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	parliament_n	3,428	5	6.3449	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48018	A letter from a member of this House of Commons to his friend in the country	Member of the House of Commons.	1689 (1689)	Wing L1412; ESTC R223658	3,696	2

Beso ted wee could wee think it a likely matter that hee would go less when hee was King of England and depend on Parliaments And then wee find by experience that the same courses are taken here which have enslaved Holland those chosen into all employments who are blindly devoted to him and all others excluded promises to corrupt one and threats to frighten another and the art of ridding those out of the ●…y whose free spirits will not bend and sweeping away all ●hat resist him Nothing can keep the vast projects of his irregular ambi●…on within compass Religion is but an usefull tool to work ●pon the fools which will be cheated and wee shall quickly ●ee ours destroy'd by his hands who in his Letters his Declarations and even in his flags has declared him self the Proector of it The oath of Supremacy which acknowledgd Kings ●o bee the supreme Governors of the English Church is al●eady gone Ceremonys and the Music in Whitehall Chappel 〈◊〉 thing in use in our Churches sent packing Prayers changed very ancient Rites abolisht and all this upon pretext of uniteing Episcopacy and Presbytery but in reality to bring the Episcopall party over to the Presbyterians Not that hee troubles him self much with either Religion but the fidelity of Bishops to powers lawfully establisht by God is not for the turn of usurpers Calvinist or Independent Principles do much better when one has a mind to fly at all Principles by the which every one may beleive as is most for his purpose break oaths made to lawfull Princes without scrupule acknowledge no subordination whither in Church or state This suits a great deal better both with his own present interest and that of Protestant Princes of whose assistance hee thinks hee may have occasion Let that interest change hee will change too and follow it wherever it go whether to Head or Member of the Church and Episcopall Presbyterian Independent or Quaking Member Stateholder in Holland or King in England but Tirant by whatever 〈◊〉 or title dignify'd The frights in to which our abdicating King and his popery put us were nothing to this Tis-true hee would need employ Papists and dispense with conscience laws But for destroying the Religion establisht by law in England hee neither had the will nor the means a lawfull Parliament without which hee could do nothing would alwais have been in a condition to oppose and redress what bad Counsell might suggest amiss That releif is now out of do●es The Parliament is a pack of his creatures slavishly obedient to the pleasure of our new King and those who in their hearts preserve the love of their Religion and laws so cruelly ●…ken are bridled by the fear of a Prince who stands 〈◊〉 upon dispatching a man who opposes him without 〈◊〉 ado out of the way and has a forreign army at hand ready to execute whatever order he gives them In a word our Laws are already overturned our Religion totters and will not long stand and to this state of ●i●lence our credulous weakness has reduc't us t is time I think to wake out of our swound to acknowledge the hand of God upon us for deserting our lawfull Prince and return to him Hee who sets up the standard of liberty any where is sure of crouds of helping hands flocking in to him from all parts and the fidelity which wee ow to the true interests of the Nation cannot fail to be crowned with success and immortall glory I remain c.