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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93445	A looking-glasse for England; wherein is expressed, severall passages, and remarkable observations, concerning the uniting of the Kings most excellent Majesty, and his great councell, the High Court of Parliament. Together, vvith divers heads or motives, / drawn up by Dr. George Snell, Dr. of Divinity; who being a delinquent (formerly) hath now taken the nationall covenant, and set forth these reasons for his submitting to the King and Parliament. Very usefull in these times, and necessary for all sorts of people to peruse. Published by speciall authority.	Snell, George, d. 1656.	1646 (1646)	Wing S4392; Thomason E330_18; ESTC R200722	3,178	8

A Looking-Glasse FOR ENGLAND Wherein is expressed Severall Passages and Remarkable Observations concerning the uniting of the Kings most excellent Majesty and His Great Councell the High Court of Parliament TOGETHER VVith divers Heads or Motives drawn up by Dr. George Snell Dr. of Divinity Who being a Delinquent formerly hath now taken the Nationall Covenant and set forth these Reasons for his submitting to the KING and PARLIAMENT Very usefull in these Times and necessary for all sorts of People to peruse Published by speciall Authority LONDON Printed for ROBERT WOOD April 3. 1646. TO MY LOVING FRIEND R. W. SIR HEre inclosed are severall Heads or Motives drawn up and delivered us by Doctor Snell Dr. of Divinity being called before us for his Delinquencie setting forth the reasons of his submission to the King and Parliament and taking of the Nationall Covenant so I rest Chester the 23. of March 1645. H. C. This was occasioned by R. I. one of the Sequestrators at Chester who having straitly charged George Snell Doctor of Divinity the submitter that he came to wake his submission as a Temporizer and without making conscience of his Oath c. the submittent to testifie that he deserved no such hard censure did shortly afterward shew to the Accusant these ensuing Motives 1. THat he was moved to submit not to the King onely but to the Parliament also because in the weighty affaires of the Kingdom now in agitation the most faithfull and most wise Councell of the Land ought to be used II. Because the matters now in variance between the King and Parliament onely seeme to concern the outward order of the Church and Common Weal the dispo●●tion of which is conceived to pertain wholy to the Kings Maiesty and unto the honourable Houses who as holding the sup●eam Governance next unto the Holy Ghost and the sacred Word ever since Moses the Prophet have as other State Assemblies alwayes appointed the particularities of publike Affaires III. To the King and Parliament because the most approved Students of the English Laws do very often in their Books affirm that the Kings Majesty is so fully incorporate into His Councell that His Majesty and His Councell are evermore taken as joint Agents in every businesse of moment that doth concern His Crown and Kingdome whence it is that the King is never in any Court called to appear for that by the common intendment of the Law His Royal presence is alwayes understood to be virtually and vigorously present in all Seats of Justice yea though the King should be an Infant in the Cradle IV. Because the King and his Par●iament seem to be the only true Father and Mother and the Weal publike to be their true naturall Child and a● when the Son falls sick the father for remedy doth willingly commend him to the joint care of the tender-hearted Mother untill his wonted health be regained 〈◊〉 even so at thi● time the great Colledge of State-Physitians having discovered to the Royall Father that this Child of the Publike State is taken with a dangerous disease His Majesty according to the constant custome in such case hath referred the cure to the associate avd of that honourable Mother so that ●uring this course of Physick that Soveraign Father seemes to have suspended his sole regent Power which neverthelesse so soon as the Patient shall be made whole that Mother in all duty will humbly resign him to the former government of his Soveraign Parent and so in case of perillous Disease the Mother may seem to rule jointly with the Father V. To His Majesty and to the Parliament because it is thought that the High Court of Parliament ariseth over the Realm of England even as the Sun in the sphear of Heaven at whose appearance all other Courts and Counsels of this Land doth totally vanish as doth the Stars before the Sun beames saving what influence those Inferiours may borrow from that Supream Court VI. Not onely to the King but to the Parliament likewise for that as by the Customary Law of England all Courts have power not onely to defend their Authority but more to make by-laws and orders to bind all that stand subject to their jurisdiction and that so long and