B22970:182
An appeal to thy conscience as thou wilt answer it at the great and…An appeale to thy conscience as thou wilt answere it at the great and…
An appeal to thy conscience as thou wilt answer it at the great and dreadful day of Christ Jesus.An appeale to thy conscience as thou wilt answere it at the great and dreadfull day of Christ Iesus.
London : s.n., 1643
An Appeal to thy Conscience. › The Answer.An Appeale to thy Conscience. › The Answer.
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, because we do our legeance to the King in his natural capacity, and therefore he holds the Kingdom in His natural capacity, that is, as He is Charles the son and heir apparent of King James of blessed memory. For legeance or homage cannot be done to the King in His politic capacity, for so the body of the King is invisible, Coke. l. 7. Calvins case.
Secondly, because we do our legeance to the King in his naturall capacity, and therefore he holds the Kingdome in His naturall capacity, that is, as He is Charles the sonne and heire apparent of King James of blessed memory. For legeance or homage cannot be done to the King in His politique capacity, for so the body of the King is invisible, Coke. l. 7. Calvins case.
Thirdly, in the case aforesaid, it is expressly affirmed, that the King holds the Kingdom of England by birth-right inherent by descent from the blood-Royal. And how inseparable this right is from the next in blood, you may see in Henry the 4. who though he was also of the Blood-royal, and had the Crown resigned unto him from Richard the 2▪ and confirmed by Act of Parliament; yet upon his death bed He acknowledged He had no right thereunto, Speed. l. 9. c. 14.
Thirdly, in the case aforesaid, it is expresly affirmed, that the King holds the Kingdom of England by birth-right inherent by descent from the blood-Royall. And how inseparable this right is from the next in blood, you may see in Henry the 4. who though he was also of the Blood-royall, and had the Crown resigned unto him from Richard the 2▪ and confirmed by Act of Parliament; yet upon his death bed He acknowledged He had no right thereunto, Speed. l. 9. c. 14.