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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95510	The resolver, or, A short vvord, to the large question of the times. Concerning the Parliament: and confirming the proceedings about the King. Being, a letter written to a deare friend, tending to satisfie him. At least, to shew the authour rationall, in approving the proceedings of the Army. / Imprimatur Gilbert Mabbot.	N. T.	1649 (1649)	Wing T40; Thomason E527_10; ESTC R205667	7,749	8

that the Peeres and Powers of State who are as it were the compendium saith he of the Common-weale as indeed our Parliament is that they give judgement by publike authoritie conserning the Kings government and that they ought to remove that Tyrant yet so as that they accommodate the assistance of the people I might adde to these reasons of his but I forbeare Now as to the third thing viz. For what end or why a Tyrant is or may thus be resisted This he gives shortly thus That so the Common-weale may be secured and the Tyrant himselfe if it may be by any meanes may be brought to be fruitfull i.e. by repentance To the last particular How long this is to last or continue He saith Till hee that is the Tyrant amend But if no hope thereof appeare so long as the safety of the Kingdome will permit Object But if the Peeres or Powers of State saith the same Author further him i.e. the Tyrant-King and nourish his Tyranny What may or shall the people doe Answ For a good time or a long time they must forbeare or be quiet Till patience it selfe often and long abused turne into impatiencie Thus that light of Germany Transilvania yea of Europe as a fire and no flattering Pen stiles Alstedius Quest But you will say in all this here is no mention of putting Kings to death Answ True None directly But I presume you are so rationall as not to deny it consequentially Certainely the same grounds urged for deposing c. of Kings will also hold their putting them to death where justice and necessity call for it The security of a Kingdome is to be prized above the security of a King And when it cannot be otherwise better one man dye by the Sword of Justice then many yea a Kingdome bleed by the Sword of Tyranny But what Instances can be given will you say It s good acting by a President I Reply T is lawfull without Suppose some Instances could not be given must therefore the thing be unlawfull Surely non sequitur If some Kings formerly were so good as not to deserve it or some People so weak as not to inflict it Shall not others be so wise as to punish when their Kings shall be so wicked as to deserve it But we need not runne to this short yet sure refuge I could give Instances enough to cleare this That If Kings deserve States may inflict death upon them Thryninius the proud was dethroned his goods confiscated and certainly saith Livie had he been taken for he fled should have been otherwise punished If you say his crimes were above Charles Stuarts I think when you have read Livie you will say they were lesse For he saith He was guilty of not hearkning to the advice of the Senate That he made Warre of his owe head as the King did against the Scots and that against the consent and counsell of the Parliament That he violated the Lawes c. The Histories of the Athenian and Lacedemonian Common-weales are plentifull in this kinde Q. But they are Heathen A. What then Had not they Justice And shall not Christians rather goe before then not follow them therein But our English Histories tell you of Edward the 2d John and others that were dethroned by Parliament I am in haste therefore I shall onely referre you to Buchanan and if have not time to read him Any of the Scots and you know some will tell you of Kings enough which their Kingdom hath tried and proceeded against Q. But here 's no Scripture-Justice you will say A. True It needs not The The Law of Nature and Nations in these cases will suffice Jus politicum is enough in Politcks Why should any especially who content themselves with yea and contend that jus humanum may suffice in Church-affaires why I say should these require jus divinum in Civills yet is not the Scripture alltogether silent For there we read of Amaziah king of Judah put to death by his Subjects with a generall consent the Spirit of the Lord not mentioning as he doth in other things the least disallowance thereof 2 Chron. 25.27 I confesse I finde not the cause fully expressed But in the Hebrew notes of Rabbi Solomon Jarchi I finde this That the heart of every man was grieved for his sons for his brethren and kinsmen which were slain by his meanes in warre against Josias king of Israel Note this was but for a rash warre waged against another King to the slaughter of his Subjects what then shall be done to him that hath waged a long bloody warre against his Subject Sed manam de tabulam I have almost done you know he was no Independant so nick-named who said Fiat justitia ruat Mundus Better certainly expose the Kingdom to an other shaking by War through the execution of justice then expose it to a three years famine president whereof we have 2 Sam. 21. for not punishing a bloody house Surely the blood of the English is as deare to God as the blood of the Gibeonites and the house of Stewards as bloody as the house of Saul I have thus hastily scribled this paper if not to your satisfaction yet at least to my owne And I hope by this you will see that I am more rationall then cast in that approbation which I gave to the Armies Remonstrance For a close I protest that I am perswaded that the things now agitated are of the Lord Therefore it is that I approve them And humbly advise you not to oppose them least you be found Tiomachan To fight against him ignorantly whom I hope you love sincerely viz. the God of love and also of Justice It s easie to doe that in an houre which we cannot undoe in a yeare After-wit indeed is bought and accounted best but you know it costs deare I beleeve some repents of the last Summers rashnesse and will doe whils they live But this not in Kent for since old and good Sir Anthony is dead the Committee hath lost its life And some of them act as if they made little account of their Soules Godfrey of Bulloigne is not amongst them There is one indeed of that name But alas he read The Armies Remonstrance wondred at it Cryed it up And then sate down againe and is now c. a Jacobine Proselite As touching your feare of an inundation of Errours and a devastation of the Ministry and Learning You know that I hate Errors as much as you and I confesse tho I feare them for they are evill yet I hope the Weapon of our Warfare being Spivituall will also be mighty And as to Learning and the Ministery you know I have cause to love them And I must confesse I am so far from fearing any evill to befall them That I expect I have reason to hope their advancement But to end It s a fitting season Rotten leaves and branches too fall apace Be not you high minded but feare The day is surely dawned in which the loftinesse of man shall be bowed downe and the haughtinesse of men shall be made low and the Lord alone shall be exalted in this day It s my advise to you and indeard for my selfe to provide a ransome from Divine Justice hereafter rather then to hinder or speak against the executing of humane justice here At the great day Christ will not distinguish between Kings and Clownes Princes at his bar will be proceeded against according to their desarts Indeed t is true the World counts them and the Word calls them Gods But it saith also that they must die at best as men And for my part if they deserve it I think it all reason they should dye as Mallefactors When Kings fall from their goodnesse they lose their Diety And when they fight against their Subjects and break their oathes they forfeit their Kingship If Charles Steward have done evill and deserve it in Gods name and the Kingdomes Peace let him die I shall pray that free grace may save his soule when Justice shall destroy his body I am Sir Your friend and servant N. T. Jan. 1. 1648. FINIS