Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	bring_v	good_a	zion_n	29	3	8.7487	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96770	Animadversions upon the Armies Remonstrance, delivered to the House of Commons, Monday, 20. November, 1648. In vindication of the Parliaments treaty with the King in the Isle of Wight.	Walker, Clement, 1595-1651.	1648 (1648)	Wing W319; Thomason E570_3; ESTC R204237	15,578	31

Or whether they will Elect King Nol for our Soveraigne whose Nose is clad in Purple already God knowes But he that knowes any thing knowes the danger of Elective Kingdoms liable to Faction and Civill Warres amongst Competitors upon the death of every King let the miserable examples of the German Empire Poland the old Roman Empire and others witnesse 6. Prop These things to be declared and provided by this Parliament or by the Authority of the Commons therein and all people to subscribe nor any to be capable of any benefit by this Agreement who shall not consent and subscribe 6. Observ Here you see the Lords and King being 2 of the 3 Estates whereof our Parliaments are compounded by the fundamentall Lawes of the Land strooke out to the utter subversion of Parliaments and all men enjoyned to assent and subscribe to their owne wrong under a penalty the consequence whereof doth not yet appeare These things the Remonstrance saith are of vast concernment to all publique Interest not onely in this Kingdome but neighbour Nations 7. Observ Whether this be spoken to Scotland and Ireland onely or to all neighbour Nations as if these men had some correspondencies in their Dominions to make this Antimonarchicall popular disease infective and diffusive to them thereby to divert them by Wars at home to look over upon us God knowes but it is very likely to stir up the jealousies of Forraign Princes to quench the fire in their neighbours house lest the flame catch hold of their own 1 Consequence of the said Propositions These Propositions tend to the utter subversion of all the Fundamentall Government and Lawes of this Land and the destruction of Parliaments and will bring such an Anarchy and confusion upon us as will continue a War in our Bowels during the life of this King and His Posterity whereby we shall be enforced to keep up and augment this Army and to entaile the Commands and Offices therein upon the Grandees of the Army their Sonnes and Adherents from Generation to Generation and make a home Warre the only trade amongst us 2. Consequence The Army by puutting the Parliament upon it to be the Authors and Actors of these miseries to their Country will make them the common scorne and hatred of all the world and may then lay by the Parliament with applause of all men glad of the revenge and then Governe by the Sword It is a sure rule in State that when great men put their Ministers upon actions of publique hatred they prepare them for destruction 3. Consideration The Parliaments Declarations the Laws of the Land the Oaths of Allegeance and Supremacy and our Nationall Covenant do all cry out to the Parliament to oppose these destroying Propositions The Declaration 26 May 1642. saith Their endeavours have been for maintenance of the Protestant Religion the Kings Just Prerogatives The Lawes and Liberties of the Land and Priviledges of Parliament wherein they would persist though they should perish in the work 1 Part. Exact Collections pag. 618. 632. The like Declaration passed June 2. 1642. upon the Propositions for Money and Plate 42. Edw. 3. The Commons in Parliament say they cannot assent to any thing in Parliament to the Disherison of the King and His Crown whereto they are Sworne The Petition of Right 3 Caroli The Commons in Parliament declare That they neither meant nor had power to hurt the Kings Prerogative with infinite more Authorities wherewith our Law-books are full By the Oathes of Allegeance and Supremacy which every Member taketh before he sits in Parliament they are bound to defend and maintaine His Majesties Royall Person with all the Prerogatives Priviledges and Preheminencies belonging or annexed to the imperiall Crown By the Solemne League and Covenant we swear with hands lifted up to God To maintaine and defend the Kings Person and Authority in the preservation of Religion Lawes and Liberties not to diminish his Just power and greatnesse To defend the Priviledges of Parliament And to continue all the dayes of their lives in this Covenant against all opposition whatsoever The Protestation is to the like effect But the said Remonstrance pag. 54 55 56 57. saith This is only a bare Covenant between party and party wherein God is a witnesse only to avenge the breaker and violater thereof But let this Casuist in Buff know that it is not only so but is also a promissory Oath made to God and therefore he is as well a party as a witnesse to it Observe here a high point of insolency An interpretation put upon the Parliaments Covenant by men that for the most part refuse to take the Covenant Let not the Independent Members please themselves in seeing the Presbyterians overthrowne since their turn is like to be next 4 Consideration what malice and designe now lyes upon the Presbyterian a covetous