Numb.18.
A Modest Narrative
OF
INTELLIGENCE:
For the Republique of
ENGLAND & IRELAND.
From Saturday, July 28. to Saturday, August 4. 1649.
WE have seen the Father of the Scots King fallen, whose miscarriages
we are not willing to enumerate, lest we should be said, mortuos
disturbare, to disquiet the dead, though we would mind those
that are so in love with his living part, Viz. His Son, (whose Excellencies
are occult qualities, and never perceived by those that are highest
and yet we may see his Councel makes him consent to put on a garment of the
old cloth, though cut into a newer fashion, which the quick sighted Scot saw not
(as we may see in their transactions at the Hague, in pag.16.) the words are
these, (for the effecting of which, meaning the content of his people, I shall
omit nothing, According to the duty low Almighty God in the exercise of my Royal
Power for the good of my People; So that the End is the good of the People, (which
is good,)but he is to be Judg of that good, and not his Scottish parliament; so
imply his first words, His Duty towards God, (not a word of his account to any
created Power;) And this Duty is made known in the exercise of His Royal Power,
which his Scottish Subjects shall be made sensible of, when he is admitted to
that exercise; so that terminis mutual is, this Maxime is, The King is accountable to
none but God; and this the Principle (which the Scots may take notice of) of
his Regal Distance from them, which how it can stand with their Proposition, Viz.
That all Civil matters should be determined by Parliament, and that without
the King or his Commissioners presence or consent, I cannot so much as imagine,
but rather that that Proposition with them, is the same with our practise
here, only this disterence, that we use it without a king, because our own, and
they would have it by their Kings Grant, though their own, which that it is their
own, these a years experience witness; but the reason why they asked it, I must
not give you, because they are a State, as well as we, in practice, only they want
the Denomination, which (I hope) they will give to themselves, and then Exit.
Car.2.