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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
A91593	Quære's, seasonable, to be humbly presented to King Charles, at Holmby, and others, for his Parliament at Westminster: vvith a few to be taken to heart, by the common people of England, communicated: / by Philanactodemus. Whereunto is added a prologue and an epilogue, for the better illustration of the thing to the different reader.	Philanactodemus.	1647 (1647)	Wing Q174; Thomason E384_4; ESTC R201442	12,558	27

kept your M●jesty from your Parliament you have taken upon your selfe and lay it justly upon those Locusts and Caterpillers that by the serene countenance of your Majesty over your people they may be destroyed from the face of the earth that your Justice may shine like the Sun and the same of your Majesty ring through the world to the terrour of your enemies and the comfort of all your good people Quaeres to be humbly proponed to the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament at Westminster 1. VVHether you can secure this Kingdome as none other can or ought to doe it without setling your owne houses in a certaine knowledge of your Members to be true Members thereof 2. Whether the enquiry into that knowledge will not be too tedious by having those businesses examined by a Committee at Westminster 3. Whether the charge of that enquirie being for the Publique good is not fit to be borne by the Publique purse 4. Whether the charge of that enquiry will not be lesse by sending a Commission into the Countrey by Lords and Commons for the tryall of the truth and the certainty more then by having the Counties and Corporations attending at Westminster 5. Whether such a Commission be not more agreeable to the practice of the Lawes by Circuits within this Kingdome then any other way and whether not of equall ease to the people 6. Whether it is probable that when the sword and the purse and all other coercive power hath been in the Souldier Committee mē their inferiour Officers hands and still remaineth so That a Parliament Committee at Westminster should have a true information of the affaires of the Countryes 7. Whether it will not be a great engaging of the Country peoples loves to have their grievances visited at their owne doores to the staggering of all sorts of Malignant Parties and confirming the people in a true sence of the Parliaments intentions in the Reformation of the Church and State 8. Whether such a Commission may not have a relation to the Sewres of the Kingdome that because the horses are wasted and will be for many yeeres wanting there may be carriage had by water and that the Weares and Mills belonging to Malignants being taken away in places proper those that belong to the well affected be bought out with the Publique purse for making the Rivers of England navigable 9. Whether such a Commission may not extend to the relieving of the well affected in the severall Counties against the malice of the constantly Malignant the most worldly griping men who by Suits in Law Arests c. may ruine many a well affected man that hath lost and spent his estate in the Parliament service Is it not a strange Paradox of State that a Cane shall secure a man more then a sword and a Committee of Complaints be erected to relieve Malignants and none for those that have fought for the Parliament As if defending of Garrisons against the Command of King and Parliament severally were greater reason of protection then the constant defending of the true Cause 10. Whether it is possible that except money be brought downe to six per Cent. the particular debts of the Kingdome can be payd or Land yeeld that value as to satisfie the Publique May it please your Lordships I Could multiply my requests in my Quaeres but that I thinke there is worke enough offered at already yet no more then is easily feasible with the seasonablenes of the Spring and the ready endevour of some good Patriots of this Kingdome if your Lordships will spare some to be itinerant to that purpose you may finde a juster accompt of your owne strength under God and his Majesty then can be otherwise brought you I shall crave a pardon for my boldnesse in advising and pray a blessing in whatsoever you shall order though it be for the correcting of me for my sawcinesse in medling with your affaires Quaeres considerable by the Common people of Engl●nd First for the Soldiery 1. VVHether the Law of Arm●s bee agreeable with the Lawes of Christiani●y I so whether a soldier employed in Armes may preach in Church or privately to the dividing of the frame of Ecclesiasticall Law in the government of the Church 2. Whether the Civill Magistrate may not punish such a Soldier that doth so offend 3. Whether it can agree with the essence of a true Christian who ought to be Christs Souldier as a Member of the Church Militant to converse with allow or tollerate nay rather is he not bound to fight against the Turke