A30577:150
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.
4. Suppose more were gone then yet are, yet the Kingdom hath a Parliament in being, until both §4Houses have agreed to dissolve it; and if so, then either those that are gone, or those that remain, are the Parliament; those who are gone, dare not challenge it to themselves, nor none for them. They remember that the Prelates were too bold in nullifying ⟨p. 48⟩what was done in Parliament, because they were absent. Those that stay then are the Houses of Parl. and if their determinations must not be valid, because some of their Members be gone, then we may call into question all determinations of Parl. that ever have been before us; for who knows how many were present or absent when it was resolved upon the Question?
4. Suppose more were gone then yet are, yet the Kingdome hath a Parliament in being, untill both §4Houses have agreed to dissolve it; and if so, then either those that are gone, or those that remain, are the Parliament; those who are gone, dare not challenge it to themselves, nor none for them. They remember that the Prelats were too bold in nullifying ⟨p. 48⟩what was done in Parliament, because they were absent. Those that stay then are the Houses of Parl. and if their determinations must not be valid, because some of their Members be gone, then we may cal into question all determinations of Parl. that ever have been before us; for vvho knows hovv many vvere present or absent vvhen it vvas resolved upon the Question?
5. If a Country should choose a Representative §5Body to elect a King over them, and the choice being made by that Representative Body, afterwards the Country should refuse obedience upon that scruple, that many were not present at that time the choice was made, some did dislike it; would not the King for all that account it Rebellion in such, who upon such scruples should cast off their obedience?