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The truth of the times vindicated whereby the lawfulness of Parliamentary proceedings in taking…The truth of the times vindicated whereby the lawfulnesse of Parliamentary procedings in taking…
The truth of the times vindicated whereby the lawfulness of Parliamentary proceedings in taking up of arms, is justified, Doctor Ferns reply answered, and the case in question more fully resolved / by William Bridge ...The truth of the times vindicated whereby the lawfulnesse of Parliamentary procedings in taking up of arms, is justified, Doctor Fernes reply answered, and the case in question more fully resolved / by William Bridge ...
London: printed by T.P. and M.S. for Ben. Allen, 1643
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Secondly, your work is good, for you are the Ministers of Reformation. I read of a King of Meth, sometimes in Ireland, that being asked how certain noisome birds that came flying into that country and bred there might be destroyed: Was answered thus, Nidos eorum ubique destruendos: The way to be rid of them was to destroy their nests. Now for a long season many noisome birds have been flying over into this Kingdom, and have bred here; the work of these times, is to destroy those nests of Jesuits and Jesuited persons, and it is that work which now you are upon. 1Though it cost some pains its worth your labour, happy is that necessity which leads to better things.
Secondly, your work is good, for you are the Ministers of Reformation. I read of a King of Meth, sometimes in Ireland, that being asked how certain noysome birds that came flying into that countrey and bred there might be destroyed: Was answered thus, Nidos eorum ubique destruendos: The way to be rid of them was to destroy their nests. Now for a long season many noysome birds have been flying over into this Kingdom, and have bred here; the work of these times, is to destroy those nests of Jesuites and Jesuited persons, and it is that work which now you are upon. 1Though it cost some paines its worth your labour, happie is that necessitie which leads to better things.
- 1Foelix necessitas quae ad mel•ora ducit.
Thirdly, your cause is just also, agreeable to the Law of Nature; for, Conservatio sui ipsius est opus naturalissimum, to the Law of God: for David though not the representative body y•t lawfully took up arms for his own defence; to the Law of the Kingdom, for what more legal then that the Houses of Parliament should bring in Delinquents to trial, and how can that be without Arms when the Delinquents betake themselves to their Arms?