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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45195	The honours of the Lords spiritual asserted, and their priviledges to vote in capital cases in Parliament maintained by reason and precedents collected out of the records of the Tower, and the journals of the House of Lords.	Hunt, Thomas, 1627?-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing H3755; ESTC R24392	40,120	57

THE HONOURS OF THE Lords Spiritual Asserted And THEIR PRIVILEDGES To VOTE in CAPITAL CASES IN PARLIAMENT Maintained by Reason and Precedents Collected out of the RECORDS of the TOWER And the Journals of the HOUSE of LORDS Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee Peace be within thy Walls and prosperity within thy Palaces Psal 122. ver 6 7. LONDON Printed by Tho. Braddyll and are to be Sold by Robert Clavel at the Peacock in St. Pauls Church-yard 1679. TO THE READER T IS not unknown to any in our English Israel that there are yet here amongst us some Remainders of the Men of 42. and that the Disease it self sticks as close to Them and particularly to some eminent Parts of the Nation where they skul and for the present where they make their Refuge for in the Countries they are more easily discovered as the Leprosie did under the Law to the very Walls of the House and it seems to be as hardly removed as that Levitical Distemper which some Naturalists and Physitians say cannot be done but only by Blood and that is the thing which their fingers itch to be at again Witness their late Rebellious Commotions in Scotland which had they taken effect there would not have been wanting these who would have justified them Nay I speak what I know and have heard did excuse them as a poor People Opprest and You know Oppression makes a Wise man Mad especially at this time of the year the Season being a little Hot. I must confess I am no stranger to the Men or their ways having been for many Years last past a strict Observer of them though I thank God I have always and do still from my Heart Abhor and Detest any Confarreation with them or any the least Approbation of their Actings or Principles for I have discovered so much of ill Nature Censoriousness Covetuousness Self-seeking and want of Charity in this sort of Men that it did always give me a great suspition that their Cause was Evil especially reflecting upon the Means which they made use of to carry on their pretended Reformation viz. The throwing down of Episcopacy a Government of Gods Church as Antient in this Nation as Christianity it self the takeing away and Abolishing the best of Liturgies either Ancient or Modern a justified taking up of Arms against their Native Soveraign the Lords Annointed to whom and to whose Ancestors they and their Fore-fathers had Sworn Allegiance the Plundering and Devesting of the Kings most faithfull Subjects of their Goods Estates and for their dutiful adherence to the best of Kings who ever raign'd in this our Isle And lastly the embrewing their Violent Rebellious and Wicked hands in His most Sacred Blood a course which the Moral Heathen would Blash to take to save his Country ready to be Lost and Ruined and yet these men in a Bad Cause to pretend Conscience and Religion which hereto fore Conquered the Heathen World not by resisting though they were able and wanted not Numbers to do it but by their Sufferings for these Men I say to pretend Conscience and Religion Clament Melicerta Perisse Frontem de rebus These are the Men I Confess against whom the following Discourse is aim'd For I very well know that it lies not in the Power or Wit of these though they gladly would and do flatter themselves perhaps in this their Folly that they may be able to Cajole any Persons of Loyal Hearts or Principles to take part with or appear against the Bishops in the present Controversie No Gentlemen believe it you smell too strong and you are too well known and I can never believe the contrary till I see you perswade them to carry in once more their Plate to Guild-Hall for the Carrying on Your Vnholy Cause or to shut up their Shops as you know who did heretofore and go with you to Releive Glocester Atqui parvas spes habet Troja si tales habet And so I Refer the Reader to the Perusal of the Book THE HONOURS AND RIGHTS OF THE CLERGY ASSERTED And PRIVILEDGES of the BISHOPS To VOTE in Capital CASES in Parliament VINDICATED c. CHAP. I. The Honour of the Priesthood asserted by the Law of Nature and Levitical Law the Immumunities thereof under Primitive Christianity The returns of Gratitude to God for the Blessings and Labours of the Ministers thereof in the Reformation of the Church in the last and present Age wherein we Live together with some close Reflections thereupon REligion a thing so Excellent that to be careless in it or neglectful of it is accounted a great disreputation and shame to any Party or Person hath ever had since there were Professors of it and that is so long as there have been men in the World a select number of Persons who have been the Ministers of it These men dureing the first times and the Administration of the Law of Nature were the First Born and they both Princes and Priests too so that the Administration of Justice and the Performance of Religious Worship we find then to have been linked together in one and the same Person Adam Seth Enoch and Noah and other the Antediluvian Patriarchs were in their Order and Succession both Kings and Priests also as any person may be satisfied if he will peruse those Writers of the Jewish Antiquities Philo and Josephus Afterwards when the Law was given by positive Precepts to the Sons of men one of the Twelve Tribes viz. that of Levi had the Priesthood annexed to it together with other great Immunities Honours and Priviledges and in the division of the Land of Canaan if Mr. Seldens Authority may sway any Rev. Hist Tithes c. 2. they of Levi had near three times the Annual Revenue of the largest among them they had their Places and Voices in their Sanhedrims and Councils yea and Cognizance of Capital Causes also as we may find largely proved by the Learned Spelman in his History of Sacriledge What sense the very Heathens themselves had of the Honours of their Priesthood it would be very tedious to relate The Priesthood was not esteemed any shame to him that bore the Scepter and wore the Crown In Egypt as Sr. John Marsham in his Cronic Canon well observes those Ancient Kings after the Flood Thoth or Mercurius Tosorthrus or Aesculapius Suphis the Builder of the greatest of the Pyramids were Kings and Divines too See him at large c. ad Sec. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nay in the first Ages of the World the Legislative and Executive Power went along with the Priesthood Melchizedeck Abraham and Jacob after the Flood as well as the Antediluvian Patriarchs were as well Executors as makers of Laws Let us peruse the Holy Records and we find David a King and a Prophet his Son Solomon the wisest of mortal men stileing himself by the name of the Preacher and valuing himself more upon that name then upon the score of his