so farre as it shall seeme good to the Iudge of each Court in like sort it is verily beleived that the high Senate of Parliament of Right hath such power in the Superlative while the Parliament is continued to make Edicts and Orders to further their designes and that with a Non obstante of any Law enacted VII To the King and Parliament according to the Oath and Covenant which is now required the Oath requiring nothing but what is due unto any protective Power and the Nationall Covenant for substance being heretofore made implicitly in the Statute of uniting England and Scotland And were it not so yet seeing the highest Court of Senators do exact nothing of us but what they aver and protest is lawfull and right we that by the Lawes must beleive the verdict of a Iury of ordinary persons is lawfull and true how much greater beleife ought wee to yeeld unto the grand verdict of those many hundreds of ●urates impar●el'd to passe upon the life and liberty of all this Kingdome we may well stand perswaded that they have better foreseen that the Oath Covenant and Obedience which they require of the Kings Subjects is not contrary unto that Oath and fealty by which we all stand bound to His Majesty then the wisest man alone is able to fore-fee and as the Lawyers say opertet neminem esse sapientiorem legibus even so it is phrensie not onely presumption that any one should think himself wiser then the whole Parliament of England VIII To the King and to the Parliament that now is more then unto any Parliament yet held in England not onely in reverent respect to that surpassing measure of knowledg and wisdome which in this Age of Learning is farre more excellent in the Members of the Two Houses then in any Times of their fore-Fathers but also because to that almost illimited Power which the Parliament naturally hath the Kings Majesty hath granted an illimited time so that to this Senatorian Order we ought to be very specially faithfull and loyall IX Vnto both joyntly because of that inseparable Vnion which our Laws and Law-Students do averre to hold insolubly between the King and his Counsel in regard of which incorporate union They say Rex Anglia non p●test injustae agere Rex Angliae nunquam existit in minoritate The King of England can do nothing unjustly The King of England is never under age These and many like honourable sayings are spoken concerning the Kings of England Yet as the Iurisprudents of this Land do say not in relation to the Kings sole person but as his Majesty stands incessantly incorporate into his Councell from whence his legall abilities and perfections as from a living Fountain in a sort are derived X. To the King and Parliament now if ever for that to the extream grief of all loyall hearts now they stand at such opposite distance that the very foundations of the Kingdome seem to be shaken and now what true-born child of that Royall Father and most Honourable Mother doth not quake and tremble to see his Father in Arms against his Mother and the Mother against that ever honoured Father he is of a bastard-kind that wisheth either to destroy the other and of a more bastard-generation is he that would have any forraign Enemy to conquer them both for it is evident the one of those publick Parents cannot fall to ruine without the utter destruction of the other And submission to both without opposition to either is like to be the readiest way to reconciliation XI Unto both because in arduis negotiis Regni such as are now on foot the whole State of the Kingdom by the wisdome of our Elders hath ever been submitted to the King conjoyned to his Parliament And now if ever we do need the true Formalities and Roabs of an able Parliament that by their predominant Power transcendent Authority and pious Wisdome the present consuming mischiefes may be restrained and extinguished XII Lastly to the King and Parliament now because never any Parliament hitherto that we know hath so much testified by publike Devotions to Almighty God and by deep and often Protestations unto the Kings Majesty and to all his well-affected Subjects that next after the glory of God and the welfare of the true Religion they do intend and indeavour nothing so much as the safety of his Majesties person the augmentation of His Majesties Honour and the peace and prosperity of all His Majesties Kingdomes now seeing both Houses of Parliament the most great and most Honourable Councell of England alwayes have made and still do persevere in making such Prayers and Protestations it seemes not onely an intollerable offence against Charity but an abuse inexpiable against common Humanity by obstinate incredulity to give the lye unto those most honourable Senators and to all the great Councell of England by cherishing any opinion or thought that this most honourable Assembly of Councellours do most wickedly conspire to ruine the King His Subjects and Kingdomes FINIS