Jew Atheist Pap●st or any other false worshipper prophaner or renter of the seamlesse garment of Jesus Christ in the behalfe and for the cause of Christ Jesus For the City 4. Whether the City of London is not bound as well in policy as conscience to assist their Brethren of the Country and they reciprocally them in the joint maintaining of the liberty of the Subject which hath been so gloriously vindicated by the constancy of the two Nations of England and Scotland in their Parliaments was not that alwayes the Physitian of the Law whensoever any ulcers broke out and why should it be declined much lesse reviled 5. Whether is not this City and indeed all other that have held for the Parliament in much better condition now at all times of this war then those where the Royall Q●●rters were kept could there any thing be expected but the plunder of the City of London if entred by the rattleheaded party was not so much publikely professed by them and yet will people wish for them againe For the Countrey I● it possible to preserve a new Acquest without charge and hazard viz. the just liberty of the Subject and shall we then gsumble at the Parliaments ordering the Quartering of a necessary Army for the preserving of our peace especially when it shall consist of such men as shall give no scandall to Church or State nor doe any thing then secure the Countrey My advice to all is to be content with the government which God hath more expresly favoured this Island withall more then any other Nation that is of this Parliament that as the King never dies in Law so the priviledge of the Subject should not neither and this being so difficultly brought on and miraculously kept it is against the sense of Earth and I am confident against the will of Heaven it should be attempted to be dissolved We read the Patriarchs used to evidence their serving of God with sacrifice and though God did afterwards appoint his chosen people to serve him that way yet to one of the best of his servants he sayes Obedience is better That Obedience which produces awe and unity feare love and security I desire the people of England to joine in to the glory of God the honour of the King the priviledge of Parliaments and the setling of a firm peace and true Religion among all good Christians

deferred us the Hollander was jealous of the English match the Dane embroyled by the Sweeds the Loraynet had such a long march by land and distrusted by the way he could not come at us Only the Irish that begun our cause and would have continued it but that they could not have our conditions by the dissimulation of Ormond They have offered to relieve us if wee may trust them though I as English Papist expect as little favour from them as from French Italian or Spaniard or rather murther for my Nations sake My request is Sir that you would prevaile with the Parliament that wee may stay in England without a Priest that our Children may be educated according to their direction and if there be any Schooles fit for the Aged of us wee have used to kneele to our Priest though much younger then our selves or other degrees wee desire wee may goe thither and if any Treason against God the King or the Parliament be found let us suffer according to that Law they have made or shall make for their owne security and our dissolution Independ I pay spare our banishment too for if wee should travile into Holland our trayne would bee so numerous so many of us having bin Militant that wee should breed a new jealousy there if into France the Presbyterians would defie us and the Papists and all the Queenes party when they are out of hope of having any more good by us an wee stay not in England to keepe a division in the Parliaments party will hate us more then ever they complied with us If wee goe to New England wee heare so much of their uniting in the practice of Religion and the Government of the Church that wee feare we shall be worse put to it there then at home Wee desire therefore that Master Protestant would be satisfied with a wood wee can spare him two or three and a River too in hope that they may Baptize anew for Master Protestant is very flexible in his Religion saving that hee takes Edward the Sixts Tradition for as good and obligatory as Scripture and in that and his willingnesse to submit to absolute Monarchy hee is onely positive If wee should be banished hee would long for Bishops againe though the last curtesie they did him when they were in their power was to chasten him in all their Courts You may see what ill humours the want of Discipline breeds to those men that used to be whipt if they delight in it I pray let them have it and let us alone wee can be contented without severall exercises in a Parlor or an upper Roome Nay for the edifying and making of Proselytes wee can finde vacant Churches enough And for the further promulgation of our cause wee dare adventure into a possessed Pulpit onely the other day one of our Brethren