Selected quad for the lemma: parliament_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	army_n	city_n	london_n	3,465	5	7.2357	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91254	A letter of due censure, and redargvtion [sic] to Lieut: Coll: John Lilburne: touching his triall at Guild-Hall-London in Octob: last. 1649. Wherein if there be contemper'd some corrosive ingredients, tis not to be imputed unto malice: the intent is, to eat away the patients proud, dead flesh, not to destroy any sincere, sound part.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1650 (1650)	Wing P405; Thomason E603_14; ESTC R205827	37,997	43

the judgements of all private persons are so apparently divided as now they are that no one can decide without indangering the peace of all that private person can never discharge himself of sedition and Treason which breaks the common Peace out of a fond preference of his own phancie before other mens In England there are now some that hold the Supreme Authority to be in the last Kings Heir absolutely and their endeavours are to bring him in upon his own terms you and your party hold it lawfull to joyn with him upon your terms but till you joyn with him and He submit to your terms the supreme Authority is not in him We and our side which is now prevalent after a long dispute in Arms hold this to be a true Parliament and that the true Parliament is ever the Supreme Authority of England and we have not onely the decision of the Sword which in such like dubious cases after the last appeal hath been made to it is no contemptible plea but also the strongest reason and majority of suffrages of all the people throughout the Land on our side T is your manifest regret that your party and the Royalists though they correspond and conspire together cannot both counterpoize the third greater and better party that stands for the Majestie of Parliaments You and the Royalists have divers times endeavoured to perswade the people that they are generally against the Parliament and by severall acts and attempts against the Parliament you have put it to the triall whether the people would adhere to you or the Parliament yet still the major and better part of the people have declared against you and continued their loyalty to the Parliament The City of London if it had been so adverse to the Parliament as was presumed by you and the Royalists both was strong enough to master the Army the onely advantage of the Parliaments you cry out upon yet when it came to proof would not draw a sword against the Parliament if these demonstrations will not satisfie you but you will still plot new commotions and study to ingage the people in new bloody broils you shew yourselves to be thirsty of humane blood and all your endlesse cavilling pretensions will not absolve you before God Jehoiadah the Priest of the royall line and a publick person affords us an excellent example his part was to subvert a manifest Usurpres and Idolatresse and to reinthrone a true Prince of whose title there was not one man in the whole Nation that could make any doubt yet to avoid bloodshed and the mischeifs of a dubious open war He divers yeers concealed the rightfull Title and submitted to the yoke of a heathenish murderous Tyrannesse making no insurrection at all till he was sure to do right to the young King without causing any destruction of the people How unlike are your actions to Jehoiadahs who being no publick person nor interessed extraordinarily in the present differences above any other man will needs hazard the peace of the Land against a lawfull Authority when you have little hopes of effecting what you strive for without a vast expence of blood But in the next place suppose the power of the Parliament were indubitably usurped as you can never prove it for it is still but the Nations power and what Nation ever usurpt over it self yet by what Law of God or man is it lawfull for such a common person as you are to machinate against it Herod had usurped over the Jews the Romanes had usurped over Herod Caesar had usurped over the Romans yet our Saviour shews himself submissive upon all occasions to all these Powers When He is brought before Annas he comports himself humbly and as becomes a prisoner when he is lead to Caiphas and presented before the Jewish Counsell he yeelds to be examined and makes there such answers as He knew would be adjudged blasphemous and capitall When he was turned over to the Tribunall of Pilate the Romane Deputy and transmitted from thence to Herod the Deputy in Galilea He still made reverent dutifull confessions upon all legall Interrogatories though to the eminent forfeiture of his own life Yet no man will suppose all these had a proper jurisdiction over our Saviour or such power as was free from all force and usurpation All the Apostles also walked in our Saviours steps for we read that they though innoent were examined scourged imprisoned and did suffer martyrdome by Magistrates in all Nations under Heaven and we read not that any one of them at any one time unreverently treated or declined any Court or Counsell except it were by appeal from the inferior to the superior Judge yet we may safely beleeve that some of all the States and Potentates before whom they were convented might be liable to this exception of yours You will say all men in justice ought to be enemies to Usurpers and Friends to such as are unduly depressed I reply on the contrary that private men let the case be what it will of their own heads or upon their own conducts are not to rise against a settled Usurper or enterprize any thing that may disturbe the common Peace nay even publick persons are to prefer the safetie of the people before any lower interest or right or Law whatsoever The story of Jehoiadah justifies this during so many yeers as He suffered Athaliah and the story of David also who by right and Law was to proceed against Joab for murther but the superior right and Law of Common safety bounds his hands many yeers from doing justice and yet we cannot say therein that the not doing of justice was the doing of injustice inasmuch as He obeyed the superior Law rather then the inferior and chose to spare one guilty murtherer rather then to expose thousands of innocent men to the chance of war But in the 2d place if you will needs suppose you have a right to pronounce this Government usurped and so justly lyable to your opposition yet why do you not then circumscribe your self within the bounds of this Government how is it that you assume to your self as great a prerogative of censuring the acts of other Parliaments as you do of this and the ordinances of our Ancestors as imperiously as you do ours If you did seem wiser in the Laws of England then all the Judges and Lawyers of the Land you did arrogate too much to your self but when you will pretend to be wiser then the Laws themselves when you will with opprobrious terms revile the Legislative power of this Nation and say that for six hundred yeers together our Ancestors assembled in Parliament were the Introducers or continuers of foolish and slavish Acts you arrogate more to your self then any man till this day ever arrogated In this you challenge the obedience due to some great new-rais'd Prophet such as Mahomet pretended to be amongst the brutish Arabians or that Vice-God at Rome who amongst a