(.2 2, Declaration that [ Its unlawful on any pretence wh;arfeevur ti take .trans ag'ai the King and fo on] and vvil thus equivocate, as they fty fume do;viz. [ It is unlawful] that is,. againit the Law of the L nd but nit Gods .a. [ ro take Arms agarnft the Icing J that'is, as K- ; but faith Suarez;, and fuch others, when he is.xcom- 7nunicate Ey the Pepe he is no . King; [ 04 any pretence ] that is, fay they, [.0 jug- pr: terrace ] [6y hts authority againfl his palm', and Sould iri s_] that is, fay the equivocaters, -[ It-s wellfaid that we may not do it by his .44 raty, -but we may do it by tile Law ,of . nature and fò by Gods Authority who a Law that is; [againf an) Commfft:rned by him] that is, fay they, to fully conirnlioned, and we are° j zages when his C.mmafons are unlaa fül: So [We will not- endeazi.ur any r iteration of Govern- mn;nt in Cb; rcb or Stare] that is fay they; iTot ofMonarchy, or the King, but we may yet di- íturb any of his Dfücets 2. Not of the E'!en- tials of Eplfcopacy, but we may feek to take down their wealth and Lordfhips, and reduce them from Diocefans to-Parochial or Corpora- tionBithops : 3. Not by unlawful means ; but we take not that to be unlawful which they do. What good will Oaths or Covenants taken with fuch Latitude or Equivocation do ? Do they. fecure any of the ends of Governments ? Rulers íhouàd abhor fuch Equivocations and ftretching Latitudes as there, VIII. It is agreed on both fdes,tha t ifwe might go on this fufpofition, that our Rulers can re- quire nothing that is ztnjzll4 or ampiovu, or agai%aft the LaworC,;mrnongood. or their ovn antereft, and therefore that no expßition is to bepat on their Jal,s
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