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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. › Resolved.An Appeale to thy Conscience. › Resolved.
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A Reformation is much spoken of; plain it is there is an alteration. Are not all our fixed Laws turned into this one Law, Salus populi, The safety of the people? Are not our Goods, Lands, Liberties, seized on, yea, and that Legally? To wit. Lege necessicatis, by the Law of necessity? Is not disobedience to the Commands of our Prince termed Loyalty? Infinite are the evils which these sad distractions have produced; but I forbear, because they are fitter to be lamented then rehearsed.
A Reformation is much spoken of; plain it is there is an alteration. Are not all our fixed Laws turned into this one Law, Salus populi, The safety of the people? Are not our Goods, Lands, Liberties, seized on, yea, and that Legally? To wit. Lege necessicatis, by the Law of necessity? Is not disobedience to the Commands of our Prince termed Loyaltie? Infinite are the evils which these sad distractions have produced; but I forbeare, because they are fitter to be lamented then rehearsed.
If yet there remain one scruple unremoved concerning the power of Parliament, I shall herein refer you to a Tract of Sir Wa. Raleigh's, entitled, The prerogative of Parliaments in England: and for thy present satisfaction shall desire thee to consider these four things:
If yet there remain one scruple unremoved concerning the power of Parliament, I shall herein refer you to a Tract of Sir Wa. Raleighs, intituled, The prerogative of Parliaments in England: and for thy present satisfaction shall desire thee to consider these four things:
First, all agree. That the Parliament is as one Body, and the Head of this Body is the King. So Dyer fol. 60. a. The Parliament (saith he) consists of three parts: to wit, of the King, the chief Head; and of the Lords, the chief and principal Members of the body; and of the Commons, Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, the inferior Members: and these make the Body of the Parliament. Utigitur in naturalibus, capite detruncato residuum