desire to share with them in their rich gaines will hereafter lye upon the Independents The vast desires and expences of this Army are like a consuming fire He that fares best shall be but the last fuell to it To conclude 5 Consideration There is a desperate party intermingled amongst the whole Masse of this Common-wealth which hath perpetrated all manner of crimes from Blasphemy and high Treason to Trespas They have violated all Lawes Divine and Humane and all Government and Magistracy They have so farre cheated and abused the King and His Issue that like Caine they think their sinnes greater then can be forgiven they have so far injured and cheated all the Interests and People of the Land that with Caine they thinke that every man will slay them and despaire of reconciliation and therefore place all their hopes in bringing them to slavery and confusion They hate all honest men because they feare them as witnesses and prosecutors to bring them to judgement hereafter And therefore labour to ruine and extirpate them especially out of the Parliament under the notion of the Kings Party Wherefore dear Country-men especially you Lords and Gentlemen of the Parliament call to mind your duty you owe to your God your King your Country your Wives Children call to mind Religion Laws and Liberties and cry out with one voice against these innovators as your fore-fathers did long since in a Parliament Nolumus Leges Angliae mutare we will not change our good Laws Remember your Oathes of Allegeance Supremacy Nationall Covenant Protestation for which your souls are morgaged to a just and severe Creditor And learne to fear God and not Man We owe a death to God and Nature and must assuredly pay this debt why not now before we taste of misery and slavery why not in an honourable defence of our Country rather then in a base desertion of it He that feares death dies as soone as he that contemnes death and no man is worthy of life but he that scornes life when his Country stands in need of it Ingens crede nefas animam praeferre pudori Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas Mors fugacem persequitur virum nec parcit Imbellis juventae poplitibus timidoque tergo Death strikes a coward in the back as soone as a valiant man in the face Good God who broughtest all things out of Chaos into light giving them order forme and beauty suffer not the Nimrods of our times to reduce all things back againe into Chaos Suffer them not to pull downe Sion and build up Babel Oh heavenly Daedalus lend us thy Clue to lead us out of this Labyrinth The summe of all these Observations is this In the Remonstrance 20 Novemb. 1648. They indeavour to subvert the King His Posterity and the Kingdome In the 2 3 and 4. Article of their Impeachment against the 11. Members They professe themselves disobliged from any farther engagement in the Parliaments service and have and doe act according to this profession Quaere Who these men serve and what judgement the law gives upon them PROLEGOMENA OR Selected Observations explaining the generall drift of the Remonstrance and therfore set apart by themselves MAjor White said in the Councell of the Army at Putney That shortly there should be no visible Authority left in the Kingdome but the power of the Sword Though this was then in designe yet because he vented it unseasonably before it was ripe for practise he was expelled the Army but soon taken in again they being unwilling to lose a man of their owne principles 9. March The Engagement of the fugitive Members to live die with the Army was sent from the Lords to be approved by the Commons Whereupon Derby-house Projects p. 7. written by an Officer of the Army saith This was done to trie the temper of the House and if they had not approved it they resolved to flie to their Arms and make a New Charge against their Opposers for they acknowledge amongst themselves That they rule by Power onely and that the House of Commons is no longer theirs then they over-awe them and that they feare the Criticall day will come which will discover the Parliament to be no longer theirs then while they have a force upon it Observe that upon these grounds the present designe of this Remonstrance is To make a new Charge and dissolve this Parliament and to make a new Parliament meerly popular without King or Lords consisting only of a Representative of the People of their owne chusing for the Army acknowledgeth none but themselves and their Faction to be the People all other men are but Amalekites or the seed of the cursed to be rooted out that themselves the seed of the Godly the Faithfull onely may inherit this good Land And this New Parliament shall be accountable to the People that is to the Army Compare the Remonstr and the Declaration of the Army following it So we shall be govern'd arbitrarily by a Popular Parliament protected and over-ruled by a standing Army the Lawes which depend wholly upon the Authority of the Crowne for their defence interpretation and execution being first plucked up by the roots in the pulling downe of Monarchy look about you Englishmen you have fought for Religion Lawes and Liberties untill you are cheated of them all THE END THE ROYALL OAKE OF BRITTAYNE