Four True and Considerable POSITIONS for the sitting MEMBERS, the New Court of Justice, and New Judges, Sheriffs, Officers, Lawyers, justices, and others to Ruminate upon.  
1 THat the whole House of Commons in no age had any Power, Right or lawful Authority to make any Valid or binding Act or Ordinance of Parliament; or to inpose any Tax, Oath, forfeiture, on capital punishment upon any person or freeman of this realm, without the Lords or Kings concurrent assents: much less than can a small remnant only of the Members of that house do it, sitting under an armed force (which nulls and vacates all their Votes and proceedings, as the Ordinance of 20. August 1647. declares) whilst most of their fellow members are forcibly detained and driven thence, as Master St. John proves in his Speech concerning shipmoney. p. 33. and in his Argument concerning the Earl of Straffords attainder, p, 70, 71. 76, 77, 78. and Sr. Edward Cook in his 4 Instit. ch. 1.  
2 That the few Members now sitting in, and the House of Commons being no Court of Justice of itself, and having no power to hear and determine any civil or criminal causes, nor to give an oath in any case whatsoever, cannot by the laws and statutes of the realm, nor by any pretext of authority whatsoever, erect any new Court of justice, nor give power or authority to any new judges, justices or Commissioners to arraign, try, condemn or execute any subject of meanest quality, for any real or pretended crime whatsoever; much less their own sovereign Lord the King, or any Peers of this realm; who ought to be tried by their Peers, and by the Law of the Land alone, and not o●herwise. And that the condemning and executing the King, or any peer or other Subject by pretext of such an illegal authority, is no less than High Treason and wilful murder, both in the members, the Commissioners, Judges or Justices giving and executing sentence of death in any such arbitrary and lawless void Court, or by virtue of any such void and illegal Commissions.  
3 That the House of Commons and members now sitting, have no power, nor authority to make or alter the great seal of England, or grant any Commissions to any Commissioners, judges, Sheriffs, justices of the peace, or any other. That all the commissions granted by them, under their New, or any other seal, are merely void and illegal; and all the new writs and proceedings in Law or Equity, before any judges, justices, Sheriffs, or other Officers made by them, merely void in Law to all intents, & coram non judice.  
4 That the denial of the King's title to the crown, and plotting the means to deprive him of it, or to set it upon another's head, is High Treason, within the statute of 25. E. 3. ch, 2. And that the endeavouring to subvert the fundamental Laws and Government of the realm of England (by King, Lords, and Commons) and to introduce a tyrannical or arbitrary G●vernment against law, is High Treason at the common law (especially in judges and Lawyers) not taken away by any statute. Both which Mr. St. John in his Argument at law, concerning the Bill of attainder of high treason of Thomas Earl of Strafford, published By Order of the Commons House. Anno 1641. p. 8. 14 to 33. and 64, to 78. And in his Speech, at a conference of both houses of Parliament, concerning shipmoney Anno 1640. hath proved very fully by many reasons and precedents, and Cook in his 7 Report f 10 11 12; and 3 Institutes ch 1. That the commons now sitting, in making a New Great Seal, without the King's image or stile, in granting new illegal commissions to judges, justices of Peace, sheriffs, and other Officers in the name of Custodes Angliae in the general, in omitting and altering the King's name, stile and title in writs, process, inditements, and proceedings at the common law, and thereby endeavouring to disinherit the Prince, (now lawful King by and since his father's bloody murder,) and to alter and subvert the fundamental laws and government of the realm, by such commissions and proceedings, and by the power of an Army to enforce them; and the judges, justices, sheriffs and other Officers who accept of such commissions, and all those (especially Lawyers) who volentarily assist, consent, and submit to such commissions and alterations by such usurped illegal authority, and the commissioners sitting in the new courts of Justice are most really guilty of both these high 
* whereupon six Judges refused to accept any New Commissions, or to act as Judges,  Treasons (in which there are no accessories) & less excusable than Strafford or Canterbury; whom some of these new judges and sitting Members impeached and prosecuted to death, for those very Treasons themselves now act, in a more apparent and higher degree than they, and (in respect of their oaths, Covenant, callings, and places) are more obliged to maintain the King's title, the fundamental laws and government, the rights and liberties of the kingdom and Parliament than they; and therefore (if they persevere therein) may justly expect the self same capital punishments they underwent, if not far worse: especially since they attempt to reduce the ancientest kingdom of all Christendom, into the puniest and most contemptible state in all the World; and thereby to render us the most infamous, perfidious, and dishonourable Nation under Heaven, both to the present and all succeeding ages: which must needs make the contrivers and abetters thereof, the most detestable traitors and public enemies to their King and native Country, that ever this realm brought forth in any age Repent therefore of these your treasons, and amend your lives, if you expect the least hope of pardon from God or Man: And expiate all your former high misdemeanours; by engageing all your power and endeavours to settle all things in Church and State, according to your primitive engagements; instead of accumulating one sin and Treason to another, which will prove your certain ruin in conclusion, not your safety.  
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