Selected quad for the lemma: parliament_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	burgess_n	king_n	knight_n	3,853	5	7.2952	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A24190	Accommodation cordially desired and really intended a moderate discourse tending to the satisfaction of all such who do either wilfully or ignorantly conceive that the Parliament is disaffected to peace : written upon occasion of a late		1642 (1642)	Wing A164; ESTC R21031	28,934	34

can be no propositions can profit us no Accommodation can secure us If the King himselfe were a Papist he would yet look upon us as his naturall subjects but when his regall power is secondarily in the hands of a Papist to that Papist we appeare but as meere hereticks without any other relation of subjects By secondary power also a stroak is given with more secresie and security so that there is the lesse feare in the party striking to break and retard its violence It issues like a bullet whose line is not direct but with some elevation in the ayre or with some windings in the barrell of the gun whereby it doth more execution at a further distance Therefore our Kings many and dreadfull Oaths and Vowes of sincerity in the Protestant Religion are not satisfying if in the mean time any of his Kingly prerogative bee shared with such as are not sincere in the Protestant Religion it were farre safer for us that hee would sweare for his party then for himselfe But our Replicant will never have done with the Law hee still tells us That every man is to bee tryde by his Peeres the Lords in the Lords House and the Commons at the Kings Bench and though the House of Commons have no right of Iudicature yet there is another tryall for Treasons and our m●ine p●int in difference at this time is concerning Treason The Parliament is nothing else but the whole Nation of England by its owne free choice and by vertue of representation united in a more narrow roome and better regulated and qualified for consultation then the collective body without this art and order could be The Lords and Commons make but one entire Court and this Court is vertually the whole Nation and we may truly say of it that by its consent Royalty it selfe was first founded and for its ends Royalty it selfe was so qualified and tempered as it is and from its supreame reason the nature of that qualification and temperature ought only to be still learnd and the determination thereof sought For who can better expound what Kings and lawes are and for what end they were both created then that unquestionable power which for its own advantage meerly gave creation to them both If Kings and nationall lawes had any humane beginning if they be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as the Scripture sayes they are they had not their being from themselves and from nations collectively taken they could not have their being for nations so are not congregable nor consultable nor redeemable from confusion pardon the hardnesse of words and therefore it must follow that both Kings and laws were first formed and created by such bodyes of men as our Parliaments now are that is such Councells as had in them the force of whole Nations by consent and deputation and the Maiesty of whole Nations by right and representation The enemies of Parliaments seeing this not to be gain-said and seeing that it must needs follow that that cause which first gave the being and prescribed the end of that being must needs have most right and skill to limit and direct the manner of that being they seek to divide the coactive from the representative body of the people they seek to divide between the two houses of Parliament and these seek to divide between the head and the body of the Parliament They perswade the maltitude that they have entrusied the Parliament only with their purses to give away subsidies and replenish the Kings coffers but not to settle their rights and franchises and to make knowne the bounds of Prerogative and restraine the unnaturall encroachments or erruption of the same If the community have beene agrieved to complaine or almost accuse is a sufficient priviledge of the house of Commons and this but to avoid further rep●●ing shall not be granted them Tispity that our Doctors doe not study the Law further for with a little more industry they might perhaps finde out that every private man as well as the house of Commons or the whole Community out of Parliament as well as our Knights and Burgesses in it may give the King money and if occasion be preferre an accusation against such a tyrrannicall Lord or favourite well if such Rabbies and expounders can satisfie any of the unworthy vulgar and some Gentlemen and Lords who have spirits below the Yeomanry of England for such I have seene too many since 3. Novemb. 1640 they shall be no further disabus'd by me In the next place They attempt to work a disunion between the Houses the Lords shall have a power of Judicature over their Members so they will exclude the Commons from any part therin and upon condition that they will so farre disclaime them as to leave them obnoxious for tryalls at the Kings bench This sitting of the Lords and Commons in severall Houses does not prove them severall Courts nor does the observance of particular Priviledges in either House and not laying all things common between both prove any independance of either doubtlesse they are like the twines of Hippocrates they both must live and die together In former ages judgement was so given upon the greatest Delinquents at that the Commons were parties in the judgement And sure whilst they were Judges over Lords themselves were not subjected to inferiour Courts the Lords then knew they could not indure any indignity to fall upon the Commons being but distinct parts of the same Court but it would reflect upon themselves and the Commons knew that the honour ' of the Lords was an addition to themselves whilst the Curiatii stand close together their three adverse Combatants are too weake for them but when they are divided by unwarinesse in the encounter they prove all three too weake for one of their enemies I will not make any comparisons or say whither the Lords or Commons deserted by the other suffer more I will only say that nothing but fatall want of policy can divide or diminish their mutuall love and correspondence In the last place division also is raised betwixt the King and Parliament there is a generation of men which seeke not the good of King and Parliament not could prosper if the King and Parliament were united as they ought to be These men because their suggestions cannot prevaile to alienate the Parliament from the King apply all their indevours to alienate the King from the Parliament their perpetuall suggestion are That the greatnesse of Kings is eclipsed by Parliaments That there is in Lawes themselves a kind of enmity and something that is inconsistant with royalty That Kings are bound to seek nothing but themselves That Kings can seeke nothing in themselves so nobly as the satisfying of their wills especially when their wills are sixt upon things difficult and forbidden Neverthelesse there is nothing but falsety in all these suggestions For Princes are the Creatures and naturall productions of Parliaments and so are their Prerogatives