Baxter - BX5202 B291 1679

E2 x6] Popery, dre. and then would command all Mi.; nifffers on pain of filencing to fubfcrìbe that no man is bound to perform that Vow, this would, not do them any fervice, but involve each Sub fcriber in the guilt of a multitudes perfidiauf, fiefs. SECT. XIII. V. The Fifth Tart ofConformity. .THE The Fifth Part of Conformity is the Subfcribing ofthe laid Declaration, and taking the O fora Oath, as it concerneth Civet Oovernment,viz. [It is not lawful on any pretence whatfoever to take Arms agair.ft the King and that I do abhor that traiterons pofition of taking Arms by his authority aping his Baerfon,or againft thcfe that are commífonea by him.J in purfuance of that Commifion, 2. Here the Q+:eftion is not of the firft Claufe, oftaking Arms againft the King; but only of the lait [againft thofe that are comm.ffioned by him] the Minifters being moftly ignorant of Law, and not knowing what is called a Commif fioi, and what feal maketh it filth : For as they are fätisfied that no true Legal Commi fion of the King may be refitted, fo while the unex- pounded words have no limitation or exception, they dare not think that a Lord Chancellour or Keeper bath power at his pleafure to depofe the King, by leafing Cotnmifions to any to feize on his Forts, Garrilons, Magazines, Treafure, Na- yies or Guards; nor yet to de troy the King- doms

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