This was occasioned by R. I. one of the Sequestrators at Che­ster, who having straitly charged George Snell, Doctor of Divinity, the submitter; that he came to wake his sub­mission as a Temporizer, and without making conscience of his Oath, &c. the submittent to testifie, that he deserved no such hard censure, did shortly afterward shew to the Accusant these ensuing Motives.

• 1. THat he was moved to submit not to the King one­ly, but to the Parliament also; because in the weighty affaires of the Kingdom, now in agitation, the most faithfull, and most wise Councell of the Land ought to be used.
• [Page 2]II. Because the matters now in variance between the King and Parliament, onely seeme to concern the outward order of the Church and Common Weal the dispo [...]tion of which is conceived to pertain wholy to the Kings Maiesty and un­to the honourable Houses who as holding the sup [...]eam Go­vernance, next unto the Holy Ghost, and the sacred Word, ever since Moses the Prophet, have as other State Assem­blies, alwayes appointed the particularities of publike Af­faires.
• III. To the King and Parliament because the most approved Students of the English Laws, do very often in their Books affirm, that the Kings Majesty is so fully incorporate into His Councell, that His Majesty and His Councell are ever­more taken as joint Agents in every businesse of moment, that doth concern His Crown and Kingdome; whence it is, that the King is never in any Court called to appear; for that by the common intendment of the Law His Royal pre­sence is alwayes understood to be virtually and vigorously present in all Seats of Justice; yea though the King should be an Infant in the Cradle.
• IV. Because the King and his Par [...]iament seem to be the on­ly true Father and Mother and the Weal publike to be their true naturall Child; and a [...] when the Son falls sick the father, for remedy doth willingly commend him to the joint care of the tender-hearted Mother untill his wonted health be regained [...] even so at thi [...] time the great Colledge of State-Physitians having discovered to the Royall Father, that this Child of the Publike State is taken with a dange­rous disease His Majesty according to the constant custome in such case hath referred the cure to the associate avd of that honourable Mother; so that [...]uring this course of Phy­sick, that Soveraign Father seemes to have suspended his sole regent Power, which neverthelesse, so soon as the Pati­ent [Page 3]shall be made whole, that Mother in all duty will hum­bly resign him to the former government of his Soveraign Parent; and so in case of perillous Disease, the Mother may seem to rule jointly with the Father.
• V. To His Majesty and to the Parliament, because it is thought that the High Court of Parliament ariseth over the Realm of England even as the Sun in the sphear of Heaven at whose appearance, all other Courts and Counsels of this Land doth totally vanish, as doth the Stars before the Sun beames, saving what influence those Inferiours may bor­row from that Supream Court.
• VI. Not onely to the King but to the Parliament likewise; for that as by the Customary Law of England all Courts have power not onely to defend their Authority; but more, to make by-laws, and orders; to bind all that stand subject to their jurisdiction and that so long and so farre as it shall seeme good to the Iudge of each Court: in like sort, it is verily beleived that the high Senate of Parliament of Right, hath such power in the Superlative, while the Parliament is continued, to make Edicts and Orders to further their designes, and that with a Non obstante, of any Law enacted.
• VII. To the King and Parliament, according to the Oath and Covenant, which is now required, the Oath requiring no­thing but what is due unto any protective Power, and the Nationall Covenant, for substance, being heretofore made implicitly in the Statute of uniting England and Scotland: And were it not so yet seeing the highest Court of Sena­tors do exact nothing of us, but what they aver, and protest is lawfull and right: we that by the Lawes must beleive the verdict of a Iury of ordinary persons is lawfull and true; how much greater beleife ought wee to yeeld unto the grand verdict of those many hundreds of [...]urates, impar [...]el'd to passe upon the life and liberty of all this Kingdome: [Page 4]we may well stand perswaded that they have better fore­seen, that the Oath, Covenant, and Obedience which they require of the Kings Subjects, is not contrary unto that Oath and fealty, by which we all stand bound to His Maje­sty then the wisest man alone is able to fore-fee; and as the Lawyers say, opertet neminem esse sapientiorem legibus, even so it is phrensie not onely presumption, that any one should think himself wiser then the whole Parliament of Eng­land.
• VIII. To the King, and to the Parliament that now is, more then unto any Parliament yet held in England; not onely in reverent respect to that surpassing measure of knowledg, and wisdome, which in this Age of Learning is farre more excellent in the Members of the Two Houses then in any Times of their fore-Fathers: but also, because to that al­most illimited Power which the Parliament naturally hath, the Kings Majesty hath granted an illimited time: so that to this Senatorian Order, we ought to be very specially faithfull and loyall.
• IX. Vnto both joyntly; because of that inseparable Vnion, which our Laws, and Law-Students do averre to hold inso­lubly between the King and his Counsel, in regard of which incorporate union; They say, Rex Anglia non p [...]test injustae agere, Rex Angliae nunquam existit in minoritate. The King of England can do nothing unjustly: The King of England is never under age: These, and many like honourable sayings are spoken concerning the Kings of England: Yet as the Iurisprudents of this Land, do say, not in relation to the Kings sole person; but as his Majesty stands incessantly in­corporate into his Councell, from whence his legall abili­ties and perfections, as from a living Fountain in a sort are derived.
• [Page 5]X. To the King and Parliament now, if ever, for that to the extream grief of all loyall hearts, now they stand at such op­posite distance, that the very foundations of the Kingdome seem to be shaken; and now what true-born child of that Royall Father, and most Honourable Mother doth not quake and tremble to see his Father in Arms against his Mother; and the Mother against that ever honoured Father, he is of a bastard-kind that wisheth either to destroy the other, and of a more bastard-generation is he that would have any for­raign Enemy to conquer them both; for it is evident the one of those publick Parents cannot fall to ruine, without the utter destruction of the other: And submission to both, without opposition to either, is like to be the readiest way to reconciliation.
• XI. Unto both; because, in arduis negotiis Regni, such as are now on foot the whole State of the Kingdom, by the wis­dome of our Elders hath ever been submitted, to the King conjoyned to his Parliament: And now if ever we do need the true Formalities and Roabs of an able Parliament, that by their predominant Power transcendent Authority, and pious Wisdome, the present consuming mischiefes may be restrained and extinguished.
• XII. Lastly, to the King and Parliament now; because never any Parliament hitherto, that we know, hath so much testi­fied by publike Devotions to Almighty God, and by deep and often Protestations unto the Kings Majesty, and to all [Page 6]his well-affected Subjects, that next after the glory of God and the welfare of the true Religion, they do intend and in­deavour nothing so much as the safety of his Majesties per­son, the augmentation of His Majesties Honour, and the peace and prosperity of all His Majesties Kingdomes: now seeing both Houses of Parliament, the most great and most Honourable Councell of England alwayes have made, and still do persevere in making such Prayers and Protestations; it seemes not onely an intollerable offence against Charity, but an abuse inexpiable against common Humanity by ob­stinate incredulity, to give the lye unto those most honou­rable Senators, and to all the great Councell of England; by cherishing any opinion or thought, that this most honoura­ble Assembly of Councellours do most wickedly conspire to ruine the King, His Subjects, and Kingdomes.