Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	house_n	kingdom_n	parliament_n	6,388	5	6.7845	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87698	By the Commissioners of the General Assembly of Scotland: a solemne and seasonable vvarning to all estates and degrees of persons throughout the land: for holding fast the League and Covenant with England, and avoiding every thing that may prove a snare and tentation to the breach thereof. Published according to order.; Good counsell come from Scotland	Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.; Ker, A.	1647 (1647)	Wing K336A; Thomason E370_6; ESTC R201285	4,116	10

by their owne ends may conceive of it as alterable or at least that all the Clauses or Heads thereof are n●t so to be stuck upon but that some one or mo may be dispensed with upon civil advantages But we have not so learned Christ or his Word Both Nations have Covenanted with God and each of them with another in things most lawfull and necessary for the preservation and good of both without any limitation of time And therefore we and our posterity are obliged before God unto the observation thereof as long as the Sunne and Moon shall endure The sense of these things ought to be so deeply engraven upon the hearts of all that are in trust That as they should from their souls abhor every thought of a breach with England So should they carefully and wisely study to avoide every thing that may prove a snare and tentation unto the same Amongst other things If his Majesty shall have thoughts of comming to this Kingdome at this time he not having as yet subscribed the League and Covenant nor satisfied the lawfull desires of his loyall Subjects in both Nations Wee have just cause to feare that the consequences of it may be very dangerous both to his Majestie and these Kingdoms Which therefore we desire may be timely prevented For so long as his Majesty doth not approve in his heart and seal with his hand the League and Covenant we cannot but apprehend that according to his former Principles he wil walk in opposition to the same and study to draw us unto the violation thereof and the dissolution of the Union so happily begun between Us and our Brethren To weaken the Confidence and trust and to entertain Jealousies make divisions amongst our selves Neither is it possible But that our receiving Him in this present posture of affairs will confirme the suspicions of 〈◊〉 English Nation of our under-hand dealing with him before 〈◊〉 comming to our Army And make them not without cau● to think That We purpose to dispose of him without their consent and to their prejudice Which is contrary to the Profession of these that were in trust at his Majesties first comming to the Scots Quarters and overthroweth all the Arguments that have been used by the Commissioners of our Parliament in their Papers concerning The disposing of His Majesties Person by the joynt advice and common consent of both Kingdoms given in to both Houses of Parliament in England Nor doe we see how we can vindicate such a practice from a direct breach of our engagements to them by Covenant and Treaty Which were not only to expose us into the hazard of a Bloody War but to involve us in the guilt of Perjury And what greater disservice could be done to His Majesty and his Posterity then to give way to a course that might prove prejudiciall to their interest in the Crown and Kingdome of England Our carriage now for many yeers past in the midst of many tentations hath put us beyond all suspicion in the point of our Loyalty Nor have we the least thoughts of deserting the Kings Majesty in a just and good cause being bound by our Covenant in our severall vocations to endeavour with our estates and Lives to preserve and defend His Person and Authority in the defence and preservation of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdomes And so farre as His Majesty shall be for these We really are and we trust the rest of his Kingdoms will be for him Yet we cannot deny but openly avouch it That if His Majestie which the Lord forbid shall not satisfie the just desires of His People Both Nations stands mutually obliged b● that inviolable Covenant to pursue the ends therein expressed which cannot be divided against all lets and impediments whatsoever It is therefore our most earnest and longing desire That as these who are in trust with the publike affaires of this kingdom have heretofore with all earnestnes care in all their addresses dealt with His Majesty with much strength of reason and vehemency of affection so they would still deal with him to grant his Royall consent to the desires of both Kingdoms for setling Religion according to the Covenant and for securing a perfit and durable Peace which we looke upon as the only hopefull means of preserving himselfe His Crown and Posterity That His Majesty may return to His Houses of Parliament in England as a reconciled Prince to satisfied Subjects And that acclamations of joy may be heard in all His Majesties Dominions and no sound of Warre heard therein any more except against the bloody Irish Rebells under whose barbarous and cruell persecution our distressed Brethren both in this Kingdom and in Ireland are still groaning and crying out to us and to our Brethren in England Be at peace among your selves and come to helpe us A. Ker.