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This Gentleman sayes, The Parliament hath declared the King to be in no condition to govern, &c.
There is no end of your distinctions, I and you professe the Law; shew me Law for your distinctions, or letter, syllable, or line, in any Age in the Books of the Law, that the King may in one time be in no condition to govern, and yet have the ha∣bit
of governing, and another time he may (viz.) when the two Houses will suffer him: The Law saith thus, Ʋbi lex non di∣stinguit, non est distinguendum.
He sayes, The King is not barred from returning to His Par∣liament, (as he calls the two Houses) he knowes the contrary, the whole City knowes the contrary, Nos juris consulti sumus sacerdotes, (as Institian the Emperour hath it, in the first Book of his Institutions) and therefore knowledge and truth should come from our lips: Worth) and ingenious men will remember, and reflect upon that passage of that good and wise man Seneca, Non qua itur, sed qua eundum; follow not the rayes of the Lawyers of the House of Commons: God forgive them, I am sure the King will, if they be wise and seek it in time.