Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	kingdom_n	majesty_n	5,039	5	6.1083	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88379	The Lively character of the malignant partie: wherein their persons, who they are; their actions, what they have already done, and do daily further attempt; with their intentions, at what ends they ayme, are sufficiently set forth, fully described, and plainly evidenced to the indifferent judgement of any ordinary man, who hath had but a reasonable view of the strange passages of these later times. By one who cordially affects his Soveriagne, and really respects the Parliament: which illustrious and renowned senate, hath (for the safetie of the King, and presevation of the kingdome) resolved upon the question, that in this malignant partie, they may not, must not, will not, cannot confide.		1642 (1642)	Wing L2593; Thomason E240_29; ESTC R2828	6,947	8

intentions to destroy the Parliament and with it the whole Kingdome are manifested and clearely evidenced by their subsequent actions in over-running severall Counties compelling the Trained Bands executing the illegall Commission of Array enforcing them to come in and joyne with them or disarming them and putting their Armes into the hands of lewd and desperate persons thereby turning the Armes of the Kingdome against the Kingdome So that by this meanes all we have all that is neare and deare unto us our Estates Lawes Liberties and lives are in danger nay that which is the life of our lives our Religion is in danger the Kings sacred person his royall progeny and his whole Kingdome by this means is in danger For who knowes not that his Majestie is at this time circled and surrounded environed as it were by those who carry him upon his owne ruine and the destruction of his Kingdome by fomenting and cherishing this unnaturall and illegall warre against his owne people This Malignant Partie of the Nobilitie gather unto them the decayed Gentry of severall Countreys who have by prodigalitie riot excesse and horse-races run their progenitors estates out of breath and thinke hereby to recuperate them for they conceive civill warre to be the best way suddenly to raise their fortunes equall to their discents and therefore what care they being many of them necessitous Courtiers and giddy brain'd as they are to satisfie the appetite of their desire and the insatiate thirst of their ambition though they sacrifice a whole Kingdome delighting to behold their native Countrey suffer in the martyrdome of a civill warre The end that this Malignant Partie doth tend to is the destruction of the present Parliament in it all future Parliaments and together with them the alteration of Religion the subversion of the Lawes of this Kingdome with the utter abolition of the just liberties of the Subjects and the finall extirpation of the rightfull priviledges of Parliament They would have all subject to will and power and betray their Countrey to serve the Court 'T is evident by their love or rather indeed inveterate hatred they beare to this present Parliament that they have combined to destroy it and with it the whole Kingdome The master-piece of their machinations they ayme at is to be Masters of our Religion and Liberties to make us slaves in altering the government of this Kingdom and reducing it to the sad condition of some other Countreys which are nor governed by Parliaments and so consequently not by Laws but by the will of the Prince or rather of those who are about him who of late have studied to possesse the world of an absolute and unlimited power in Princes so that Voluntas Regis is Lex populi The fourth Scene in this Tragedie of the Malignant Party consists of Delinquents to the Parliament and Fugitives from the Parliament These for the most part have had their dependance countenance and encouragement from the Court where they have flatter'd and seduced the King calumniated and traduced his Councell abused and injured his people They have endeavour'd to undermine the Peace of the Kingdom and their constant practise hath been to set at variance not onely the Princes of severall Nations but each Kingdom against it self dividing betwixt Prince and people and incensing subject against subject that so they might with more facility accomplish their impious intentions in our divisions They have invited and encouraged the enemies of our Religion and the State in forrain parts to the attempting and acting of their evill designes and determinations towards us These persons are guilty not Parliament-proof but such as fear the Justice of that high and Honorable Assembly in the due execution of Laws against them for the evils and mischiefs the Common-wealth hath sustained and suffered by them therefore to secure themselves from condigne punishment they are willing to put themselves under the Kings protection and under the specious but unjust pretence of defending the Kings Right and Prerogative to engage themselves their lives and fortunes in a bloody warre thereby to set the whole Kingdom in a generall combustion These are the Enemies to the peace of this Kingdom and justly to be suspected to favour the Rebellion in Ireland They have often attempted to fetch in fotrain forces to invade us and provided great supplies of Ammunition beyond Seas to destroy us Their complying contriving and plotting with Papists Atheists Run-awayes and other notorious Delinquents are not onely evidences of their designes but do firmly testifie that they have been visible Actors in them Such a one was the Lord Digby who at first perswaded the King to retire himself into some strong place and in the mean time promised to do his Majestie service abroad having procured store of Arms with which he came in the ship called The Providence I could nominate more of that party but I now will not for there is none so great a peregrine in our Israel as is ignorant who they are The fifth contains evill Counsellors accompanied with corrupted Judges and ambitious Lawyers whose fears and jealousies do arise out of a guilt of their own vile actions and just fears of their deserved punishment These are the onely bones of our unhappy divisions They have endeavour'd to beget and increase distrust and disaffection between the King and his Parliament and his people These wicked spirits of division and mischievous instruments of dissention have advised the King to suffer divers unjust scandals and imputations upon his Parliament And which aggravates their impietie these evill Counsellors have fixed their dishonour upon the King by making his Majestie the author of those wicked actions which are the effects of their own impious counsels They have advised the King to absent himself from his Parliament whose malicious designes and practises are maskt and disguised with the false colour of their earnest zeal to vindicate his Majesties Prerogative from the supposed oppression of the Parliament These unfaithfull Ministers have often plotted to break the neck of this honorable Assemblie for which purpose they have made such an unpleasant breach as now is between the King and his great Councell They have most injuriously taken all occasions to multiply grosse calumnies upon the Houses of Parliament to defame and indeed to arraign the proceedings of both Houses Through their deceitfull suggestions and fraudulent insinuations they have engaged the King in desperate designes and pernicious practises Their private counsell hath incensed mis-informed and mis-led his Majestie against his generall Counsell conspiring unanimously to ruine the very being of Parliament which is the fountain of the Law making it contemptible and of lesse esteem then the meanest Court to which all other Courts are inferiour Hence it is that they have dar'd to cast upon this Parliament such a charge as is inconsistent with the nature of that great Councell They have caused a great interruption in and obstruction to the proceedings of Parliament They have