was much forsaken of the Spirit when hee questioned a Minister for speaking against Bellarmine for hee askt him whether hee could prove it by Scripture that Bellarmine fayd so and an other being expounding and being contraried by his Brethren it was made appeare that the pocket Bible he had though it was of the Amsterdam size yet it was of the Remish translation Wee thought very well of that Brother that he was sanctified and could not Sin but certainly he did fall in that exercise Sir we request all our errors may be attributed to the desire of knowledge in an excessive manner though some of us that are of the higher forme thinke they have enough because they have more then their Brethren yet Sir now I consider that the excessive desire of knowledge was the occasion of Adams fall and the consequent of more Ignorance and all other evill and mischiefe to his posterity J thinke it may be a good warning to us to sit content with the mercy of Heaven in that Peace and Vnity which it hath pleased God to provide for us There wanteth nothing but a handsome Authority over us to bring us into the universall fold which I hope you will speake to the Parliament for Now I thinke of the Communion Christ left us I thinke also of his practice before and at it and after it nay and after his Resurrection for what greater Communion then among sheepe yet the last command hee gave his Apostles was to feede his sheepe so that for my part I am convinc'd of my Separation and I shall submit to what prudentiall government of the Church the power that it set over mee shall provide for mee and J shall be gladder if it be that which agrees with our other reformed Brethren abroad and I shall labour to bring in as many stray sheepe as I shall finde in the Wildernesse I will quit Parlor and upper Roome for the serving of God in his true congregation so that I hope there will be no neede of my banishment Dramat Now I finde you all so plyable J will tell you more of your happinesse then ever you heard before If you turne truly you shall be called Round-heads a name as much above a Cavalier as Heaven is above Earth This you may consider by your owne knowledge in the Arts that the Heaven is Round in the whole and in its singularities The Sun constantly the Moone that is the Mistresse of what man can doe without Gods other order round in her perfection they have both faces probably heads Why you should make this a name of scorne is against the sence of Heaven And if you contemplate below and were as you offer a right Cavalier the best name upon Earth when you shall study and travaile the Earth you shall finde that Earth round too that Earth were you made off and if you have a head made of Earth certainly that must bee round Being thus constituted from the nature of Heaven and Earth J can tell you what a true sence of your former franticknesse will bring you too and as every sick man if hee bee strong enough to endure Physicke is to have his Malignant humours purged except hee will venture a Feaver at his heart at least an Ague in his bones you being already purged are now to receive a Cordiall against the venome that hath so long interlined your understanding and if you doe it willingly the Physick will worke the better I have knowne many a sick Lady much comforted in her good opinion of her Doctor what Medicine our great Physitian prescribes though it may destroy some yet if it preserve many wee must not dispute You may easily see what cures the Parliament have done already Lewis the Eleventh when hee had corrupted Edward the Fourths Councellors of Warre and patcht up his Peace with a Tribute of 50000 Crownes a Yeare to be payd in the Tower of London when hee had foold Charles the hardy into a Warre against the Swisses a People then more contemptible then ever the Scots were esteemed by the haughtinesse of the Cavaliering party When hee had possessed himselfe of the Duchy of Brittaine and made every old Payrage of France his owne hee then dissolved all Assemblies of State which is just the same with English Parliaments and then bragged that hee had brought the Realme of France hors du Paga that is out of Wardship If now wicked Counsell hath advised His Majesty to practice upon His People when Hee was secure to all the World and upon the example of Lewis the Eleventh's prosperity against Parliaments to adventure at doing the like here which was professed by Proclamation Royall and yet by the providence of Heaven one was brought on and that one by the same providence to doe such Miracles and contrary to the Callers intention to bring this Kingdome out of Wardship I could advise such evill Councell for their soules health hereafter and preserving the Lawes better here to offer themselves up as Martyrs to the Justice of the Kingdome so much abused by them and that those that are under the Parliaments obedience will thinke no adventure of their Lives and Fortunes too hard for the securing of the Publike FINIS