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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sense_n	church_n	rule_n	scripture_n	4,939	5	6.5358	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54684	The antiquity, legality, right, use, and ancient usage of fines paid in chancery upon the suing out, or obtaining some sorts of original writs retornable into the Court of Common-Pleas at Westminster / by Fabian Phillips ...	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1663 (1663)	Wing P2005A; ESTC R31118	24,218	54

THE Antiquity Legality Right Use and Ancient Usage of FINES Paid in CHANCERY Upon the suing out or obtaining some sorts of Original Writs retornable into the Court of Common-Pleas AT WESTMINSTER BY FABIAN PHILIPPS Esq One of the FILACERS of the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster Bracton Lib. 1. Cap. 3. Longaevi temporis usus Consuetudinis non est vilis Authoritas Imprinted at London by Ja Cottrel for Henry Marsh at the Princes Arms in Chancery-lane 1663. To the Honourable SIR Harbotle Grimston BARONET Master of the ROLLS SIR IF the holy Scriptures had not told us that Rebellion was as the sin of witchcraft we have had cause enough to believe it when in the evil days of our last twenty years unhappy Wars and Confusions we have seen so very much of the folly and madness of that Soul as well as Kingdom Destroying-sin and perceived all that traded therein to have met with Circes the fate of Vlysses his Companions and to have been almost transformed into Swine who muzling in the earth and looking for some filth agreeable to their bruitish appetite and diet can without any remorse or pity of better things turn and overturn spoyle and trample upon the fairest flowers and are at the best no otherwise to be esteemed then as men bewitched or hugely misled by their own Fancies and arrived to a degree beyond Fanatiques and as near unto madness as the most outragious Inhabitant of Bedlam when as in the beginning of the long and unhappy Parliament in the year 1641. it was their common Out-cry that the Laws of England were their Birth-right and they should be most miserable if they did not enjoy them could after that without any just cause take Arms to defend and preserve them and employ themselves their Wives and Children in a procession or Pageant to dig and make Out-works and Fortifications about the City of London to secure their Laws and Liberties when in effect they did but keep them out and after that engage themselves and as many as they could enforce unto it by an illegal League and Covenant to maintain them and yet after the Kings Murther by that rebellious contrivance and the consequence of it and a Declaration made and published by those that called themselves a Parliament that those Laws were most suitable to the good and constitution of the Nation could in the Hirecano of their pretended Reformation of the same Laws agitated and driven on by a Mechanick party that did not understand them endeavour all they could to subvert and take away those very Laws as they had done the Lives of many and the Estates of most of those of the Kings party who really and not hypocritically fought for them and their King and adventured all they had in it and in that furious ignorant and self-seeking humour of Reformation could like nothing but what came out of their own groundless imagitions the Discipline and Orders of the Church were looked upon as Antichristian the Laws were pretended to be chargeable dilatory and Antichristian the equitable sense of Laws and Scripture of their own framing and picking out were more as they said to be esteemed then the better or learned Interpretations of them the inward spirit and intentions of men were to be the Rule of all our Justice and Actions old Customs and Constitutions were to pass away and be laid by and the new Inventions and Notions acted as they foolishly imagined by a more Divine Light were to take place and rule in the stead of them In order whereunto the common people were taught in all their discourses to make that which before they had taken so much care of to be as a By-word or Reproach the Law it self must be called a Cheat and the Lawyers whom the Heathen could stile Sacerdotes Justitiae and our Christian Fore-fathers Laudabile genus hominum qui in Campo Justiciae tanquam Athletae militant so hated and threatned except at such times as they had need of them as it was some danger to wear a Gown and one of their mighty Mechanick Commanders threatned to pull off their Gowns and hang them up in Westminster-Hall amongst the Scotch Colours The Judges were many times threatned to be pulled out of the Courts and from their Tribunals the Innes of Court the Nurseries of the Law designed to be turned into Brew-houses Tenements or Garisons and places for the quartering of their Rabbi Red-coat souldiers That which was in our Law-books of French or Latine must be translated and the Writs Process and Pleadings put into English and they that knew not right reason the Original and Foundation of all Laws nor the way or method of it would like no Laws further then their vulgar and shallow understandings could come up unto it and where they might or could reach it found it to be no loss unto themselves to pull down old Laws and Constitutions to the end they might be gainers by the invention of setting up new Every thing but themselves were Grievances the Moral and Judicial Laws of Moses were commended and desired to be introduced by some and those of Holland and Scotland by others that Parliament not long before as much adored by a factious and rebellious part of the people as the Rebel Israelites did their Golden Calf when nothing but the Parliament was to be the standard of their Religion and Conscience now seemed unto them not to be well constituted or in an equal frame or Balance but would be much better if the Venetian Balloting-Box were cast in amongst them the Military Officers and Commanders many of whom could not well read English and worse write it busying themselves in reading Livy and Plutarch and other Heathen Authors translated into English and not well observing the many mutinies seditions dangerous and trouble some alterations and changes which the people of Athens Rome had sadly experimented and dearly paid for and how those levelling humours by necessity as well as fate fell afterwards into the better state and condition of Monarchy thought nothing so good and profitable for the good of the people and of themselves more especially then to advance and increase the Changes of Government which was most commonly cast into a frame and designe of their own interests Every common Souldier thought himself as wise and as fit to frame a Commonwealth as Lycurgus or Solon and pretended that their business was not only to fight but to be Legislators and Superintendents of our Parliaments as well as Laws they were to bind and limit them to their silly as well as knavish contrivances The Lands of the Crown Church and Loyal party were to be a part of their Land of Canaan and they were to make what further progress they could in the altering of Laws and Customes hitherto and through many Ages so very much approved put down the old Offices and Employments and erect new and the Citizens and men of Trade finding fault