Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	judge_n	king_n	sir_n	3,375	5	5.9939	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56182	The contra-replicant, his complaint to His Maiestie	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1643 (1643)	Wing P400; ESTC R22502	28,940	31

Replicant further assures us That t is very easie to assigne the bounds of these severall trusts for the Lawes and Customes of the Land determine both nor will his Maiestie he saies require any new trust to himselfe or deny any old trust to us Our great D●vines were to bee admi●ed for their profound knowledge in the mysteries of Law were they not Courtiers but now the King is presum'd to comprehend omnia jura in scrinio Pectoris and so they by their residence at Court discerne all the secrets of Law and State in speculo Imperii just as our heavenly Saints doe read all things else in speculo Trinitatis Our gravest Sages of the Law are much divided in points of lesse moment and intricacie and as for the precise metes and bounds where Soveraignty and Liberty are sever'd and the direct degrees of publike trust in all cases and at all times they looke upon them as grand difficulties scarce fit to be debated but in the sacred Court of Parliament and yet Clergie-men think them but the first rudiments of all knowledge obvious to very A. 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C-Darians C-Darians They alwayes boast of the knowne Lawes of the Kingdome in all disputes they referre us to the knowne Lawes and Customes of the Land as if Judges were things utterly needlesse and the study of Law meerely superfluous The Tresha●lt Court of Parliament of whose determination our learnedst Judges will not thinke dishonourably cannot pierce into these known obvious Lawes and yet every Sophister can the Fountaines of Justice are now exhausted and yet the Cisternes remaine full But saies the Replicant If you seeke further security then the knowne Lawes the people will see that under the name of free subiects you take upon you the power of Kings Sir we desire to have our Lawes themselves secured to us which you may turne like our owne Canons against our selves if righteous and prudent Iudges be not granted us and all over-awing violence so prevented as that the fruit of their Iudgements be clearely and intirely conveyed to us And such securance is not incompatible with Monarchy for it is no more impeachment to Monarchy that the people should injoy th●n make lawes that they should be sharers in the power of declaring and executing then in the power of passing framing lawes but it is on the contrary an evident impeachment to liberty if an equality of these three Priviledges be not at least shared with the people 3. As for the diametricall opposition in Religion and State betwixt us and our irreconciliable enemies of the Kings party The Replicant maintaines divers things and of the Papists and Delinquents he sayes That we have nothing against them but State Calumnies That the same justice may governe both if wee will submit to Law He beseeches us to tell what Religion we would have if that which the Martyrs sealed with their blood our Adversaries practise it and desire severe punishment upon all such as transgresse it he imputes to us a new Creed he sayes the King is to look upon friends or enemies in a Law notion only that Subjects must not give Lawes to Princes courtesies That our enemies if they be Traytors are to be tried at the Kings Bench the house of Commons having no right of Judicature The major part of our enemies are certainly either Papists or else such as are either over-awed or outwitted by Papists T is true some part of our enemies knowes the truth of the Protestant Religion and the desperate antipathy of Papistry yet having in them the true power of no Religion but serving Mammon only for their worldly interests sake with which severity of Parliaments will not square they adhere to Papists little regarding what Religion stands or what falls Another part out of meere ignorance is carried away with the name King and the Professions of the King not at all looking into reason of State nor being able to judge of the same but the last sort of men are not so considerable either for their number or power or malice and therefore I shall not insist upon them The maine Engineers in this Civill Warre are Papists the most poysonous serpentine Iesuited Papists of the world All the Papists in Europe either pray for the prosperity of this designe or have contributed some other influence and assistance to it This warre was not the production of these two last yeares nor was England alone the field wherein the Dragons teeth were sowd Scotland was first attempted but the Protestant party there was too strong for the Papists and such of the English as joyned with them The conspiracies next broke out in Ireland where the Popish party being too strong for the Protestants the Tragedy has been beseeming Papists it has proved beyond all paralell bloody and if shipping were not wanting they might spare some aids for their fellow Conspirators here in England England is now in its agony bleeding and sweating under the sad conflict of two parties equally almost poized in force and courage The Papists themselves in England amount not to the twentieth arithmeticall part of Protestants and yet one papist in geometricall proportion may stand against twenty Protestants considering the papists with together with their adherents and considering also what they are that act over them and who they are that act under them What power the Romish Vice-god has in the Queen is known what power the Queen has in the King and what power the King and Queen have in the prelaticall Clergy and the Clergy in them reciprocally and what power the King Queen and Clergy have on a great number of irreligious or luke-warm protestants now made Delinquents and so further engaged as also upon all papists how all these have interests divided intwined how restlesly active they al are in pursuing their interests is not unkown Besides Ireland is a weakness Scotland is no strength to us all popish countries France Spain c. are likely to annoy us and the protestants in Denmark Holland c. have not power to restrain their Princes from combining further against us In this deplorable condition we have no friends to complain to and yet this Replicant tels us we have no enemies to complain of our very condoling against papists and delinquents he tearms State calumnies and slanders that have lost their credit by time and are confuted by experience O thou black mouth more black then thy coat hast thou no more remorse for all that pretestant blood which delinquents have enabled papists to shed in Ireland and for all that protestant blood which armies of papists and delinquents are now ready to shed in England if all this blood finde no pity in thee yet is it an offence to thee that it extorts teares and lamentations from us O thou unbowelled sanguinary wretch if God be the God of protestants he will judge these cruelties of papists and their abettors and if he be the God of papists