A brief answer to Doctor Ferns book tending to resolve conscience about the subjects…A briefe answer to Doctor Fernes booke tending to resolve conscience about the subjects…

To this the Answer hath been already, either the people then gave up their whole right to their Emperors, which we have not done to our Kings,¹ or otherwise they were not bound to their Arbitrary government, but might have resisted for their own preservations.

To this the Answer hath been already, either the people then gave up their whole right to their Emperours, which we have not done to our Kings,¹ or otherwise they were not bound to their Arbitrary government, but might have resisted for their own preservations.

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But if Parliaments should degenerate and grow tyrannical, what means of safety could there be for a State?

But if Parliaments should degenerate and grow tyrannicall, what meanes of safety could there be for a State?

I confess the condition of such a State would be very dangerous and like to come to confusion; particular men could not help themselves,¹ and the whole State ought to suffer much before it should help it self by any ways of resisting: but if you can ⟨image 7⟩suppose a Parliament so far to degenerate, as they should all conspire together with the King to destroy the Kingdom, and to possess the lands and riches of the Kingdom themselves, in this case whether a Law of Nature would not allow of standing up to defend our selves, yea to re-assume the power given to them, to discharge them of that power they had, and set up some other, I leave to the light of nature to judge.