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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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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE READER. › Chapter 3AN INTRODVCTION TO THE READER. › Chapter 3
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.
That was Answered by one Learned Man, for, and in the defence of the Protestants in those times, thus,1 Subjects are of three sorts, either me•re private men, bearing no public Office, or else they are such as are in some inferior and subordinate place of Magistracy; or else they are such as are so inferior to the chief Magistrate that by the laws of the Land are appointed to bridle the chief: as for private men (saith the Author) it is evil for them to resist with force of Arms, either they must sly, or suffer: As for the second sort they not being the Kings household Servants, but rather to be called Officers of the Crown, depending not so much on the King as Kingdom, the King abusing his power to the overthrow of Laws; these ⟨p. 31⟩inferior Magistrates ought to oppose, for the conservation of those who are committed unto their trust; and if need be to take up Arms till things be otherwise provided for by the Estates of the Kingdom. As for the third sort saith he, though they in some respect are under the chief Magistrate, yet in some respect they are keepers of the Supreme dignity, that the chief Magistrate may be kept in his Office; These may if need require repress and chastise him, for the people is not made for the Magistrate, but the magistrate for the people; his power taking its rise from them.2
That was Answered by one Learned Man, for, and in the defence of the Protestants in those times, thus,1 Subjects are of three sorts, either me•re private men, bearing no publike Office, or else they are such as are in some inferiour and subordinate place of Magistracie; or else they are such as are so inferiour to the chiefe Magistrate that by the laws of the Land are appointed to bridle the chiefe: as for private men (saith the Author) it is evill for them to resist with force of Armes, either they must sly, or suffer: As for the second sort they not being the Kings houshold Servants, but rather to bee called Officers of the Crowne, depending not so much on the King as Kingdome, the King abusing his power to the overthrow of Lawes; these ⟨p. 31⟩