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	law_n	parliament_n	7,328	5	6.6868	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31222	Castigio temporum, or, A Short view and reprehension of the errours and enormities of the times, both in church and state and what is the most probable means to cure the distempers in either.		1660 (1660)	Wing C1231A; ESTC R28548	14,568	28

Grace of God or not claiming all his Right from the Petition and Advice and his Fathers Nomination But all the World runs a madding still and is constant in nothing but Inconstancie and this poor Nation in all these changes findes nothing tending to her cure The Protector calls a company of men together (f) Jan. 27. 1658. viz. this House and the Other House and although he claims all his Right from the Petition and Advice as the chief Corner-stone yet was this House that made the Petition and Advice in election and constitution nothing like this House who then assumed to themselves the Supreme Authority of this Nation These men in this House not onely disallow those men who framed the Petition and Advice as no Free Parliament but having themselves but an entrusted power against all Rules of Law and Reason participate and communicate this their power to Irish and Scotish Members whereas Delegata potestas non potest participari And because they will not be less kind-hearted to the Tother House then their Scotish and Irish Members they for convenience will transact with the Members now sitting in the Other House as another House of Parliament But whether the Other House shall be Superiour Equal or Inferiour to this may be a great Question If Superiour to this then cannot this be the Supreme Authority of this Nation nay then cannot they be made and created by this House for no created Thing can be superior to its Maker and Creator If Equal then cannot it be the Other House but a part or relative to this which must needs be a breach of the Trust of this House nor shall ever the free-born people of this Nation need to elect Members to this House if this House can make Members of their own Scotish and Irish and another House of like Authority with themselves If the Other House be Inferiour to this then are the Lords and alwayes-received Upper-House of Parliament inferiour and subject to the Lower House and House of Commons the cheapest thing in the reckoning It is a strange thing to consider what a frenzie and madness this Nation is fallen into since 1641. when under a gratious and known Soveraign and received and known Laws the greatest blessings in the ordinary nature of things God can give a Nation not onely esteeming Liberty in the multiplicity of Laws and uncertain Governours (g) As if it were intolerable to obey one known Soveraign and known Laws and yet an casie thing to be inslaved to the arbitrary wills and lusts of many men who by no Right tyrannize over us but by their wilful rejecting their known Prince and Laws they labour under all those Miseries and Calamities which are incident to Confusion and yet think there is no way to peace but the contrary extreme If any man before these times should have named but the bringing in of Excise the most tolerable of Taxes we now groan under I am confident he would have been pulled in pieces by the Multitude And after all these publique Impositions and Taxes since 1641. which I am confident are twenty times more then all the Taxes in five hundred years under our Kings and the sale of the Crown and Church Lands the one the greatest Ornament of our Nation the other of our Church there is now a greater publick Debt upon this Nation then all the Texes imposed by or given to the Kings of England these hundred years will satisfie though not above two years ago a constant Salary was constituted sufficient to defray the charge of the Army and Navy They were wont to cry out of and to fear Arbitrary power whenas they felt it not or suffered under it what but Arbitrary power hath destroyed all the known Laws and Liberties of this Church and Nation What but an Arbitrary power has brought us into such a condition that we know not what is Just and Legal and what is not And if it be a miserable slavery where the Law is wandring and uncertain what a miserable slavery are we fallen into whereas Incertainty is the onely Certainty of our Condition and Perjury the least of our Crimes At first men protested to be true to the King and the Protestant Religion as it was established after they covenanted to be true and faithful to the King in order to the Solemn League and Covenant then engaged to be true to a Government without King or House of Lords but that not being consistent with the late Protectors greatness was repealed by a Parliament so called of his own making then the Protector and his creatures swear to an Instrument of their own making but this continued no longer then the Parliament so called which made the Petition and Advice and they made a new oath to be taken by the Protector his Council and all who shall sit in Parliament or bear Office in the Commonwealth I do wonder which of the Members in any of these last Parliaments after they came into the House ever regarded what he had sworn at the Door as if the being a Member had been sufficient priviledge against perjury and let any sober Christian lay his hand upon his heart and consider whether here has not been swearing and forswearing sufficient to swear all Religion of an Oath as well as Truth and Integrity quite out of doors for ever and what Conversation Truth Integrity or Ingenuity can be expected from those men in ordinary things who in things of highest concernment have so often violated and falsified their Faith Troth and Oathes But miserable sure is it with those men whose ills cannot be safe without attempting greater To all our antecedent Distractions and Confusions is yet added another of the Officers of the Army and where it will end God onely knows These men they say pretending great dangers and fears to the Saints get leave of the Protector to assemble and advise for safety and redress where after fasting and long Prayer they promulge a Petition to the Protector testifying their great care of him the Parliament and conservation of his glorious Fathers renowned Memory but it is a peculiar mark of godliness especially after a Fast with these Saints that men never understand their meaning by any thing they say the Protectors Father of renowned Memory next after old Satan the common Father of them all was most excellent at it for the word was scarce cold in their mouths whenas they not onely dissolve the Parliament but use the Protector just with that Veneration and Observance that his glorious Father of renowned Memory did the King at Hampton-Court and Carisbrook-Castle Where are all the Hails now of your Highnesses most obedient Soldiers and Subjects to live and die with your Highness in the preservation of the Rights Civil and Religious of this Nation Who gave or by what Birth-right do these Officers do these things Why may not the Under-Officers do by them as they have done by the Parliament and Protector and