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A36385	Doughty, John, 1598-1672.	The Kings cavse rationally, briefly, and plainly debated, as it stands de facto against the irrationall, groundlesse misprisions of a still deceived sort of people.	1644.0		.xml	application/xml	12292	254	44	Hee who by virtue of his place is , & hath been alwaies so esteemed of in former times , not only {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , the chiefe framer and withall dispenser of lawes , but also {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , the very life and soule of the law : A point therefore which Maiestie useth but seldome to stoop to ; Princes accounting of none as competent Judges of them and their Actions , save God alone ; since it is a true saying , Rex est qui Regem , Maxime , non habeat , He is truely a King who acknowledgeth no commanding power upon earth above himselfe . Againe we find in Councells how there hath swayed oftimes a prevailing faction or party : so as they deserved not so much to have beene termed Concilia , as Conciliabula , rather Conventicles then lawfull assemblies , and accordingly the result of their consultations hath usually tasted strong of the prevailing side : nay , we have heard of Councells or Synods , that for a great part there sitting , in the first choice or constitution of them , have not alwayes beene , 't was thought , so impartially assigned to the place , as not consisting of the best , the ablest , and every way fittest for the worke that might be found : witnesse the many examples of Councells both ancient and moderne too , which might be called upon in attestation of these truths ; I apply not the one , nor the other : but this I may perhaps inoffensively say : what hath often happen happened to a Councell , may at some time be fall a Senate : those of the short robe are not more exempted then those of the long ; Howbeit I wave the point , with a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} there , wishing , though no wayes hoping , all to be well .	cache/A36385.xml	txt/A36385.txt