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A29209	The serpent salve, or, A remedie for the biting of an aspe wherein the observators grounds are discussed and plainly discovered to be unsound, seditious, not warranted by the laws of God, of nature, or of nations, and most repugnant to the known laws and customs of this realm : for the reducing of such of His Majesties well-meaning subjects into the right way who have been mis-led by that ignis fatuus.	Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.	1643 (1643)	Wing B4236; ESTC R12620	148,697	268

States come to have peace a while then let them take heed of falling in pieces The condition of the English Subject when it was at the worst under King Charles before these unhappy broiles was much more secure and free from excises and other burdens and impositions then our Neighbours the Netherlanders under their States If His Majesty should use such an Arbitrary Power as they doe it would smart indeed I wonder the Observer is not ashamed to instance in Hanniball he knows the Factions of Hanno and Hannibal did ruine themselves and Carthage whereas if Hannibal had been independent Rome had run that fortune which Carthage did How near was Scipioes Conquest of Affricke to be disapointed by the groundlesse suggestions of his Adversaryes in the Roman Senate When he had redeemed that Citty from ruine how was he rewarded Sleighted called to the Barre by a factious Plebeian and in effect banished from that Citty whereof he had been in a kind a second Romulus or Founder but if he had been independent he had been a nobler gallanter Scipio then he was And if Caesars Dictatorship had not preserved him from the like snuffles he might have tasted of the same sawce that Scipio did and many others It is true he was butchered by some of the Observers Sect a Rebell is a civill Schismatick and a Schismatick an Ecclesiasticall Rebell the one is togata the other is armata seditio and some of them as notoriously obliged as Servants could be to a Master but revenge pursued them at the heeles as it did Korah and his Rebellious Crew Zimri Absalom Adonijah Achitophel Iudas c. Frost and falshood have alwayes a foule ending Neither is it true altogether That Parliaments are so late an invention What was the Mickle Synod here but a Parliament what were the Roman Senates and Comitia but Parliaments what were the Graecian Assemblies Amphictionian Achaian Boetian Pan-AEtolian but Parliaments what other was that then a Parliament Moses commanded us a Law even the inheritance of the Congregation of Jacob. And he was King in Jesurum when the Heads of the People and Tribes of Israell were gathered together Here is the King and both Houses with a legislative power Non de possessione sed de terminis est contentio the difference is not about the being of Parliaments but the bounds of Parliamentary Power As Parliaments in this latitude of signification have been both very ancient and very common so if he take the name strictly according to the present constitution of our Parliament he will not find it so very ancient here at home nor a Policy common to us with many Nations yea if the parts of the comparison be precisely urged with none not so much as our Neighbour Nation I pray God it be not some Mens aime to reduce our setled Form to a conformity with some forrein Exemplars But if it be understood to have such a fulnesse of power as he pretends according to his late found out art to regulate the moliminous body of the People it is neither ancient nor common nor ours He may seek such presidents in republicks but shall never find so much as one of them in any true Monarchy under Heaven I honour Parliaments as truely as the Observer yet not so as to make the name of Parliament a Med●…saes head to transform reasonable Men into stones I acknowledge that a compleat Parliament is that Panchreston or Soveraigne salve for all the Sores of the Common-wealth I doe admire the presumption of this Observer that dare find holes and defects in the very constitution of the Government by King and Parliament which he should rather adore at a distance as if he were of the posterity of Iack Cade who called himselfe Iohn A●…ead all It is l●…wfull for these Men onely to cry out against innovations whilest themselve●… labour with might and maine to change and innovate the whole fram●… of Government both in Church and 〈◊〉 We reade of Philip of Maced●…n that he g●…thered all the naughty seditiou●… fellowes in his King●…ome together and put the●…●…ll into 〈◊〉 C●…y by thems●…lves which he called 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 Che●…er I wish King Charles would doe the like if a Citty would contein them and make the Observer the head of the Corporation where he might molde his Governm●…nt according to hi●… pr●…vate conceit And yet it cannot be denyed but the greatest and most eminent Councells in the World m●…y be either made or wrought by their Major Part to serve private end●… I omit the Lay Parliament 1404 and Sir Henry Wottons younge Parliament 18. Iacobi our Historians tell us of a Mad Parliament 1258 and the Parliament of B●…tts or B●…ttownes 1426 a kind of Weapon fitter for Cav●…leers then peaceable Assemblyes The