Excerpt from A Discourse of the Peerage and Jurisdiction of the Lords Spiritual in Parliament: Proving From the Fundamental Laws of the Land, the Testimony of the Most Renowned Authors, and the Practice of All Ages; That They Have No Right in Claiming Any Jurisdiction in Capital Matters But to return to our Author, I Prote/i I have perufed the Whole Volume with the greatefl lmpartiality that can he, and except his Sawcinefs and Ill-nature again/i the Houfe of Commons, and Gentlemen of thelono; Robe, I find nothing, in the whole Book that deferves any Aniinaiy'erfion evidenlfiom his Methodof' Argoi'fi'fiakfi the Medium's he nta/(eth ufi? Of to prove his Allertion, that he is altogether a Stranger to the very' State of the Contrdverfie, and that notwith/ianding hhs Confi dence in A/erting, his Boo/e dtfcovers more Ignorance, than his Preface doth Petulancy: And it es no wonder, for Ignorance and Impudence are generally Concomitant: And this is all that I thinhfit to fay/in Anfwer to hint. T he Reafion why I fichjoyn the ffilowing Difcourfe, is, hecaufe although I cannot perfwade my feif that he defervesa Refiltation, yet that Truth which he lahours to darhen with an lmpertinent Harangue, dejerves to he Cleared and de monltrated: If any shaft go about to Attacque this Difcourfe' with Drollery, or Satyrical lnvefiives, I decleare hefore - hand, I 'do not rec/(on my helf ohliged to Reply 5' I do not thin/e it a Re putation for Men of Sen'fe to 'combatflewggmthgfefleaponsh But if Occafion he I shall [end his Anfwer to the dungicarts, or oyfier-boats, from whence I douht not, hut he shas'l receive due Correetion for his Polly and Impudence, hut if he Afanli it with Reafon and Sobriety, he shall find a Defence agree'ahle. I mu/t' confefs I am heartily forty at the Occafion of this Difpute, it hath unhappily falen out at that Moment 0117 ime, when ahove' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.