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A80120	A collection of the rights and priviledges of Parliament. Together, with the true and just prerogatives of the kings of England. Collected out of ancient writers, both divine and morrall. Informing the willing man, convincing the flatterer, and vindicating those that pray for the tranquillitie of this our Syon. / Written by a Gentleman that wishes all happinesse and peace, to this distracted kingdome.	Gentleman that wishes all happinesse and peace to this distracted kingdome.	1642 (1642)	Wing C5207; Thomason E239_12; ESTC R3898	15,173	15

A COLLECTION OF THE RIGHTS AND PRIVILEDGES OF PARLIAMENT TOGETHER With the true and just Prerogatives of the Kings of ENGLAND Collected out of Ancient Writers both Divine and Morrall Informing the willing Man Convincing the flatterer and vindicating those that pray for the Tranquillitie of this our Syon Written by a Gentleman that wishes all happinesse and peace to this Distracted Kingdome LONDON Printed for Laurence Chapman and are to be sold at his shop at Chancerie-lane end neare Holborne 1642. Some few briefe Cellections out of Iewels defence against Harding the Iesuite the booke of Martyrs by Fox Calvins Inst and others published by the authority of this kingdome which may somewhat informe the willing man convince the flatterer and vindicate those who desire only that Caesar may have his due that Meum tuum may be duly distributed our enemies frustrated we settled in peace and God glorified SYmmachus Celsus Iulianus and others old foes of the Gospell did attempt in times past to accuse all Christians of sedition and treason before that either Prince or people were able to know who those Christians were what they professed what they beleeved or what was their meaning Iew. Def. Fol. 443. They adde also which they enlarge with all kind of spight that they be men of trouble that they plucke the Sword and Scepter out of the Kings hands that they arme the people that they overthrow judgement places destroy the Lawes make havock of possessions seeke to make the people Princes turne all things upside downe and to be short that they would have nothing in good frame and order in a Common-wealth They have often set on fire Princes hearts with these words to the end that they might quench the light of the Gospell in the very first appearing of it and that men might begin to hate the same ere ever they were able to know it and to the end that every Magistrate might thinke he saw his deadly enemie as often as he saw any of them Ibid. Fo 440. But Christ himselfe the Apostles and other good Christians were in times past blamed and reviled in like sort for although Christ taught to give unto Caesar that which was Caesars yet was he charged with sedition and accused to devise some conspiracie and to seeke wayes to get the kingdome and thereupon they cryed with open mouth against him If thou let this man escape thou art not Caesars friend The like blame was charged upon the Apostles that they did disquiet the people and stirred up the multitude to rebell Thus did Hamon bring the Nation of the Iewes into the hatred of the King because said he they were a rebellious and stubborne people and despised the Ordinances and Commandements of Princes Tertullian saith that in his time it was the generall accusation of all Christians whilst be lived that they were Traytors Rebells c. Wherefore if now a dayes the truth be evill spoken of and being the same truth it was then and like dispitefully vsed as it was in time past it cannot seeme a new or an unwonted matter Ibid Fol. 440.441 It is not impertinent to take notice of the plots and designes used by the Bishops against the Mernidolians in the 2 volume of the booke of Martyrs we must goe about say they with all our endeavour power and pollicie c. sparing no charges but spending goods wealth and treasure to make such a slaughter of the Mernidolians that none shall be so bold hereafter whatsoever they be although of the bloud Royall once to open their mouths against us and our Ecclesiasticall state Against the Nobilitie we must attempt nothing rashly but we must seeke all the meanes we can to please them for they are our sheild fortresse c. many of them doe both thinke and speake evill of us and are of these new Gospellers we must not exasperate them against us in any case but seeke to winne them and make them our friends so we may be in safety under their protexion else we may be compelled to forsake our dignities possessions and livings which we now wealthily enjoy so we shall come to be contemned and dispised of all men even of these Pesants and we should be counted no true Pastors of the Church The storme commeth from the North the winds blow and beate upon our house our estimation and authoritie is abased our jurisdiction decayed the ordinances of the Church dispised wherefore are we set over Nations and Kingdomes but to roote out and destroy subuert and overthrow whatsoever is against us Let us therefore now awake and stand stoutly to the right of our possessions to roote out the memorie of these wicked Lutherans for ever we have already procured