Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	act_n	king_n	parliament_n	3,024	5	6.5132	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25354	The copy of a letter from Colonell Francis Anderson to Sir Thomas Glemham, January 20, 1643, touching the invasion of Scotland the copy of a letter from the Marques of Argyle & Sir William Armyne, to Sir Thomas Glemham the 20, January 1643 : the copy of Sir Thomas Glemhams letter in answer to the Lord Marquesse of Argyl's, and Sir William Armyne's.	Anderson, Francis, Sir, 1615-1679.; Armyne, William, Sir, 1593-1651.; Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Marquis of, 1598-1661.; Glemham, Thomas, Sir, d. 1649.	1643 (1643)	Wing A3087; ESTC R20037	3,935	12

or yet by the House of Commons whence so many of the Members are expelled by partiall Votes so many banished by seditious tumults so many voluntarily absent themselves out of Conscience where desperation or want of opportunity to depart or feare of certain Plunder are the chiefest Bonds which hold the little remnant together from dissipation where the venerable name of PARLIAMENT is made a stale to Countenance the pernitious Counsailes and Acts of a Close Committee For Subjects to make forraigne Confederacies without their Soveraignes assent to invade the territories of their undoubted King to goe about by force to change the Lawes and Religion established is grosse Treason without all contradiction And in this case it Argues strongly who have been the contrivers and fomenters of all our troubles No Covenant whatsoever or with whomsoever can justify such proceedings or oblige a Subject to runne such disloyall courses If any man out of Ignorance or Feare or Credulity have entred into such a Covenant it bindes him not except it be to repentance Neither is there any such necessity as is pretended of your present posture your selves cannot alleadge that you are any way provoked by us neither are we Conscious to our selves of the least intention to molest you Those ends which you propose are plausible indeed to them who doe not understand them the blackest designes did never want the same pretences if by the Protestant Religion you intend our Articles which are the publique Confession of our Church and our Book of Common Prayer established by Act of Parliament you need not trouble your selves we are ready to defend them with our Bloud If it be otherwise it is plain to all the World that it is not the Preservation but the Innovation of Religion which you seek how ever by you stiled Reformation And what calling have you to reforme us by the sword We do not remember that ever the like indignity was offered by one Nation to another by a lesser to a greater That those men who have heretofore pleaded so vehemently for Liberty of Conscience against all Oathes and Subscriptions should now assume a power to themselves by Armes to impose a Law upon the Consciences of their fellow Subjects A vanquished Nation would scarce endure such Tearmes from their Conquerers But this We are sure of that this is the way to make the Protestant Religion odious to all Monarchs Christian and Pagan Your other two ends that is the Honour and happinesse of the King and the publique Peace and Liberty of His Dominions are so manifestly contrary to your practice that We need no other motives to withdraw you from such a Course as tends so directly to make His Majesty Contemptible at home and abroad and to fill all His Dominions with Rapine and Blood In an Army all have not the same intentions Wee have seen the Articles agreed upon and those vast Sums and Conditions contained in them as if our Countreymen thought that England was indeed a Well that could never be drawn dry and whatsoever the intentions be We know right well what will be the consequents if it were otherwise no intention or consequent whatsoever can justify an unlawfull Action And therefore you do wisely to decline all disputation about it it is an easy thing to pretend the Cause of God as the Iewes did the Temple of the Lord but this is farre from those evident demonstrations which you often mention never make Consider that there must be an Account given to God of all the blood which shall be shed in this quarrell The way to prevent it is not by such insinuations but to retire before the Sword be unsheathed or the breach be made too wide you cannot think that we are grown such tame Creatures to desert our Religion our Lawes our Liberties our Estates upon command of Forreigners and to suffer our selves and our Posterity to be made Beggers and Slaves without opposition If any of ours shall joyne with you in this Action we cannot look upon them otherwise then as Traitors to their King Vipers to their native Country and such as have been Plotters or Fomenters of this designe from the beginning But if misinformation or Feare hath drawn any of yours ignorantly or unwillingly into this Cause We desire them to withdraw themselves at last and not to make themselves accessaries to that deluge of Mischiefe which this second voyage is like to bring upon both Kingdomes FINIS