DISPENSATION. ; 
with all other lawyers in favour of this pacar hed 
feems even to-believe it fo inherent in the crow 
at of parliament itfelf could not abolifh it. (Rep. a 
find he particularly obferved, that no law can impofe fuch 
a difability of enjoying offices : the king may not difpenfe 
with, becaufe the king, from the law of nature, has a right 
the fervice of ail his hee This difpenfing power was 
exercifed by Charles IT, in his declaration of indu gence to 
diffenters in 1672, but i on following year it was difap- 
proved and condemned by the houfe of commons. The 
diffenters joined with other me antes of the houfe in ae 
ing it, though it had been exercifed ia their favour. Al- 
derman Lov mber for the city of L re ide: 
and tlie eee intere vel 
oe, 
many other mercenary writers, were employed to maintain, 
that a power in the king, to difpenfe with the laws, is law, 
Mereover, it was refolved, to have the determination of the 
judzes on this quetion : and they all (except one) gave it 
as their opinion, 1. ‘* That the laws of England were the 
king’s laws 2. That it is an infeparable branch of the 
prerogative of sy priask of England, as of all other fove- 
reign saa difpenfe with all penal laws in particu- 
lar cafes, a repaniedlar occafions. 3. t of thef 
the king is a judge. 4. That this 
pests and pee 
: not a truft now invefted in ranted to the prefent. 
, bu t th re ancient remains of “ihe fovereign power of the 
Lin 38 of England, which was never yet taken from them, ner 
can be.”? ie ccordingly, a difpenfation, or licence office, 
was fet up, where all =e ge might have an indulgence, : 
, for therfelves and their families. 
een profecute - 
took out thefe licences, which not only flopped all procefl s 
av 
that ha menced, gave them libert 
pion eagle if not fatal, to liberty 5 and 
refolution of pen may, on that account, be ead 
n thanif ue power had been founded on the 
flagrant ufurpation. However, he was dco 
termined to perfevere ; nor was he deterred by the reflec- 
tion, = this {cheme of inadlaenes had already failed in 
nunc b eas i ee. e yet was 
ftill exerted, the victory over © national hberty was no lefs 
gnal than if obtained b moft flagrant wpe and 
ufurpation. Neverthelefs in the Follow a year, viz. 1687, he 
iffued his declaration for literty of confcience ; an an- 
Gael it to be his intention, from time to time, to grant 
his royal difpenfation to all his fubjects to be employed in 
any office, or place of truft, either civil or military, under 
fimilar declaration was fent to Scotland. 
his majefty in higher {trains cag fome of their elder and 
ore cautious miniflers apovoved, Many of the moft re- 
fpetable refufed to join in them; and 
the 
mits, that 
difpenfing power, whatever prefent benefit might redound 
from it to themfelves. Means were ufed for electing a par- 
liament which would fanGion the king’s decleration of in- 
ulgence, and caufe it to pafs into a law ; 
who were indifpofed to concur in the court 
Concerned for protettant religion 
fe&ts of the *s bigotted attachment to b: ipery, t 
chofe to truft thet liberty to the mercy 
a ae ah Gone and te a that * i d: eee were 
an ill-nature! fort of .peop'e that could not be gained.” 
The king, ee a. hopes of fuccefs, fee the fum- 
moning of a parliament, and proceeded ftill in the exercife of 
his dlegal and acy authority 
fe ele declars tion ae indulgen i 
with the form he fat ned an order that, imm 
cates a diene loaee: it fhould be read by the fae 
in all the churches. The clergy ieee not to compiy 
with the royal mandate; and in order to encourage thein 
in this refolution, fix prelates concerted the form of a peti- 
ates that, as the declaration iGRigence was. 
founded on a prero ative, asi ve balay bY 
parliament, they c not, 
ae se be 
in pru or co 
fe theme partic as pene aieaeatce of. 
cae the kingdom would be interpreted to amount 
They miaeiors ee the king, that: ae would not 
infift upon their reading the declaration. The ar aa 
is well known. The b bifhops were fummoned. before 
council and committed tothe Tower. It is betides our oie 
pofz in this place to give in detail thofe farther violent pro- 
ceedings of king James, which accelerated the revolution. . 
ut advertin ubje&t of this article we 
atute 1 W. & M.c. 2. it is 
c e fufpending or difpenting with law 
au ~~ ty; owitho ut es confent of parliame 
alfo axim in law, er it requires the fame 
ftrength to diffol ve as toe create an obligation. See Blackft. 
vol i Neal’s Hii. of the Puritans, 
a i. 
ISPENSATION ay non obflante. See Non-oBSTANTE, 
ISPENSATION, in Pharmacy, the apelees and are 
rangement of feveral. ee either fimple or compound, . 
all weighed in their. proper dofes, or aaa in order 
to ig a ee la in the naa of a compo 
SPENSA ‘ae es vine, in Theology, other called 
the oan aud w God, eee thoie fchem hods 
eae are dev a ore purfued by the wifdom and oodnts 
f God, iu order to manifett his perfeGtions and man- 
are for the purpofes of their inftruction, difeipline, re- 
grand ends of the divine difpenfations ; and in their aptitude 
to gated thefe ends confifts their peculiar al he 
s or conttitutions of nature are, in ral fenfe, 
divine difpenfations, by which God condeleend : a orl 
to us his cing and attributes, and thus o the 
acknowledgm adoration, love, and dutiful obedience of 
our cai ie, and benefaGtor. But befides the gen eneral 
iitution. 
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