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	maintain_v	true_a	2,911	4	4.9844	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74239	By the King A proclamation of grace and pardon to all such as shall returne to their obedience, and submit to, and seek His Majesties mercy before the end of May next.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1645 (1645)	Thomason 669.f.9[28]; ESTC R212223	1,431	1

BY THE KING A Proclamation of Grace and Pardon to all such as shall returne to their Obedience and submit to and seek His MAJESTIES mercy before the end of May next WHEREAS this unnaturall Rebellion was begun and fomented upon pretence of maintaining the true Protestant Religion the Laws Liberty and Property of the Subject and the Priviledges of Parliament And was heretofore carryed on in the name of the King and Parliament upon pretence also of the preservation of Our Honour and the Rights of Our Crowne and the Safety of Our Person and redeeming it from the hands and power of evill Counsellors And under these specious pretences very many of Our Subjects have been misled into it But that which was at first known and foreseen by some may now be manifest to all even of the meanest capacity that these were but pretences to colour the Ambition malice and avarice of a few men since it is apparent that in the prosecution and for the upholding of the Rebellion there hath been more prophanation and scorne to the Protestant Religion here established more oppression of the Subject by depriving them of their Lives Liberty and Property without and against Law and more usurpation upon the Rights of Our Crowne and violation of Lawes and of Acts of Parliament and of Priviledges of Parliament publiquely avowed then can be parallell'd by any former example in this Kingdom And upon Our severall Messages and Invitations for a Treaty for Peace nothing is propounded to Us and insisted upon concerning the breach of any Law or the Liberty or Property of the Subject or the Priviledges of Parliament But changes in the Religion established and alterations of the ancient Government of this Kingdome both in Church and State And touching the defence and safety of Our Person notwithstanding Our earnest endeavours for Peace this Rebellion is still prosecuted and new Armies now moulded and Forces raised under the name of the Parliament and State with Commission to kill and destroy without exception or regard of Our Person So that beside the Tryalls We have already undergone We may easily discerne what safety or defence We are to expect hereafter And it is evident that the designe tends to the destruction not onely of Our Person and Posterity but even of Monarchy it selfe and that the defence of the true Protestant Religion established of the Lawes Liberty and Property of the Subject of the just Priviledges of Parliament and of Our Person and the Rights of Our Crowne are laid aside and can be no longer pretences for this Rebellion And whereas We have reason to beleeve that very many of Our Subjects who were heretofore seduced and misled are by this and their own manifold sufferings brought to a sight of their error and to a dislike and detestation of this execrable Rebellion which threatens speedy Ruine and destruction to the Nation but being heretofore involved and intangled in the guilt of it are doubtfull of their owne security and cannot easily find the way to free themselves with safety In pursuance therefore of Our constant purpose to omit nothing which We shall conceive may give security to those Our Subjects who shall not still wilfully and malitiously persist in mischiefe and which may conduce to the quenching of this Fire and restoring Peace to Our People in all Our Dominions We have thought fit once againe to set forth this Our Proclamation of Grace and Pardon And We doe hereby Publish and Declare That to all such of what estate degree or condition soever they be without exception who shall before the end of May next ensuing returne to their due Obedience and submit to and desire Our Mercy We shall grant them Our free and gracious Pardon for all offences whatsoever committed or done in or by the prosecuring promoting assisting or countenancing of this Rebellion or which have any relation thereunto And this in the Word of a King We shall effectually make good unto them Given at Our Court at OXFORD the 19th day of April in the One and Twentieth yeare of Our Raigne 1645. GOD SAVE THE KING Printed at Oxford by Leonard Lichfield Printer to the Vniversity 1645.