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
A92052	The royal project: or A clear discovery of his Majesties design in the present treaty. Whereunto is annexed a seasonable caution for the Parliament of England, the Army under the command of Tho. Lord Fairfax, and all that thirst to be for ever freed from a long established course of tyranny, and to see this nation restored to its pristine glory, freedom, and tranquility. Wherein the rottenness of the present treaty, and the impossiblility of making the people thereby secure, and absolutely free, is palpably declared, and detected. / By Verity Victor.	Victor, Verity.	1648 (1648)	Wing R2144; Thomason E468_22; ESTC R203428	12,119	16

mera gratia of his meer grace and favor and not as his duty or our due yea his clawback helbred Clergy taught publikely in their pulpits that both our persons and estates were at his Majesties dispose and that he might take whatsoever he pleased Well grant that his tenure of the Crown was by the sword and so ours by his meer will and favor as he and some of his creatures have vainly conceived and impudently asserted And true it is that the Conqueror may by the right of Conquest change the Laws and Customs of any Nation and impose what Laws and Customs he pleaseth yet then by the same Law and right of Conquest we having conquered the Conqueror have not only put the Crown aagain upon our own heads got the scepter into our own hands and to use Mr * mr Ja. Howel is in that treatise quite beside the cushion he should have first rightly stated the case but sure he was either a cup too low or a cup too high for he loves to steep his brains in sack and then he turns antick Ja. Howels own phrase in his late printed simple peece of flattery called The Instruments of a King put the sword to our own sides but have now power also to dispose of and to impose upon the King as we please and to speak plainly though in Court language it is of our meer grace and favor if that the Parliament do suffer him to reign upon any terms or conditions whatsoever He put us out of protection disolved the Government and disobliged us of our allegeance and obedience to him the day that he set up his standard in defiance of the Nation And as I have been credibly enformed he hath often said and his obstinacy and obtumacy to the last declares evidently he was so resolved that he would win it by the sword or lose all the which in the effect is only thus much that he would either rule us by power as slaves or lose all his three Kingdoms And seeing that by Gods just hand it is come upon him according to his wish or purpose That he hath not only forfeited all by way of equity and justice but also lost all by way of war and force Why should he have any thing let it be given to one that is more worthy At least why do we treat or rather intreat for our own Why do we stand to word it for that which we have so dearly and difficultly won and purchased and is now irrevocably in our own hands and commands with him that would never treat or parl with any purpose of peace or good to this Kingdom while he was able to hold up a sword against us Did he not alway baffle and abuse us upon all treaties and use them only for the more inabling him to the prosecution and atchievement of his tyrannous destructive purposes And are not his intentions palpably discovered to be the same at this instant Read and consider the Letters that have of late been written by some of his Agents and intercepted Let him but get in his hand and he will soon have in his head and then how easily will follow his whole body with that tail of scorpions which will soon sting us to death Although as Edward the second he should repent confess and promise amendment the which I know his gracious Majesty hath so much grace as to scorn let not us trust him What will not a dissembling Synon feign and do to accumplish the ruin of Troy when all the power of Greece could not do it He that cannot act the Lyon must act the Fox The old Maxime is in policy Trust not a reconciled enemy that is one so seeming to be least Ioah like he smite thee under the fifth rib when thou neither fearest nor suspectest If a potent man had a long time kept mine inheritance from me and would hearken to no reason or perswasion nor be induced to stand to any referrence or abistrament but put me to sore trouble hazard and charges by Law to recover it and that after I had so recovered it and he could no longer hold it he should offer to treat with me about it and desire to have it referred Wouldst thou not account me a fool if I should condescend What need I then to treat what or how much I should have or enjoy of that and in what manner which I have wholly recovered as mine own and is wholly and solely in mine own power and command Was not this tacitly and by consent to grant him still a right where he hath none Again If a thief upon the way should by force take thy purse and therewith escape and afterwards thou meetest him and by force recoverest thy purse and takest him captive wouldst thou now stand to dispute the cause with him whether thou shouldst have all or only part of thy money or refer it to be debated whether it was thine or his sure no. For it followeth not that because another hath stolen my cloak or taken it away fraudulently or by force and worn it that therefore he is the true owner of it Again If a Tenant wilfully forfeit his lease be his Farm never so good and his priviledges never so great and the Lord make a re-entry may not the Lord then if he will justly let this Farm to another or if he will be so favorable because he that forfeited was an ancient Tenant as to let him repossess it may he not if he will increase his rent diminish his priviledges and impose upon him stricter terms and conditions then before He may without doubt and none can justly censure or condemn him If the King must raign yet it is meet we should first see a change of spirit in him or else we do but beat down a Tyrant and raise him up again let us propound our own Laws prescribe to him strict limits and boundaries and let him take his Crown as of favor from the people on a new agreement and stipulation and be thereunto publikely solemnly sworn and not treat with him on old terms and lame broken Propositions and grant him a right where he hath none No let us deal plainly and positively This you shall do these things you shall subcribe and according to these Laws you shall rule if you wil govern or enjoy your Crown if not your destruction is of your self we will turn to another For let him grant the Propositions fully and totally We are all in eminent hazard For he is retaining his old poyson his Queen whose spirit is like her mothers a Member of the Church of Rome and her principles inconsistent with the Religion Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom wil by their Jesuited Agents and Machiavilian Instruments so insinuate deceive the people that within a short time the Parliament if not the very next after this shall be compact of such Members his friends and favorers and this Parliaments now enemies and opponants