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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77405	A briefe-answere, to the late-resolves of the Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning ministers, their preaching and praying.		1649 (1649)	Wing B4546; Thomason E566_1; ESTC R206176	7,203	11

of the Church l. 1 c. 1.2 Bolititians an● Divines assert and the Scripture manifests gives every Father a Magisteriall and Legislative power over his Children Progeny Family now the Steward cannot have any lawfull Authority without him to impose Lawes on the rest of the Family without his consent as is generally acknowledged Therefore the Commons being but the Stewards of this great Family of England of which the King is the Father Hee that hath but common sense will conclude can be no Parliament alone without him nor can they have any lawfull Authority to impose any binding-Law upon the rest of the Family that is the rest of their fellow Subjects without his assent This Law then of the Commons alone is not Binding 4 That the Commons alone are no Parliament and therefore no lawfull-Authority but that the King and Lords are requisite to make up a compleat Parliament is confirmed by Prescription and Custome from the very first beginning of Parliaments in this Kingdome till this present there being no one president to bee found in History or Record of any Parliament held in this Island without a King Personally present or representatively by a Protector Custos Regni or Commissioners and Lords or Peeres as Ingulph Beda Hecter Boetius and Speed among our Historians Anti●●uitates Ecclesiae Britanicae Spelmanni Concilia Tom. 1. Sir Edward Cooke in his Preface to the 9. Report and Institut 4. c. 1. Mr. Seldens titles of honuours part 2. c. 5. Truth triumphing over Falshood Antiquity over Noveltie p. 56.90 and Mr Lambert in his Arohaion doe all beare witnesse Six (g) Com. of England 〈◊〉 61 Thomas Smith (h) Ho●●●shed Vol. 1. c 6. p. 173. Ralph Hollinshed (i) Cambden B●●ta p. 177. Mr. Cambden Powel in his Attorneys Academy and divers others unanimously conclude That the Parliament consists of the King Lords and Cominons which three represent the Body of all England which make but one Assembly or Court called the Parliament and is of all other the highest and greatest Authority and hath the most high and absolute power of the Realme Mr. Crompton in his Jurisdicton of Cou●ts fol. 1. affirms That it neither is nor can bee any Parliament without the King and Lords This Court saith he is the highest Court of England which the King Lords and Commons doe all joyntly make up and then Resolves against these desperate Resolvers That no Law can bee made to binde the Subjects without all their concurrent Assent The Commons alone therefore are no Parliament and consequently have no Lawfull Authority This Law then of the present Commons is not binding Thus have wee proved by the knowne Lawes of the Land That the Commons alone have no Lawfull Authority to Constitute any Law and that therefore this Law is not binding This promised Next because it concernes Ministers let us see whether it bee binding by the Law of God or according to the Rule of his Word That Law which doth Command any thing which the Word of God doth Forbid or Forbid any thing which the Word of God doth Command is not binding But this Law doth both Command that which is Forbiden and Forbid that which is Commanded in the Word of God Therefore this Law doth not bind That this Law termed the Resolves doth Forbid that which is Commanded in the Word of God and Command that which is Forbidden Thus I Prove The first Precept is this If any Minister that is no Minister shall c. This Precept Forbids Ministers to Preach or Pray against their Proceedings Now the Ministers Consciences are fully satisfied that some of their Proceedings they being as is proved no Lawfull Authority are against the Law of the Land and consequently against the Law of God for the knowne Lawes of this Land are all grounded upon the Law of God As the cutting off the late King's Head the abolishing Monarchy and erecting a populer Government of themselves and creatures with divers other infringements of the Fundamentall Lawes of this Kingdome just rights of the Crowne and Liberty and Propriety of the Subjects those severall Orders and Ordinances Protestations Covenants and Oathes which they have first thrust upon and forst the People unto and then not only broken them themselves but also compelled or corrupted others to commit the same impiety for which the Land mournes yea all their courses is evill and their foote is not right * Jer 23.10 and therefore to bee both Prayed and Preached against by the Ministers or dispensers of the Word of God which Commands them so to doe * Ezech. 33.7.8 Isai 18 1.2 Ezeck 2.3.4 c. 2. Tim. 4.2 And Gods Word doth Command this because God would have it knowne that though the Power of Law-makers were unquestionable which of these Resolvers is not yet that the consideration and determination whether such Lawes as they prescribe bee agreeable to or against Gods Law belongs to the Minister as is evident * Deut. 17.8.9.10 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in Judgment c. And thou shalt come unto the Priests of the Levites and unto the Judge * who shall give Sentence 〈◊〉 the Priests shall Counsell him by the law of God that shall bee in those daies and aske and they shall shew thee the sentence of Judgement And thou shalt doe according to all that they informe thee According to the Law which they shall teach thee c. Compare their Resolves with this part of Scripture and tell me whether they doe not in the first Precept Forbid that which this Commands So likewise in the Prophet Malachy the word of God saith thus And ye shall know that I have sent this Commandement unto you Mal● 1.4.8 That my Covenant which I made with Levi might stand to put the Law of Truth in his Mouth That his Lips should preserve Knowledg and that the People should seeke the Law at his Mouth for he is the messenger of the Lord of * Isai 58.1.2 Host These Lips God's word commands them to open and to speake with this Mouth That Law then which Forbids these lips to open and this Mouth to speake doth Forbid that which the Word of God Commande But this first Precept doth seale up the one and stop the other Silenceing the Ministers a Crime so inexpiable in the Bishops Therefore this Law in respect of this first Precept is not binding Which I shall prove not binding also in respect of their second Precept for that both forbid that which St. Paul commands * 1. Tim. 2. ● 2 and commands in these words otherwise then as the Enemies to this Common-Wealth that which God himselfe forbids * Exod 21.28 Eccles 10.20 Therefore this Law in respect of this second Precept also is not binding Now to prove that it is not binding in respect of the last I desire you to read * Isaiah 58. Zechariah ● and compare them with their proceedings