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A78542	Legislative povver in problemes [sic], published for the information of all those who have continually adhered to the good cause: and for the reformation of those who had embraced the bad cause. By Peter Chamberlin Docter in Physick.	Chamberlen, Peter, 1601-1683.	1659 (1659)	Wing C1896; Thomason E1079_1; ESTC R207818	8,902	9

Legislative Povver IN PROBLEMES Published for the INFORMATION of all those who have constantly adhered to the GOOD CAUSE AND For the Reformation of all those who had embraced the BAD CAVSE BY PETER CHAMBERLIN Docter in Physick LONDON Printed by John Clowes 1659. PROBLEMES 1. WHether God or Man Jesus Christ or a Parliament have the Supreme Authority of England 2. Whether it be lawful to say that Jesus Christ is the One Law-giver Ja. 4.12 Is 33.22 Or whether that Epistle and Prophecy are Apochrypha in England 3. Whether it be not Treason to say Parliaments are not Law-givers or have not the Legislative Power 4. Whether if Jesus Christ and the Parliament are both Law-givers there be not more Law-givers then ONE 5. Whether Parliaments have known what to do with this Law-giving or Legislative Power And whether it hath not been a Burdensome-stone to Kings Zech. 12.3 Parliaments Armies Protectors Councils and People and hath not been ross'd up-and down from the One to the Other like the Atk of God stolen from Eben-Ezer and set up by Dagon and so carried from Ashdod to Gath and Ekron till it returned to Israel again 6. Whether it was not greater Policy and Wisdom in Lycurgus Numa Pompilius and Mahomet to entitle their Lawes to the Oracle of Apollo the Nymph Egeria and the Holy Dove And whether the people became not more conscienciously obedient thereto then when Parliaments entitle Laws and Legislative Powers to themselves yet acknowledge it Derivative which necessarily renders them obnoxious and accountable to them from whom they derive it 7. Whether it were not better for Parliaments to accept of the Legislative Power of Jesus Christ and of the Law Statutes and Judgments ready offered them from God with the whole Platform of Government prepared by the Word of God and practicable within one Moneth and easy to be established Ezek 22 27. then still to be overturn'd overturn'd overturn'd and trouble and hazard themselves and the Nation to find out another Legislative Power and other Laws whichlast no longer then the Men that make them nor that but during the Power of the Sword 8. How much blood and Treasure had been saved had the Parliament been pleased to acknowledge the Legislative Power of the Lord Jesus Christ Ja. 4.12 Is 33 22. 1 Tim. 6.15 Deut. 1.17 17.18.19 2 Chr. 19 6. the only Potentate the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and the Law Statutes Judgments of Almighty God 9. Whether it were not far more honourable for Parliaments to have their Authority from God in judging for God by the Laws of God then derived from Kings as some would have it or as others say from the People who themselves never had it but conceit it their Due because acknowledged by Parliament and so con ceive that Parliament men cosen them of their due 10. But if it must be acknowledged that Jesus Christ and the Parliament have each a Legislative Power Whether do they both give One and the same Law 11. If One and the same Whether the Prerogative of Jesus Christ or of a Parliament ought to take place in calling the Law by their Title whose Prerogative it is Act. 4.19 5.29 12. If it be different Whether it is more lawfull to obey God or Man unlesse Jesus Christ be not God or His Law not Gods Law 13. As it is more honourable for Parliaments and more sure to have their Authority from God than man So whether it be not more honourable and safe for the People to be governed by the Law of God then Man And whether it doth not more bind andasatisfie the Conscience as being the very Answer of every Mans Prayer though some know not what they say that Gods Kingdom might come and His Will might be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Matt. 6.10 rather then be enslaved one sort of Men to another and often times the best and most peaceable to the most unjust and Tyrannical whereof the most formidable hath been a single person though He that makes all men afraid must needs be afraid of all men 14. Whether it be not easier and better to be governed by a Law which every Child knowes then by Laws which all the wise Lawyers Serjeants and Judges of the