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	majesty_n	parliament_n	4,862	5	6.6563	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53762	A prospective for King and subjects. Or A schort discovery of some treacheries acted against Charles the I. and Charles the II. Kings of England, Scotland, and Ireland. With some few advertisements to the people in the 3. nations concerning the cruel, exorbitant, and most tyrannical slavery they are now under which they have wrought themselves into, and stil desiring to be, by up-holding of a pretended court of Parliament, altogether ruling contrary to the lawes of the lands or any branch there of and according to there owne lustful and arbitrary wills. Written by Wendy Oxford once an honourer of them and there pretences, but now as great an abhorrer of there Macheeslian practises.	Oxford, Wendy.	1652 (1652)	Wing O844; ESTC R214667	19,165	34

more of truth then wonder which the church of God mourneth for such discords where in her best earthly Saints lye murthered by you religion through out the world accuseth your errors and you who seeme to be professours accuse religion by which meanes Heretickes Schismatickes and Blasphemors Turkes insidels and pagans in sult over Gods children and al of you over the church But wherefore have you thus betrayed the honour of God and battered his inheritance O looke ye vipers what Kazienzen saith ubi nost est pax non est Mundus But I feare the saying of Iehu is upon you what have you to doe with peace The people have just cause to say of you nay God himselfe may say you Hatter him with your praiers and wound him with your swords you have the voyce of Iacob but the hands of Esau the visage of innocent Abel but the harts of murtherous Cain for you have made bonefires of whole townes in the 3. Kingdomes and exhibited emblemes of your inflamed minds to the world and al at the same time when you seeme to congratulate your thankefulnesse to the Lord but in these things you make God your stalking horse for whilst you seeme to burne in cense whole townes are turned in to smoake O your weapons reake not with the blood of Turkes but in the hartbloods of your native King and fellow subjects O what a miserable resolution have you cloathed your selves with even to destroyall rather then be destroyed Are you to be called ministers of State are you to be called peace makers and physitians of a commonwealth no rather to be called firebrands of a Kingdome or in more law like termes States barrators who have blasted the happinesse of 3. Kingdomes by your litigious Iuglings and you have deluded the people thereof into an universal sorrow and complaint groaning under the heavy pressures of your taxations being tilted as empty barrels in there fortunes by your avaritious and arbitrary exactions And those who have escaped your swords you have bereaved of there estates which must cause famine inevitably to depopulate by lingring deathes others who escaped and yet under your power live as in apresse under your tyrannous calamity So that al not only being sequestred from light and conversation of that which concernes there soules but are also sequestred from there country habitations that they are in a worse condition then the soules of the ayre neither having rest nor food you are not only sufficed here with but your thirsty blood sucking soules like the lapathae and Centaures who in warring seeke nothing but warre such are your haughty minds that you thirst after the blood of your neibouring countryes of Scotland and Ireland nay those being dry land territories can not quench your thirsts wherefore you make warre on the seas and with those who were at peace with al the world until such time as your pride forceth them to adfence and I doubt not but they being borne under awatery climate may satiate your bloody Stomackes and the Sulphering heat of your bound lesse consciences with water enough which the Lord of hosts grant they may cutt of as a curse from the earth and make good the saying of the Apostle Cutt them downe cut them downe why cumber they the ground Now according to my promise let mee whisper a word or two to my blind ignorant and wilful countrymen to such as when there King having so often ventured his life for the saving theres they like barbarians and the worst of heathens requited good with evil O countrymen remember Worcester businesse and remember that from the first entrance of his Majesty out of Scotland through great dangers and hardship by carlile and so a long to Worcester that not 3. hundred of you came into the assistance casting of al duty and allegiance to your Prince but contrarily you stocked into the helpe of those that you cry dayly tyrannizeth over you whose confusions in your cuppes you drinke and the health and prosperity of your Prince yet you are the first that would cutt his Majestyes throat for did you not endeavour it at Worcester when you came to the assistance of Cromwel by Thousands and when that your King had lost the day you were worse enemies to his nobility and gentry then any of Cromwels men nay you hunted after the life of his then dis comfited Majesty like as the hunter doth after his prey raping and plundering al before you beating the braines out of the meaner sort and hurrying the greater after you had sufficiently robbed them to some traiterous committee or other for are ward O Country-men thinke you not that you must answer for these in humane bloody acts for these robberies and murthers you then formerly have committed contrary to the commandements of thou shalt not steale thou shallt doe no murther Who is it for that you have runne a hazard of damnation of bodyes and soules it is even for those whose power can be no other by the lawes of God and man then a robbed usurping power so that other nations have just cause now to say Quales Magistri tales servi But he hold and read there petition presented to his Majesty whom they wilfully murthered on the 16. day of Iuly 1642. there you shal find that these usurpers then called God of heaven and earth to witnesse that they would defend his Majesty from all harmes and dangers etc. and that they would confirme your lawes and redeeme your lost liberties veiw likewise his Majestyes reply to this petition that he should not count himselfe safe until they had layd downe there armes and delivered up his townes and magazines which they detained from him and that the tumults of London were suppressed then veiw the replication of these now usurpers to that replication dated the 29. of Iuly That they desired his then Majesty to accept of this there just reply that they could not discharge the trust reposed in them for the safety of the King and Kingdome marke that country men King and Kingdome neither could they yeeld to these demands of his Majestyes for say they in that replication they tooke up armes and the possession of such townes and maguzines for the security of religion the safety of his Majestyes person of the Kingdome and Parliament all which they saw to be in most eminent danger Marke againe al these resolutions and there in they likewise desire that the King would returne to his court af whitehal assuring him that his royal person should be as safe there as in any other place they having assurance of the loyalty of the city of London to his Majesty and to that purpose they have taken care to prevent al danger which his Majesty may justly apprehend Countrymen by this petition and the 2. replications with the order of Parliament made there on Die Iovis Iul. 30. 1642. ordered by the Lords assembled in Parliament that the petition and replication of the

