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…

An. This is a scandalous charge to say that we lessen men to renounce their trust given to their Prince, whereas we only say; the people have a Power to defend themselves, and when cause requires to excite, and actuate that Power which was always residing in them, and never given from them. Secondly, how can the people as easily renounce their trust given to the Parliament, when the People themselves conclude and say, that what is done by the Parliament is Law; which they do not say, as concerning the Prince, but rather know that for Law he is directed by them; but saith the Doctor this is to make them arbitrary, and to lead the people after them by an implicit Faith.

An. This is a scandalous charge to say that we lessen men to renounce their trust given to their Prince, whereas wee onely say; the people have a Power to defend themselves, and when cause requires to excite, and actuacte that Power which was alwayes residing in them, and never given from them. Secondly, how can the people as easily renounce their trust given to the Parliament, when the People themselves conclude and say, that what is done by the Parliament is Law; which they doe not say, as concerning the Prince, but rather know that for Law he is directed by them; but saith the Doctor this is to make them arbitrary, and to lead the people after them by animplicite Faith.

An. The Doctor is much against the implicit Faith of the People, both in this▪ and his former Book: It were well that men of his strain had been so much against implicit Faith in the matters of the Church, where it is more dangerous, where they were not, witness the &c. as now they are against the implicit Faith in the Common-Wealth, where ⟨p. 51⟩it is of less danger. Again, why will this make the Parliament arbitrary, or cast the people into an implicit Faith? it's granted by all that the King and both Houses may enact Laws, whereby the people are to be ruled, believing that those Laws are best for the Common-wealth; doth this make the Government of King and Parliament arbitrary, or raise the people to an implicit Faith? no more doth it here. An arbitrary government is where a King may rule pro abitrio, as a Father in his Family, which power the Doctor doth give unto the King by his paternal right, Sect. 3. and so indeed there is room for an implicit Faith, for that children have most of all an implicit Faith in that which their Fathers say. Finally Master B. endeavours to show (saith Dr. Ferne) how they can answer the Oath of Supremacy, an the Protestation, by taking of Arms; but who knows not (saith the Doctor) if that party of Brownists, and Anabaptists, which are now so prevalent in the Arms taken up against the King, should get the upper hand, what would become of the Kings Supremacy and Government?