premacy of English kings from 1 Pet. ii. 13, as if that were the apostle's work: wherein if he saith that "the king is supreme," he speaks so of him but as an " ordinance of man," and in respect of those "governors that are sent by him," not in respect of parliaments, which by the law of this land are his bridle; in vain his bridle, if not also his rider: and therefore hath not only co-ordination with him, which you falsely call seditious, but hath superiority above him, and that neither" against religion," nor" right reason:" no nor against common law; for our kings reigned only by law. But the parliament is above all positive law, whether civil or common, makes or unmakes them both; and still the latter parliament above the former, above all the former lawgivers, then certainly above all precedent laws, entailed the crown on whom it pleased; and as a great lawyer saith," is so transcendent and absolute, that it cannot be confined either for causes or persons, within any bounds." But your cry is, no parliament without a king. If this be so, we have never had lawful kings, who have all been created kings either by such parliaments, or by conquest: if by such parliaments, they are in your allowance none; if by conquest, that conquest we have now conquered. So that as well by your own assertion as by ours, there can at present be no king. And how could that person be absolutely supreme, who reigned, not under law only, but under oath of his good demeanour, given to the people at his coronation, ere the people gave him his crown? and his principal oath was to maintain those laws, which the people should choose. If then the law itself, much more he who was but the keeper and minister of law, was in their choice, and both he subordinate to the performance of his duty sworn, and our sworn allegiance in order only to his performance.

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As for your Appendix annexed of the "Samaritan revived," finding it so foul a libel against all the well affected of this land, since the very time of ship-money, against the whole parliament, both lords and commons, except those that fled to Oxford, against the whole reformed church, not only in England and Scotland, but all over Europe, (in comparison whereof you and y prelatical party are more truly schismatics and sectarians, nay, more properly fanatics in your fanes and gilded temples, than those whom you revile by those names,) and meeting with no more Scripture or solid reason in your "Samaritan wine and oil," than bath already been found sophisticated and adulterate, I leave your malignant narrative, as needing no other confutation, than the just censure already passed upon you by the council of state.

have but one ending, as bene well, cum when, tum then.

Nouns, pronouns, and participles are declined with gender, number, and case; verbs, as hereafter in the verb.

Of Genders.

GENDERS are three, the masculine, feminine, and neuter. The masculine may be declined with this article hic, as hic vir a man; the feminine with this article, hæc, as hæc mulier a woman; the neuter with this article, hoc, as hoc saxum a stone.

Of the masculine are generally all nouns belonging to the male kind, as also the names of rivers, months, and winds.

Of the feminine, all nouns belonging to the female kind, as also the names of countries, cities, trees, some few of the two latter excepted: of cities, as Agragas and Sulmo, masculine; Argos, Tibur, Præneste, and such as end in um, neuter; Anxur both. Of trees, oleaster and spinus, masculine: but oleaster is read also feminine, Cic. Verr. 4. Acer, siler, suber, thus, robur, neuter.

And of the neuter are all nouns, not being proper names, ending in um, and many others.

Some nouns are of two genders, as hic or hæc dies a day; and all such may be spoken both of male and female, as hic or hæc parens a father or mother: some be of three, as hic hæc and hoc felix happy.

Of Numbers.

WORDS declined have two numbers, the singular and the plural. The singular speaketh but of one, as lapis a stone. The plural of more than one, as lapides stones; yet sometimes but of one, as Athenæ the city of Athens, literæ an epistle, ædes ædium a house.

Note, that some nouns have no singular, and some no plural, as the nature of their signification requires. Some are of one gender in the singular; of another, or two genders, in the plural, as reading will best

the book, pro libro for the book; and the ablative plural is always like the dative.

Note, that some nouns have but one ending throughout all cases, as frugi, nequam, nihil; and all words of number from three to a hundred, as quatuor four, quinque five, &c.

Some have but one, some two, some three cases only, in the singular or plural, as use will best teach.

Of a Noun.

A NOUN is the name of a thing, as manus a hand, domus a house, bonus good, pulcher fair.

Nouns be substantives or adjectives.

A noun substantive is understood by itself, as homo a man, domus a house.

An adjective, to be well understood, requireth a substantive to be joined with it, as bonus good, parvus little, which cannot be well understood unless something good or little be either named, as bonus vir a good man, parvus puer a little boy; or by use understood, as honestum an honest thing, boni good men.

The Declining of Substantives.

NOUNS substantives have five declensions or forms of ending their cases, chiefly distinguished by the different ending of their genitive singular.

This one word familia joined with pater, mater, filius, or filia, endeth the genitive in as, as pater fa milias, but sometimes familiæ. Dea, mula, equa, liberta, make the dative and ablative plural in abus; filia and nata in is or abus.

The first declension endeth always in a, unless in some words derived of the Greek: and is always of the feminine gender, except in names attributed to men, according to the general rule, or to stars, as cometa, planeta.

Nouns, and especially proper names derived of the Greek, have here three endings, as, es, e, and are de clined in some of their cases after the Greek form Æneas, acc. Ænean, voc. Ænea; Anchises, acc. Anchisen, voc. Anchise, or Anchisa, abl. Anchise. Penelope, Penelopes, Penelopen, voc. abl. Penelope. Some times following the Latin, as Marsya, Philocteta, for as and es; Philoctetam, Eripbylam, for an and en. Cic.

