Selected quad for the lemma: parliament_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	act_n	law_n	royal_a	3,099	5	7.8289	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80281	A complaint to the House of Commons, and resolution taken up by the free Protestant subjects of the cities of London and Westminster, and the counties adjacent.		1643 (1643)	Wing C5623; Thomason E245_5; ESTC R18737	11,598	15

A COMPLAINT TO THE House of Commons AND Resolution taken up by the free Protestant Subjects of the Cities of London and Westminster and the Counties adjacent OXFORD Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the Vniversity 1642. A Complaint to the House of COMMONS and Resolution taken up by the free Protestant Subjects of the Cities of London and Westminister and the Counties adjaceat LOosers may speake by authority of a Proverb and then we are sure we ought not to be silenced we have seen perused many Remonstrances Declarations Votes and Ordinances shewing how far we are obliged to complaine shall in few words be expressed that neither the Kings Majesty your honourable Assembly nor any man may think otherwise but that we have most just reason not to be silent in grievances so intollerable The priviledge of subjects which wee enjoy under you moves us to complaine yet that is not all which causes the breach of silence but the multiplied calumnies of Malignants upon you the two honourable Houses of Parliament and the sharpe invectives daily published against you and to beget and increase distrust and disaffection betweene the King and his Parliament and the people and like wicked spirits of division and under the false pretexts of the Law of the land and pretences of seeking peace have not only dared to defame but even to arraign your proceedings oh right Honourable have not we cause to complaine against such bold presumptions did ever subjects thus dare to abuse their Senators the Priests and Jesuits of Rome themselves durst never under a Protestant government divulge their actions to a publike view though by seducements they have now brought their complices to such treachery that as much as in them lies they labour with might and maine to misrepresent your worthy actions both to His Majesty and to the whole Kingdome was ever Parliament in all their actions more innocent yet was never any more abused was ever any more faithfull in the trust of the Church and Kingdome committed to them yet none so maligned surely had you betraid the trust committed to you and let the Prelats Papists and all Malignants have bin their owne executioners in defending the law and their owne liberties under their own false colours then they would have used you better till both have been destroyed What a wofull tragedy would then have been to be acted in this Kingdome when our lives liberties and estates should have been taken from us and resigned to them who can lay no other foundation of their owne greatnesse but upon the ruine of this and in it of all Parliaments an● them of the true religion and the freedome of this Nation and 〈◊〉 the men that would perswade the people that both Houses of Parliamen● containing all the Peeres and representing all the Commons of England would destroy the laws of the land and the peace of the Kingdome whe●● in besides the trust of the whole who can be so blockish as not to kno● that you your selves noble Senators in your own particuler have so gre●● an intrest of honour and estate that we hope it will gaine little credit We and all that have but the least use of Reason cannot be ignora●● that if you intended any misery towards us your selves must needs ha●● the greatest share in it did you betray your trust to procure a Princes favour you might justly be suspected but your great paines have manifested how faithfull you have beene you have left your houses and ●states and neglected your owne affaires to labour together by your h●● wisedomes to consummate all our grievances and settle us in peace a Parliaments have formerly done you have shewed a great deale of pa●●ence in using your endevour so long and still going on notwithstanding those many hazards you still have run both in your persons liberties an● estates And yet although God hath not yet accomplished that gre●● worke of Reformation and by it a true and setled peace yet God hath so far given both you and us such hopes thereof by the wonderfull things which he hath divers wayes wrought by you that we doubt not but tha● in his good time he will convince those that are yet blinded to see you● faithfulnesse when we shall see our desires upon your and our enemies that belch out their calumnies against those that stand for Jesus Christ You are the hopes under God with the King in the Lords good time that we fly to for we find that the fountaine of all Law is the Parliament the establishment of the King in his royall throne is firme and absolute by Act of Parliament that we are preserved from being murthered is by lawes established in Parliament that we are not slaves that theeves doe not openly robbe us and spoile us of our goods that we doe quietly enjoy that which we can say is mine and thine we are protected by the laws established in Parliament Parliaments have power given them to reconcile differences but some dangerous Malignants to the end wee might fall out more with our selves to make a way to feed their hopes are daily sowers of division to prevent that happy peace which you so labour for we grieve and our hearts bleed to see the sausinesse of your and all true Protestants enemies but be not discouraged God will strengthen you to make presidents for posterity on better grounds of reason and law then your predecessors have made for you for what law can limit your ●●oceedings the fountains therof We doubt not but the monsters of these ●●mes will move your wisdomes to prevent such future disasters It wounds us to the very heart and soule to se the noblest Senators that ●●ver were chosen and intrusted with all that is dearest to us labouring at ●ou have done for our peace and safety to be affronted by such Andro●acuses as never age before brought forth daring to attempt to disaffect ●he people from a Parliament when durst ever any bee knowne to har●our such a thought were there ever such practises to poyson the people with a misapprehension of the Parliament were there ever such im●utations and scandalls laid upon the proceedings of both Houses were ●here ever so many and such horrible breaches of priviledg of Parliament were there ever so many so cunning so venomous and so desperate designes of force and violence against the Parliament and the Members ●hereof did ever Parliament suffer as this hath done though they deserve better then all that went before them Should they have made some former Parliament patternes they had long since made the great incendiaries of all our mischiefe to know the power of a Parliament in revenging and freeing the subjects from all forraigne injuries done unto them according to the direction of King Iames of blessed memory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 55. Therefore saith he in another place if any do urge to imbrace their owne fancies in the place of Gods word c. Acknowledge them for