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
A92209	Little Benjamin or truth discovering error: being a clear and full answer unto the letter, subscribed by 47 ministers of the province of London, and presented to his Excellency, January 18. 1648. To inform the ignorant satisfie the desirous of the concurrent proceedings the Parliament and Army. In taking away the life of Charles Stuart, late King of England, together with, &c. / By a reall lover of all those, who love peace and truth. February 17. 1648. Imprimatur Gil. Mabbot.	Reading, John, 1588-1667.	1649 (1649)	Wing R449; Thomason E544_4; ESTC R205982	14,178	22

therefore it was and is now high time after so long an interruption of enemies for the Parliament and Army concurrently to appear to do their duty not only by executing justice upon the person of the King and his adherents but also in new moddling and settling such a frame and fundamentall constitution of Government in the Kingdome as God shall put into their hearts to be most convenient and usefull for the wellfare and safety of the people And for the maintenance of Religion their priviledges Lawes and Liberties against all Malignant councells and designes for introducing of an arbitrary and tyrannicall power and against all irregular proceedings of private persons tending to the subversion of the Parliament Army or people whither pretended ministers of the Gospell or others by what soever falacious device presented to delude deceive and pervert the people by perswading them that his Excellency the Councel and the Army have failed in performing of their duty to the * King in the severall Oathes and Covenants generally taken throughout the Kingdome and in the protestation of May 5. 1641. I further answer You have not considered that the King did since that time refuse all the good and faithfull councell of the Parliament and by setting up his standard waging and persisting to wage an open Warre upon them and against all his good and faithfull Subjects whereby hee did head all the heads of the Malignants and became the cheifest and did thereby divest himself of all royal majesty splendor power authority honor and estate and did disoblige the Parliament Army and people of their protestations oaths Vowes and Covenants made in his behalf by his said wilfull opposing rejecting of them when seasonably offered unto him without that that as you have alleadged in pag. 9. there was any similitude of agreement in their Oath and Covenant taken towards the King and that which the people made with Zedekiah or that the Army did despise or breake any such Oath and Covenant and thereby violated Gods word and more righteous Oath to provoke the wrath of the Lord against them at is untruly suggested therefore to use your own words of reproof It is not high time that you would commune with your own hearts consider the evill of your owne wayes and turn from them and have you not done to the Generall and his Councell as the Prophet Shemiah and the Prophet N●adia and the rest of the Prophets did unto Nehemiah when he enquired of them to put them in feare and have you not feigned these things out of your own heart to weaken their hands from the worke of the Lord that it might nor have been done and is not this a strong motive to the Generall and every one of his Councell and Army who love the Lord with all their heart to be very couragious and to pray as Nehemiah did now therefore O God strengthen my hands And for Instruction I shall take your own words intreating you to remember from whence you are fallen and repent and do your first workes c. and also how hath the Parliament and Army which sustained the force and opposition of professed enemies for many years been made contemptible and torne in peeces by you their professed friends in one day how is the golden cord of Government broken in sunder and the honor and the authority of Magistrates laid in the dust by your misapplications in this one letter as if you were ignorant that the supreame power is in the Parliament and that the Army have their power from them and doe act together with them for the safety of the people And was not this a declared ground and cheif principle upon which the Parliament first raised armes and upon which wee were induced to joyne with them and from which the now Members and those who adhere to them have not declined from the beginning And Oh that you had not brought against them a exyling accusation whereby you speak evill of those things you seem not to know but what you onely seem to know by naturall bruitish reason grounded upon outward honour and profit like those filthy dreamers whom Jude speaketh of who taking their owne opinion for the Oracle of God do spiritually defile the flesh despise dominion and speake evill of dignities wo unto them for they have gon in the way of Caine swelling against their brethren whom God hath preferred and accepted and to obtaine corruptable honour riches and greatnesse of the world have ranne greedily after the error of Balaam for reward And swallowed up with earthly-mindednesse have perished in the gainesaying of Core You like these are murtherers complainers walking not after Gods written truth even as they also dreamed but after your own lust your mouth speaking great swelling words having mens persons in admiration because of advantage the Parliament and Generall with this Army even those Moseses or Moses whom ye have refused saying who made * you a Ruler and a Judge the same did God send to be our Rulers and deliverer Take heed therefore of levelling your selves with them saying you take too much upon you nor be not mutineers like Corah Dethan and Abiram Lest a more spirituall judgement do consume you and your names be written in the Earth whilest yee your selves call justice and righteousnesse murder in those who did proceed to execute judgement upon those against whom they were bound to do it by the Covenant And whereas you do affirme That the * Tenure of the Scriptures constant judgement and Doctrine of Protestant Divines both at home and abroad do fully concur in their judgements with you How can that be when as there was never like example of any King before this who did so wilfully diminish and totally devest himselfe of all his Majestie just Power and Greatnesse by adulterating himselfe and spending his strength with strangers against his cordiall faithfull and espoused People was it not then high time for his Espousals to have a Bill of divorse And did not this grand pretended father of this Nation destroy a multitude of his best children And would he not gladly have slaine all the rest upon further opportunity was it not then high time the Parliament should execute judgement upon him that God and all the world may be witnesses they would give him no further opportunity or meanes either by cohabitation or communion to destroy them and did not the Peoples spirits groane in them and their backs bow under the burden of their irrepairable losse untill they were in some measure eased Therefore Examine your own hearts as in the sight of God to retort your own words and make the case your owne as Nathan made the parable Davids in that you have Jesuitically under pretence of Religion and conscience raised false and reproachfull imputations upon the Generall and his Councell traducing and aspercing them with evill that you may the more easily divide the Peoples affections from them and