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
A74209	To the honourable, the knights, citizens and burgesses of the Commons house in Parliament now assembled, Ianuary, 24, 1642 the humble petition of the lay-Catholiques recusants of England.	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1642 (1642)	Thomason 669.f.4[49]	1,787	1

TO THE HONOURABLE THE KNIGHTS CITIZENS AND BURGESSES OF THE COMMONS HOVSE IN PARLIAMENT NOW ASSEMBLED Ianuary 24. 1642. The humble Petition of the Lay-Catholiques Recusants of England Sheweth THat the chiefest and most glorious Attribute of power being Mercy the safest addresse thereto must be Submission which makes us in all humility offer unto the consideration of this Honourable Assembly the great and heavy burthen under which we grone and though to Lawe we humbly shall submit yet such is the weight of some that lye upon us that nothing lesse then linity can let us live nor can we any way find our reliefe but by applying our selves unto this High Court whereas Fathers and supreame Judges you reside retaining still full Power to frame or change according to the exigency of times and occasions and being prudent and mercifull can afford us patience and favour in this short Petition wherein we shall yeeld our selves fit Subjects for your mercy or obedient Submittees to your wills and resolutions The many penall Lawes in force-against your humblest Petitioners are to this Honourable Assembly knowne as is the ground on which they first were made not out of memory haveing had their Birth but under Queen Elizabeth when partly extraordinary proceedings from the See of Rome against her Person and partly the claime our dread Soveraigns Grandmother wholly devoted to that Religion layd to the Immediate succession of the Crowne Occasioned severall destractions and even cast jealousies and suspitions upon all that in Religion had relation to that See Whereupon from emergent reason of State And by way of prudent cautions and preventing future disobedience and not to put restraint upon the conscience of the Subject or to punish contrariety of opinion or beliefe these Lawes as we conceive were made and afterward much aggravated and made more heavie to us all by occasion of that ever most detestable plot of those few decayed turbulent and desperately discontented persons indeed Professors of the same Religion but quite neglecting and transgressing and most inhumanely therein forgetting all duty and obligation If thus Right Noble Gentlemen these Lawes originally were oppropriated to these times and no such reason now we hope appeares and stil these Lawes overwhelmes us It is either for the personal offences of other men whose wicked facts we are no way guilty of with all good Christians utterly abhorre or for supposed errors of our understanding and beliefe which as in it selfe according to all Divines is an effect immediate of Grace and therefore not to be enforced So in its tenents there is not any thing forbids invites or hinders the professors of it from their due obedience to their Prince and faithfull preservation of their Countries liberties In prosecution of which truth wee here objure as false and most erronious both assasination of Princes and Faith is not to be kept with all sorts of people and do detest them both as most oppugnant to humanity and not to be allowed by any Religion whatsoever We also shall and will be ever ready to maintaine and defend with all our power lives and fortunes all our Countries liberties the Right and Priviledges of the Parliaments the Subjects lawfull Rights liberty and propriety the peace and unity of his Majesties three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland and in all just and honourable waies endeavour the punishment of all that seeke to worke the contrary as dutifull obedient and Loyall Subjects are obliged and as true borne lovers of their Countries good are bound All which under favour as the Lawes now stand we no waies are permitted as having neither freedome or fortunes of our own for strictly are our actions Judgements and our Tongues tyed up But the approaching storme that seemes to threaten her moves us to take shelter under your mercies wings most freely spread to comfort all agrieved where we doe hope for shadow and protection And humbly are Petitioners that you will be pleased to ease our sufferings by mitigating the rigor of those penall Lawes that either ruine us and our posterity or cast a thraledome on our Consciences so as we meekly walking in our forefathers steps aspiring unto nothing but possessing our selve in peace as people that seeke ease not honours and that the crime of Catholiques before this Horourable Assembly now appeares but onely different waies in serving the same God you serve the same Christ which you beleeve for whosoever in any other sort offends qui peccaverit ipse moriatur we most humbly in your prudence and your goodnesse trust in this publique Jubilee when all 's intended to be joy and consolation we shall not be the onely Subject of sorrow and desolation nor that the Lawes made for offenders in one time should lay upon the innocent in another And therefore humbly beg you will cast your eye upon the Schedule of these Lawes annexed and then your mercifull repeale of what your wisedomes and mercy finde shall give the Conscience reliefe that is afflicted and not the minde content that is ambitious and a thing we thirst not after And for so great a charity your humble Petitioners shall ever as in duty bound pray for Your continuall prosperity and eternall happinesse London Printed for Geo. Baily 1642.