Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	king_n	parliament_n	writ_n	2,706	5	9.7417	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86677	Lazarus's sores licked; or, An answer to these three positions: I: that Christ paid tribute to Cæsar. II. That Cæsar was an usurper in Judea, and had onely bare possession, but no right at all. III. That bare possession, without any right to a throne, gives title sufficient to the usurper, and is ground sufficient for people to subject to that usurper.	Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687.	1650 (1650)	Wing H326; Thomason E615_19; ESTC R202495	17,108	24

the Doctor's we contradict by affirming that bare Possession without Right gives no true Title to any Power neither is it ground for any people to subject to such a power This my Position hath been already proved by more learned Pens therefore the less shall be said at this time onely we 'll state what bare possession meanes rightly by putting a right Case We 'll suppose that Eutopia's Kingdome is governed by a King whose power is measured by the Lawes of his Kingdome which are the rules of government those Lawes are made not by the King alone but by a Convention of to Estates who are joyned in equal power with the King in making a Law for those two Estates have Negative voices which is their grand priviledge equal with the King In this respect there is no Subordination in the three Estates sitting for they are concauses of the same effect which admits not of Subordination Yet this King is Principium Caput Finis Parliamenti for he is Primus motor he is created by none nor chosen by none but he creates the Lords who make one of the two Estates which he assembles to him to make a Law and the other by vertue onely of the Kings Writs Summons are inabled to be chosen by the People and sent up to the place mentioned in the King's Summons there to consult de arduis Regni This King hath power to continue or to dissolve a Parliament when he pleaseth but this power he invests his Parliament with which done He and the Parliament differ whereupon the King forsakes his Parliament which by Law he cannot do the Parliament sitting for neither of the three Estates can depart upon any pretence from the other two withoutt he joynt consent of the whole if either do the other two will act protempore as if the third were present because otherwise through the obstinacie of one the whole would run to ruine by reason of the third's absence This difference at last breakes into a Civil War betwixt the King and the two Estates whereupon necessity inforceth the two Estates to lay hold on the Kings Sword the Militia which was the Kings undoubted Right and the Parliament could not have touched it had the King continued with them The King complains that the Parliament takes away his right the Parliament say the King 's mistaken and misled by evil Popish Councel who under pretence of establishing him seeke his ruine and the ruine of Religion and the Parliament they protest they intend not to take it from him but secure it for him which they may do in time of such apparent danger and to shew their Loyalty they voluntarily enter into a Solemn League and Covenant to defend Religion Lawes Parliaments and the Kings Person against Papists on the one hand and Sectarians on the other hand After they have thrown down the Papists party who were the King and Parliaments Enemies on the one hand up starts a Subtile Politick Religious Hypocrite who by undermining and supplanting his betters gets at last to have the power of the whole Militia of the Kingdome in his hands which when he hath it contrary to his former Oathes Vows Protestations and Covenant all which he solemnly took in publicke he lays violent hands on the King allures by promises and terrifies by threats the two Estates who hereupon are divided the timerous and guilty party flie to this Hypocrite who presently ingageth them to live and die with him which done by the power of his Sword he removes those that did oppose him and puts in his own party who vote what he commands them This done he claps up the King close prisoner and then puts on his party to inforce him to resigne his power which the whole Kingdome seeing rise up in Armes against this Traiterous Hypocrite and divert Him and his and party from proceeding in their intended designe Whereupon the two Estates assemble and sit freely and vote a Treaty with the King The King yeelds to it and signes the Propositions especially these three 1. To root out Popery 2. To establish the Protestant Religion 3. To give the power of the Militia to the Parliament This the two Estates vote to be sufficient ground for the setling of the Kingdomes Peace Hereupon this aspiring Hypocritical Traytor persorce pulls down those that voted this and sets up againe his own party which were formerly ingaged to him Whereupon the secluded Members make this Protest We the Knights Commons and Burgesses of the Parliament above a hundred in number being forcibly seized on and kept by violence from sitting in the House do in our owne and the names of the Counties for which we serve protest to the Kingdome that since the execrable force upon our Persons against our Ordinances and Commands all Acts or Votes made or to be made during our restraint are null and void and all Assistants or Abettors in the same Treasonable armed violence are hereby proclaimed open Enemies and professed Perverters of the Kingdomes Priviledges Thus the third Estate protesteth notwithstanding the pact party in the third Estate of the Kingdome of Eutopia sits by the power of the aspiring Trayterous Hypocrite who hath the power of the Militia thorowout the Kingdom into his hands these few proceed in their exorbitant and illegal courses to destroy the chiefe of the three Estates and for this end desire the said Estate of Lords to joyne with them which by the law of Nature they cannot do for neither of the three Estates are capable of being attached as Estates for then two might joyne together to destroy any one of the three and so the Government must necessarily by its own power be confounded The Lords reject the motion hereupon this pact party by the power of the Sword which now was wholly theirs clap a Lock and a Guard upon the doore of the House of the second Estate of Lords and forthwith dubb themselves Kings by voting these three Votes 1. That the People are the original of just Power 2. That the Commons are the Supreame power of the Nation 3. That whatsoever is declared by the House of Commons to be Law hath the force of a Law Against this the House of Lords who are the second Estate in the Government of the Kingdome protest as also against their violence in secluding them from sitting in the Parliament This pact party proceed by their owne power and erect a Court and appoint the men who shall sit judge and condemne the King who is the first Estate who upon the Scaffold where they behead him protesteth that would he have yeelded to have given away his power he needed not to have come there but for the Government Lawes and Liberties of the Kingdome he there died a Martyr Now in such a Case where a whole Kingdome is ingaged by Oathes Vows Protestations and Covenants to defend their lawfull Governours and Government all the dayes of their life if such a party shall