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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89699	No interest beyond the principall or, The court camisado. By reduction of government to its primitive end and integrity, Rom. 13.4. The ruler is the minister of God to thee for good. Also, nevves from Scotland : or, the reasons examined of the warre threatned. May. 1. 1648. Imprimatur, Gilb. Mabbott.		1648 (1648)	Wing N1176; Thomason E437_25; ESTC R202984	12,774	16

NO INTEREST Beyond the PRINCIPALL OR The Court CAMISADO By Reduction of Government to its primitive end and Integrity Rom. 13. 4. The Ruler is the Minister of God to thee for good ALSO NEVVES from SCOTLAND OR The REASONS Examined of the Warre THREATNED May. 1. 1648. Imprimatur Gilb. Mabbott LONDON Printed for H. Becke and are to be sold in the Old Bayley 1648. No Interest beyond the Principall OR The Court Camisado IN the case of divorce when it was put to Christ by the Pharisees to know his opinions in it he being neither Scribe nor Pharisee Mat. 19. of no sect nor faction one that drive no designe but Gods and that came to fulfill the law not to destroy it sends those great doctors to Schoole to the primitive end and institution of marriage as it came immediatly from God in innocency when and where all things were very good as he that will taste water purely must doe it at the fountain But they not satisfied with this solution by way of justification urge an old statute Law of Moses which by its antiquity authority and usage might as they thought v. 7 plead right of prescription for that masculine priviledge of putting away their wives But Christ tels them that Plant never grew in innocency God grafted no such Sience in the stocke of created nature it was a mushroome that grew out of nature corrupted Moses saies he bacause of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives but from the beginning it was not so as who say It was indeed a politique law of concession but policy must not annull divinity neither reason of state not laws municipal must crossewh●t with right reason or the principles of entire nature Therefore I who am come to enlighten your judgements and reforme your manners Gospell-properties tell you againe that whatever your lusts and exorbitancies might occasion Moses to do or enact by way of connivance or permission that does not justifie the practise though never so old and generally received to be lawful but rather shew it to be unlawful because that permission varies from the first position or standard given by God himself the prime legislator whither this case if rightly stated and argued must be reduced for solution no authority binding above his nor no law against his though seemingly never so specious A cleare demonstration which is the best way to answer questions and work reformations in matters of Government Not to be mis-led by words of Art civill superstition or formall pretences to the violation of the lawes of God nature or reason It is true that Government as marriage is of God but it is as true that governors as persons marrying are of men and that the great Interest which word is now the onely Idol that men sal down and worship of both Government and Governours is the glory of God and the good of mankind The end of the institution is the onely interest of the thing instituted and consequently the Mea●e-wand or Standard by which it is to be regulated and reduced though as old as Moses when God gives opportunity and time brings truth to light In this age of ours Kings plead for prerogative flowres of the Crown and right of Soveraignty as they and their flatterers cal it And even Parliament-priviledge is made use of by prerogative members for promoting the arbitrary interest of the Crown thus is authority wire-drawn as if Governours rather then the Governed were the end of Government and Government it selfe is rather made a personall Interest then a publique utility Yea Laws nay Oathes are thus made use of to captive insnare men by prerogative glosses as if it wer in the power of men who are the sons of reason to swear themselves into beasts and to abjure their very nature and that by vertue of an ordinance of God which Government is What confidence can Kings have in people by such ties as being ex natura rei unlawfull do untie themselves and which are both unlawful to be taken and when taken unlawfull to be kept Such glosses as Court Parasites put upon lawes allegiance tending to make Kings absolute and their power as well negative as positive and their duty meere matters of pleasure and acts of will in the way neither to render Kings safe nor their people happy The Popery of an implicit faith and blinde obedience will not cannot last alwayes which because it is so much countenanced by Episcopacy that rag of Rome therefore thence is that maxim No Bishops no King implying that when ever the vail of ignorance and blind obedience was done away by abolishing of Bishops and the peoples eyes were opened by divinity and reason to see themselves mis-led by pretence of authority from a right understanding of the nature of government they will never endure to be slaves instead of freemen subjects to governours instead of government and to serve their interests who are their Ministers and Gods meerly for their good having their being in office and authority by for nor to no other end or purpose For as the Pope is afraid of nothing so much as the translating the word into popular languages for fear of betraying his jugling tricks in divinity so nor Kings and Royallists then that the Lawes of the Land should be English'd I meane not so much in language as in sense and reason though there is no good reason why English eyes should look through French spectacles except it be to see to lose our way to liberty and property as they have done but for English Lawes to speake Prerogative is worse then to speake French some Commentators are better Courtiers then Lawyers who should be men of reason and not so discredit the Law the honour of their profession as to force it against reason to advance the will of a man above the reason of a State and the originall end of government it selfe Therefore its time to be no longer fool'd with State tearmes of Interest Jewels and Flowers of the Crowne or the old overworne word of Prerogative for what is this but first to set up a golden image and then to fall downe and worship it I am not against Kings nor their Crownes it s the abuse and onely that that I abominate which hath as much blindfolded the people of Christendome as the Popes supremacy hath the Princes thereof whose eyes yet shall be opened to see their errour and to withdraw their necks out of his Ecclesiasticall yoake and so it s hoped shall the peoples specially Englishmen in things Civil to know as their obedience to authority so good authority in reason justice and equity for that their obedience for so men act like men else like beasts which only are subjected to will which yet is not the least part of that bondage of corruption the creation groans and travels in pain under Rom. 8. 20 21 22. being unwillingly made subject to that vanity in hope and earnest

