Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	law_n	liberty_n	parliament_n	4,902	5	6.1958	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56158	Eight military aphorismes demonstrating the uselesness, unprofitableness, hurtfulness and prodigall expensiveness of all standing English forts and garrisons ... by William Prynne of Swanswick, Esquire ...; Pendennis and all other standing forts dismantled	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing P3948; ESTC R22224	27,110	44

within the Nation the true interest safety preservation and protection of the Island and Peoples Persons Estates Laws Liberties Inheritances Rights consist not in our Garrisons or any Mercenary Officers and Soldiers English or Forraigners modelled or new modelled into a Field Army since Mercenaries as well Domestick as forraign in all ages have ever sought nought else but their own private Lucre Honor Power Advancement to places of greatest Authority Gain Trust and frequently after good Successe in Wars presuming on their strength and merits have supplanted subverted suppressed destroyed those very Powers and 〈…〉 who first raised paid and confided in them 〈…〉 their preservation and preferred their own mercenary Officers and Generals by Treachery Murther Perjury and open Violence to the Imperial and Royal Thrones of their Lawful Soveraigns and Superiors murdered and deposed by them as the * Roman Histories and others the practice of the Mamalukes in Egypt of Alexander the Great his own Captains who notwithstanding their extraordinary pretences of honor and respect unto him and his not only poysoned himself as some Authors write but murdered his own Son Heir to his Empires Conquests together with his mother wife all his remotest k●n●e● that might lay claim to his Dominions by Hereditary Right then divided his Territories between themselves made crowned styled themselves Kings and then by Gods avenging Iustice out of covetous ambitious spirits warred upon each other so long till they had all murdered and slain each other as Arrianus Plutarch Justin Curtius Diodorus Siculus and Dr. Usher in his Ecclesiastical Annals of the old Testament record at large with † other innumerable presidents abroad and the practice of Vortigerr Heng●st Horsa and divers others at Home sufficiently manifest in all times with Scripture presidents likewise But our real Interest Protection Safety resides next under God in the Nobilities Gentries and Peoples united voluntary unmercenary defence and protection of themselves in and by their own persons with their own Arms Servants Sons Tenants Retainers according to their respective abilities as appears by the Politique original Institution of ancient * Tenures in Knights-Service Escuage Castle-Guards and the like the old Charters of our Corporations and Cinque-Ports obliging them to finde a certain number of men and ships at their own costs to defend the Realm in times of War with all ancient Writs Commissions Precepts for arraying the people of the Realm in times of War and danger according to their Tenures Estates Customs to defend the Realm and themselves from invading Enemies at all times cited in the printed Arguments concerning Ship-money and the * Declarations both of the King and Parliament concerning the Commission of Array all former Statutes concerning Arrays Arms Musters and the old long continued practice of our Train's-Band in each County and Corporation formerly reputed the Nations chief Security in intestine and invasive Wars with the late Militia's raised on and by each County at their own vast expence to defend it and the nation as the best safestguard when all sorts were commanded to serve in person notwithstanding all Garrisons Mercenary Field-Forces and the Army then and since continued as our safety And indeed common reason proves that as every man loves and prefers his own person family estate before a strangers or any others so he will more vigilantly sincerely effectually defend and protect them from Enemies or Dangers then any Mercenaries how trusty and valiant soever they be And as every true Shepherd and owner of Sheep is more careful to defend and preserve them from Thieves and Robbers with the hazard of his own life then any Stranger or Hireling whose the Sheep are not who will slie and desert or else help to prey upon them and play the thief himself in times of danger or advantage as Christ himself resolves John 10. So every able private person Family Parish Town County Association and by like consequence the whole Nation will better cheaper and with lesse inconveniences by far defend and secure themselves by their own unmercenary persons Arms voluntarily united according to their respective abilities without any general forced Taxes and illegal Excises imposed and continued on them against their wills then any Mercenary Officers and Soldiers whatsoever who making onely a Trade and Gain of War wil therefore spin it out as long as the Nation or People have any moneys or Estates to pay and inrich them and will sooner conclude and settle Peace upon their own terms upon all overtures and occasions then Mercenaries who neither desire nor intend our publike Peace in reality but interrupt it all they may when neer concluded as in the late Treaty with armed violence both against King and Parliament Uupon which grounds our Ancestors never usually entrusted any Mercenary Armies but themselves alone with their own and the Kingdoms defence scarce ever imposed any Taxes on the people by publike Parliamentary Authority in any civil Wars and very rarely except a Subsidy or fifteen now and then for the Kingdoms defence against forraign Invasion but onely for their Invasive Defensive Forraign Wars in France or elsewhere Why then the whole Nation Nobility Gentry and People of all sorts should not now again be trusted with their own arms and self-defence as well as in former Ages being their native Priviledge and Birthright their onely best security and prevention against all publike Enemies and Invaders but are forced to pur their Armes Lives Estates Protection into the hands of Mercenary Officers Soldiers Garrisons who notwithstanding their vast endlesse expences for their Pay have so often abused violated their Trusts lengthned our old engaged us since in successive new Wars against our Protestant Brethren and Confederates themselves and have almost eaten up all our real personal private Estates with the whole publike ancient Inheritance and standing Revenues of the Nation let all prudent Statesmen and Patrons of their Countreys Rights and Priviledges resolve the rather because our Mercenary Soldiers Garrisons Forts are so far perverted from their primitive use to preserve our Persons and Estates from Enemies and Violence that they are now made the only Janazaries Goalers Goa●s Prisons forcibly to seise imprison close imprison the persons ransack the Houses Studies of the emminentest Parliament Members Patrons and Freemen Sufferers for our publike Liberties Laws Propertiesr Religion and the onely Instruments under the New Guardians of our Libertye to bring the whole Nation and all English Freemen of full age into perpetual Wardship to these new Seigniours since the old Court of Wards for Infants only till they came of full age is quite voted down as a Grievance though not comparable unto this of men of full age yea Parliament Members new strictest Wardships and close restraints under armed Garrisons and Centinels of meanest quality in these Garrison'd new Courts of Wards 8. That Maritine Garrisons Forts Blockhouses at the entrance of our Harbors as Pendennis and