Statu●…es of Oxford were confirmed by the Parliament at We●…minster 1259 and ratified by a course against the breakers of them shortly after the King and Prince were both taken Prisoners yet in the Parliament following at Winchester 1255 all the said Acts were rescinded and dis●…nulled and the King cryed quittance with his Adversaryes In the raigne of Edward the second after the Battell at Burton we see how the tydes of the Parliament were turned untill the comming of Q●…een Izabell and then the Floods grew higher then ever In the dayes of Richard the second how did the Parliament●… change their Sanctions as the C●…maelion her colours or as Platina writeth of the Popes after Stephen had taken up the body of Formosus out of his grave It became an usual thing for the Successors either to infringe or altogether to abrogate the Acts of their Predecessors The Parliaments of 1386. and 1388. were contradicted and revoked by the subsequent Parliaments of 1397. and 1398 and these again condemned and disanulled by the two following Parliaments in 1399. and 1400 yea though the Lords were sworn to the inviolable observance of that of 1397 and Henry Bullenbrooke who was a great Stickler for the King in that Parliament of 1397. against the Appealants yet in that of 1399 was elected King by the Trayterous deposition of Richard and the unjust preterition of the right Heires Parliaments are sublunary Courts and mutable as well as all other Societyes If we descend a little lower to the times of Henry the sixt we shall find Richard Duke of Yorke declared the Lord Protector in Parliament yet without Title to the Crown in 1455. Shortly after we find both him and his Adherents by Parliament likewise attainted of High Treason in 1459. The yeare following 1460 he was again by Parliament declared not only Lord Protector but also Prince of Wales and right Heire to the Crown and all Acts to the contrary made voide and the Lords sweare to the observance thereof It rests not here the very next year 1461. his Sonne Edward the fourth not contented to be an Heire in reversion assumes the Imperiall Diadem and in Parliament is received actuall King The end is

of eminency on Earth If he will have no Bees but such as have no stings he may catch Drones and want his honny for his labour To limit Princes too farr is as if a Man should cut his Hawkes ●…ings that she might not fly away from him so he may be sure she shall never make a good flight for ●…im Saint Bernard tells us a Story of a King who ●…eing wounded with an arrow the Chirurgeons de●…ired Liberty to bind him because the lightest mo●…ion might procure his Death his answer was non ●…ecet vinciri Regem it is not meet that a King should ●…e bound and the Father concludes Libera sit Regis semper salva potestas In two particulars this third Cato is pleased to expresse himselfe he would have the disposition of great offices power of calling and dissolving Parliaments shared betwen the King and the People Yesthe great Offices of the Kingdome and the Revenues of the Church have been the great wheeles of the Clock which have set many little wheeles 〈◊〉 going doubt you not the Observer meant to lick 〈◊〉 own fingers These speculations might be seasonab●…e in the first framing of a Monarchy Now when a Power is invested in the Crown by Law and lawful●… Custome they are sawcy and seditious Howsoever his bolt is soone shot He that is wise in his own eyes there is more hope of a Foole then of such a Man Other●…●…s much wiser then he is almost as he conceives him●…lfe to transcend them are absolu●…ely of another mi●… that this were to open a sluce to Faction and Sedi●…on to rolle the Apple of Conten●…ion up and down both Houses of Parliament and each County and Burrough in the Kingdom to make labouring for places packing for votes in a word to disunite and dissolve the contignation of this Kingdom This in Policy They say further that in Iustice If the King be bound by His Office and sworn by His Oath to cause Law Iustice and Discretion in mercy and truth to be executed to His People If he be accountable to God for the Misgovernment of his great Charge that it is all the reason in the World why he should choose his own Officers and Ministers Kings are shadowed by those brazen Pillars which Hiram made for Solomon having Chapiters upon their heads adorned with Chaines and Pomgranates If these Sonnes of Belial may strip Majesty by Degrees of its due Ornaments first of the chaines that is the power to punish evill Doers and then of the Pomegranates the ability to reward good deserts and so insensibly to robbe them of the dependence of their Subjects the next steppe is to strike the Chapiters or Crownes from of their heads But how can this be except all Parliaments were taken as deadly Enemyes to Royalty Still when the Observer comes to a piece of hot Service he makes sure to hold the Parliament before him which devise hath saved him many a blow They that are not haters of Kings may be Lovers of themselves We are all Children of Adam and Eve He would be a God and she a Goddesse His instance that this is no more then for the King to choose a Chancellour or a Treasurer upon the recommendation of such or such a Courtier is ridiculous there