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Fair-warning, or, XXV reasons against toleration and indulgence of popery with the Arch-bishop of…
Fair-warning, or, XXV reasons against toleration and indulgence of popery with the Arch-bishop of Canterbury's letter to the King and all the bishops of Ireland's protestation to the Parliament to the same purpose : with an answer to the Roman-Catholics reasons for indulgence : also the excellent reasons of the Honourable House of Commons against indulgence, with historical observations thereupon.Fair-warning, or, XXV reasons against toleration and indulgence of popery with the Arch-bishop of Canterbury's letter to the King and all the bishops of Irelands protestation to the Parliament to the same purpose : with an answer to the Roman-Catholicks reasons for indulgence : also the excellent reasons of the Honourable House of Commons against indulgence, with historical observations thereupon.
London: printed for S.U.N.T.F.S., 1663
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The excellent Reasons of the Honourable House of Commons against In… › The Vote.
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Reas. 1. Because it is not a Promise in it self, but only a Gracious Declaration of your Majesties Intentions, to do what in You lay, and what a Parliament should advise Your Majesty to do; and no such Advise was ever given, or thought fit to be offered; nor could it be otherwise understood, because there were Laws of Uniformity then in being, which could not be dispensed with, but by Act of Parliament.
Reas. 1. Because it is not a Promise in it selfe, but only a Gracious Declaration of your Majesties Intentions, to do what in You lay, and what a Parliament should advise Your Majesty to do; and no such Advise was ever given, or thought fit to be offered; nor could it be otherwise understood, because there were Laws of Vniformity then in being, which could not be dispensed with, but by Act of Parliament.
They who do pretend a Right to that supposed Promise, put the Right into the hands of their Representatives, whom they chose to serve for them in this Parliament, who have Passed, and Your Majesty consented to the Act of Uniformity. If any shall presume so say, that a Right to this Declaration doth still remain after this Act Passed,
They who do pretend a Right to that supposed Promise, put the Right into the hands of their Representatives, whom they chose to serve for them in this Parliament, who have Passed, and Your Majesty consented to the Act of Vniformity. If any shall presume so say, that a Right to this Declaration doth still remaine after this Act Passed,
It tends to dissolve the very Bonds of Government, and to suppose a disability in Your Majesty and the Houses of Parliament, to make a Law contrary to any part of Your Majesties Declaration, though both Houses should advise Your Majesty to it.