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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65033	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. Together with the resolution of Wiltshire, and the petition of the gentlemen of the foure Innes of Court,	Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.	1642 (1642)	Wing V507; ESTC R186188	10,242	18

or those that advise the King their Democracy having no bounds being but a thing of yesterday and which as yet we cannot understand assuming to themselves the sole power to judge of our dangers and to propose such remedy as may answer their pretences 3. How every conscientious man can dispence with that sacred Oath of Allegiance wherein he calls God to witnesse for the vindication of his Princes just Prerogative and their Protestation to maintain an absolute and unlimited power in the two Houses wrested to those Ordinances expresly inhibited by His Majesties speciall commands in my understanding it is to no other purpose then to leade us into a Maze where when we are lost by our misunderstanding which must necessarily be the principall of our subversion They will offer us a Clue shall either leade us to their premeditated designes whereby of necessity they will become our Masters or to an inevitable ruine before we know the reason of our Feares and Jealousies being the old rule they so often enveighed against First to trouble the State then to subvert the Government Let it not be objected now That I am against Parliaments for God knowes I am for them and as zealous for my Country as any man that lives But in my opinion the best way to secure our Liberty had been That our Members of both Houses might continue subject still lyable to the Regiment of those Lawes which shall be enacted by them wherein they will have a care of securing their owne estates for the future as well as ours which was certainly the intentions of our well advised Ancestors in exposing so great a trust into their hands when the Prince called for their advice in matters of greatest concernment but by this continued Session they not onely are invested with an absolute power but are able to make themselves amends at leisure for those monies exhausted out of their estates while we groane under the insupportable burthen of their as they call them Legall Taxes and thus they may well be carelesse what Lawes are past never intending to be observers but Lords of what they make 3. Who are these pretended Reformers of the Common-wealth but the very Instruments who were the favourites during our oppression I need not name them to any who has once attended the Epidemicke trouble of our age and what unheard of conversion we can make of their lives whereby such a confidence should be reposed in them as to devest so Religious and Just a Prince of his unquestionable Rights and Prerogatives and conferre such an unlimited power so readily upon them if we return to our former senses renders me amazed 't is not amisse to ruminate some words His Majestie used in His owne vindication at Newmarket My Lords lay your hands on your hearts who were the contrivers of these illegall Taxes wherewith you have so incensed my people to whose advantage were these impositions levied are my Exchequers at all larger or did they not rather conduce to your peculiar benefit who were the onely perswaders of them that you have now repaid me with condigne thankes Those Favourites being content to be the causers though not companions of their Princes mis-fortunes being like Crowes upon a carkasse that have no sooner bared the bones but they are flowne are we not yet sensible the rules of policy not of honesty to secure their lives and fortunes not their consciences exposed you to this politique not publique service and had you not in so exact a course served your turnes of these loyall pretenders they had beene as lyable to the extremity of Justice as the greatest Delinquents that under-went the most heavy censures and undoubtedly had had their deserved shares which would have given a better colour to their upright proceedings as they would have you so believed if they had impartially distributed Justice amongst the then Malignant party But now that we should be so stupid as to be circumvented with any pretences whatsoever which out-strip the Essentiall rules of Government or Reason and confide in the positive Vote of an ambitious party for ought we know would admit my perswader to be a mad man that could allow that in his opinion But make them what you will suppose them to be the most reall and upright men in their lives and consciences in the whole world They are but the Counsell of the King and Kingdome not their Commanders for the health of our State is admirably ballanced if that have but its due proportion The Parliament consisting of three bodies the King the Lords and Commons so that if two should be destructive and the third remaine sound during those Laws already in force there can be no danger to our Kingdome but if either of the two can passe at their pleasure what they will the third must then of necessity stand for a Cypher for consenting or disagreeing is then of equall value and in my opinion it 's a president of too great an adventure for suppose the King and the major part of the Lords should agree an Ordinance or Law we should think it extreamly prejudiciall to the Liberty of the Subject our Commons should be concluded peremptorily against their consents I heard an Act not long since vouched in president that had beene ratified against the consent of the Lords Spirituall where they declared nec possumus nee volumus consentire and this so rare wee could not finde a second At the Parliament at Oxford in 17. H. 3. when the Lords were not there present they were faine to dissolve the House without passing one Act confirming my first proposition That the consent of two bodies are not of force to make us Lawes without the third much lesse conclude The King who is not only the supreame head but the very soule whose power gives life to their actions when their body is once dissolved besides how incoherent is it with that authority committed to them for if the Parliament which are onely his great Councell offer him a Bill which He is bound to agree unto it was more then ever His Ancestors were and of his Counsellors it must necessarily follow they are His Commanders We have a Maxime with the Subject Modu● conventio vincunt legem In former ages and ever since Parliaments were in use Le Roy s●avisera were sufficient authority to make a Bill of both Houses unwarrantable and how the King hath lost that Right or what new Laws are found out destructive to that Prerogative I never yet read nor ever shall unlesse some such new Ordinance or bare Votes can pretend to such an unwarranted power whereof there was never yet found a President which can have no other operation upon my understanding then That the Votes of the present Members which can at their pleasures dispose the undoubted Priviledges of the Crowne by a Law recorded onely in their owne breasts and giving out to us under the guilded Title of the Peoples Liberty when indeed they