Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	act_n	king_n	power_n	3,247	5	5.0875	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30362	An enquiry into the measures of submission to the supream [sic] authority and of the grounds upon which it may be lawful or necessary for subjects to defend their religion.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1688 (1688)	Wing B5809; ESTC R215041	11,479	16

kept up in time of Peace and Men who withdraw from that illegal service are hanged up as Criminals without any collour of Law which by consequence are so many Murders And if the Souldierie are connived at and encouraged in the most enormous Crimes that so the● may be thereby prepared to commit great ones And from singl● Rapes and Murders proceed to a rape upon all our Liberties and a Destruction of the Nation If I say all these things are true in Fact then it is plain that there is such a Dissolution of the Government made that there is not any one part of it left Sound and Entire And if all these things are done now it is easie to imagine what may be expected when Arbitrary Power that spares no Man And Popery that spares no Heretick are finally established then we may look for nothing but Gabelles Tailles Impositions Benevolences and all sorts of illegal Taxes As from the other we may expect Burnings Massacres and Inquisitions In what is doing in Scotland we may gather what is to be expected in England where if the King has over and over again declared That he is vested with an Absolute Power to which all are bound to Obey without Reserve And has upon that annulled almost all the Acts of Parliament that passed in K. Iames I. Minority tho they were ratified by himself when he came to be of Age And were confirmed by all the subsequent Kings not excepting the present We must then conclude from thence what is resolved on here in England and what will be put in Execution as soon as it is thought that the times can bear it When likewayes the whole setlement of Ireland is shaken and the Army that was raised and is maintained by Taxes that were given for an Army of English Protestants to secure them from a new Massacre by the Irish Papists is now all filled wìth Irish Papists as well as almost all the other Employments It is plain that not only all the British Protestants Inhabiting that Island are in dayly danger of being butchered a second time but that the Crown of England is in danger of loseing that Island it being now put wholly into the hands and power of the Native Irish who as they formerly offered themselves up sometimes to the Crown of Spain sometimes to the Pope and once to the Duke of Lorrain so are they perhaps at this present treating with another Court for the sale and surrender of the Island and for the Massacre of the English in it If thus all the several branches of our Constitution are dissolved it might be at least expected that one part should be left entire and that is the Regal Dignity and yet that is prosti●u●ed when we see a Young Child put in the reversion of it and pretended to be the Prince of Wales concerning whose being born of the Queen there appears to be not only no certain proofs but there are all the presumptiones that can possibly be imagined to the contrary No proofs were ever given either to the Princess of D●nmark or to any other Protestant Ladies in whom we ought to repose any confidence that the Queen was ever with Child that whole matter being managed with so much mysteriousness that there were violent and publick suspitions of it before the Birth But the whole contrivance of the Birth the sending away the Princess of Denmark the sudden shortning of the Reckoning the Queens sudden going to St. Iames's her no less sudden delivery the hurrying the Child into another Room without shewing it to these present and without their hearing it cr● And the Mysterious Conduct of all since that time No satisfaction being given to the Prin●ess of Denmark upon her return from the Bath nor to any other Protestant Ladies of the Queens having been really brought to Bed These are all such evident Indications of a base Imposture in this matter that as the Nation has the justest reason in the World to doubt of it so they have all possible rea●on to be at no quiet till they see a Legal and Free Parliament assembled which may Impartially and without either fear or corruption examine that whole matter If all these matters are true in Fact then I suppose no Man will doubt that the whole Foundations of this Government and all the most sacred parts of it are overturned And as to the truth os all these Suppositions that is left to every English-Mans Judgement and Sense FINIS