His Majesty is free to dissent here is a necessity imposed upon him to grant Yet saith he the Venetians live more happily under their conditionate Dukes then the Turks under their absolute Emperours The Trophees which Rome gained under conditionate Commanders argue that there could be no defect in this popular and mixt Government Our Neighbours in the Netherlands being to cope with the most puissant Prince in Christendom put themselves under the conduct of a much limited Generall which streigthned Commissions have yeelded nothing but victoryes to the States and solid honour to the Prince of Orange Were Hanniball Scipio c. the lesse honoured or beloved because they were not independent was Caesar the private Man lesse succesfull or lesse beloved then Caesar the perpetuall Dictator Whatsoever is more then this he calls the painted rayes of spurious Majesty and the filling of a phantasticall humour with imaginary grandour Whose heart doth not burn within him to heare such audacious expressions yet still he protests for Monarchy A fine Monarchy indeed a great and glorius Monarchy an Aristo-Democracy nicknamed Monarchy a circumscribed conditionate dependent Monarchy a Mock-Monarchy a Monarchy without coercive Power able to protect not to punish that is in effect neither to protect nor punish a Monarch subordinate to a Superiour and accountable to Subjects that may deny nothing a Monarchy in the Rights whereof another challengeth an interest Paramount Quorsum haec he is more blind then a Beetle that sees not whither all this tends To advance King Charles to the high and mighty Dignity of a Duke of Venice or a Roman Consull whilest this Gentleman might sit like one of the Tribunes of the Common People to be his Supervisor It were to be wished that the Observer would first make tryall of this modell of Government in his own House for a yeare or two and then tell us how he likes it That Form may fit the Citty of Venice that will not fit the Kingdome of England I beleeve he hath not carefully read over the History of that State Though now they injoy their Sun-shines and have their Lucida intervalla yet heretofore they have suffered as much misery from their own Civill and Intestine Dissentions as any People under Heaven and so have their Neighbour States of Genoah Florence c. And of Florence particularly it is remarkeable that though their Prince hu●…band his Territory with as much advantage to himselfe and pressure to his People as any Prince in Europe yet they live ten times more happily now then they did before in a Republick when a bare legged Fellow out of the Scumme of the People could raise Tumults surprise the Senate and domineere more then two great Dukes so that now they are freer then when they did injoy those painted rayes of spurious Liberty If th●… Romans had not found a defect in their popular Government they had never fled to the choise of a Dictator or absolute Prince as a sacred Anchour in all their greatest extremityes And for the Netherlands it is one thing for a free People to elect their owne forme of Government another for a People obliged to shake off that Forme which they have elected It is yet but earely of the day to determine precisely whether they have done well or ill The danger of a Popular Government is Sedition a common Enemy hath hitherto kept them at unity and the King of Spaine hath been their best Friend Scipioes opinion that Carthage should not be destroyed was more solid and weighty then Catoes as experience plainly shewed Those Forrein Warres preserved Peace at home and were a Nursery of Souldiers to secure that State When the United

abuses yet late and deare experience hath taught us that much of that rigour which we complained of was in some sort necessary If the Independents should prevail who are now so busy breaking down the Walls of the Church to bring in the Trojan Horse of their Democracy or rather Anarchy doe but imagine what a confused mixture of Religions we should have Affricke never produced such store of diversified Monsters But to passe by them as unworthy of our stay and to insist onely in that Forme of Church Regiment which of all new Forms is most received I intend not accidentall abuses which from ignorant and unexperienced Governours must needs be many but some of those many Grievances which flow essentially from the Doctrin it selfe First for one High Commission we shall have a Presbytery or younge High Commission in every Parish Our Bishops are bound to proceed according to Law but this new Government is meerely Arbitrary bounded by no Law but their own Consciences If the Bishops did us wrong we had our Remedy by way of appeale or prohibition but they admit no appeale except to a Synod which in a short Session cannot heare the twentieth part of just grievances Our Law allowes not a Judge to ride a Circuit in his own Country least Kindred or Hatred or Favour might draw him to injustice what may we then expect from so many Domesticall Judges whose affections are so much stronger then their reasons but siding and Partiality yet they blush not to tell us that this is the Tribunall of Christ Ch●…st hath but one Tribunall in Heaven his Kingdom is not of this World That these are the Laws of