Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	authority_n	king_n	supreme_a	1,568	5	8.4275	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90963	Clerico-classicum, or, The clergi-allarum to a third war. Being an answer to a pamphlet, intituled, A serious and faithfull representation of the judgements of ministers of the Gospel within the province of London, contained in a letter from them to the Generall and his Councell of Warre. Delivered to his Excellency by some of the subscribers, Jan. 18. 1648. Which may likewise serve for a brief answer to their late vindication, relating to their former actings, touching the capitall punishment of the person of the King. / By John Price, citizen of London.	Price, John, Citizen of London.	1649 (1649)	Wing P3340; Thomason E544_1; ESTC R204338	47,303	74

the ●ing Pu● them in minde to be subject to Principalities and powers Let every soule be subject to the higher powers c. Yet we heard not of these things from you when the mutinous Apprenti●es and others offered violence upon the Houses formerly spoken of no noise then of such Scriptures no putting m●n in minde to subject to Principalities and powers no such word as let every soule be subject to the higher powers c. As if these Scriptures were ad●led since that time Can you presume that men are so blind dull and 〈◊〉 as not to observe such partiall and crafty handling of the Scripturer word and will of God doe not these practises of yours● s●ttle and establish atheisme irrel●gion and profanen●sse among men making them to looke upon Religion the Gospell the Word of God a● upon a meere pee●e of jugling cheating and deceiving the World and should we take your counsell which you give us from the words of Solomon ●●ddle not with them that are given to change we should all turne S●paratists from you and your wayes who have beene as full of changes at the Vanes of your Steeples one while stirring up the people against the King and for the Parliament writing Books answering objections and using all manner of endeavours that way that so the Bishops may be dethroned and you advanced witnesse many of your Sermons preached before the Houses and else-where another while stirring up the people against the Parliament and for the King left the Independents should hinder your advance as you did of late in your Prayers and Preaching expressing greater malignity against the Parliament and their party and greater 〈◊〉 for the King and his interest then those very Ministers whose very places you possese they being sequestred and cast out for the tenths of that Anti-parliamentary malignancy which you have vented and indeed this is according to the example of your Fathers before you for it was generally observed of the Clergy of olde that in Henry the eighth ● time they were first for the Popes supremacy and then with the King for the Kings With Edward the sixth they were Protestants with Queene Mary Papists againe With Queen Elizabeth they faced about and of 9400. promotions not too of them stood firm Nay does not our owne age give sufficient testimony of the Clergies changes nay are not many of your selves living instances thereof have not you been for Bishops and against Bishops for Common-prayer for Geremonies and against them Have you not sworne and subscribed and subscribed and sworn over and over againe and againe conformity and subjection hereunto and yet cast away all and entered into Vowes and Covenants against all Can Dr. Burges Master Cauton and severall others of you deny this and yet now advise us not to meddle with them that are given to change You say page 5. It was deemed a horrible violation of the Priviledges of Parliaments in the King to come to seize upon the five Members in the beginning of this Parliament And you quote the opinion of the House for that purpose in their Order of the 3d of January 1641. What violation of their priviledges then must this needs be so and so aggravated to seize upon many c. I may answer you by telling you that you never 〈◊〉 that Order of the House in aggravating of the Appren●ion ●orcing of the House the last yeare and to give you any other ●nswer were but to beate the aire for 〈◊〉 are like to heare no reply to it having the art of neglecting all that hath been ●poken by way of satisfaction from the Army to this purpos●●nd insisting still upon matter of fact as if 〈◊〉 thereof ●ad been given in justification You tell us that both Houses of Parliament are joyntly cons●●ed with the King intrusted with the supreame Authority of the ●ingdome Page 6. I desire to know what you meane by the King his ●●●son or his Authority If his Person then have we been 〈◊〉 and you the cause of it stirring us up hereunto If you 〈…〉 Authority then let your Readers revise your Letter 〈◊〉 and they will see you say nothing but according 〈◊〉 your custome blinde the people which is not like that 〈…〉 and candor becomming Ministers of the Gospell of Jesus ●hrist But the maine thing you insist upon is the businesse of the Protestation Vow and Covenant and the Solemn League Covenant by these sacred gin● as you use them you presume 〈◊〉 the Scots Commissioners heretofore to catch us all 〈◊〉 ●our net doing little service thereby except to draw men into dishonorable thoughts of them and as you doe in 〈…〉 ●our Function of it selfe honourable and of God yet you ●ake it contemptible and vile even so in reference to these of themselves just and good you and chiefly you render them as an Almanack out of date for what doe you make especially of the Covenant but as some doe of the Scriptures a nose of wax making it to serve all their opinions to maintain all interests for doe not all men know that you were the men pressing people to oppose with-stand and fight against the King and that upon penalty of breaking the COVENANT of God the COVENANT of peace conjuring men as they would answer it before the Lord as they would not be counted COVENANT breakers Truce-breakers false to the COVENANT of their God c. to goe out to fight against the Lords Enemies to fight the Lords battles c. And now againe doe not you make the Covenant to serve the Malignants interest and the late Kings interest by pressing that article of the Covenant of preserving the Kings person honour and dignity c. and that with the same straines of sanctimony viz. by calling it the Oath of God the Covenant of God making Malignants jeere and laugh at you and those that did first hate the Covenant and some that never yet 〈◊〉 the Covenant to plead and argue our Covenant-breaking c. Did not some of you demand I● this preserving the person of the King by cutting off his head Mr. Yenkin Mr. Love Mr. Case Mr. Canton c. by murthering him by 〈◊〉 the Land with the blood of their Soveraigne c. And did not the King heretofore and Malignants with the like reason demand of you is this to preserve the person of the King to fight against him even in pitch'd Battles in this to maintaine his 〈◊〉 and dignity to charge him with all the blood that hath been 〈◊〉 c. But more particularly touching the Protestation May 5. 1641. the Vow and Covenant made afterwards and the solemn League and Covenant made after that From these mountaine● you strive though with very much devotion as Bala●● once did to curse the Army and Parliament when loe your cursings prove so only to their Authors and like the Conjurers in the Acts of the Apostles when the name of Jesus whom Paul preached was used as a piece