Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	day_n	holy_a	lord_n	6,251	5	4.5326	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94044	A shield against the Parthian dart, or, A word to the purpose, shot into Wallingford-House. Answered in defence of the present actions of state here in England, that produced the late change of government. By J.S.	Streater, John, fl. 1650-1670.; Spittlehouse, John, attributed name.	1659 (1659)	Wing S5950; Thomason E988_11; ESTC R208075	13,837	23

which would have produced persecution and changes of the Government and much detriment to those perswasions who had refused Liberty of conscience is defended and secured better in the Government as a Common-wealth then in a Monarch Liberty of conscience is a thing desired by all Episcopals Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists and others they desire it to themselves but are not willing to part with the like to others observe the rise of any opinion at first It will cry and plead for Liberty of conscience but when it is grown to number strength and power sufficient to preserve it self it then thinketh it self not safe but in the discountenancing contending against endeavouring the suppression and ruine of all other perswasions it is neither salvation nor damnation to be of this forme or that of any of the aforementioned perswasions Salvation cometh by the free grace of God in J●sus Christ adorning the Subj●cts of that mercy with the Ornaments of Repentance to newness of life and holy and obedient walking The Professours of R●ligion of late have lost much of the power of godliness by pu●●i●g so much stresse upon the formes in which more are busied in desending and asserting them in putting in practise the duty of a holy life which shall affoard more comfort at the last day then the defending or being of this or that opinion Now if the Lord Fleetwood and the Army did wrest the Authority out of his hands of whose right I here shall say nothing as would have made use of it by promoting one perswasion against another in opposition of all other since it is our unhappinesse to be devided did they not do their duty and performe a kindnesse to the rest and to the whole Nation doing of that together with restoring of the Nation and making of it a free People If it were so that the Lord Fleetwood did perswade the Protector Richard to Resigne he did but his duty in so doing as to Richard himself for that the constitution of his Government could not long consist it was loaded with so much absoluteness and contradictions all that could be expected from it was the making way for the coming in of the Stuarts Family by increasing the absoluteness of the Protectors power above whatever any Kings of England were invested with to the insupportable detriment of the People who would have received the Stuarts upon the first offer on the tearms that Kings formerly held their Crownes in this Nation and that all the Royalists knew well enough and therefore most of them were Promoters of this designe which was the onely effectual way nay more effectual and certain then by Armies the which by preventing hath secured Richard from those dangers that would have unavoidably fallen upon him by continuing in the Power or upon any such Change As to the Lord Fleetwood's telling Richard that Three Crowns was not worthy a drawn Sword Charles the Fifth after he had worn the Emperial Diadem many years gave Lawes to the greatest part of Europe left his Power as not worthy his holding of it longer So did several other Kings and Princes and betook themselves to a Monastical life and despised and scorned their Dignity Our Authour would have had the Lord Fleetwood given him such Advice as Philistus gave Dionysius the Elder Tyrant of Syracuse he being in extream danger by reason of the Peoples Discontents saith he Dominion is a thing worthy of a man's running all Hazards to attain and if he attaineth it let him hold it and if he perish let the Ruines of his Countrey be his Tomb. Which advice Dionysius followed and brought great Waste upon his Countrey If the Lord Richard had continued his T●●le and the Stuarts could have at any time by power of Arms been able to claim his pretended Right what Waste and Ruine would it have brought upon England All that have read History are able to judge by the distinct Claimes and Titles of the Houses of York and Lancaster This would have been Englands Confusion indeed what else that the Authour of this Englands Confusion treateth of is not worth the taking notice of they are fully answered in the Continuation of this Session of Parliament Justified to wit That the present Parliament are disobliged of all their Declarations and Covenants and Engagements in as much as he refused to submit to those Rules of Government as the Parliament propounded for His and the Nations safety and that in his taking up of Arms and being vanquished he forseited his Right of Government and thereby put himself into a private Capacity unto which I refer the Reader where satisfaction will be given in the aforementioned Particulars FINIS