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
B06148	To the right honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of many of the gentry, ministers, free-holders, and other inhabitants of the county of Kent, and the cities of olders, and other inhabitants of the county of Kent, and the cities of Canterbury and Rochester, and county of Canterbury, with the Cinque Ports, and their members, and other corporations within the said county.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing T1681; ESTC R233632	1,402	1

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS AND COMMONS ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of many of the Gentry Ministers Free-holders and other Inhabitants of the County of Kent and the Cities of Canterbury and Rochester and County of Canterbury with the Cinque Ports and their members and other Corporations within the said County Most humbly sheweth THat your Petitioners or many of them have heretofore exhibited to both Houses of Parliament a Petition concurring with those of the renowned City of London and other severall Counties of this Kingdome expressing their true zeale to true Religion in the pure worship of God and their loving affections to the Kings most excellent Majesty both Houses and the Kingdomes That your poore Petitioners doe with all humility returne their utmost thankes unto this Honourable Assembly for your favourable and gentle acceptance of their Petition your great care and vigilancy and uncessant labours for the advancement of the true reformed Religion the Honor and welfare of his Majesty and his Kingdomes and for your continued endeavours for a right understanding betweene his Majesty and his Parliament for your instant addresse to his Majesty to disswade him from his personall Expedition for Ireland and especially for that to us so welcome Declaration of Lords and Commons April 9. 1642. concerning your pious intentions for a necessary Reformation which renewes our hopes and we hope will further your account in the day or the Lord who are come up as Saviours on Mount Sion and that your Petitioners doe most heartily rejoyce to behold the happy union of both Houses of Parliament and the mutuall concurrence of them and the whole Kingdome wherein under his Majesty the safety of all the three Kingdomes doe consist Yet your Petitioners cannot but plainly expresse with what sad hearts they thinke on the many evill occurrents which interrupt your unparalelled paines and intercept the fruit of your faithfull Counsels from us among which this is not the least viz. a Petition as we conceive of dangerous consequence and published at the last generall Assises holden for this County at Maidstone and then yea yet advanced for subscribers intended to be exhibited to this Honourable House as the Petition of the whole body of this County to cause the whole Kingdom to beleeve that Petition to be the act of the whole County of Kent or the major part thereof whereby a great blemish and scandall is brought upon this loyall and peaceable County being styled the Kentish Petition which we know is not the act of the body of the County as it seemeth to speak for as much as it was disavowed by many of the then grand Jury and Justices on the Bench and by all us your Petitioners whose names are under-written 1. Wherefore our humble prayer is that your Honours would be pleased first to accept this our Vindication of our selves and this County who utterly disclaime the said Petition humbly leaving it to the Wisdome Justice and Clemency of this Honourable Assembly to difference betweene the active contrivers and promoters and unadvised subscribers thereof 2. To lift up your hearts above all discouragements in the wayes of the Lord according to that your so religious resolutions for Reformation in the Church for a Consultation with godly and learned Divines and for the establishing of a Preaching Ministry throughout the whole Kingdome And we your Petitioners being sensible that to oppose or flight his Majesties Parliament and the orders thereof were to hazzard the safety of his Majesties Royall person and all his Kingdomes and to further the designes of our enemies who hope by causing our division to triumph in our confusion And we your Petitioners are unanimously resolved to maintaine and defend as far as lawfully we may with our lives power and estates his Majesties Royall person and dignities as also the power and priviledges of his Parliament according to our Protestation And shall daily pray that your hands may be sufficient for you to accomplish every good worke This Petition was delivered and read in the House of Commons the fifth of May 1642. with 8000. hands thereto London printed for William Larnar 1642.