Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	king_n	power_n	supremacy_n	2,252	5	10.5244	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87534	A preparative to the treaty: or, a short, sure, and conscientious expedient for agreement and peace; tendred to the two Houses of Parliament. With an appeale to the assembly of divines. Also, an admonition to the people, concerning the present ingagements. / By Da. J. P.N.	Jenkins, David, 1582-1663.	1648 (1648)	Wing J600; Thomason E463_17	3,730	8

A PREPARATIVE TO THE TREATY OR A short sure and conscientious Expedient for Agreement and Peace tendred to the two Houses of Parliament WITH An Appeale to the Assembly of Divines ALSO An Admonition to the People concerning the present Ingagements By Da. J. P. N. NUMB. 30.2 If a man vow a Vow unto the Lord or sweare an Oath to bind his Soule with a Bond he shall not breake his word he shall doe according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth JOSH. 9.20 Lest wrath be upon him because of the Oath which he sware Printed in the Yeare 1648. A short sure and conscientious Expedient for Agreement and Peace THe KING and the two Houses of Parliament declaring mutually that they took up Armes for the same reasons intents and purposes 't is a wonder how at first they fell out and a greater wonder that hitherto they are not reconciled The Declarations of the two Houses of Parliament They have the precedency The Declarations of the two Houses of Parliament because they were first in Armes In the conclusion of their Declaration of 26 May 1642. apprehending very justly that their expressions there would beget at least a great suspition of their Loyalty they say They doubt not but it shall in the end appear to all the world that their endeavours have been most hearty and sincere for the maintenance of the true Protestant Religion the KING 's just Prerogatives the Lawes and Liberties of the Land and the Priviledges of Parliament in which endeavours by the grace of God they would still persist though they should perish in the worke In like manner June 2. when they published their Propositions for bringing in Money or Plate to raise an Army they declared That whatsoever is brought in shall not at all be imployed upon any other occasion then to maintain the Protestant Religion the KING's Authority and His Person in His Royall dignity the free course of Justice the Lawes of the Land the Peace of the Kingdome and the Priviledges of Parliament Infinite are their Declarations and professions in this kind The KING's Declarations June 16. The King's Declarations His Majesty published a Declaration to all His loving Subjects exciting them to bring in ready Money and Plate and to furnish Him with Horse Horse-men and Armes for defence of the Protestant Religion the preservation of His royall Person the Lawes Liberties and Peace of the Kingdome and the vindication of the Priviledge and Freedome of Parliament In His Declaration to all His loving Subjects concerning the proceedings of this present Parliament Aug. 12. His Majesty saies That nothing but the preservation of the true Protestant Religion invaded by Brownisme Anabaptisme and Libertinisme the safety of His Person threatned and conspired against by Rebellion and Treason the Law of the Land and Liberty of the Subject oppressed and almost destroyed by an usurped unlimited arbitrary Power and the Freedome Priviledge and Dignity of Parliament awed and insulted upon by force and Tumults could make Him put off His long Robe of Peace and take up defensive Armes And in pursuance of these ends did His Majesty offer Propositions accordingly The King's Propositions conform to his Declarations at all Treaties where He might propose any thing But concerning the Propositions of the two Houses of Parliament at the Treaty at Uxbridge The Propositions of the two Houses differing from their Declarations His Majesties Commissioners truly observed That after a War of neer 4 Yeares for which the defence of the Protestant Religion the Liberty and Property of the Subject and the Priviledges of the Parliament were made the cause and grounds in a Treaty of 20 Daies nor indeed in the whole Propositions upon which the Treaty should be They alter the state of the warre there hath been nothing offered to be Treated concerning the Breach of any Law or of the Liberty and Property of the Subject or Priviledge of Parliament but onely Propositions for the altering a Government established by Law and the making new Lawes by which almost all the old are or may be cancelled I will not here dispute the Power of the two Houses of Parliament separate from the KING but That they cannot assent to any thing in Parliament What the two Houses cannot doe in respect of the King and Crown that tends to the disherison of the KING and His Crowne whereunto they are sworne is acknowledged by the Lords and Commons in full Parliament 42 Edw. 3. And that they neither meant nor had power The Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy to hurt the KING's Prerogative is declared by the House of Commons at the passing of the Petition of Right 3 Caroli Besides What they are bound to doe for the King and the Crown by the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy they are bound positively to defend and maintaine His Majesties royall Person with all the Prerogatives Priviledges and Preheminencies belonging