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
A92444	The Scottish Commissioners demand concerning their sixt article.	Scotland. Parliament.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.	1641 (1641)	Wing S1001B; ESTC R11089	6,435	16

THE SCOTTISH Commissioners Demand concerning their sixt ARTICLE COncerning our Sixt demand Although it hath often come to passe that these who have been joyned by the bonds of Religion and Nature have suffered themselves to be divided about the things of this World And although our Adversaries who no lesse labour the division of the two Kingdomes then wee doe all seek Peace and follow after it as our common Happinesse doe presume that this will be the Partition wall to divide us and to make us lose all our labours taken about the former Demands Wherein by the help of God by his Majesties Princely goodnesse and Iustice and your Lordships noble and equal dealing Wee have so fully accorded and to keep us from providing for a firme and weell grounded Peace by the wisdome and justice of the Parliament of England which is our greatest desire expressed in our last Demand We are still Confident that as wee shall concerning this Article represent nothing but what is true Iust and Honourable to both Kingdomes So will your Lordships hearken to us and will not suffer your selves by any slanders or suggestions to be drawne out of that straight and safe way wherein yee have walked since the beginning IT is now Wee suppose knowne to all England especially to both the Honourable Houses of Parliament And by the occasion of this Treatie more particularly to your Lordships That our distresses in our Religion and Liberties were of late more pressing then Wee were able to beare That our Complaints and Supplications for redresse were answered at last with the terrours of an Army That after a Pacification greater Preparations were made for warre whereby many Acts of Hostilitie were done against us both by Sea and Land The Kingdome wanted administration of Iustice and Wee constrained to take armes for our defence That wee were brought to this extreame and intollerable necessitie either to maintaine divers Armies upon our borders against Invasion from England or Ireland still to be deprived of the benefit of all the Courts of Iustice and not onely to maintaine so many thousands as were spoiled of their ships and goods but to want all Commerce by Sea to the vndoing of Merchants of Saylors and many others who lived by Fishing and whose callings are vpholden from hand to mouth by Sea trade Any one of which evils is able in a short time to bring the most potent Kingdome to Confusion Ruine and Desolation how much more all the three at one time combined to bring the Kingdome of Scotland to be no more a Kingdome Yet all these behoved we either to endure and under no other hope then of the perfect slavery of our selves and our posterity in our Soules lives and Meanes Or to resolve to come into England not to make Invasion nor with any purpose to fight except we were forced God is our Iudge our actions are our witnesses and England doth now acknowledge the truth against all suspitions to the contrary and against the impudent lyes of our Enemies But for our reliefe defence and preservation which wee could find by no other meanes when we had essayed all meanes and had at large expressed our pungent and pressing necessities to the Kingdome and Parliament of England Since therefore the Warre on our part which is no other but our comming into England with a guard is defensive and all men doe acknowledge that in common equity the defendant should not be suffered to perish in his just and necessary defence but that the pursuer whether by way of Legall Processe in the time of Peace or by way of violence and unjust invasion in the time of warre ought to beare the charges of the defendent Wee trust that your Lordships will thinke that it is not against reason for us to demand some reparation of this kind And that the Parliament of England by whose Wisedome and Iustice we have expected the redresse of our wrongs will take such course as both may in reason give us satisfaction and may in the notable demonstration of their Iustice serve most for their own honour Our earnestnesse in following this our Demand doth not so farre wrong our sight and make us so undiscerning as not to make a difference betweene the Kingdome and Parliament of England which did neither decern nor set forward a Warre against us And that Prevalent faction of Prelats and Papists who have moved every stone against us and used all sorts of meanes not onely their counsells Subsidies and forces but their Kirk Canons and prayers for our utter Ruine which maketh them obnoxious to our just accusations and guilty of all the losses and wrongs which this time past wee have sustained Yet this wee desire your Lordships to consider That the Estates of the Kingdome of Scotland being assembled did endeavour by their Declarations Informations Remonstrances and by the proceedings of their Commissioners to make knowne unto the Counsell Kingdome and Parliament of England and to forewarne them of the mischiefe intended against both Kingdomes in their Religion and Liberties by the Prelates and Papists to the end that our Invasion from England might have bin prevented if by the Prevalencie of the faction it had beene possible And therefore wee may now with the greater reason confidence presse our Demand That your Lord ps the Parliament the Kingdome and the King himselfe may see us repared in our losses at the cost of that faction by whose meanes we have sustained so much dammage And which except they repent will find sorrow recompensed for our griefe Torments for our toyle and an infinite greater losse for the Temporall losses they have brought upon a whole Kingdome which was dwelling by them in Peace All the devices and doings of our common enemies were to beare downe the Truth of Religion and the just liberties of the Subjects in both Kingdomes They were confident to bring this about one of two wayes Either by blocking us up by Sea Land to constraine us to admit their will for a Law both in Kirck and policy and thus to make us a Precedent for the like misery in England or by their Invasion of our Kingdome to compell us furiously and without order to break into England that the two Nations once entered in a bloody Warre they might fish in our trouble Waters and catch their desired Prey But as wee declared before our comming Wee trusted that God would turne their Wisedome into foolishnesse and bring their devices upon their owne Pates by our Intentions and Resolutions to come into England as among our Brethren in the most peaceable way that could stand with our safety in respect of our common Enemies to present our Petitions for setling our peace by a Parliament in England wherein the Intentions and Actions both of our Adversaries and ours might be brought to light The Kings Majesty and the Kingdome rightly informed The Authors and Instruments of our divisions and troubles punished All the mischiefes of a Nationall and doubtfull Warre prevented and Religion and