Christ the Laws of Christ are immutable They alter theirs every Synod That their Sentence is the Sentence of Christ alas there is too much Faction and Passion and Ignorance Heretofore we accused the Pope for saying that he had one Consistory with Christ doe we now goe about to set up Petty Popes in every Parish and are they also become infallible in their Consistoryes at least in their conclusion not onely in matters of Faith but also of Fact These are generall Grievances In particular His Majesty shall lose His Supremacy in Causes Ecclesiasticall His Patronages His first Fruits H●…s Tenths and worse then all these the dependence of His Subjects He shall be subjected to Excommunication by which Engine the Popes advanced themselves above Emperours The Nobility and Gentry shall be subjected to the censures of a raw rude Cato and and a few Artificers They shall lose their Advowsons the People must elect their own Ministers They shall hazard their impropriations The two eyes of the Kingdome the Universities shall be put out The Clergy shall have their straw taken away and the number of their bricks doubled The People shall groane under the Decrees of a Multitude of ignorant unexperienced Governours be divided into Factions about the choise of their Pastors be subject to censure in sundry Courts for the same offence be burthened with Lay-Elders who if they please may expect according to the Apostolicall institution upon their grounds double ●…onour that is maintenance If there arise a private ●…arre between the Parent and the Child the Husband and the Wife they must know it and censure it Scire volunt secreta domus atque inde timeri All men must undergoe the danger of contrary Commands from coordinate Judges then which nothing can be more pernicious to the Consciences or Estates of Men Nulla hic arcana revelo These are a part of the Fruits of their most received Government who oppose Bishops if they doe not all shew themselves in all places remember the Observers Caution They wanted power to introduce them as yet As some Plants thrive best in the shade so if this Form of Regiment shall agree best with the constitution of some lesser Commonwealths much good may it doe them so they will let us injoy the like favour Petimus damusque vicissim Eightly those Arguments which they urge out of Scripture against Episcopacy are meere mistakes confounding the power of Superiority itselfe with the vitious affectation or Tyrannicall abuse of it and are none of them to the purpose As those two Texts that are most hotly urged The Kings of the Gentiles excercise Dominion over them but ye shall not be so and that of Saint Peter Neither as being Lords over Gods Heritage but being Ensamples to the Flock do admit as many Answers almost as there are words in each of them but they are not needfull For no man that ever I read of did say that Bishops had any such Despoticall or Lordly Dominion annexed to their Office but onely a Fatherly power And if these Places be to be understood in that sense which they would have them they doe as much overthrow all their new Presidents and Moderators and Visiters and their whole Presbytery as they would have them to doe Episcopacy Neither Christ nor Saint Peter did ever distinguish between temporary and perpetuall Governours between the Regiment of a single Person and a Society or Corporation They like not the name of Lord but that of Master they love dearely yet that is forbidden as much as the other Neither be ye called Master for one is your Master even Christ. And whilest they reject the Government of a President or chief Pastour yet they stile their own new devised Elders Ruling Elders and understand them still in the Scripture by name of Governours Ninthly waving all these and all other advantages of Scriptures Fathers Councells Historyes Schoolemen because it is alledged that all other Protestant Churches are against Episcopacy I am contented to joyn the issue whether Bishops or no Bishops have the major number of Protestant Votes First the practise of all the Protestant Churches in the Dominions of the King of Sweden and Denwarke and the most of them in High Germany doe plainly prove it each of which three singly is almost as much as all the Protestant Churches which want Bishops hut together to say nothing of His Majesties Dominions all these have their Bishops or Superintendents which is all one But for the point of practise heare Reverend Zanchy a Favourer of the Disciplinarian way In Ecclesiis Protestantium non desunt reipsa Episcopi c. In the Churches of the Protestants Bishops and Arch-Bishops are not really wanting whom changing the good Greek Names into bad Latine Names they call Superintendents and generall Superintendents Where neither the good Greek names nor bad Latine names take place yet there also there use to be some principall Persons in whose hands almost all the authority doth rest Neither is their practise disagreeing from their Doctrin To begin with those who first were honoured with the name of Protestants who subscribed the Augustane Confession among whom were two Dukes of Saxony two Dukes of Luneburge the Marquesse of Brandburge the Prince of Anhalt and many other Princes Republicks and Divines Thus