have enough to bestow on there owne edifices but nothing to bestow on the repairing the Temples of God but rather pulling downe the churches as they doe dayly amongst you reedifiing there owne buildings as it is in Agge the 1. and the 4. verse It is time for your selves to dwell in your houses and this house to lye waste O such wretched cormorants who doe not onely let the houses of God liewaste but utterly pul them downe and purchase lands with the spoyles thereof yet these sacrilegious persons are accounted by you good Christians yet you sticke and adhere to them who make there buildings as it is spoken in the 6. chap. of Ioshua and the 26. verse Not laying the foundations thereof in the blood of there bodyes but in the spoyle of there soules which God in the conclusion wil make them as swallowes nests which in the winter fall downe of themselves and wil you yet thinke upon such people wil you stil deny your obedience to your King who would there on doe as Noah did after the stood who built an alter to the Lord Gen. the 8. and the 20. verse I wil here conclude deare countrymen with this my last advise to thee Which is That thou forsake this pretended Parliament who have brought thee to this miserable condition that they have left no authority in England able to settle peace your lives fortunes being liable to there lustful wils by illegal accusations blanke impeachments threatning declarations who have put out the eyes of the Kingdome the two universities of Oxford Cambridge knowing that learning is a steppe to Religion both to your lawes liberties and al enemies to there barbarons irrational and illegal way of Government al which when you tooke part first with these members wee that have Christianity doe beleive that you were seduced by these faire pretences of defending Religion King lawes and liberties which they first held to you and you thereby being unwilling to have a Parliament conquered by the sword and consequently your selves and you not thinking that they could so farre prevaricate as to conspire against King Parliament and your selves to the utter subversion of al lawes liberties and the fundamental Government of the Land betraying religion unto Heretickes and Schismatikes sharing the spoyles of 3. Kingdomes betweene them now resolving to enrich themselves more in forraigne Lands I say that as my selfe was once at the first blinded you my countreymen had no intention they should be so farre intrusted as you have found to your greife they have engaged you before you were aware but thinke it not yet too late to draw backe your feet and yet stippe the bridle out of your mouthes with which bit they thinke they have you at there checke having girt the saddle so fast to your galled backes and they as ranke riders mounted who have not only spurred you out of your estates lawes and liberties but wil spurre you into hel by new oathes Treasons Covenants c. If you take not the more heed and be not the more resolute for now they have Squeezed what they can out of the Kings party they cal them home beginning to make up there bottomelesse vessels ful out of your estates who have beene there freinds Now I have shewed you the Lyon whome they hunted after the Lord of the forrest not only to be sicke and weake and so become a prey to them he is not only goared by the oxe bitten by madd doggs and kicked by Asses and as our saviour was spittedon by pharises but even as our saviour was become a prey and crusified for our sinnes so was your King for your lawes liberties and the sinnes of the whole three Kingdomes Now to al Christian Princes I speake to you especially of blood or the same religion which this martired King Charles the first was Looke I say you neibouring Kings and Princes upon this sad example unheard of President and unparelled violence and the Lord graunt you may apply it to your owne soules and lay your councels and forces in conjunction to make examples of such murtherous subjects thereby you shal not only feare your owne people from the like attempt but reestablish him who no doubt may be able to helpe any of your greatnesses in such or any other distresse and I am confident wil be willing to his utter most power And you wil have O Princes the hearts and praiers of al our gracious Kings leidge people in his three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland for your redemption of them likewise from slavery and bondage to which I cry Amen FINIS THE EPILOGUE And declaration of the penman Most Gracious Souveraigne TO shew your gracious Majesty that I love my country so much that I could devote my selfe to death for it as the Decij in Rome have done and that I resolve to be such Quem neque pauperies neque mors neque vincula terrent I in the presence of God and in the name of al the freeborne commoners of England doe declare that there is no legal Parliament in England nor lawful Government in Scotland and Ireland that there is not 495. Commoners by names of Knights and Burgesses neither is there a house of Lords nor is there a King with out any of which by the knowne lawes of England petition of right by which Kings formerly knew what was theres and the subjects theres nor by there ordinances remonstrances and declarations made in the yeares 1642. 1643. where in they declared they intended not neither could they make law without his them Majestyes consent I doe farther protest against those arbitrary exacting and usurping few members remaining at Westminster that what ever they have done or shal doe as thay now are is void and null by law ab initio and of none of effect by there owne doctrines and judgements declared in there ordinance made by them the 20. of August 1647. where in they made void ab initio al votes ordinances and orders passed by the then Lords and Commons from the 26. of Iuly 1647. to the 6. of August following when there speaker with some other renegadoes of them huried away to the army then at Windsor and this faith I resolve to live and die in as Your Majestyes loyal subject Wendy Oxford