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
A91222	The danger to England observed, upon its deserting the high court of Parliament. Humbly desired by all loyall and dutifull subjects to bee presented to his Most Excellent Majestie.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1642 (1642)	Wing P401; Thomason E108_17; ESTC R2039	5,216	8

was when we see these things and many other like we grieve we bleed inwardly for his Maiesty it seemes prodigious to us that so gentle a Prince should indure so much so many yeares together for such Ministers sakes contrary to the prayers and advertisements of this whole glorious Brittish Monarchy Seventhly his Majestie rests onely in generalls which according to his Majesties owne words amount to just nothing for as generall complaints of subverting Law and subjecting both King and Kingdome to lawlesse Arbitrary rule are pressed against the Parliament so nothing but generall promises of making us a happy people and consenting to all just requests are uttered by his Ma●estie at this present when his Majestie prefers private advise before publique yet he attributes generally all due respect to Parliaments And when his Majestie takes up the Sword against the Parliament the highest Court of Law in England and not condemned but by Edict Law onely no Peere Judge c. appearing in the condemnation yet this sword is said to be taken up meerely to protect the Law This strange persecution of a Parliament and all its favourers by fire and sword which to our ordinary apprehensions seemes so dismall and fatall especially at this time when it is as great a benefit to Popish Rebels in Ireland as it is a scourge to loyall Protestants in England this must seeme not only to stand with his Majesties generall expressions of Grace but in a generall sense it is it self an act of Grace And this is not wonderfull for we know that whilst the Ship-scos and all other Projects and Monopolies lay heavyest upon us in all our sore grievances and violations generall expressions of Grace did ever accompany them though they rather added than diminished to the weight of our sorrows And therefore we have now the lesse reason to comfort our selves with generall assurances especially since deeds of hostility faile not to attend our sweetest words of clemency Nay and in the same Manifestoes as we finde professions savouring all of Law right and limited power so we finde withall intermingled divers positions placing the King beyond all Law right and limitation and reducing Parliaments to lesse power than ordinary Courts In all submissive humility therefore we humbly prostrate our selves before his Majesties feet with the pious tender of these our earnest supplications First That it would please his Majesty in a war of this confounding nature to the three Kingdomes at once and to the true Religion in them to have recourse to the impartiall advise of former goes rather then of this Secondly to abandon the Councels of Papists as well such as goe to Church by dispensation as not and as well such as send instru●tions from beyond the Sea as those which are here more visible and in the same manner to reject the advertisements of Delinquents Prelates Souldiers c. whose known interests makes them incompetent advisers in this case no age having a paralell to it and if his Majesty conceives publike advise to be partiall at this time yet to let the kingdome know what private advise is hearkened to and what the quality and grounds of it is for the better vindication of his Majesties Honour and the more full satisfaction of all true Protestants Thirdly To make a further guesse at some of his Majesties Councellors by those false slanders of Treasons which they have powred into his Majesties eares and are now disproved to all the world Fourthly That his Majesty would not admit of any crime in the Parliament but such as beares the stamp and form of a legall and judiciall accusation and instead of generall invectives to publish the certain kinde of Treasons and names of Traytors and the certainty of his Majesties evidence and how far his Majesty will refer the tryall thereof to any peaceable treaty laying down the sword in the meane time without disadvantage to either side for if the offence of the Parliament be that they have been too zealous of the safety of the Kingdome in making Ordinances to settle the Militia Then the question is only whether or no the King hath such a sole interest in the Towns Forts c. and strength of the Kingdome as that he may at pleasure intrust them to suspected Substitutes in time of danger without generall advise nay contrary to generall consent And this seemes a strange ground for such an uncouth dismall war at such a time as this when it makes our Lords and Commons worse Rebels then the Irish and chuses rather that the Protestant Religion together with the Crowne there shall perish then any truce shall be granted here or any umpirage admitted It cannot but be better that the State of Scotland were intreated to mediate and arbitrate in this difference then that so unse●sonable and unnaturall a war should be waged For if Sir John Hotham be not fitter to be trusted than Captain Leg and my Lord of Warwicke then Sir Iohn Pennington yet the Kings interest is not altered nothing but the subordinate person is changed and if this be not allowed to a Parliament the Subject hath no remedy nor power of defence in any danger when the King mistakes both his friends and foes but if this be allowed the King suffers nothing by it He which serves the State faithfully must needs serve the King faithfully it is to be wished the contrary were as true a generall defection is not to be feared nor could be redressed if it should happen and except in case of generall defection the State cannot chuse to the disadvantage of the King But if the Militia be not the main cause of this war if any other super-emergent exceptions against any particular persons in or out of Parliament may be taken this may be debated and accommodated legally without blood except one side will declare it self not to be satisfied otherwise then by blood Till these things be better cleared no Force ought to be used and if the King will admit of no truce it will not be said that the Parliament takes up Armes against the King but the whole kingdome in its representative Court defends it selfe against such as have seduced and uniustly incensed the King and such as though they have usurped the Kings person and word and command yet have not so true a right to his vertue and authoritie nor ought to bee held so friendly thereunto as the Parliament Fiftly not to make the Parliaments arbitrary power in declaring Law c. any ground of charge since this strife betweene prerogative and libertie must be decided and by the Law it selfe without some interpreter cannot and since his Maiestie does not claime that sole interpretation and since the Parliament cannot be suspected therein Sixthly to judge of the Councellours and Fomenters of this warre by the favour which it beares to the Irish Rebellion and the disagreement thereof with his Majesties former gracious professions and at least to hearken to a truce till the Irish warre be ended except the Lords and Commons seeme more detestable Traytors than the Irish Rebells Seventhly That his Maiestie will let us know something in particular concerning our priviledges in and out of Parliament and what latitude of authority and power shall be granted to the representative body of the whole Kingdome even when his Maiestie likes better of private advise and also how farre his Maiestie will grant his Royall Prerogative to be within the Cognizance and Declaration of the Lords and Commons because in our understanding to have no right and no impartiall Judge of that right and to have no limits and no knowne limits is one and the same thing Now therefore our humble and heartie desires to his Majestie are that he would be gratiously pleased to condiscend to these so necessary things now that so streaming a Comet of bloody aspect hangs over our heads and so abominable a warre is commenced amongst us it will facilitate a happy and faire accommodation it will disappoint the greatest adversaries of the Church and State it will make his Majesties raigne more blessed now and his story more candid and unstayned with blood hereafter And his Maiesties most humble Petitioners shall ever pray c.