a terrible arrest against them there wants nothing but to be put in execution Let not our gold and silver witnesse against us at the day of judgement if we refuse to bestow the same in so good a sacrifice unto God For my part I will furnish at my owne charges one hundred men well horsed with furniture thereto belonging to the utter distruction and subversion of these wicked and cursed caitiffs That prerogative and cheiftie that is and ever hath beene dew to a Prince by the ordinance word of God is to be the nurse of Gods true Religion to make Lawes for the good and peace of Church and Common-wealth to see them dewly executed to punish such as be offenders and to cherish the good Iew def Fol. 15. The King because he is the Vicar of the highest King is appointed for this purpose to rule the earthly kingdome and the Lords people to governe the Church and defend it from injuries to plucke away the wicked doers and utterly to destroy them which unlesse he doe the name of a King agreeth not to him but he looseth the name of a King It is conuenient to call them Kings who vigillantly defend and governe the Church of God and his people A King ought to set up good Lawes and customes such as be wholesome and approoved such as be otherwise to repeale them and thrust them out of his kingdome All these things ought a king in his owne person to do taking his oath upon the Evangelists swearing in the presence of the whole State of the Realme as well of the temporality as spiritualtie before he be Crowned Fox voll I. Fol. 214. In every well ordered Common-wealth it ought specially to be desired that the whole Realme should be of more authority then the King which if it happen contrary it were not to be called a kingdome but a tyranny A king is not of more authoritie then his kingdome A king to be of more authority then his kingdom were too absurd For oftentimes kings who do wickedly governe the Common-wealth and exercise cruelty are deprived of their kingdomes Ibid Fol 879. For if we doe see a King so to dispise and contemne the Lawes violently spoyle and rob his subjects c. do not

sayes D. O. without and beside the Princes Authoritie beareth the sword shall perish by the sword Christopher Goodman sayes he Pag. 28. Published a Treatise of obedience at Geneva not without the very good liking and approbation of the best learned of that Citie Wherein he affirmeth that if Magistrates offend Gods Law themselves and Command others to do the like they loose that honor and obedience which otherwise is due unto them and ought no more to be taken for Magistrates but to be examined and punished as private transgressors 1577 Sayes he came forth the Vindiciae contra Tyrannos with this resolution that Princes are chosen by God established by the people every private man is subject to the Prince the multitude and Officers of the State which represent the multitude are Superiours to the Prince yea they may judge his actions and if he make resistance punish him by forceable meanes Bucanus whose booke was published at the request and with the approbation of Beza and Goulartius maine Pillars of the Church of Geneva saith that they who beare any part of Office in the publike Administration of the Common-wealth as the Overseers Senators Consulls Peeres or Tribunes may restraine the insolency of evill Kings In his 29. Pag. Inferiour Magistrates saith Iohannes Baptista Ficklerus are the defendors and Protectors of the Lawes and Rights of the State and have Authoritie if need require to Correct and punish the Supreame King An English Fugitive saith he who was the Author of the Booke De justa abdicatione Henrici Tertij Affirmeth that all the Majesty o● the Kingdome is in the assembly of Statesmen to whom it belongeth to make Covenants with God to dispose of the affaires of the Kingdome to appoint matters pertayning to warre and peace to bridle the Kingly power and settle all things that belong to publike Government And the most seditious Dolemon as he stiles him saith that all humane Law and order Naturall Nationall and Possitive doe teach that the Common-wealth which gave Kings their Authoritie for the Common good may restraine and take the same from them if they abuse it to the Common ill who with many more of his opinion as he saith are discovered and refuted by D. Mourton but till he tels me where I may finde it in D. Mourton and that it prove so I dare not give him so much credit because he appeares to be faultie by what he hath already spoken I presume rather to give credit to Calvin Iewell Fox and the rest who are of the same opinion with these he hath quoted their opinions being allowed of and published by the authority of our owne Kingdome which till better satisfaction must beare sway with me He sayes this Puritan dangerous error as he calls it is directly repugnant to the Law the Gospel the Precepts of the Apostles the practice of Martyrs and the Doctrine of the Fathers Councells and other writers as he hath prooved in the six former Chapters wherein the holy Texts of Scripture which the Papists and the Puritans doe damnably abuse against the Ecclesiasticall and civill authority of Kings shall be