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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97037	A vindication of the King, with some observations upon the two Houses: by a true son of the Church of England, and a lover of his countries liberty.	Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.	1642 (1642)	Wing W533C; Thomason E118_3; ESTC R22675	7,649	15

every consciencious Man can dispence with that sacred Oath of Allegiauce wherein He cals God to Witnesse for the Vindication of His Princes Just Prerogative and their Protestation to maintain an absolute and unlimired power in the two Houses wrested to those Ordinances expressely inhibited by His Majestis speciall commands in my understanding it is to no other purpose then to leade us into a Maze where when we are lost by our m●sunderstanding which must necessarily be the principall of our subversion They will offer us a Clue shall eirher leade us to their premeditated designes whereby of necessity they will become our Masters or to an inevitable Ruine before we know the reason of our Fears and Jealousies being the old Rule they so often enveighed against First to trouble a State then to subvert the Government Let it not be objected now That I am against Parliaments for God knowes I am for them and as zealous for my Country as any Man that lives But in my opinion the best way to secure our Liberty had been That our Members of both Houses might continue subject still lyable to the Regiment of those Laws which shall be enacted by them wherein they will have a care of securing their own Estates for future as well as ours which was certainly the intentions of our well advised Ancestors in exposing so great a trust into their hands when the Prince called for their advice in matters of greatest concernment but by this continued Session they not onely are Invested of an absolute power but are able to make themselves amends at leisure for those monies exhausted out of their Estates while we groan under the insupportable burthen of theirs as they call them Legall Taxes and thus they may well be carelesse what Laws are past never intending to be observers but Lords of what they make 3. Who are these pretended reformers of the Commonwealth but the very instruments who were the favourites during our oppression I need not name them to any who has once attended the Epidemicke trouble of our age and what unheard of Conversion we can make of their lives whereby such a Confidence should be reposed in them as to devest so Religious and Just a Prince of his unquestionable Rights and Prerogatives and confer such an unlimitted power so readily upon them if we return our former senses renders me amized 't is not amisse to ruminate some words his Majesty used in his own vindication at Newmarket My Lords lay your hands on your hearts who were the Contrivers of these Illegall taxes wherewith you have so incensed my people to whose advantage were these impositions levied are my Exchequers at all larger or did you not rather conduce to your peculiar benefit who were the onely perswaders of them that you have now repayd mee with condigne thanks Those favourites being content to be the Causers though not Companions of their Princes mis-fortunes being like Crows upon a Carkas that have no sooner bared the bones but they are flown are we not yet sensible the rules of policy not of honesty to secure their lives and fortunes not their Consciences exposed you to this politike not publike service and had you not in so exact a course served your turns of these Loyall pretenders they had been as lyable to the extremity of Justice as the greatest Delinquents that underwent the most heavy sensures and undoubtedly had had their deserved shares which would have given a better Colour to their upright proceedings as they would have you so believed If they had impartially distributed Justice amongst the then Malignant party but now that we should be so stupid as to be circumvented with any pretences whatsoever which out-strip the Essentiall rules of Government or Reason and confide in the positive Vote of an ambitious party for ought we know would admit my perswader to be a mad-man that could allow that in his opinion but make them what you will suppose them to be the most reall and upright men in their lives and consciences in the whole world They are but the Counsell of the King and Kingdome not their Commanders for the health of our State is admirably ballanced if that have but his due proportion The Parliament consisting of three bodies the King the Lords and Commons so that if two should be distructive and the third remaine sound during those Lawes already in force there can be no danger to our Kingdome but if either of the ●●o can passe at their pleasure what they will the third 〈◊〉 then of necessity stand for a Cypher for consenting or disagreeing is then of equall value and in my opinion yt's a profident of too great an adventure for suppose the King and the Major pure of the Lords should agree an Ordinance or Law we should thinke extremly prejudiciall to the Liberty of the Subject our Commons should be concluded peremptorily against their Consents I heard an act not long since vouched in president that had been tatified against the Consent of the Lords Spirituall where they declared nec possumus nee volumus consentir● and this so rare we could not find a second At the Parliament at Oxford in 17. 〈◊〉 3. when the Lords were not there present they were faine to disolve the House without passing one Act confirming my first proposition That the consent of two bodies are not of force to make Us Laws without the third much lesse conclude the King who is not onely the supream head but the very soule whose power gives life to their actions when their body is once dissolved besides how incoherent is it with that authority committed to them sor if the Parliament which are onely His great Councell offer him a Bill which He is bound to agree it was more then ever His Ancestors were and of their Counsellors it must necessarily follow they are His Commanders We have a Maxime with the Subject Modus conventio vincunt legem In former ages and ever since Parliaments vvere in use Le Roy s'avisera vvere sufficient authority to make a Bill of both Houses unwarrantable and how the King has lost that Right or vvhat new Laws are found out distructive to that Prerogative I never yet read nor ever shall unlesse some such new Ordinance or bare Votes can pretend to such an unwarranted power whereof there was never yet sound a President which can have no other operation upon my understanding then That the Votes of the present Members which can at their pleasures dispose the undoubted Priviledges of the Crown by a Law recorded onely in their owne breasts and given out to us under the guilded Title of the Peoples Liberty when indeed they are but Golden Chaynes in stead of Bulrushes and reserv'd till occasion shall make it too appitant may finde out a Law of equall force to dispose the Crown when they shall so far debilitate the Prince as he shall be no way able to make resistance for when the supporters are not