Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	king_n	law_n	levy_v	3,963	5	11.2983	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84002	Englands sole remedy: or, A vvholsome directory, for the recory [sic] of our languishing kingdome: drawn from the law of God, and the land. Containing some necessary and pertinent queries, with their resolutions, by Scriptures, law, and reason: very fit and convenient to be thought upon by all Englishmen, for the begetting of a sure, safe, and well-grounded peace. Collected and intended for the good of all. By a lover of peace and truth.	Lover of peace and truth.	1648 (1648)	Wing E3053; Thomason E453_7; ESTC R201935	9,161	16

kind of Government is plainely and directly against the Word of God and never dreamed of untill Calvins time and therefore if it be set up we must expect Gods severe curse upon and for the same so that what hath been said in this Quaerie may make it cleare unto all that are not wilfully blind that their pretended or intended Government neither Civill nor Ecclesiasticall may stand with the nature of this present age and people Quaerie 6. Whether or no the Lords now sitting in the upper House of Parliament having so much failed in their trust may not more justly be deprived of sitting there then Lords formerly for decayed Estates Resol How the Law of the Land will precisely resolve this Quaerie I leave unto the learned in that profession but to them ignorant in the constitution of any Common-wealth halfe-eyed reason will make it good in the Affirmative considering the end wherefore Parliament-men sit in the two Houses is to consult and advise with their Prince concerning making Lawes for the good of the Kingdome whereunto bona fortunae the riches of fortune whereof are wealth Revenues honour and the like are nothing essentiall but onely additionall thereunto for honour credit and supplying of outward necessities sake but bona animi the goods of the mind as are learning especially in the Law of God and the Land tendernesse of affection for the glory of God and the good of their Country for the execution whereof it is requisite they be qualified with fidelity resolution discretion judgement and justice without which they can never attaine unto that end for which they sit as the one therefore is of more use for the attaining of that end at which they are to aime then the other it is in an answerable proportion more necessary then the other and the want thereof must necessarily the more disable the parties so wanting from the charge and trust of so great an imployment The Lords therefore now sitting in the upper Parliament-House having failed in their trust and fidelity doe more justly deserve to be debarred from sitting in the House then Lords formerly for decayed Estates Quaerie 7. Whether or no by the Lawes of this Kingdome the two Houses their raising of Armies without his Majesties consent is a rebellious riot besides the Statute Law of the Land considering they neither have nor could knight their most deserving Souldiers for their Martiall service Resol The Law of the Land resolves this doubt clearly in the Affirmative St. 30. Die Octobris An. 7. Ed. 1. the words are these Now in our Parliament at Westminster the Prelates Earles Barons and the Commonalty of the Realme there assembled to take advise have said that to us it belongeth and our part is through our royall Seignory straightly to defend force of Armes and all other force against our peace at all times when it shall please us and to punish them which shall doe contrary according to the Lawes and usages of this Realme and hereunto they are bound to aid us as their Soveraigne Lord at all seasons when need shall be but thus to raise Armies against their Soveraigne Lord the King is downeright Treason St. 25. Ed. 3.2 If a man doe levy warre against their Soveraigne Lord the King in this Realme or be adherent unto the Kings enemies in his Realme giving to them aid and comfort in the Realme or elswhere and thereof be provably attainted of open deed by people of their condition And if a man counterfeit the Kings great or Privy Seale and if a man slay the Chancellour it is to be understood in the cases rehearsed that ought to be judged Treason which extends to our Lord the King and his royall Majesty which Act concerning Treason is re-established 1 Edw. 6.12 therefore their taking up of Armes without his Majesties consent is against the Law of the Land and high Treason against our Soveraigne Lord the King Quaerie 8. Whether or no the two Houses in statu quo nunc wanting the head heart and integrall parts of a Parliament may justly be accounted as the representative Body of this Kingdome Resol They do no more represent the body of this Kingdome then a statua or picture without head heart and many other members throughout and those which it hath being mangled and abused do represent a man for al men know this that in these two Houses are wanting the King which is the Head of the Kingdome the Judges of the Law which are the heart thereof and the Bishops which are the breasts and the most of the temporall Nobility which should be as the back unto that Body Politike They know likewise how it is mangled in the lower House wanting the head heart and integrall parts of a Parliament It cannot therefore be gainsaid but these two Houses in statu quo nunc are no representative Body of this Kingdome Quaerie 9. Whether or no the Kingdome of England by the Judges of the Land the Master of the Rolls and the Secretaries of Estate being put from the Woolsacks is thereby deprived of one of their greatest interests and concernments Resol For the solution of this let the Kingdomes own experience speak and we shall find it in the Affirmative for The Judges of the Land the Master of the Rolls c. ought to sit upon Woolsacks in the middle of the upper House because wooll being the chiefest commodity and benefit of this Kingdome they might thereby be put in minde thereof to cause them to think and study for the same good of the said Kingdome and there ever upon all occasions to be ready to acquaint the Lords of the upper House with what is Law the greatest Interests and concernments of the Kingdome whereof without them there can be no wise prudent wholsome care taken They therefore being put from the VVoolsacks the Kingdome thereby is deprived of their greatest interests and concernments Quaerie 10. VVhether or no the two Houses wanting the constitutive part of a Parliament may justly be called a Parliament Resol No more then a Body without a Soule may justly be said to be a man for as a reasonable soule is that constitutive part which makes a man thus the King is the soule and life of the Law and Parliament as is sufficiently maintained by all Orthodox Divines sound Lawyers The two Houses therefore without the King which is the constitutive part of Parliaments cannot justly be called a Parliament Quaerie 11. Whether or no the Speaker of the lower House having the first day of this last Parliament promised in the name of the Commons that they should not abuse but have such regard as most faithfull Subjects ought to have to their Prince considering their cariage towards him for these severall yeares have thereby forfeited their honour trust right and interest in the Commonwealth Resol What every rationall man if but poized with meane moderation will conclude of this is easily to be conjectured and what the Law of