Minors No Senators, Title page
MINORS NO SENATORS.
Or A Briefe Diſcourſe, proving, That INFANTS under the Age of 21. yeares▪ are uncapable, in point of Law, of being Members of Parliament, and that the Elections of any ſuch are meere Nullities; Yea, injurious, prejuditiall, diſhonourable to the whole Parliament and Kingdome, in ſundry reſpects.
Written by a Common-Lawyer (a true lover of his Country, and Honourer of the Parliament) to a Friend and Client of his, for his private ſatisfaction, and publiſhed for the Common-good.
Job 12. 12, 12.
With the ancient is wiſdom, and in length of days is underſtanding: With him is wiſdome and ſtrength, he hath Councell and underſtanding.
Galath. 4. 1, 2.
Now I ſay the Heire as long as hee is a Child differeth nothing from a ſervant, though he be Lord of all, but is under Tutors and Governours, untill the time appointed of the Father.
Iſay 3. 1. 2, 3, 4.
For behold the Lord of Hoſts doth take away from Jeruſalem the ſtay and the Staffe, the prudent man, and the Ancient; the Honourable man, and the Councellor, and the Eloquent Orator. And I will give Children to be their Princes, and Babes ſhall rule over them. And the People ſhall be oppreſſed every one by another, &c.
1 Cor. 13. 11.
VVhen I was a Child, I ſpake as a Child, I underſtood as a Child, I thought (or reaſoned) as a Child: but when I became a man, I put away Childiſh things.
Chryſoſtom, Hom. 4. in 1 Cor. cap. 1.
Non ferunt Pueri ut de ulla re utili curam gerant; ſape autem cum nos loquamur de rebus neceſſarijs, eorum quae dicuntur, nihil ſentiunt.
Printed at London, Anno 1646.