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The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their principles about civil and ecclesiastical authority and obedience ... : mostly written many years past, and now published to save our lives and the kingdoms peace, from the false and bloody plotters ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
7. Pag. 95. He saith the Prince cannot derogate from the Laws that concern the state of the Realm, and the establishing thereof.
8. Pag. 97. He saith [It is not in the power of any Prince in the world (no more than the King of England) at his pleasure to raise taxes on the people, no more than to take another mans goods from him, as Philip Commines wisely showed in the Parliament at Towers.]
8. Pag. 97. He saith [It is not in the power of any Prince in the world (no more than the King of Englund) at his pleasure to raise taxes on the people, no more than to take another mans goods from him, as Philip Commines wisely shewed in the Parliament at Towres.]
9. Pag. 97. He objects [that the Estates of England have power to condemn; as K. Henry the 6. was condemned by the Estates to be kept Prisoner in the Tower of London.] And answereth [That was done by the ordinary Judges of England, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the Upper House, at the request of them of the Nether House] I thought it was done by traitorous usurpation.
9. Pag. 97. He objects [that the Estates of England have power to condemn; as K. Henry the 6. was condemned by the Estates to be kept Prisoner in the Tower of London.] And answereth [That was done by the ordinary Judges of England, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the Upper House, at the request of them of the Nether House] I thought it was done by traiterous usurpation.