Land know not 15. Whether the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament thwart each other Or whether they both agree to be the Faithful and Authentick Records of the Law of God 16. If not Why are they suffered to disturb the Conscience of Honest Men against any Government that is not according to that Law 17. If any part of those Scriptures ate false Why do not our Teachers Teach and Rulers command those places to be left out And why the Assemblies of Divines both of England and Scotland do own them and yet publish in Print such notorious and manifest contradictions against them in some particulars of their Confession of Faith and Catechisms And whether the Pope who hath left out and changed some places of Scripture which made against him though he assume to himself an Authority above them hath not dealt more honestly with his People herein then some of our Teachers and Rulers have hitherto done with us 2 Tim. 3.16 17. Rom. 15.4 Exo. 20.1.31.18.34.1.4 Deut. 5.22.9 10. 10.2.4 Lu. 19.14 Mal. 3.6 Heb 1.12 13.8 18. But if all the Scriptures are compleat as given by Inspiration of God Whether is that Text to be believed which saith the Law is Holy Just and Good Rom. 7.12 And why do not men so own and obey them Or can we say the same of the Acts Lawes and Statutes of the Land 19. Whether the ten Commandements spoken by God and twice Written with the finger of God Ordinarily taught to Children and written on most Church Walls and Windows and acknowledged so in all Confessions and Catechismes are not the Law of God 20. Whether God be bound to make any other Law for Mankind any more then He is bound to give an other Messias to the Jews because they will not have this Man to reign over them 21. Whether Time or Place Nation or Sex alter that Law or whether God be altered that made it so that What was Idolatry Blasphemy Murther Adultery Theft or Fals Witness so long agoe in Palestine among the Jewes is it not so now in England among the Gentiles 22. Whether King David knew what he said when he affirmed the Law of the Lord is Perfect His Statutes Right and his Judgements True and Righteous altogether Psal 19.7 8 9. And whether Moses and Solomon knew what they said when they Commanded Men neither to Add nor Diminish Deut. 4.2 12.32 Pro. 30.6 And whether God Himself may it be spoken with reverence to shame this wicked World knew what He did when He Commanded Joshua as Moses also Commanded Israel from the Lord that they should turn neither to the Right Hand nor to the Left Jos 1.7 Deut. 5.32

to Law without money and whether the Proverb be not true the Law is Costly 47. Whether he that must deliver his Purss upon the High way or he that must deliver the best part of his Estate in a private Study have the better choice 48. Whether Lawyers do it upon a Gospel account when they teach men by Experience to give the Coat also rather then go to Law Mat. 5.40 proving that half a Loaf is better then no Bread 49. Whether two or three Millions are not spent in Law and whether it be not better deserved of the Army and Navy since the one enslaves us to the Norman Tyranny and the other hath given us some Breathings of God 50. Whether the Hercules Pillars of the Law be not the Chancery and of the Chancery an Arbitrament if not life and when people will be wise to see this 51. Who ever got by Sutes in Law besides Lawyers and wicked men for if Justice were done what had the honest man but his own made now more precious to him by his Vexatious trouble and charges And if Injustice were done the Knave and the Lawyer shared stakes And whether our Lawes be not contrived to fill the Lawyers Coffers and satisfie Revengefull Mindes and Tyrannicall Purses And when it will be otherwise since they are alwayes uppermost to share in making as well as executing their own Lawes 52. Whether Lawyers pretend best for the Lawes vvhen they say their Law is good but blame the Corruption Or when they say their Law is good but blame the Execution their Courts and Judges As if a Lavv could be both Good and Corrupt Or a good Law could have bad Execution for if men Execute the good Law they Execute what is good If otherwise they Execute an Evil. But being beaten out of all these lurking holes at last they indeavour to Anchor in the Law of God and say it is ACCORDING Do not they then inferr that the Law of God is most perfect vvhen they hope for justification of theirs by being but ACCORDING 53. What Benefit have vve by the Law of the Land 54. Is any mans