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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84002	Englands sole remedy: or, A vvholsome directory, for the recory [sic] of our languishing kingdome: drawn from the law of God, and the land. Containing some necessary and pertinent queries, with their resolutions, by Scriptures, law, and reason: very fit and convenient to be thought upon by all Englishmen, for the begetting of a sure, safe, and well-grounded peace. Collected and intended for the good of all. By a lover of peace and truth.	Lover of peace and truth.	1648 (1648)	Wing E3053; Thomason E453_7; ESTC R201935	9,161	16

ENGLANDS Sole Remedy OR A VVholsome Directory for the recory of our languishing Kingdome Drawn from the Law of God and the Land CONTAINING Some necessary and pertinent Queries with their Resolutions by Scriptures Law and Reason very fit and convenient to be thought upon by all Englishmen for the begetting of a sure safe and well-grounded Peace Collected and intended for the good of all By a Lover of Peace and Truth Printed in the Yeere 1648. To all English Subjects REader whoever thou art Peace is that we all cry out for and that we all seek after but few there are which in a right way endeavour thereafter wherefore in this juncture of time to help forward so good and blessed a worke it may be very seasonably advantagious for all English Subjects seriously to consider of some Queries and their Resolutions concerning the Politicall frame and constitution of this our Kingdome which being well and conscientiously thought upon and digested into act doubtlesly would beget a sure sound and well grounded peace which out of a reall and sincere affection and indeavour thereafter I have composed and contrived as followeth wherein thou shalt finde me Thine in Christ Jesus Christianus Philopater Englands sole Remedy Quaerie 1. Monarchicall that is government 〈◊〉 one which is a King Aristocraticall that is government by a few of the best Nobles Origarchicall that is government by a few of the most wealthy and powerfull VVHether the government of this Kingdome which hath ever been Monarchicall since His Majesties departure from the two Houses hath been Aristocraticall or Oligarchicall Resol In the resolving of this Quaerie it is observable that the matter doubted is the ordering and mannagement of the affairs of this Kingdome by the two Houses at Westminster within a certain time which is from His Majesties departure from them unto this present wherein the shaken and tottered condition of our distressed Nation hath wrested out a straine very improper thereby seeming to take it for granted that the exercise of the two Houses over this Kingdome since His Graces departure from them hath beene a government which will not beare water for these reasons Reasons why the usurpation of the 〈…〉 cannot 〈…〉 be a Government 1 No Common-wealth may be said to be governed but by lawfull Authority which lawfull Authority where there are established Lawes and Sanctions doe uphold and maintaine the rule and power of that Government which the Laws and Sanctions of this Kingdom do not uphold and maintain in the two Houses wherefore must it needs be most certaine that they have no authority for their over-swaying of this Kingdome since his Majesties departure 2 In this Kingdome where there are established Lowes and Sanction that cannot be said to be government but what is in conformity and obedience unto the said established Lawes and Sanctions therefore their managing of the affaires of this Kingdome contrary and in opposition unto the Lawes of our Nation by an arbitrary and tyrannicall power must needs conclude their usurpation to be no Government 3. Because the end of Government is the good and perfect state of the Common-wealth which cannot be kept but by an union of the whole whereas they have made the greatest disunion that can be imagined by disjoynting and rending this Kingdome in neglecting the Lawes thereof and begetting severall factions divisions and parties therein wherefore their undertaking the rule and command of this Realme is an absolute usurpation and no Government which phrase in this Quaerie is to be understood as they pretend themselves to be Governours and others doe confesse themselves to be governed by them which taken in their owne sense cannot be said to be Government Monarchicall which is the state and constitution of this Kingdome seeing they have ever since acted not onely besides but against his Majesty contrary unto both the Law of God and the Land therefore if their usurpation must be accounted for a Government it must either be Aristocraticall or Oligarchicall whereof it cannot be the former that is Dominium Optimatum Government by the best Nobles for this hath been in that sense Regimen Communium the government of Commons by a few or a party of the lower House of Commons therefore must it needs be Oligarchicall because it is an usurpation of a few of the said House who contrary to Law have exploded the gravest wisest best learned and most conscientious men from amongst them not suffering them to performe that trust which their Countrey had committed to them wherefore the Resolution of this first Quaerie must be thus that since His Majesties departure from the two Houses this Kingdome hath been tyrannized over by an Oligarchy Quaere 2. Whether or no it may be accounted a sinne against the Word of God in the most moderate Subjects of England to believe the constituted Government thereof to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e Rignum Regale when a people are governed by a King according to the Law of the Land 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is where a King reigns so absolute that his word is a Law Resol This Quaerie sets the people of England in three ranks whereof two are in extremes and one in a meane the one extreme are they who would attribute all that power and authority which is attributed and given unto a King in the Word of God unto the King of England and so make him the most absolute King in the highest degree the other extreme are the Sectaries who will not put any difference betwixt a King and other inferiour Magistrates which is directly against the Word of God and the Law of the Land but the best are the middle and moderate men who hold our Kingdome to be ruled by a King according to Law concerning whom this scruple is raised whether or no they sin against the Word of God in so holding To which it is answered the King of England in himselfe being as absolute as any in the world it must needs be most certaine that at first he had all that absolute power and then to have holden this had been a sin against the Word of God but as the King of England hath freely of his owne accord by the great Charter of England made the same 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is a Kingdome wherein the King is to rule according to Law and thus to hold cannot be a sinne against the Word of God because holding otherwise we hold contrary to the Kings Law which is a sin against the Word of God besides the King of England having made this perpetuall pact and agreement with his people this therein is most certain that volenti non fit injuria Therefore it can be no sin against the Word of God in the most moderate Subjects of England to believe the constituted Government thereof to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quaerie