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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67357	A vindication of the King· With some observations upon the two Houses. By a true sonne of the Church of England, and a lover of his countryes liberty.	Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.	1642 (1642)	Wing W533D; ESTC R203883	7,609	10

A VINDICATION OF THE KING WITH Some OBSERVATIONS upon the TWO HOVSES By a true Sonne of the Church of ENGLAND and a Lover of his Countryes Liberty London Printed Anno Domini 1642. A Vindication of the KING c. I Shall not be curious to satisfie the Reason of any prepossest opinion yet since the Times hath given an open Presse to cleere every imagination which is not stifled in this Dampe I have endeavoured to contract my own Meditations in a narrow roome and rather expose them to the censure of the most judicious then rest satisfied alone and admit this cloudy surface to overwhelme so vast a Body I confesse it was no meane part of my happinesse in our dangerous extreames to hope for a happy Union by that Soveraign medicine of a fading State a Parliament and knowing the admirable affection of our gracious Soveraign to the peace and quiet of the Kingdome though it was His unspeakable misfortune never to know the misery of the People till their discontents were growne to that head they became almost if not altogether uncureable by those unreasonable Monopolies exacted by some ill affected agents conducing little to his advantage but to the furthering of their ambition who not withstanding could as easily desert him in his misery as before be the ready instruments to importune him to this mischiefe upon pretence of a Legall Authority which who knowes not a Prince may bee soone mistaken in since none can be so silly as to beleeve him a studied Lawyer Yet that this should expose us to so great an adventure as not only to divest him of this suspected arbitrary power but to confer an absolute government to any whatsoever renders me no other action then the Poets Incidit in Syllam cupiens vitare caribdim But if you please to take the true State of the businesse let your Impartiall Judgement confer with your reason upon these few notorious truths What has the King denyed which concern our Liberty and are the undoubted securities of our happinesse under the regiment of a Just and unquestionable Monarchy Are not our Rights and Properties already establisht this Parliament by such acts of Grace as could never finde presidents from His Ancestors besides the utter extirpation of Shipmony Monopolies upon what pretence soever those arbitrary Courts of Justice High Commission Star-Chamber Marshalseas c. Has he not importuned the setling of Religion in his purity and that there might be a Law to secure the tender consciences of those who will not agree the Ceremonies Are not the taking away these sufficient ground to desolve our Jealosies if ever we mean to be satisfied As for their feares I wish wee had as little reason to suspect the fomenters as we have the King who is so clearly divested of any power to make good the least injustice that it 's too great a hazard on his part to adventure what our consciences enforce us to make good for Him on our part and the conservation of those are so attested by him in the word of a King with such unusuall expressions that if they came from a stranger I suspected not an infidell I was bound to beleeve in charity witnesse those serious asseverations God so deale with Me and my Children as I intend to conserve my Parliament in its Priviledges the Rights of the Subject and the true profest Protestant Religion God so prosper me in what I take in hand Is there yet a further way to establish them whereby they may be so secure that a violation may seeme impossible with out the subversion of the very letter of the Law Why is it not proposed if it be no Invasion of that Just Prerogative was never denyed his Ancestors and what he hath deserved of us that he may not be as far trusted is as hard to object as easily answered If then we must needes agree that therebeing nothing so cleare why should any subtile pretences hinder our desired accommodation unlesse there be that intend the alteration of our Government and how inconsistant that may prove to a People already managed under the united order of a vertuous King daily experience offers it too easie of conjecture Yet for our better satisfaction le ts weigh the amends we are like to make our selves from these few Inconveniences amongst the thousands which daily expose themselves to our view 1. The unlimited power of the two Houses have already assumed into their own hands a formall all Ordinance countermanding suspending nay creating Acts of Parliament though not in the name of Acts yet in the power of Acts whereby both King and People are obliged to obey how to distinguish this Ordinance from an Act of State I am not well satisfied yet I have heard it cald Treason in one of their Members for this comparison though with that cautious provisoe That it should be no leading case to future ages for Judges to imitate Is this the security of our undoubted Rights we have so long endeavoured who carries not now his life in his hand managed by an exact power of a bare Vote which if any contradicts must suffer under the name of a malignant party though of their own Members and not proceeded against by the Justice of any president Acts but condemned by the Votes of the present Session and if this be not an absolute subversion of the Rights of Parliament and destructive to the fundamentall Laws of our Kingdome wherein our liberty consists I would fain be satisfied what is for 't is most apparant to whosoever examines their ordinary procedings we have no law left but what serves their turne and if that bee defective to punish those they please to call Delinquents their Legislatiue Ordinance can as well supply that defect as it could make that obnoxious which till this Parliament no man could ever call a fault 2. This continuing power of the two Houses which if they had had a mind should ever be remitted they would have either expressed it in their first demand and limitted it to a certaine time wherin they might have compleatly qualified the disquiet countenance of a troubled Estate or since have endeavoured some Remonstrance for our satisfaction in that particular For I would fain be answered First if they sit while they list and passe what they list whether they have not during their pleasure subverted our Monarchy by their democracie and Invested themselves of a power more Arbitrary then the Monarchicall Government could pretend to that having his limitations and Rules of Law which the Iudges are to answer if they mistake or those that advise the King their democracy having no bounds be but a thing of Yesterday and which as yet we cannot understand assuming to themselves the sole power to Iudge of our dangers and propose such remedy as may answer their pretences 2. How every consciencious man can dispence with that sacred Oath of Allegiance wherein He cals God to Witnesse for the Vindication of