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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	kingdom_n	law_n	parliament_n	3,975	5	6.2994	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56151	Conscientious, serious theological and legal quæres, propounded to the twice-dissipated, self-created anti-Parliamentary Westminster juncto, and its members... by William Prynne ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3931; ESTC R2988	41,322	57

Confusion and punishment denounced by God himself against Aegyp● of old for their crying sins Isay 19.2 3 c. I will set the Aegyptians against the Aegyptians and they shall fight every one against his brother and every one against his neighbour City against City and Kingdom against Kingdom A●d the Spirit of Aegypt shall fail in the midst thereof and I will destroy the Counsel thereof Surely the Princes of Zoan the Juncto and Armies General Council are become fools the Princes of Noph are deceived they have also seduced Egypt even they that are the stay of the Tribes thereof The Lord hath mingled a spirit of ●ervers●ties amongst them they have caused Egypt yea England to erre in every work thereof as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit● Neither shall there be any work ●or Aegypt which the head or toyl branch or root may do● to defend or establish themselves or their pretended yet un●●●med Free-State And may not they all then and others 〈◊〉 the consideration of all the promises justly cry 〈◊〉 with the Apostle in an holy admiration Rom. 11.33 O the depth of the Riches b●●● of the wisdom and knowledge of God● how unsearcheable are his Iudgements and his wayes part finding out 4. Whether the Juncto and their High Court of Inj●stice-men who had any hand vote in the Traiterous Perfidious beheading of their late Protestant King the head of the Parliament dissolving and blowing up the whole House of Lords the Majority of the Commons House the whole old Parl●●ment Kingdom Kingsh●p the Prince of Wales next heir and successor to the Crow● the rights privileges freedom of Parliament the fundamental Laws Liberties Government of the Nation and our established Protestant Religion against all their Oathes Allegiances Trusts Duties Votes Declarations Remonstrances Protestations Vows Solemn Leagues Covenants obliging them to the contrary can with any faith boldness confidence piety or real devotion appear before the presence of God Angels Men in any of our Congregations on the 5. of November the * joyful day of our deliverance from the Popist● Gunpowder Treason● publikely celebrated every year to render publike thanks to Almighty God and ascribe all honour glory and praise to his name for hi● great and infinite mercy in delivering the King Queen Prince Lords spiritual and temporal when assembled in the Lords House Nov. 5. An. 1650. from this plot of malicious devillish Papists Iesuites Seminary Priests who maligning the happiness and prosperity of our Realm Church and Religion under a Protestant King and its promising contin●ance to all posterity in his most hopeful royal plentiful Progeny intend●d to blow them all up suddenly with gunpowder but were ●hrough Gods great mercy miraculously delivered from this suddain bo●rid Treason by a wo●derful discovery thereof some few hours before it was to be executed● when as themselves have outstripped them by many degrees in executing accomplishing far more than what they only intended but could not effect yet repute themselves Protestants and the emineniest of all Saints Whether they can without the 〈◊〉 est horror of conscience confusion of face spirit ●●●●sternation of mind and grief of heare henceforth ●●●sume to appear before the presence of God or any English Protestant●●t any time especially on this day before they have publickly lamented confessed repented and made some open eminent satisfaction for those transcend●nt new Gunpowder-Treasons far worse than the old of the Iesuits and Papists by whom they were acted in this especially if they consider Gods expostulation with such sinners Ps. 50.16 17. What hast thou to do to declare my Statutes or that thou shouldest take my Covenant in thy mouth Seeing thou hatest Instruction and hast cast my words behind thee When thou s●west these Powder Traytors thou consentest with them and hast been partaker with these Murderers and Adulterers And that of Rom. 2.1 2 3. Therefore thou art inexcusable O man whoever thou art that judgest for wherein thou judgest another thou condemnest thy self For thou that judgest dost the same things But we know that the judgement of God is according to Tru●h against th●se who commit such things And thinkest thou this O man that judgest them which do such things and dost the same nay worse that thou shalt escape the judgement of God c 5. Whether those turn coat Peace-abhorring self-seeking shameless Members and Lawyer● who though not fifty in number sitting under a force a●ter the seclusion of the Majority of their ●ellow-Members Decemb. 13. 1648. resolved that the Vote passed in a full House Iuly 28 1648. That a Treaty should be had in the Isle of Wight with the King in Person by a Committee appointed by both Houses upon the Propositions presented to him at Hampton Court was highly Dishonorable to the procéedings of Parliament and destructive to the Peace of the Kingdom And that the Vote of 5. D●cemb 1648. passed without dividing the House when there were 300 Members in it That the answers of the King ●o the Proposition of both Houses are a sufficient g●●und for the House to proceed upon * for the settlement of the Peace of the Kingdom is highly dishonorable to the Parliament and destructive to the Peace of the Kingdom and tending to the breach of the publick faith of the Kingdom And in their Declaration of 15. Ianuary 1648. expressing their Reasons for annulling and vac●ting these Votes in this manner declared them to be ●ig●ly repugnant to the glory of God greatly dishonorable to the proceedings of Parliamen● and apparently destructive to the good of this Kingdom adding Yet we are resolved and that speedily so to settle the peace of the Kingdom by the Authority of Parliament● in a more happy way than can be expected from the best of Kings Which they never since performed in the least degree but the direct contrarie embroiling us in endless Wars Seditions Tumults Successions Revolutions of new-modelled Governments oppressing destructive Anti-Parliame●tary Conventicles ever sithence After that suppressed our Kings and Kingly Government as the Instruments Occasions of Tyranny I●justice Oppression Luxury Prodigality and Slavery to the Commons under them together with the whole House of Lords as Dangerous Uselesse Dilatory t● the Procéedings of Parliament c. in their Votes of Febr. 6. and * Declaration of 17 Martii 1648. expressing the grounds of their lute Proceedings and se●ling the Government in way of a Free State● Next prescribed subscribed an Ingagement to be true and faithfull to the Commonwealth established by ●hem without a King or House of Lords Yet afterwards in their New modelled Parliament a● they reputed it April 1657. by their Petition and Advice as first penned passed and presented to Cromwell for his assent● Declared the revival of Kingship and Kingly Government absolutely Necessary for composing the distractions and setling the peace and tranquillity of our Nations advised pe●i●ioned and pressed hi● to accept the Name Title Power and Soveraign Authority