or annexed to the imperiall Crown And they have bound themselves by the Protestation The Protestation with their Lives power and Estates to defend and maintaine His Majesties royall Person Honour and Estate together with the power of the Priviledge of Parliament and the lawfull Rights and Liberties of the Subject And to their power to oppose all such as shall by force counsell conspiracy or otherwise doe any thing to the contrary of any thing in the Protestation contained And that they will not for hope feare or other respects relinquish this Promise Vow and Protestation And by the Solemne League and Covenant The League Covenant In the preservation of Religion and Liberties to maintain and defend the KING's Person and Authority without diminishing His just Power and Greatnesse And that they will all the daies of their lives continue in this Covenant against all opposition whatsoever The Expedient for Peace Now let the Lords and Commons at the Treaty proceed The expedient for Peace not according to their strengths and successes but according to their Declarations and their legall and voluntary Oaths i. with Religion Priviledges and Liberties Let them maintaine and defend the KING the Crown His Majesties Honour and Estate His Authority Power and Greatnesse And an Agreement and Peace will follow thereupon An Oath being the end of all strife Heb. 6.16 An Appeale to the Assembly of Divines And I appeale to the Assembly of Divines for their Assent An Appeale to the Assembly of Divines or Answer whether in point of Religion and Conscience they may proceed otherwise then according to their Declarations Protestation and Covenant And whether they are not guilty of disloyalty and perjury proceeding otherwise The Parl. and the Army have altered the state of the warre as the two Houses have done hitherto by their Propositions devesting the KING and the Crown of the chief Power and Government and establishing it in themselves And as the Army did by their last Declaration Resolving to settle the Government without the KING and against Him and against all that take part with Him And hence our late Petitions for His Majesties Returne to His Parliament and Government being contrary to their sense were so unwelcome to them Why our late Petitions were so unwelcome to them that the Petitioners from Surrey and Kent were chastised by them An Admonition to the People concerning the Engagements And to involve the People in this damnable Apostacy from their faith and allegiance to GOD and the KING The present Engagements and the better to carry on their designs against the King and the Crown have they framed an Ingagement for us to adhere to the authority of the two Houses of Parliament i. to Renounce the KING His Protestation and Government and to submit to the usurpation and domination of the two Houses of Parliament and to serve them And this Ingagement is carried on at this day in the severall Counties Cities and Corporations silently and covertly for encreasing and strengthning their Confederacy and for enlarging and establishing their Dominion privily and insensibly There is also another Engagement on foot of the same nature with the Negative Oath Not to assist the KING in this War for Recovering His Rights and Prerogatives and not to doe any thing to the prejudice of the affaires of the two Houses of Parliament in prosecution of their designes against the KING and the Crowne And when any become liable to them they are forced to take this Ingagement before they can get off from their Delinquency The People in their severall Parishes to consult their respective Ministers about the Ingagements But I would have the people of the Kingdome to remember when they took the Oath of Supremacy The People in every Parisa to consult their respective Ministers That they promised from thenceforth to bear faith and true Allegiance to the KING's Highnesse His Heires and lawfull Successours and to their power to assist and defend all Jurisdictions Priviledges Preheminences and Authority granted or belonging to the KING's Highnesse His Heirs and Successours or linked and annexed to the Imperiall Crown of the Realme And when they took the Oath of Allegiance That they swore to beare faith and true Allegiance to His Majesty His Heires and Successours and Him and them to defend to the utmost of their power against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoever which shall be made against His or their Persons their Crowne and Dignity And I would have the people in the severall Parishes in the City and County to consult their respective Ministers whether considering the Oaths aforesaid they can engage or comply with the two Houses and the Army in manner aforesaid without high disloyalty manifest perjury or whether considering their Obligations by those Oaths and by the Protestation Covenant they ought not rather to oppose and fight against them for the defence and maintenance of the KING and Crown and the established Government of the Kingdome I Counsell thee to keep the King's Commandement and that in regard of the Oath of God Eccl. 8.2 It is a pernicious Doctrine to teach Subjects they may be discharged from the Oath of Allegiance Mr. Pym p. 17. of his Speech or Declaration delivered after the recapitulation or summoning up of the Charge of High Treason against the E. of Strafford and published by the Order of the House of Commons FINIS