Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

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
A77694	A key to the Kings cabinet; or Animadversions upon the three printed speeches, of Mr Lisle, Mr Tate, and Mr Browne, spoken at a common-hall in London, 3. July, 1645. Detecting the malice and falshood of their blasphemous observations made upon the King and Queenes letters.	Browne, Thomas, 1604?-1673.	1645 (1645)	Wing B5181A; Thomason E297_10; ESTC R200224	40,321	55

quod est promissum habetur ●●●●ell illud quod promittitur ac si fuisset impletum When it is long of Him only to whom the promise is made why it is not performed it is all one in equity as if it were performed according to that of the Historian who saies persolut â fide quia per eum non stetit quò minus prestaretur that is as having discharged his Faith and promise saith he because it was not his fault any Liv Hist way that his Faith was not discharged And was it not long of them that the King did not keep his promise He that cannot reach the clearenesse of this Truth by reason of that eminent distance between the people of a Kingdome and the Prince will comprehend it easily brought neerer home unto him by this familiar Instance and Example A Master of a Family keeps many servants in his House and every man knowes what worke he hath to doe and accordingly he does it At last being conscious to themselves that their work went not on so as it should a rumour and a whisper flyes amongst them from one unto another that their Master meanes to retaine some Journey-men and Hirelings of his Neighbours and will have them lye together and worke together with his servants that his worke may be the better and the sooner done Hereupon they move their Master in the poynt and declare unto him that if He call in any of his Neighbours to the work it would breed ill bloud He must looke to have his house very much disordered and his goods embeasel'd for none of his Servants would take charge of them nor could So many strangers comming in and out that it was impossible The Master who was sure to have the worst of it if any thing were lost is easily perswaded hereunto not having indeed the least thought or Imagination of any such thing but being a man of so much gentlenesse and meeknesse as to let his owne Servants take their owne times and wayes of his owne free accord he makes this solemne promise to them that no stranger shall come in to them from amongst his Neighbours either to meddle with their worke or them At last these servants have a plott upon their Master to take away his life and to that purpose they break up all his Chests seaze upon all his Monyes and are now forcing his owne Bed-Chamber Dore to murther him The good man perceiving their intent tells them that if they offer to break open the dores upon him he will call to his Neighbours out at the window to send their servants in unto his help and then their Villany will be discovered they severely punished whereas if they will goe quietly to bed againe He will say nothing of it and for once put the matter up The Servants tell him againe that they know he is an honest man and scorns to break his promise He promised them above a moneth agoe that he would not suffer any stranger to come in to his House and they hope he will not offer now at this time of the night to call them If this man should think himselfe obliged by that promise to let his owne servants come in and cut his throate Will not any man say that he had more Conscience then Sence For the Master does not break his promise but the servants will not suffer him to keep it And this is just the Kings Case in the poynt of Forraigne Forces which if any dull Citizen of London will not understand as it is delivered by Doctrine let some of his owne servants beat it into his Braines as these servants would have done by a neerer Application Mr Browne For their Feares of his making Warre against the Parliament of his alteration of Religion and Lawes he hath heretofore in his Printed Declaration expressed these words We doe againe in the presence of Almighty God our Maker and Redeemer assure the World that we have no more thought of making Warre against the Parliament then against our owne Children that we will maintaine and observe the Acts assented to by Vs this Parliament without violation and that we have not nor shall not have any thought of using any Force unlesse we shall be driven to it for the Security of our Person and for the Defence of the Religion Lawes and Liberties of the Kingdome and the Iust Rights and Priviledges of Parliament And in another of his Printed Declarations he hath said God so deale with me and mine as my Thoughts and Intentions are upright for the maintenance of the True Protestant Religion and for observation and preservation of the Lawes of the Land And in another Declaration he saith that He is resolved not onely duely to observe the Lawes Himselfe but to maintaine them against what opposition soever though with the hazard of his being And in his Declaration concerning his Resolution to goe into Ireland which is also Printed he calls God to witnesse the sincerity of his Professions there made with this assurance That His Majesty will never Consent upon what pretence soever to a Toleration of the Popish Profession there or to the abolition of the Lawes now in force against Popish Recusants in that Kingdome What could his Majesty have said more to satisfie his People Now compare his Actions with his Declarations and compare his Letters to the Queene with his Promise and Protestations to the Parliament and you will say Quantùm mutatus how much is his Majesty changed All that we have heard read we may divide into three parts The first containes the Letters Propositions and Transactions concerning Ireland The second the Letters from the Queene to the King The third Letters from the King unto the Queene c. Animadversions Here are three particulars more laid to His Majesties charge by M. Browne wherein His private Letters are made to crosse and contradict His publique Protestations that so with more colour they may asperse him with the sinne of Levity Falshood and breach of Faith by which easy wickednesse they hope to make him as vile in all His Peoples eyes as His own obstinate Goodnesse hath made him cheap in theirs The first is concerning His making Warre against the Parliament The second is concerning the Alteration of Religion and the third is concerning His Alteration of Lawes Against these three they produce His Protestations and Promises which they would have the world believe He doth so directly check by His private endeavours and practises as if he esteemed no more of what He promised then that Aegyptian King whom they nicknamed Doso that is to say Dabo because he would Diod. Sieul promise any thing which men asked of him and would be as sure never to performe any thing unto them which he had promised Concerning the first of these His making Warre against the Parliament which is such a thred-bare piece of malice that as it never had any Truth so now it hath worne