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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	day_n	parliament_n	session_n	3,425	5	10.6408	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05226	Act repealing all acts of Parliament or Committee made for the late unlawfull engagement, and ratifying the protestation and opposition against the same.	Scotland. Convention of Estates.	1649 (1649)	Wing S1157A; ESTC R183954	8,826	22

ACT Repealing all ACTS of PARLIAMENT OR COMMITTEE Made for the late unlawfull Engagement and ratifying the PROTESTATION AND OPPOSITION against the same EDINBURGH Printed by Evan Tyler Printer to the Kings most excellent Majesty 1649. ACT Repealing all Acts of Parliament or Committee made for the late unlawful Engagement and ratifying the Protestation and opposition against the same At Edinburgh the sixteen day of January the yeer of God One thousand six hundred fourty nine years THE Estates of Parliament presently conveened in this second Session of the second Trienniall Parliament by vertue of an Act of the Committee of Estates who had Power and Authority from the last Parliament for conveening of the Parliament Taking to their most serious considerations after so great judgments and deliverances on Gods part and after so Solemn an Acknowledgment and Covenant renewed on their part the Acts of the last Session of Parliament Beginning the second of March and ending the tenth of June 1648. And of the Committee of Estates before September last and the proceeding of the Forces raised by them in the first and second Levie and these brought out of Ireland and of the Committees of War in the severall Shires appointed by them with the grounds reasons and pretences therefore whither contained in the Kings concessions at the Isle of Wight or set down in their Declarations as in the fourth and seventh sixteen twenty six twenty seven Acts of the last Parliament and in their Declaration to the Kingdom of England emitted by the Committee of Estates the twenty eight day of June last when their Army went into England in establishing carrying on and prosecuting the late Engagement against the Kingdom of England and raising the first and second Leavie in pressing the same at home by unlawful Bands and cruel Plunderings and in rejecting all Warnings Petitions Remonstrances from the Kirk Judicatories and from Shires at home and all Remonstrances and offers of Treaty made from the Parliament of England by their Commissioners in refusing to declare the Kings Concessions at the I le of VVight unsatisfactory to them in trampling under foot the Liberties of the Church at home in invading of the Kingdom of England and surprizing of their Towns and marching through their Counties and associating with the Malignant party there in returning after their defeat to Scotland to renew their oppression in this Kingdom and invasion of England and to that end in the raising of new Forces sending Commissions to the classed Incendiaries of this Kingdom who by standing Acts of Parliament were debarred from all Trust for their joyning in the late Rebellion and in many other ways acts and deeds cuting their designe at home and abroad And considering the several offers and desires made by the Commissioners of the Kingdom of England for continuing the Peace and Union and the many earnest and humble Petitions from severall Shires and the most part of Provinciall Synods and Presbyteries and the just and necessary Desires Remonstrances and Declarations of the Commissioners of the Church to the Parliament and Committee with their unsatisfactory Answer thereunto and the Papers past betwixt the late General Assembly and the Committee and the Dissent and Protestations entred in the Parliament by a great number of every Estate and that of such as hath been most instrumental and constant in this Cause since the beginning And withall taking to their serious consideration the manifold solid reasons against the Engagement expressed in the Remonstrances of the Commission of the Kirk given in to the Parliament And of the unanimous Declaration of the late General Assembly and the reply of their Commissioners demonstrating from the Word of God the unlawfulnesse of the said Engagement and evidencing the many Breaches of Covenant and Treaties of Peace the many wrongs done to the Liberties of the Church and oppressions of the people of God and many other unlawfull ingrediences in the matter manner nature and effect of that Engagement And therefore denouncing Gods judgment against it And warning the people to do their duty for the Cause of God and to the Covenant against all lets and impediments All which was seconded so speedily and immediately by Gods own hand stirring up the hearts of his conscientious People to the resolution of opposing so great a defection from the Cause and Covenant And by his performing the Counsell of his Messengers and confirming the words of his servants in the defeat of that Army and their overthrow in England with their associats in England As also in scattering of the remainder of that force returned unto Scotland and joyned with these who at home were enslaving this Kingdom and in devesting them with their own consent by Treaty with so little blood of all outward force and exercise of State-power untill the determination of this Parliament And the Estates pondering seriously the great necessity and manifold reasons pressing the Protesters in Parliament with the assistance of the constant Covenanters throughout the Land To make that opposition in Armes so trysted directed and countenanced by Gods own good hand upon them as is more expressed in the Declaration of the Committee of Estates of the seventh of October last and Information of the Kirk published to the view of the world upon the ninth day of October last Therefore and for many other reasons and considerations convincing them in their consciences That the foresaid proceedings of the late Parliament and Committee in the appointing and prosecuting that Engagement against England and in the oppressing of the Church in her Liberties and of the good People throughout the Land in their persons and estates And which is most of all in their consciences by force and violence causing the people to sin after they had declared by their Petitions the same was against the light of their consciences were unlawfull before God and against his Word were breaches of the Solemn League and Covenant which being an Oath to GOD so necessary is not alterable by any humane Authority and of the Treaties betwixt the Kingdoms and under pretence of doing for Religion for the King for the Kingdoms did really tend as doth now more appear to the ruining of Religion undoing of the King and dividing of the Kingdoms And which in few moneths hath more wasted the substance of this Kingdom and especially of the wel-affected then all our former troubles And hath led out a forced multitude to slaughter or slavery with so great reproach and disgrace to the Nation and occasioned a powerfull Army to enter the bowels of this Kingdom in put suit of their enemies who had invaded England to the great endangering of this Kingdom and so laying the Land open and making it lyable to the guilt and miserie of an unjust and offensive War drawing down Gods judgements and exposing us and our posterity to invasion from our neighbour Kingdom if God in his providence had not remedied the same As the Estates of Parliament have