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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91444	The Parliament justified in their late proceedings against Charls Stuart, or a brief discourse concerning the nature and rise of government, together with the abuse of it in tyranny, and the peoples reserve. As also an answer to a certain paper, entituled, The humble advice of the lecturers of Banbury in the county of Oxon, and Brackley in the county of Northampton. / By J: Fidoe, T: Jeanes, W: Shaw, students in Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge.	Fidoe, John, b. 1625 or 6.; Jeanes, Thomas, d. 1668.; Shaw, William, student in Trinity College, Cambridge.	1649 (1649)	Wing P502; Thomason E545_14; ESTC R203138	12,113	21

THE PARLIAMENT JUSTIFIED In their late Proceedings against Charls Stuart Or a brief DISCOURSE concerning the Nature and Rise of GOVERNMENT Together with the Abuse of it in Tyranny and the PEOPLES Reserve 1 Sam. 17.28 And Eliab said I know thy pride and the haughtiness of thy heart AS ALSO AN ANSWER To a certain PAPER entituled The humble Advice of the Lecturers of Banbury in the county of Oxon and Brackley in the County of Northampton By J Fidoe T Jeanes W Shaw Students in Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1648. Impartial READER LEt neither the Title nor the matter offend thee the title is nothing else but the Books Name by which you may distinguish it Let not the Frontispiece affright you if so rather throw it by Christen it by what Name you will Names or Titles are but tokens of things and evidences of mens affections We for our parts cannot though others do forfeit our Trust to those who next unto our Creator have been the Preservers and Restorers of our Rights and Priviledges which Tyranny had bereaved us almost of We cannot suffer our selves to be called unthankful or to be branded with Injustice for if Cicero may be credited there is Injustice in not turning away an injury when it is in our power as well as in doing it Though we could humbly wish That better wits and riper judgements in these matters would have undertaken this task a task indeed able to break our shoulders were there not Atlasses to bear us up and who knows not but Atlas is able to bear up the whole world The Tongue saith St. James is a little member but set on fire of Hell with it we bless God and curse man Some men are of Jobs wife's temper onely in this different she advises her husband to curse God they men who sees not innumerable Shimei's that when Saul is departed cast reproaches upon our Davids or honorable worthies how many Rabshekahs that reproach and with uncircumcised tongues defie our Bethel or Parliament for God is wont to be in the Congregations of the Gods We are true Englishmen cannot endure to deny but ingenuously to confess the least favors Who knows not but that this Parliament and Army now on foot have restored to us not onely our well being but our very lives for not to speak of the slavery of Subjects under Tyrants who cannot call their lives their own of which more shall be said from him that would have enslaved us in more then Egyptian bondage for it is probable that though Pharaohs Taskmasters did afflict their bodies yet their lives were not hazarded ●●t who is ignorant of the purpose and intent of our adversaries not onely to have enslaved our bodies to have usurped our possessions but also our very lives should have been at ones will who we say can be so unlike a man as to labor to destroy those that gave him life and all that cannot be content not onely to receive good but they must requite evil O perverse Generation if you should do good to those that do good to you what more do ye then the Heathens But what example can you bring to paralel this ingratitude A few spare hours wrote this handful we Schollars have not much time to spend upon the State onely these few words may testifie our hearts who are not onely willing to word it but to justifie if need be some other way We know we shall endanger the tongues of many a Zoïlus what is it to us Tongues are but childrens bables Fools use their tongues though not their Reason To those therefore that are so Eagle-eyed that they can spy any fault but their own we shall conclude with that of the Comedian Ut Maledicere desinant monemas maledicts ne noscant sua Thine as thou art for the Truth Iohn Fidoe Thomas Ieanes VVilliam Shaw THE PARLIAMENT JUSTIFIED In their late Proceedings against Charls Stuart BEfore we proceed to Treat of Government in the rise and growth it will not be needless to give our definition of it as we think fit enough to the nature of the thing We define it therefore a voluntary submission when one or more rule and others willingly obey by which we distinguish it from Tyranny of which more hereafter for the end of all Government it Salus Populi there being as saith Cicero a natural instinct in all Men and Beasts to conserve themselves and to shun those things that are destructive Now that this may be the easier done Nature seeks Union for all Union preserves but discord and disjunction kills And Solomon says that two are better then one for if one fall the other shall help him up And Aristotle says in his Book De Repub. That man by nature is Civile Animal And therefore the same Author saith That he that is a Member of no City is either a notorious Rogue or better then a Man To which agrees Cains punishment to be a wanderer and a vagabond which he said was to heavy for him to bear and those in the Hebrews who wandred about in sheep-skins and goat-skins of whom the world was not worthy The first age we confess dwelt apart and lived vicati●● as also it is said of the Athenians that they lived like Beasts in holes till by Government they were civilized Now for the preserving of mutual entercourse between man and man Nature who doth nothing in vain endued man with a reasonable Soul and discursive faculty or speech by which he might signifie to his fellow Creatures both joy and gladness and also bewail his misery He hath made him also to distinguish betwixt good and evil just and unjust and that not upon constraint but by an innate Principle by a Law written in his heart But after that God had Created man a living soul he forgetting that duty of his Creation increased in wickedness so that it was necessary for the conservation of the whole that this vast body might have some head to rule it and something that might be as a rule just and right to be governed by Now this Government admits of several divisions and several names For certain it is that the first Image of Government that ever was hath been betwixt Father and Family For as much as those things that are simple are before Aggregates and therefore Aristotle first speaks of a House as being the part of a City and then of a City A House consists of two parts Servants and Children A Servant is nothing else but a living possession one who hath given up himself to the disposing of another and is as an instrument in the hand of his Master who doth with him what he pleaseth save onely that which the Law of Nature and the Law of the State wherein we live forbid How this came about and whether God at first Created men alike and whether men put themselves first into this condition we