could be drawne to give over his violent and inhumane courses till necessity enforc'd and then by a most unparaleld contrivance to intangle this Nation more then ever What can the true servants of the most just God say unto such a Person but as thy sword hath made so many thousand thousands of women childlesse so shal thy Mother be childlesse amongst women That our records might instruct posterity with such a memento as this and Samuel hewed Agag in peeces before the Lord in Gilgal Your toy's of evill Councell and the King can doe no wrong would not serve Agags turne nor Adonibezeck nor the five Kings that Joshua hung up who all might have pleaded evill Councell and the like but before just Judges such things are vanities for they know God will not so be mocked And if both Nations doe justly thus they ought to dispose of this Kings Person and then there is an end of this controversy That our English Parlement inclines to such a disposition appeares by voting of his Person to Warwick Castle but the Scots agree not to this vote but fal to an evident Treaty on His behalfe and not only for his immunity which with what conscience they can doe their death-beads will tell them and the blood of the slaine but for a necessity of restoring Him to his greatnesse and honour to justifie which their doings their and our Covenant with the most just God is by them insisted on to compell us to the same injustice if this be not the highest mockery that ever was offered unto God what is Yet this is that you glory to maintaine in them accounting of all the miseries of this Nation but as a hunting match or horse-race But you and they and their King whom they now ●●alke with all will one day find that wilfull murthers must have another reckning maugre all King craft Clergy-craft and Court-craft in the world But if it were agreed they had a joynt and equall interest in the Person of the King and that they should differ about disposing of him the Parliament of England justly resolving to punish him and the Parliament of Scotland resolving to restore him to his honour and Authority admit the Parliament of England should understand that they were no waies bound to preserve his Person further then they found his Person in the defence of the true Protestant Religion the liberties of the People and privilige of Parliament as the Covenant doth manifestly imply and could be justly taken in no other sense but if they found him in the opposition of all those and in the violent prosecution of all kind of tyrany oppression and cruelty are they not plainly bound by the same Covenant to bring him to condigne punishment as the chiefe of all delinquents can the death of Straford Canterbury or any of the rest be justified if he escape that set them on worke and hath infinitly transcended them in Treasons against the Common-wealth If the Parliament of Scotland should persist in their interpretation of the Covenant that they understood the preservation of the Kings Person His Authority and power to be alwaies consistent with the preservation of Religion and the liberties of the People it will appeare an inforced construction because sinfull did you lift up your hand to the most-high God to bring delinquents to condigne punishmē can you keep your Covenāt if he escape scot-free who in point of all this blood cruelty was aminenter causa sine qua non it could not be just to defend His Person in the opposition and destruction of true Religion and the liberties of the People but to destroy Him as any other nay as the King and the chiefe Captaine of the destroyers and this the People takle of freely one with other and the contrary being but the fruit of art and sophistry serveth to no other purpose but to exasperate them against whosoever useth those delusions abhominating that the lives of so many precious men and the ruine of so many honest families should be set at so cheap a rate the manifold sorrowes of their hearts and their being often deceived hath opened their understandings that they now see plainly through all those foldings and doublings 〈◊〉 they are but hated that use them But to the point admit the two Parliaments should thus differ what then becomes of your much laboured syllogisme You see the dispute is begun already Sir can you resolve who shall be judge of this controvercy if you can propose none as certainly you cannot what then must Scotl●nds resolution be a Law too England Your face indeed looks some what that way and so doe the Scotch-pepers too but why so● if the negative voice so much pleaded for by the friends of prerogative shall now be re-assum'd by the Scots in this dispute it will render the Parliament more incapable of preserving the Kingdome now then ever and while you pretend to avoid perjury you would enforce the Parliament upon an inevitable slavery If England and Scotland be truly measured England is by far the greater and much more populous and in all societies the Major part is conclusive or they can never come to any determination and then Englands resolution in this cause ought rather to conclude Scotland if Scotland thinkes this not reasonable what then must there be a strife about the Person why then strove they not who shall be most forward to bring him to justice a fiat justitiam ruan● coeli Why is there such a coyle about his honour and power that hath sought the ruine of all Sir what say you to that saying in the speech page the 13 the King haveing put himselfe frely into their hands they cannot with honour deliver him well let them warme the Snake as long as England did and they may hap to be yet as wel requited but what man that hath the use of reason beleeves the King cast himselfe freely upon them but upon preassurance of protection therefore talke not any longer of honour it is but a meere trick and it is discovered to their shame 't is not denied but they may have great use of him in many respects to make advantages upon this Nation but they are unjust and will never prosper