Person safe vvhen his life lies at the mercy of any one Perjurd or Malicious Vilain that vvill svvear him out of it at the Sessions o● is that Lavv to be valued by Englishmen that value an Englishman but at 13 pence-half-penny Is that Lavv to be Adored vvhich like Esops Stock devour the ●roglike Adorers that are fond of it so that if an Attorney Gen. vvere let lose to plead their ovvn Lavves no Head could be safe on any mans Shoulders in Army or Parliament and this can be by every Puny demonstrated 55. Is any mans Estate secure when his utmost satisfaction being cheated of it is but to have the Tip of the Cheaters Ear if he can get it And if he be robbed of it he may for the bestowing of more time and money see the thief swing in a halter and all what he hath forfeit to the State Or if he please be hanged himself for receiving his own stolen Goods if he be not wary in the doing of it 56. Is any mans good name safe when it is lawful to accuse him of all villany in Chancery Bills or at Sessions 57. Is any man sure of Liberty though it be the Pedro Inganno's Box so often held up with the Title of Salus Populi and so dearely paid for with Blood and Treasure Whereas it lies at the Mercy of Arrests and Imprisonments by every malicious Knave that will be at the charge of a Luo Minus a Latitat a Capias a VVrit of the Counter or a Bill of Middlesex 58. VVhether all these Glorious Lawes and Priviledges are worth two Millions a year to the people And whether the Army and Navy do not better deserve it 59. Whether the People can be said at all to have their Liberty when two or thee Lawyers keep it Or whether Trade can prosper so long as Excise Assessements and Taxes continue 60. Whether Excise and Taxes are occasioned by the Army since Offers have been made to maintaine the Army without them 61. Whether some do not find it sweeter to continue Taxes then to hearken to Dr. Chamberlin for the taking them off And whether they be not sure that the people will be content to be alwayes Taxed though the taking off Taxes and Excise might very much quicken Trade 62. Whether there be not a great Gulf between the Army and People since it could swallow up some yeares two Millions of Taxes between the Payer and Receiver 63. Whether the Bottomless-Pit be not some-where neere England when almost all Ireland and Scotland and most of the Kings Bishops Deans and Chap. and Delinquents Lands Estates and Houses besides about 60 Millions of the Peoples Treasure are gone Yet the Parliament never the better for it 64. VVhether Quintus Curtius ever attempted a greater work in closing up the Gulf at Rome then the Author who offers to close up this Gulf which seemes to grow wider and wider And who knowes what will become of us if the Parliament leave us in May next and leave this Gulf open when there are no more Irelands nor Scotlands nor such great Estates nor so many Jewells and Millions in England lest to be thrown in 65. VVhether the Army have not been the Parliament and Peoples best friend in time of need 66. VVhether the Soldier vvho fought against the King or all the Lavvyers vvho vvere and are for the King and fled to him in the VVarrs leaving their desolate places to VVomen be the best Common-vvealths Men 67. Whether the Army be not the Representative of the Power as the Parliament of the Authority of the People 68. Whether it be not fit for Power and Authority to Unite together 69. Whether Oliver left not the experience of which is strongest if they divide 70. Whether when we are divided France may not Alarm England whilst Spain takes Ireland Then whose friendship can we invite but the Plump Hollanders if not too late 71. Whether our Laws and Lawyers will not more and more divide them and help on the work of the Jesuits for where can he find better shelter then under a Barr Gown 72. Whether a Kingdom divided can stand 〈◊〉 26. 73. Whether it be possible to unite them but by the Legislative Power of Jesus Christ and the Law of God 74. Ezek. 21.27 Ps 2.6 Jo. 5.44 Whether God be not bound by His word to overturn overturn overturn Kings Parliaments Armies Protectors people till Jesus Christ be set up upon his Holy Hill 75. Whether Men can believe this that receive honour one from another and not that honour that cometh from God only Jo. 5.44 76. Exod. 18.21 Act. 19.25 Ast. 5.39 Matt. 7.12 Ps 50.22 Luke 19. Whether ever men that receive 1000 li. 5000 li. 10000 li. per annum by these Laws will consent to a Law that gives up their place and Office to Men