Englands satisfaction in eight queries;: concerning the true place, office, and power of a king, according to Gods word.
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Englands satisfaction in eight queries;: concerning the true place, office, and power of a king, according to Gods word.
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[London :: s.n.,
1643]
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Kings and rulers
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"Englands satisfaction in eight queries;: concerning the true place, office, and power of a king, according to Gods word." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A83999.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
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6. Quest. How shall we know when a King doth transgresse against his Oath, and breake his Covenant, and what is the remedy?
Ans. A King doth trangresse his Oath, and breake his Covenant, when that his demands are beyond the Nationall Law, which by vertue of his Oath, as it is a breach thereof, is oppression; and when a King doth command of, and from the people, such things as are opposite unto, and against the fundamentall Lawes of the Land; which by vertue of his Oath, as it is a breach thereof, is tyranny: which lawfully begets in the Common-wealth an absolute deniall and refusall to such demands and commands, and so the peace of the Land is endangered: the onely remedy to preserve the same,
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is for the King to call a Parliament, that is, to send out his Writs to the Commons, to choose their Knights and Burgesses, who by vertue of the Kings Writs, and the Commons voyces for them, are Parliament-men, and as Arbitrators are to decide all differen∣ces in Church, State, and Common-wealth; whose conclusions and determinations, together with the Kings assent, consent, and signing, are binding Lawes both to King and people.
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