grant it to his their apparent ruine Only blind Cupid is fit to stand a top of the wheel of Fortune none that have eyes in their heads would desire so slippery a place when they see they so much over top themselves that their hands cannot mannage what is under their feet but they must needs turn round to their own ruine But if seeing they see not and will venture their necks to have their wills yet there is no reason the people should build Babel to bring confusion upon themselves VVisdom is to pursue a right end by right means consequently not to expect good government from a corrupt will endowed with Arbitrary power What hath bin the ruin of Empire so much as Empire Kings have lived to repent their power and people much more And Secondly for his party in the Parliament Priviledge in their hands is as bad as prerogative in his they having no more right of power to abuse that then he this Whoever represents a County or Corporation is entrusted by a part of member of the Common-wealth for the good of the whole and is in the 〈◊〉 of an Embassador or Commissioner to negotiate in a joynt body with the States Generall for the State in generall For by the Laws of Embassie State agents though Plenipotentiaties are not to betray them they treat for their power is neither intended nor ought to be interpreted to the prejudice but profit of them that imploy them The Feffee for the Feffor Liberty and priviledge are allowed to Parliaments to transact the liberty property and safety of the people and he that goes retrograde to those what place or part of the Common-wealth soever he serve for by right of community ought to be rejected by the rest that serve for and are intrusted with the whole In a word words by tract of time degenerate like men Tirannus once was taken in the better part when Kings were better common-wealths-men and that they and their people were joynt purchasers trading abroad not at home for preeminence So was the word Interest whilst it was of publick cognizance and all Qu. Elizabeths dayes kept it self sober by drinking English Be●re till it was made drunk with F●●…tiniack and the King and his Courtiers by use upon use and interest upon interest had almost swallowed up all the peoples Principall And Reason it self run hazzard to have her eyes put out that Prapria que maribus which was wont to be the common name for all men it begun to be wholly ingrossed at Court entailed upon the crown begg'd for a Monopoly insomuch as there was almost no Reason left but Reason of State within the compasse of a cabinet councell all else was either bruitish or rebell on nor no state but that of the King his Royal consort the one Scatch the other French When publick Interest is impropriated ex officia to private personall purposes then ceaseth the name nature of a Governour by deviating from the primitive end institution of government ordain'd by God Nature consequently love loyalty obedience duty for what oblieges these not greatnes without goodnes for then the devil might challenge them at our hands who by Scripture is stiled principalities and powers yea the Prince of this world Authority whatever the kind or species of it be whilest it points right to the pole and retains the vertue of the Lord-stone where with it was first touched its safe to sale by it but if either through corruption or injury of time it make standing variations at wrong points then it must either be new touched or quite changed else contrary to intention when first sea-saile you le make a wrong voyage and fall amongst enemies instead of friends or a destructive and be cast amongst rock and sands instead of knowne Seas NEWES from SCOTLAND OR Their reasons examined of the WARRE threatned THe Scots would faine make war upon England but they are to seeke for a why and a wherefore and are ready to fall together by the eares amongst themselves what shall be the cause of the quarrell yet keep us in continuall alarme to the losse of Ireland for the world must have a blind But bee the reason never so politicke Religion must be the overture which the Scotch dangerous Committee not being wise enough to reconcile Traquire who of late was first in their exception and now in acceptation was called to councell to help at a dead lift being for michiavillian policy another Strafford One part of them say the Sectaries meaning the Army have broken the Covenant which they never tooke But if breach of Covenant be a cause of quarrell the Scots neede not goe so farre to fight they have Covenant breakers nearer hand at home is it possible that such pretenders to piety should see a moat in their brothers eye so far off and overlooke the beame that is in their own streyne at a gnat and swallow a camel threaten warre to England for they themselves know not what one while saying the Covenant is broken and another while that it is endangered and the whilst cocker up their owne Commissioners with an omne bene in their palpable Covenant-breaches and Apostacies But it seemes they must fall out with us to keep them friends amongst themselves though if they had eyes in their heads they might see Gods hand in creating such fewds at home to prevent the mischiefe they would bring abroad But wherein have the Army broken the Covenant why principally for not being Presbyterians for that in pretence with some and reality with others is made the chiefe if not the only hinge that the Covenant winds and turnes upon though the word Presbitery is not so much as once named in the Covenant a weak foundation then to build a warre upon but to strengthen it they say the Army have refused orders for their disbanding and forced orders for their standing though the Parliament of England never told them so but they forget what their Army did when it was sent to but to disband their supernumeraries which they flatly refused and forcibly kept them a foot spite of the Parliament and to the despite of the poor Country that groaned under so heavy a burden of so heavy a body and by the same force kept Carlile and Newcastle whether the Parliament would or no by what clause in the Covenant or Treaty is not knowne to this day and the King of England too in England till they thought good to part with him and that notwithstanding all authority reason or right to the contrary But the true reason why the Army whose greatest fault in their faithfulnesse is such an eye sore it is because by their meanes principally their strong party in England is much weakned those fine designes of a joynt interest legislative propriety and the Kings comming to London in freedome honour and safety and other such like have been shrewdly disappointed by demolishing their eleven pillars