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
A88786	A letter sent from the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury (now prisoner in the Tower) to the Vice-Chancellor, doctors, and the rest of the convocation at Oxford, intimating his humble desires to His Majesty, for a speedy reconcilement between him and his high court of Parliament.	Laud, William, 1573-1645.	1642 (1642)	Wing L591; Thomason E83_27; ESTC R4532	3,782	8

given me in my prosperitie I might perchance at this instant not have beene unhappy I know there are among you divers of great and able soules take heed I beseech you lest you pervert those excellent gifts which God and education hath conferred upon you by intruding your selves into the affaires of the State and inverting Religion to advance and cherish the present distractions The King is now amongst you a good and gracious Prince hee is as ever heaven blest this Land with doe not you any ends whatsoever increase the number of those Malignants who have given fire to all the Cedars of Lebanon at once kindled a flame which in a moment hath almost burn'd up all the glories of this Kingdome let neither the disgraces cast on the Clergie by some factious spirits without the licence or patronage of the Parliament incense you to cherish the distractions betwixt his Majesty and that honourable and wise Assembly nor hope of preferment seduce you to it for credit me who hath more experience in such affaires then many of you though the beginning of proceedings of that nature may in faire and specious outsides court your imaginations their period will be nothing but confusion and bitternesse to the undertakers as other sinnes are which like subtile Panthers display their gorgeous spots to intice the traveller to gaze upon them till the carelesse wretches are surely in their reach and then they assault and devoure them It is ill going betweene the barke and the tree sayes the Proverb take heed of it there is as neere a relation betwixt the King and his Parliament and though they may a while be separated that violence cannot be long lived it will at last conclude in the ruine of those that have caused this seperation they will be sure to suffer It cannot be but offences must come but woe be to them from whom they come mischiefes alwayes meet their Catastraphes in the destruction of their authors Since then his Majesty hath graciously beene pleased to honour your University and City with his Royall presence like good Samaritans indeavour to powre Balme and Oyle into the wounds of the Common-wealth labour as much as in you lies to compose these dissensions it is your Calling to propagate Peace as well as the Gospell which is the testimony of peace given by the King of Peace to the children of men you may informe his Majestie even out of your Pulpits and boldly that nothing is more perquisit to the duty of a Soveraigny than to acquire and advance the good of his Subjects which can no way so well and suddenly be effected as by a faire Accommodation of peace betweene his Royall Selfe and his high Court of Parliament And as an incitement to mo●● 〈◊〉 Majestie to thinke of it if such a wretched man as I be not quite lost to his memory tender this to him as the hum●●● Petition of his unfortunate servant that his goodnesse 〈◊〉 vouchsafe to reflect on my sufferings who am impossibili●●● by his absence of ever comming to my triall and so likely to end my dayes in a prison But this onely as the least motive because it is for my selfe but further beseech his Highnesse from me to looke with a compassionate and tender eye on the Religion Nobility and Commons of this unhappy Kingdome and by a speedy reconciliation with the honourable the high Court of Parliament at once finish all their miseries And lastly pray you signifie to his Majestie that I lay my life downe in all humility at his Royall feet beseeching God day and night for his prosperitie peace and happinesse desiring no longer life for any end but this to see his Majestie the glory of our Israel returne to his Ierusalem all differences attoned betwixt him and his Parliament which are the continuall prayers of his Highnesse humblest servant and your true friend W. C. FINIS