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death_n	life_n	live_v	lord_n	16,856	5	4.2383	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83984	Englands petition to King Charles. Or, An humble petition of the distressed and almost destroyed subjects of England, to the Kings most excellent Majestie, now at the Isle of Wight, that ye would yeeld to His Parliament in all their reasonable demands in the treatie there. Containing the very sense of all the loyall-hearted true lovers of the King.; Englands petition to their King.		1648 (1648)	Wing E3012; Thomason E462_21; ESTC R205074	5,054	8

your Majesties meer will the onely Law and so betray their Countrey and the trust committed to them which God forbid or else defend us by the sword And for us your people what have we done that we are made a common spoyl Would your Majesty desire us which we will never do perfidiously to betray them whom we have trusted and to kill them whom we have chosen to save us and destroy those who are our selves representatively Then should we be the disgrace of the English Nation the reproach of our posteritie the very shame of Nature and should presently expect some strange judgement of God according to the strangenesse of our offence It 's true we are forced to take Antidotum contra Caesarem or rather to save our throats from the violence of desperate persons But we beseech You call not this bearing Arms against You it may be against your will but if any of your now followers be more respective of your royall Authoritie established by Law more truly tender of your person and honour then we then let not God prosper our proceedings but cause us to fall before them and give us up into their hands We are fallen upon by the cruell and because we will not dye quietly and without resistance we are accu●ed as tray●o●s and enemies to your Majestie We beseech your Maje●●●e consider in the presence of God if your own Father and King had run upon you with his drawn sword whether would You have ●uffered death without resistance or have taken the sword pro t●mpore out of his hand and yet neither be averse to his honour and person or his propriety in his weapon Doth not Nature teach us the preservation of our selves will not the eye wink● without deliberation and the smallest worme turn back if you tread on it And beside nature we have frequent presidents in sacred Writ for even more then defensive resistance of Transcendent Monarke 1 Sam. 14.44 45. 1 Sam. 23.11 12. 2 King 1.10.12 13. 2 Chron. 26.18.20 Dan. 6.14 c. But if all this were nothing yet we know your Majestie hath passed an Act for the continuance of this Parliament and sure that Act must needs mean a Parliament with it's power and authoritie and not the meer name and carkasse of a Parliament It 's not onely that they shall stay together in London and do nothing or no more then another Court but that they continue your chief Counsell your chief Court and have sole legislative power which are your Parliaments peculiar properties And if your Majestie hath enacted the continuance of a reall Parli●ment in it's power who seeth not that You have thereby joyned with them your royall Authority though not your person wherefore we hope your Majestie must needs discern that we fight not against You but for your known establisht Authority in Parliament And we hope your Majestie will not deny them to be your entire Parliament for is the Act recall'd whereby they were established if not how can they sease to be your Parliament neither let the fault be layed on part of them for we all know the major part hath the authority of the whole and if it were the minor part why did not or doth not the major over-vote them And we beseech your Majestie blame us not to think our Religion and all lyes at the stake while we look back by what a train Popery had been almost brought upon us by that party and see them still the chief in favour and when so many Pap●sts English and forreigne are now in Arms against us and know no one Papist in the Land that is not zealous in the cause Wonder not Dread Soveraign if we hardly beleeve that those come now to save us who in 88. and the Powder Plot would so cruelly have destroyed us that Papists should be most zealous in fighting for the Protestant Religion and Delinquents proceeded against in parliament should stand for the priviledges and Laws of the Parliament that oppressing Monopolists shou d fight for the Subjects liberties seem all riddles and paradoxes to us Blame us nor we bessech You to fear while we see no contradiction appear to Mounsieur de Ches●e his book sold openly for many yeers not in Paris onely but in London and read at Court which records your Majesties Letter to the Pope promising to venture Crown and all to unite us to Rome again Dread Soveraigne many Princes have gone astray through strength of temptation and after have been happy in repenting and returning Oh that the Lord would make it your case and glorifie his mercy on You and us in making known to You the thing concerning our peace and not his Justice in hardning You to destruction that it may never be read in our Chronicle by the generations to come that England had a Prince who lived and dyed in se●king the desolation of his people and the Church of God and would not be wrought upon either by mercie or judgement Your Majesty knoweth there is a King and a Judge above You before whom You must very shortly stand and give account of your Government We desire You in the presence of that God to think and think seriously and think again how sad it will be to have all this blood charged on your soul Can your Majestie think of this with comfort when You are dying Can these Counsellors that now put you on then bring You as safely off do you not see how the hand of God is against them in all they do And are there not many despe●ate Levellers that plot the ruin of Kingly Government Your Majesty may despise what we say and call away our Petition and judge us your enemies because we tell you the truth and speak as dying men in the sorrow of our souls but You cannot so put by Diuine Justice or quiet conscience at the la●t As true as the Lord liveth your Majestie will one d●y know that Blasphemers Papists and flatterers are not your friends but plain dealers who do assure You the way You take tends to the utter ruine and destruction of your Self and Kingdom And can your heart endure or can your hands be strong in the day the Lord will reckon with Y●u for His people committed to your charge O● suppose You now heard the blood of your people already spilt crying in your ears and saw the many thousands yet living a life worse then death lying in their sorrows at your feet crying for pitie help Oh King help or we lose our liberties Laws lives and Religion help that your Self and Royall posteritie be not ruined help as ever You would have God help You in the day of death and judgement when your Self shall cry for help and pitie help that deliverance come not some other way while You and your Fathers house are destroyed The Lord God of our hopes who hath for our sins most justly afflicted us in You give your Majestie a discerning eye an holy and tender heart to yeeld to the Petition of your distressed Subjects To concur with your Parliament that God and man may forget your mistakings and You may be the blessedest Prince that ever reigned in our Land the terrour of your reall enemies the joy of your people and the glory of posteritie Such shall be the daily and heartie prayers of Your Majesties loyall how ever esteemed Subjects c. 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