Note, that when the nominative endeth in us, the vocative shall end in e, as dominus ô domine, except deus ô deus. And these following, agnus, lucus, vulgus, populus, chorus, fluvius, e or us.

When the nominative endeth in ius, if it be the proper name of a man, the vocative shall end in i, as Georgius ô Georgi; hereto add filius ô fili, and genius ô geni.

All nouns of the second declension are of the masculine or neuter gender; of the masculine, such as end in er, or, or us, except some few, humus, domus, alvus, and others derived of the Greek, as methodus, antidotus, and the like, which are of the feminine, and some of them sometimes also masculine, as atomus, phaselus; to which add ficus the name of a disease, grossus, pampinus, and rubus.

Those of the neuter, except virus, pelagus, and vulgus, (which last is sometimes masculine,) end all in um, and are declined as followeth :

Nom. Ac. Voc. studia
Gen. studiorum
Dat. Abl. studiis.

Dat. Abl, studio. Some nouns in this declension are of the first example singular, of the second plural, as Pergamus the city Troy, plur. hæc Pergama; and some names of hills, as Manalus, Ismarus, bæc Ismara; so also Tartarus, and the lake Avernus; others are of both, as sibilus, jocus, locus, hi loci, or hæc loca. Some are of the second example singular, of the first plural, as Argos, cœlum, plar. bi cœli; others of both, as rastrum, capistrum, filum, frænum; plur. fræni or fræna. Nundinum, & epulum, are of the first declension plural, nundina, epulæ; balneum of both, balnem or balnea.

Greek proper names have here three endings, os, on, and as long from a Greek diphthong. Hæc Delos, hane Delon. Hoc Ilion. The rest regular, Hic Panthus, ô Panthu, Virg.

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these in is following, natalis, aqualis, lienis, orbis, callis, caulis, collis, follis, mensis, ensis, fustis, funis, panis, penis, crinis, ignis, cassis, fascis, torris, piscis, unguis, vermis, vectis, postis, axis, and the compounds of assis, as centussis.

But canalis, finis, clunis, restis, sentis, amnis, corbis, linter, torquis, anguis, hic or hæc: to these add vepres. Such as end in e are neuters, as mare, rete, and two Greek in es, as hippomanes, cacoëthes.

Nouns increasing long.

NOUNS increasing one syllable long in the genitive are generally feminine, as hæc pietas pietatis, virtus virtutis.

Except such as end in ans masculine, as dodrans, quadrans, sextans; in ens, as oriens, torrens, bidens, a pickaxe.

In or, most commonly derived of verbs, as pallor, clamor; in o, not thence derived, as ternio, senio, sermo, temo, and the like.

And these of one syllable, sal, sol, ren, splen, as, bes, pes, mos, flos, ros, dens, mons, pons, fons, grex.

And words derived from the Greek in en, as lichen; in er, as crater; in as, as adamas; in es, as lebes; to these, hydrops, thorax, phœnix.

But scrobs, rudens, stirps, the body or root of a tree, and calx a heel, bic or hæc.

Neuter, these of one syllable, mel, fel, lac, far, ver, cor, æs, vas vasis, os ossis, os oris, rus, thus, jus, crus, pus. And of more syllables in al and ar, as capital, laquear, but halec hoc or hæc.

Nouns increasing short.

NOUNS increasing short in the genitive are generally masculine, as hic sanguis sanguinis, lapis lapidis.

Except, feminine all words of many syllables ending in do or go, as dulcedo, compago; arbor, hyems, cuspis, pecus pecudis: These in ex, forfex, carex, tomex, supellex: In ix, appendix, histrix, coxendix, filix: Greek nouns, in as and is, as lampas, iaspis: To these add chlamys, bacchar, sindon, icon.

But margo, cinis, pulvis, adeps, forceps, pumex, ramex, imbrex, obex, silex, cortex, onyx, and sardonyx, hic or hæc.

Neuters are all ending in a, as problema: in en, except hic pecten; in ar, as jubar: in er these, verber, iter, uber, cadaver, zinziber, laser, cicer, siser, piper, papaver, sometimes in ur, except hic furfur, in us, as onus, in ut, as caput; to these marmor, æquor, ador.

Greek proper names here end in as, an, is, and ens, and may be declined some wholly after the Greek form, as Pallas, Pallados, Palladi, Pallada; others in some cases, as Atlas, acc. Atlanta, voc. Atla. Garamas, plur. Garamantes, acc. Garamantas. Pan, Panos, Pana. Phyllis, Phyllidos, voc. Phylli, plur. Phyllides, acc. Phyllidas. Tethys, Tethyos, acc. Tethyn, voc. Tethy. Neapolis Neapolios, acc. Neapolin. Paris, Paridos or Parios, acc. Parida, or Parin. Orpheus, Orpheos, Orphei, Orphea, Orpheu. But names in eus borrow sometimes their genitive of the second declension, as Erechtheus, Erechthei. Cic. Achilles or Achilleus,