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justice_n	king_n	law_n	parliament_n	8,718	5	6.8422	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58926	A seasonable discourse shewing the necessity of union amongst Protestants, in opposition to popery, as the only means (under God) to preserve the reformed religion also, the charge of persecution, lately maintained against the established religion, by W.P., H.C. and other insignificant scriblers, detected : proving it to be the ministers of state, and not the church, that prosecuted the penal laws on Protestant dissenters.		1688 (1688)	Wing S2228; ESTC R14748	13,863	17

Laws lye dormant without all due Execution for the Publick Good does not only shew the unfaithfulness of the Magistrate to whom the Executive Power appertains but also how little he minds his Sworn Duty which is to see the Laws duly put in Execution and Justice according to them equally distributed without Partiality and how any can Answer the nullifying them without a Lawful Abrogation by the same Power that Enacted them I can't possibly conceive for the common approved Maxim is That Power only that made any Law has sufficient Authority to suspend or repeal the same The Laws of the Land so long as they are founded on Reason and found beneficial to the Publick Peace and Welfare of the Kingdom ought to be kept Inviolable and maintain'd by All but more especially by those that have any share in the Execution of them We should reckon him a Mad-man that should un-tile his House under pretence of keeping out the Rain Likewise if a Governour of a well Fortified City who wanted for no Accommodations requisite for the defence of it should without any just cause of Fear of his Inconsiderable Enemies either out of Cowardice or Perfidiousness betray the City and make himself and them not only void of Power but in effect Slaves to the Will and Pleasures of that part of Men to whom he and they might have bid defiance What can we say or think of such Esau's that are ready to sell their Birth Rights for a Mess of Pottage but that they shall not deserve any Compassion and if they undergo the greatest Evils they will have the just Reward they have deservedly Merited I should not pity any Man that under pretence of keeping out Thieves and Robbers should open the Door and let them in wholly trusting to their good Breeding Kindness and Honesty not in the least believing they would be so unmannerly as not only to secure him by binding his Hands and Feet that he could not help himself but also Rob him of all that was worth their carrying away stopping his Mouth that he could not complain of his hard Vsage or call for any help to free him out of his miserable Condition I wish in the Land of Vtopia there were not too many that would shew the same kindness to those kind Hearted Christians that should divest themselves of the Power and Security the Law gives them and meerly trust to their good Nature for their Religion and all their Liberties and Properties Any Man with whom the Administration of Justice is Intrusted or that has the Honour to be Elected a Member of Parliament for the Service of his King and Country for such a Man to betray his Trust either by parting with those wholsome Laws that long experience tells us are absolutely necessary and most beneficial to the Common-Wealth or by condescending to the unreasonable Desires and Endeavours of an inconsiderable sort of Men or by not obstructing but consenting to the Enacting of New Laws destructive to the Common Good He is most unworthy of the Trust reposed in him and deserves the severest Punishment the Law will admit of No Contempt Disgrace or Derision can be bad enough for such a Man that to serve his own particular private Interest will Sacrifice the Publick All Members of Parliament when they design to make any Laws ought throughly to consider what Good or Benefit will accrue to the Subjects thereby and if upon mature Consideration they see a necessity of Enacting such Laws by no means ought they to be omitted or laid aside On the other side if former Parliaments had for weighty Reasons made several Acts for the security of our Religion and Laws before these Laws be made void by a Repeal due respect ought to be had to the circumstances of Things and Times and after a strict and impartial Enquiry be made if it shall appear that the Repealing those Acts will not only very much injure but really endanger the Publick Peace and Welfare of the Kingdom then notwithstanding the Solicitations of a Party whose Interests oblige them to desire it they ought not to part with Laws which will prove as an impregnable Bulwark against our Enemies To make void an useful and necessary Law under a pretence of doing Good to the Publick thereby is like the taking up of a Sluce to prevent an Inundation of Water I may rather compare it to the throwing of Combustible Matter into an House on Fire thinking thereby to Extinguish the Flames which is so far from putting a period to them that on the contrary it heightens the Flames that they are not if at all easily Mastered I have heard our necessary Laws compared to the most useful Damms and Banks in Holland to prevent the raging Sea from over-whelming them It 's well known to Travellers of what a vast Importance those Defences are for should there be a considerable Breach made in any of those Damms that secure them from the violence of the Water not only many Souls Beasts and many other valuable Things would be lost but it would be an Immense Charge to repair them But though the damage to the Netherlands would be very great should such a bad accident happen yet it 's the Opinion of Wise men and not without good grounds that should English-Men and Protestants part with those Laws that are like a strong and impregnable Defence to them and their Religion in one Respect it would be of a far worse consequence to them that is the lose would be irrepairable and Ten Thousand to One if ever the like Security can be obtain'd Country-men have an Old but True saying that is If you love to be free from a Broken Head keep fast the Staff in your own hand so may you not only prevent your being beaten by your own Weapon but in case of an Assault you may by being in a posture of Defence easily defend your self from violent Hands whereas on the contrary a Naked Man may easily be Captivated and whether he will or no he will be constrain'd to submit to the Mercy of his Insulting Enemy It 's farther observed That after the Rich Farmer has with much difficulty gotten a good Estate he remembers how hardly he Laboured Toiled and Sweated before he brought things to so good an Issue and the calling to mind his former Indefatigable Labour has this effect on him That since he obtain'd his Riches or Substance with no small Care and Industry he is resolved because he neither got it easily nor can he dispence with the want of it that he will not do like Prodigal Sons who being Born to their Estates and wholly Ignorant of their Parents Care and Trouble to provide for them quickly squander away vast Fortunes but though he may love his Children or Friends with all the real Affections imaginable yet says he Charity begins at home I must not make my self a Beggar and stand to the Courtesie of Children or Friends for what I shall