AD. 8.
The Gent. concludes, That Acts of Parliament are not formally binding, nor compleat without the Kings assent, yet the Houses have a virtuall power without the Kings particular assent, to doe things in order to publike Iustice and Safety, (viz▪) In setting up the Ex∣cise, in raising and maintaining of Armies, in taxing the peo∣people at pleasure with Fifth and Twentieth part, Fifty Subsidies, Sequestrations, Loanes, Compositions, imprisoning the King, abolishing the Common-prayer-Book, selling the Churches Lands &c. all these are in order to the publike Justice and Safety.
Mr H.P. you are of my profession, I beseech you, for the good of your Countrey, for the Honour of our Science perswade your selfe and others, as much as in you lies, to believe and fol∣low the monition and Councell of that memorable, reverend, and profoundly learned in the Lawes and Customes of the Land, the Lord Coke, who writes as becomes a great and a learned Judge of the Law (a person much magnified by the two Houses) in these words? Peruse over all Books, Records and Histories, and you shall finds a Principle in Law, a Rule in Reason, and a Tryall in Experience, that Treason doth over produc•• futall and finall destruction to the offender, and never attaines to the desired and (two incidents inseparable thereunto) and therefore l••t all men abandon it, as the poysonous hait of the Devill, and follow the Precept in holy Scripture, SERVE GOD, HONOƲR THE KING, AND HAVE NO COMPANY WITH THE SEDITIOƲS.