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condemn the King with much Formality, by the Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom, by the general Law of all Nations, and the unanimous Confent of all Rational Men in the World, for imploying the Power of the Sword to the Deftruction of the People, with which they intrufted him for their own Protection. How you got the Confent of Rational Men to this Sentence, I cannot imagine; for 'tis moft certain (by your own Confeflion) that he never imployed the Sword, but against thofe who firft fought to deprive him of it; and by that very Act, declared they did not truft him,and confequently abfolved himn both from the Obliga tion that he had to protect them, and the Poffibility too: For no Man can defend another longer than he defends himself; fo that if you will have your Sentence to be juft, you must confefs it to be Nonfenfe; for you must not only prove, that thofe who fought against him, were the People that trufted him, not those who fought for him, but the leffer, or lefs confiderable Part of the People, the People, as you have the Confidence to call your Honourable Clients, being not the twen

tieth Part of the very Rabble; which if you can do, you are much wifer than Solomon: For it is easier to divide a Child in two parts, than to make one of thofe two parts a whole Child; and if you have the trick on't you fhall be next allowed to prove, that take four out of fix, there remains fix: Nor is there more Juftice or Reason in the Sentence, than in the Course you take to uphold it; for while you deny the old Maxim of Law, That the King can do no Wrong, you maintain a new one much worfe, That he may fuffer any; and having limited this Power to act only according to Law, expofe him to fuffer, not only without, but againft Law. Truly it is hard Meafure, but, rather than fail of your Purpose, you will make as bold with Scripture as you have done with Reafon, if it ftand in your way; as you do when you interpret that place of the Apostle, Where no Law is, there is no Tranfgreffion, to mean, Where there is neither Law of God, nor Nature, nor pofitive Law: I wonder where that is; certainly you had better undertake to find out a Plantation for Archimedes his Engines to

move the Earth, than but fanfie where that can be, which you must do before you can make this Scripture to be understood to your purpose; and I cannot but fmile, to think how hard a Task that will be for fuch a strong Fancy as yours, that cannot conceive what your felf affirm; for when you deny it poffible to fuppofe twoSupreme Powers in one Nation, you forget that you had acknowledged much more before; for you confefs the King to be Su preme, when you say, very elegantly, he made Head against the Parliament, who acknowledg'd him to be Head thereof, and yet you fay the Parliament is the Supreme Authority of the Nation. Thus you affirm that really to be,which you think is impoffible to imagine.

But fuch lucky Contradictions of your felf, as well as Senfe, are as familiar with you as Railing, for befides the many before mentioned, and your common Incongruities of Speech, is as far from Construction, as the Pur pofe: There are others which, for your Encouragement, ought not to be omitted; and when you would prove the King the most abominable Tyrant that ever People fuffered under, yet

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you fay he was beloved of fome, and feared abroad: His Judges you com pared to the Saints fitting in Judgment at the last Day, and yet, by your own Doctrine, they are more like Bears and Wolves, in fitting by a Commiffion of Force, their High Court is a Royal Palace of the Principles of Freedom, and yet, till the People voluntarily fubmit to a Government, (which they never did to that) they were but Slaves. The Parliament (you fay) Petitioned the King, as good Subjects, and yet, immediately after, you make them his Lords, and himself Servant fo they give him the Honour of his own Royal Affent, and yet they often Petitioned him for it. His Trial you call moft impartial, and yet cannot deny. all his Judges to be Parties, and his profeft Enemies. But you hit pretty right, when you fay he caufed more Proteftant Blood to be fhed than ever was fpilt either by Rome, Heathen or Antichriftian, for grant that partly to be true, and confefs as much Proteftant Blood as ever was fpilt by the Heathen Romans, unless they could kill Proteftants eight hundred Years before there were any in the World; which elo

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quent piece of Nonfenfe we muft impute to your Ignorance in Chronology, or Confufion of Notion, which you please. Nor are thofe Riddles of Contradiction only in your Words, but in the whole Courfe of your Proceedings, for

you never do the King any Right, but where you do him the greatest Wrong, and are there only Rational, where you are most inhuman; as in your additional Accufations, fince his Death, for there you undertake to prove fomething, and give your Reafons (fuch as they are) to make it appear, which were fair Play, if you do not take an Advantage too unreafo nable, to argue with the Dead. But your other Impeachments confift only of Generals, prove nothing, or Intentions, which can never be proved, or your own forc'd Constructions of Actions, or what might have been Actions, but never were; all which you only aggravate with Impertinency and foul Language, but never undertake to prove; and if we should grant all you would fay, and fuppofe you faid it in fenfe or order, it would ferve you to no purpose, unless you have, by Proof or Argument, applied it to him, which You never went about to do.

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