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cause_n	judge_n	king_n	law_n	5,155	5	5.2571	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01421	An apologeticall declaration of the conscientious Presbyterians of the province of London, and of many thousands of other faithfull and Covenant-keeping citizens, and inhabitants within the said city and suburbs thereof. Wherein their firmnesse and faithfulnesse to their first principles and to their solemn league and covenant is conscientiously declared; and the covenant-breaking and apostacie of others is disclaimed and abhorred before God and the whole world. Ianuarie the 24th, 1649.		1649 (1649)	Wing A3539AA; ESTC R176217	6,833	11

to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties Person and authority in the preservation and defence of the true Protestant-Religion and Liberties of the Kingdom yea the Lord God himselfe Angels and Men may bear witnesse with our Consciences that we have no thoughts or intentions nor ever had to diminish His Majesties just power and greatnesse and that we the Subscribers hereof are not Covenant-breakers but do utterly dislike and disavow the present proceedings against him either to the taking away of His Majesties Crown much lesse his life the very thought whereof we from our souls detest and abhor We do hereby most freely faithfully and plainly discharge our consciences and do testifie our loyaltie unto the Kings Majestie according to the duty of our allegiance expressed in the foresaid Protestation May 5th 1641 and the Solemn League and Covenant And we do hereby further declare that when we so cordially concurred with the Parliament at first in the opposition of the Forces raised by the King seduced by evill Counsellors as we propouned the preservation and defence of our Religion Parliament Laws and Liberties so also to preserve and not to ruine the Kings Person but mainly to remove the wicked from his throne that so it might be established in Righteousnesse to Him and his royall Posterity But we say not to pluck Him out of it and to bring him to an Arbitrary-tryall for his life both in respect of his Judges and their Law In summe therefore we have in all these most weighty respects too great and just cause to be extraordinarie sensible that the bringing of the King the Head of the Common-wealth to a tryall for his life before an arbitrary and illegall power warranted by no Law of God or Man and the most strange irregular and unparallel'd proceedings and contemptuous carriages toward His Majestie The puting down of the House of Lords and The restraining of so many eminent Members of Parliament by the Generall Councell of Officers in Arms against all Laws of God and Man the known priviledges of Parliament the liberties of the Subject and their justification of all these exorbitances in print instead of Repentance and deep humiliation for the same is but a sad prologue to the ensuing slavery and ruine of all the free borne Subjects of this Realm For if the Head and most eminent Members of the Common wealth legally to be protected from violence and tyranny by so many Oaths Covenants priviledges Laws and Engagements be thus tyrannically and barbarously already insulted over and trampled under feet like dust in the streets by an imperious Military-power We who are inferior to them in all respects and not invironed with so many priviledges and protections cannot but most justly fear and expect far greater insolencies and intolerable pressours to be unmercifully exercised on us by them when these pillars and foundations are not onely thus shaken but even quite removed and set by According to our Saviours own words Matth 10.25 If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub how much more wil they call them so that are of his houshold In sad and serious consideration hereof therefore we say again and again we cannot possibly keep silence though it be an evill nay because it is so evill a time But as professors of the true reformed Protestant Religion which teacheth no such Doctrines as these fore-mentioned and as are now adayes so unblushingly practised in relation to the Kings Majesty and to the rest of his free-borne Subjects without any respect or least distinction to their places or qualities That we may as much as in us lyes wipe-off that foul blot and scandalous stain that will otherwise inevitably fall upon Religion by this most horrid breach of our Covenant especially in relation to our King that professors of the Gospell in other Kingdoms may not also suffer by being cast out of royall protection for the sin of some pretended professors among us And that we our selves when the approaching Earthquake which is like to be in the three Kingdoms by fearfull commotions and endles wars and inevitably like to attend the intended deposure or violent death of our Soveraign King sadly falls upon us may not have outward misery and inward guilt to meet together without and within us even our Consciences flying in our faces for our at least seeming consent unto it by our sinfull silence But what we may in the singlenesse and sincerity of our hearts wash our hands and clear our innocencie in the sight of God and the whole Christian world We do not onely in generall make this our just Apologie that we are far from the approving of the breath of our Covenant in any part or branch of it But in particular in reference to that of the Kings Person so clear and innocent that we declare our Detestation and Souls abhorrency of that most disloyall action conceiving it to be such a sin as Men must create a New Name for and God a New Hell or punishment for it And thus now having in the unfeined sincerity of our hearts witnessed a good Confession as in the sight of God and Men not from a factious seditious vain-glorious or peevish Spirit of contradiction or in the least tinctured vile malignity or apostacie from the common cause of Religion Liberty and peace of the Kingdome Though we fear not persecution for righteosnesse sake in being true to our principles from those who have power now in their hands yet not knowing whether by Gods permissive providence Satan may not ●ast some of us into prison for thus setting our Consciences at liberty We therefore commit our Souls in this our Well-doing unto God as unto a faithfull Creator hyding our selves under the shadow of his wings till these calamities be over past and looking unto Jesus who hath assured us That whosoever shall forsake houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for his Name and Truths sake he shall receive an hundreth fold and shall inherit everlasting life We have therefore hereunto subscribed our Names with our hearts and hands FINIS