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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	law_n	liberty_n	true_a	2,820	4	4.2163	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82033	A declaration against a late dangerous and seditious band, under the name of An humble remonstrance, &c. wherein the plots and projects of the contrivers tending to the violating and subversion of our covenants; raising and fomenting of jealousies, within this, and between both kingdoms; prolonging of the unnaturall wars; and, impeding the intended uniformity in religion, are discovered, / by the Commission of the General Assembly.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Commission.	1646 (1646)	Wing D519; Thomason E330_6; ESTC R200712	8,655	19

A DECLARATION Against A late dangerous and seditious BAND under the name of An humble Remonstrance c. Wherein The Plots and Projects of the Contrivers Tending to the Violating and subversion of our Covenants Raising and fomenting of Jealousies within this and between both Kingdoms Prolonging of the unnaturall Wars And Impeding the intended Uniformity in RELIGION Are discovered By the Commission of the Generall Assembly Printed at Edinburgh by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1646. Edinb Penult Martii 1646. THe Commissioners of the Generall Assembly Do Ordain this Declaration to be forthwith Printed and published and sent to Presbyteries with all diligence Requiring each Presbytery immediatly after the receit thereof to take speedie course for the reading of it in every congregation within their bounds upon the Lords day after the Forenoon Sermon and before the Blessing And that they report account of their diligence herein with the first conveniencie A. Ker. Edinb Penult Martii 1646. A DECLARATION against a late dangerous and seditious Band under the name of An humble Remonstrance c. WHen we consider the usuall way of Gods wise dispensation toward his people in exercising them with one trouble after another and call to minde the inveterate malice of Satan and his instruments and their incessant practises to pervert the straight wayes of the Lord We do not think it strange while we are still wrestling with former difficulties and under hope of prevailing by the mighty help of Gods right hand that we are infested with new assaults from which he who hath delivered us from so great troubles and doth deliver us in him we trust that he will deliver us Yet perceiving by a Paper come to our hands carrying the Title of An humble Remonstrance c. the indeavours of some to deceive the simple and to insinuate wicked counsels and courses under the cover of specious pretences We judge our selves oblieged out of conscience of the trust committed unto us according to the constant and commendable practise of the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly in the like exigences To unmask the face of disguised impiety to discover the mysterie of Iniquitie and to bring to light the hidden things of dishonesty that they who through ignorance or inadvertencie have been drawn away into the errour of the wicked may be reduced the simple preserved from seduction the weak strengthened the strong confirmed and the wicked if possible made ashamed of their wayes It is ordinary in the Title of Remonstrances to designe the persons to whom they are directed but this doth altogether abstain from all designation of that kind though the Remonstrants knew that there were Judicatories both Civil and Ecclesiasticall appointed by Parliament and Generall Assemblie to whose consideration belonged matters of such publike concernment for Kirk and State whereby they evidence their neglect and contempt of these and their warinesse to offend them who are in open Rebellion unto whom it is likely they labour to apply themselves since there is nothing in the whole Paper excluding them but by the contrary clear insinuations of their desire and designe to have them partakers of the publike Peace The flourish of the fair description they arrogate to themselves as being such who wish Religion to flourish c. is not sufficient to free them from the society of those who by their barbarous and bloody courses have bin subverting Religion the Kings lawful authority destroying the Subjects and their lawfull Liberties and fomenting the unhappy differences between the King and his people for James Grahame himself is a pretender to all these as well as they And we know that some who are prime Leaders in the businesse had not onely their hand at that Band which did make the first breach upon the Unity made by our Nationall Covenant and was condemned as unlawfull by the Generall Assembly holden at Edinburgh 1641. Sess 17. But also after the forfeiture and Excommunication of the before-named Traitour did in the yeer 1645 subscribe a Band of Union with him and others as his Majesties faithfull Subjects without mention of or relation to any of the Covenants whether Nationall or of the three Kingdomes wherein the power and Commission granted to the said James Grahame there designed James Marquesse of Montrose his Majesties Lieutenant-Generall is acknowledged and approven and the publike resolutions of Kirk and Kingdome are blasphemed as the horrid courses of a Rebellious faction raging within this Kingdome as most wicked and Traiterous unjust and unnaturall and as of a perverse faction of desperate Rebels in fury against the King Oblieging themselves to use all their best and most vigorous opposition against the Actors and Instruments thereof as of abominable and monstrous crimes and mutually to assist one another as they shall be desired or the occasion require Which are enough to render their by-wayes hatefull to the well-affected though they be strawed with the pretences of Pietie and publike good Because the Nationall Assembly hath found and declared that the Band forementioned and all Bands of that and the like nature may not lawfully be made And the Estates of Parliament Parl. 3. of King Charles Act 4. findes that persons guilty of taking up Armes against the Kingdome and Estates of the Countrey are punishable by forfeiture of Life lands goods or any other censure the Parliament shall please to inflict These Remonstrants lest people should be scarred from accession to their combination by the authority of Parliament and Generall Assembly have laboured to cover the nature of this Paper under the name of An humble Remonstrance which nevertheles is so transparent that every ordinary eye may see it in the end a Band oblieging them each to others and that by an Oath To hazard Lives and Fortunes against all deadly for performing all the contents whereby the Subscribers thereof become lyable to the censures and punishments which the Kirk and State may inflict upon them for unlawfull Banding and raising Arms against the Kingdom Although they mention the Nationall Covenant and declare their resolution of paying the debt they owe to the individuals which we conceive to be the particulars or severall Articles therein contained yet we cannot but affirme that their charity is too too common who beleeve at all their deceitfull profession since the whole strain of their Remonstrance is an evident Demonstration of their monstrous defection For 1. Their altering of the words of the Covenant argues their purpose to swerve from the true meaning of it The Covenant bindes to the defence of the Doctrine and Discipline of this Kirk they say they purpose to do what may most tend for the propagation of the Protestant Religion in purity a phrase used in the Kings Declarations wherein he professeth the maintenance of Episcopacie The Covenant speaks of the defence of the Kings Majesties person and authority in the defence and preservation of the true Religion Liberties and Lawes of this Kingdome they of the defence of the Kings Majesties just Right and Property and that simply and absolutely without any such relation to Religion Liberties