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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97037	A vindication of the King, with some observations upon the two Houses: by a true son of the Church of England, and a lover of his countries liberty.	Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.	1642 (1642)	Wing W533C; Thomason E118_3; ESTC R22675	7,649	15

A VINDICATION OF THE KING WITH Some OBSERVATIONS upon the TWO HOVSES By a True Son of the Church of ENGLAND and a Lover of his Countries Liberty London Printed Anno Domini 1642. A Vindication of the King with some Observations upon the two Houses by a true Son of the Church of England and a Lover of his Countries Liberty Reader I Shall not be curious to satisfie the Reason of any preposest opinion yet since the Times hath given an open Presse to clear 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 mean part of my happinesse in our dangerous extreams to hope for a happy Union by that Soveraign medicine of a fading State a Parliament and knowing the admirable affection of our gracious Soveraigne 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 grown to that head they became almost if not altogether uncurable by those unreasonable and illegall Monopolies exacted by some ill affected agents conducing little to his advantage but to the furthering of their ambition who notwithstanding could as easily desert him in hi● misery as before be the reddy Instruments to importune him to this mischiefe upon presence of a Legall Anthority which who knowes not a Prince may be soon 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 onely 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 Impartial Judgement confer with your Reason upon these few notorious truths What has the King denied 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 Jealousies if ever we meant to be satisfied As for their fears I wish we had as little reason to suspect the som●nt●rs 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 adventvre what our Consciences enforce us to make good for Him on our part and the conservation of these 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 it's 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 seem impossible without the subversion of the very Letter of the Law Why is it not propos'd if it be no Invasion of that Just Prerogative was never denied 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 needs agree that there being nothing so clear why should any subtle 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 dayly 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 dayly expose themselves to our view 1. The unlimited power of the two Houses have already assumed into their own hands a formall Ordinance countermanding suspending nay creating Acts of Parliament though not in the name of Acts yet in the power of Acts wherby 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 call'd Treason in one of their Members for this comparison though with that caucious 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 mannag'd 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 precedent 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 Lawes of our Kingdom wherein our Liberty consist I would fain be satisfied what is for 't is most apparant to whosoever examines their ordinary proceedings we have no Law left but what serves their turn and if that be defective to punish those they please to call Delinquents their Legislative 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 certain time wherein 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 fit while they list and passe what they list whether they have nor during their pleasure subverted our Monarchy by their democrasie 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 Judges 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 Judge of our dangers and propose such remedy as may answer their pretences 2. How