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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3 The Honourable House of Commons are against Indulgence, Because,
It will no way become the Gravity or Wisdom of a Parliament, to pass a Law at one Sessions for Uniformity, and at the next Sessions (the reasons of Uniformity continuing still the same) to pass another Law to frustrate or weaken the execution of it.
It will no way become the Gravity or Wisedome of a Parliament, to pass a Law at one Sessions for Vniformity, and at the next Sessions (the reasons of Vniformity continuing still the same) to pass another Law to frustrate or weaken the execution of it.
The most happy constitutions are they that are maturely, debated, resolvedly enacted, and not without great reason, and much time repealed. The first Parliament that ever was in England ordered that the same Assembly should not repeal and make Laws: A Parliament Hen. the thirds time refused to alter a most inconvenient Law, because they thought no inconvenience greater then Alteration of Laws, so in K. H•n. 7. Hen. 8. Q. Eliz. Reign.
The most happy constitutions are they that are maturely, debated, resolvedly enacted, and not without great reason, and much time repealed. The first Parliament that ever was in England ordered that the same Assembly should not repeale and make Laws: A Parliament Hen. the thirds time refused to alter a most inconvenient Law, because they thought no inconvenience greater then Alteration of Laws, so in K. H•n. 7. Hen. 8. Q. Eliz. Reign.