Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	england_n	king_n	kingdom_n	4,625	5	5.7154	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02086	A letter from the King to F.M.	Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.; F. M.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)	1660 (1660)	Wing C3099; ESTC R211793	1,231	1

A Letter from the KING to F. M. WHen We daily perceive how many loyal Subjects We have in England and how zealous the most moderate of them are to redeem their Religion and Liberties from prophaneness and oppression and therby 〈◊〉 restore Our Kingdoms to peace and Our Self to the just government of them it will be no great danger to one of them to own his intelligence to Us of their affections and to be instrumental to assure them how ready We shall be to grant and faithful to perform whatsoever shall be most conducing to establish a just and lasting Peace And because by a part of your last We discover that there are some so irreconcileable to Our Person and the Nations settlement that the● continue by an industrious malice to represent Us by false and odious lights so our People and being by a long experience become perfect Artists in their Trade 〈◊〉 so exactly fit their designs with proper instruments to accomplish them as 〈◊〉 they hoped by their forgeries to deceive other mens reasons and to blast Our Innocence and Honor Sometimes perswading the credulous sort of their own party that We are Popish revengeful debauch'd and what not that may bring Our Person and Honor into contempt and them into despair At another time setting up the looser sort of those who have been or pretend to be engaged so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 threaten all with fire and sword who are not of their own wild opinions ●●●scribe men by names confiscate their estates dispose of offices and endeavou● 〈◊〉 perswade the world We have authoriz'd them to be the sole directors and go nors of Our and the Kingdoms affairs thus the phanatiques of both Parties made use of to work a bad understanding between Us and Our people there b●ing no other difference between those two extremes than that the first wo … 〈◊〉 have a King because they would still keep the Nation in distraction the othe●●●deed wish a King but with no less confusion whose authority might be pro●●●tuted to their wicked ambitious ends Nor do they want their creatures to b … these exorbitanies of their own inventing through magnifying glasses to 〈◊〉 wel-affected in present power who being altogether strangers to Our Conversation may thereby be stagger'd in their duties and become jealous of Our integri●● and their own safeties We therefore think fit to assure you by this Our Lette● which you may publish if you think fit That We dare cast Our selves upon 〈◊〉 Jury of sober and judicious men whether We have exercised or willingly tolerate● debauching and swearing And for Our Religion both Our Self and our dea● Brothers have given a sufficient testimony to all the world of Our steddiness therein and our late celebrating of the Lords Supper according to the institution o● the Reformed Churches may clearly vindicate Us from so groundless an aspersion to which holy duty We came in such a Christian temper as did not onely overcome all desires of revenge but sincerely forgive our greatest enemies An● We are so far from approving those insolencies of your Hectors as you cal them that We abhor and detest their words and actions and whensoever it shall pleas● God to put an opportunity into our hands shall further manifest our dislike thereof We doubt not but We have said enough to convince the folly and madness of those idle persons and to satisfie all knowing and conscientious men of the integrity of Your Loving Friend C. R. Bruxels 10. April 1660.