A30577:103
The glorious name of God, The Lord of Hosts opened in two sermons, at…
The glorious name of God, The Lord of Hosts opened in two sermons, at Michaels Cornhill, London, vindicating the Commission from this Lord of Hosts, to subjects, in some case, to take up arms : with a post-script, briefly answering a late treatise by Henry Ferne, D.D. / by Jer. Burroughs.The glorious name of God, The Lord of Hosts opened in two sermons, at Michaels Cornhill, London, vindicating the Commission from this Lord of Hosts, to subjects, in some case, to take up arms : with a post-script, briefly answering a late treatise by Henry Ferne, D.D. / by Jer. Burroughes.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1643
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.
Secondly, it must be according to some general Maxims of that Law. Now this is one great maxim of it, Salus populi suprema Lex, The safety of the people is the supreme Law: and according to this their determination is.
Secondly, it must be according to some generall Maximes of that Law. Now this is one great maxime of it, Salus populi suprema Lex, The safety of the people is the supreame Law: and according to this their determination is.
Thirdly, when any inferior Judge makes this determination against any party that thinks himself wronged, he makes his Appeal to the Kings Bench: If at the Kings Bench that be judged Law against a ⟨p. 31⟩man, which he thinks is not right, then he hath a Writ of Appeale ad proximum Parliamentum, to the next Parliament; so that it is apparent by the frame of Government in our Kingdom, that the Parliament is supreme Judge of what is Recta ratio, Right reason in cases of difficulty and controversy; and this not being against any former Statute Law, & agreeable to the received Maxims of Common Law, it is to be accounted Law, although we find not that Case, or that Determination written in any Book before.
Thirdly, when any inferior Judge makes this determination against any party that thinks himselfe wronged, he makes his Appeale to the Kings Bench: If at the Kings Bench that be judged Law against a ⟨p. 31⟩man, which he thinks is not right, then he hath a Writ of Appeale ad proximum Parliamentum, to the next Parliament; so that it is apparent by the frame of Government in our Kingdom, that the Parliament is supreame Judge of what is Recta ratio, Right reason in cases of difficulty and controversie; and this not being against any former Statute Law, & agreeable to the received Maximes of Common Law, it is to be accounted Law, although we finde not that Case, or that Determination written in any Book before.