36 The LIFE óf the IL i s. Ie 3. To thethird they faid, that the Parliament are Subje&s limitedly, and not fimply, as the King is not an abfolute, but a limitedKing, viz. limited bythe Laws andConfutation of the Government ; they are Subjeéh to himaccording toLaw, but not fubjea toArbitrary Government againft Law : Their Propriety is excep. ted in' their Subje&ion, and they have certain Liberties which arenot fubje& to the Will of She King. And alfo, they faid, That as the Sheriff is a Subjeíl, and a Court of Juftice ; Subjell,, and yet may refill the King'sLetters, even under the Broad.Seal, and his Meffengers or armed Men that at illegally (becaufe the. Law, which hash his Authority andthe Parliament's enable them fo to do) fo alto may the Parliament, which is his higheft Court of Juftice. And they faid, that as they have a part in the Legillative Power, they have part in the Summa Pa- teflar, and fo far arenot Subje&s. And they faid, that the bare Title of Supreme is no Argument againft the Confutation of a Kingdom, though it be exprefledin an Oath. For the King is filed, the Supreme Governor of Frame, andyet the Oath of Supremacy doth not bind us to believe, that no French Man may law- fully bear Arms againft him. 4. They fay to the fourth,That they wholly grant it ; that though Religion may be the end of a lawful War, yet not of a Rebellion : nor may any Reformations be performed by any A&ions whichbelong not to the Places and Callings of the Performers. But where the means are Lawful, Religion and Reformation are law- ful Ends. S. To the fifth they laid, That they agree with all good Chrittians and Prote- fants, that true Authority may not be refitted by any Subje& : But all Proteftants, or roof, agree with them, that a limited Governor, which bath not Authority to do what he lifts, may perform an A& of Will, which is no A& of Authority; and they maintained, that the highel Power was in the Law -givers and Laws, and that the Parliament was the higheft Judicature, and that it was Rebellion in them that refitted the Parliament in their legal profecution of Delinquents, and Defence of the Land and themfelves : and that Paul, Rom. t;. determineth not at all, whe- ther the Emperors or the Senate was the higher Power ; and that the Refifersof the Parliament are the condemned Breakers of that Order and Command. 6. To the fixth they laid, that they Charge nothing on the King, but what their Eyes behold, viz. Thathe hath forfaken his Parliament, and raifeth Arms againft them, and proteð Delinquents : And this they mention but as Matter of Fall ; for the culpability they charge upon his evil Counfellors, and Infra- means: For the King being no Subje&, is liable to no Accufacions in anyof his Courts : But it is the lri)ls the Papift, and thofe guiltyPerlons whowould mine all, to five themfelves fromJuftice, whom they accule, and not the King. And what- ever the King'sDeclarations fay, Ship-money bath been impofed, the Judgeshave beencorrupted,the German Horfe were to have been brought in ; the Northern Ar- my was to have been brought up againft the Parliament; the Houle was invaded andtheir Members demanded, a Guard was let upon them, and their Deftru&ion (by their Enemies) was powerfully endeavoured. j. To the feventh they laid, That for the fupreme legiflative Authority to de- fend it fell and the Land, and for the King's Courts of Jufice to profecute De- linquents (though againft the King's Will) is no difhonourto the Protefant Religi- on, nor any thing like the Papifts Do&rine and Pra&ices of Rebellion ; nor any Juftificationof them. If it were, then the very Confitution of our ancient Go- vernment or Kingdom, would it fellbe a difhonour to our Religion. 8. To the !aft they fay, That Patience is our Duty fo far as we are called to Sufferings, and God is to be crafted in the way which he bath appointed us : But if the Irifb Rebels had foretold the Parliament and Jufices of their Infurre&ion, and then exhorted them to Patience and Non-reffiance andtrailing God, or if a Thief that would rob us toexhort us to bepatient andnot refl, he dochbut exhort us to be guiltyof his Sin. The Protefants Patience was that which pleafed the Irif,; or (if a King mutt be brought in as a Party) the French Mens Patience in theParifian Maffacre pleafedCharle, IX. and the Executioners : And ifin all Coun- tries the Proteftants would let the Papilla cut their Throats, and die in the Ho- nour ofPatience, irwould fatisfie thofe bloody Adverfaries, who had rather we di- ed in luth Honour, than lived without it: But if filch Patience would be a poor Excufe for a Father that fought not to preferve his Children, much lefs for the Paliament that land fill while Papills and Delinquents fubvert both Church and State. Thefe
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