answered by the Godly Protestants Her 's a great cry yet but little Wooll if he had or could doe that which he heere professes he hath done to proove what he sayes as he should do it were somewhat but he showes not neither against what Law what Gospell what Precept of the Apostles or Practice of the Martyrs these things are and when they shall be answered by the Godly Protestants we may expect for he doth not nor can tell us when it will be The substance of his whole leafes is That God hath inseperably annexed to the Crowne of Majestie an absolute immunitie from judiciall sentence and Martiall violence And that Kings are freed from bonds and cannot be drawne to punishment even by the power of Government and the Etymologie of their names And although no earthly man can be found that is not subject to the lawes of the world in respect of subjection liable to correction Yet Kings as it were placed over lawes are not restrained by them but reserved to the examination of God according to the Words of the King and Prophets against thee only have I finned It becommeth a King both in respect of the Noble disposition of his mind the Spirituall illumination of his Soule c. And who shall say unto the King what doest thou And that all Persons within the Kings Dominions stand bound in Law Allegiance and Conscience to obey their pleasure or to abide their punishment and that Kings are not subject to the controle of man but by speciall Prerogative reserved only to the judgment of God These are his generall positions and also the substance of his proofes as upon examination may be seene How raw childish and scandalously beguiling they are let the indifferent judge He forgets that Iosua flew and hanged five Kings in one day And I know he hath read of severall others who have also beene taken and put to the sword in a Martiall way and the Actors not charged with Sedition Treason or sinne for doing it where then was the absolute immunitie he speakes off or why did not the Etymologie of their names reserve them from the judgement of God executed by the hand of man but Verbum sat sapienti Judgments are prepared for scorners and stripes for the backs of Fooles Contra verbosos and men maliciously bent against the truth Nolo contendere verhis We may see by this little the disposition and spirit of the man by his fruits we may know him he is one of them who labour to have the persons and titles of men in admiration deceiving and being deceived Touch not mine Annointed is one of their high theames King the Title of a man and an earthly Magistrate must now be the name above all names which they once ascribed to the name Jesus to be bowed unto adored yea indeed to be made a God off if shame would let them speak out these are their nointed letters Priviledged and having speciall Prerogative in them when besprincled with their holy water that the man whose tittle they shall be needs nothing else to fit him for heaven his Soule is presently thereupon Spiritually illuminated and such a Noble disposition put into his minde that he can never after be faulty or be subject to question He would seeme to be of a middle sort betweene Papist and Puritan as he is pleased to style him but if he and a Papist were put into a sack together and the Pope had the shaking of them out he would not feare to shake out a Protestant unlesse one of our new Protestant professors such an one as is now observed in many Romanists who go to Church with the Protestant sometimes but like Birds of a feather runne and joyne with the Papist and the Papist with them sheltring themselves among such Protestant professors and Universitie Doctors who now as all the world may see joyne hand to hand purse to purse and all that they can make or do as did those Bishops and Doctors before spoken of to roote out and to destroy all that stands in their way of Pompe and Greatnesse And as they did have set our Kings heart on fire against his best subjects presenting them to his Majesty under no other Notion or style but Traytors Puritants Rebells and the like and that they seeke to take both Sword and Scepter from him and that they would not live in order and under Government Cuius contrarium verum est as will one day be manifest So loath is the Pope and his party to be thrust quite out of the doores of our Kingdome they would faine keepe one foot at least in still for then there would be hopes to get in more The great assembly and wisedome of our State must now be limmited by them They need not alter any of our Predecessors Lawes and Customes it shall be enough to confirme them as they stand But we doubt not but that God will still be the wisdome and strength of our great Assembly to do and establish such things as shall be for our Kings Honour the Kingdomes peace and the confusion of their enemies That is the Ordinance and power which God hath set over us and we chosen for our protection and safety which we ought to sticke too and maintaine least we againe enthrall our Soules Persons and Estates to the bondage we were lately in and did groane under which by some seemes too soone to be forgotten That which we sow that shall we also Reape FINIS