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	scotland_n	2,696	5	8.4241	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61421	Authority abused by the vindication of the last years transactions, and the abuses detected with inlargements upon some particulars more briefly touched in the Reflectons upon the occurrences of the last year : together with some notes upon another vindication, entituled, The third and last part of the magistry ans government of England vindicated / by the author of the Reflections.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1690 (1690)	Wing S5421; ESTC R15552	30,141	48

have secured him and it against the Abuses put upon him and the whole Nation by evil Men under pretence of it if he durst but have truested them This is very plain from the Prevalence of that part of the Parliament which although the King had withdrawn another part to Oxford which would certainly have joyned with them were yet able to carry the Vote That the Kings Concessions were Satisfactory Nor were that part which afterward brought the King to his Tryal able to have carried any thing against him had they not first by Force which had never been raised had not the King been carried away by his criminal Favorites secluded most of the Principal men of the other part But though the King might have trusted them yet were there those about him who conscious of their own guilt having been the evil Counsellors and Promoters of those illegal Practices which occasioned the War durst not stand the Tryal and therefore having first betrayed him into those mischiefs before mentioned betrayed him now a second time by withdrawing him for their own security from the Parliament and with him divers Members of both Houses who would have been more serviceable there both to him and to the Kingdom and so at length involved him in that fatal Civil War for their own defence which brought him to that unhappy end These were the true Authors of that War and these are the Forty one Men who deserve to be remembred with no less detestation by all Posterity than those of Forty eight who only finished what the others had begun This I have related the more largely because I see the same wicked Practices carried on by the Ringleaders of those who have Forty one much in their Mouths and they who are not satisfied with may Reason may see it if they please confirmed by Authority of King and Parliament in the Preamble of the Act of Attainder 12. Car. 2. c. 30. 2. The Methods for raising and heightning the Differences in the Church were first by improving the Prejudices which King James had conceived against some Zealots in Scotland into like prejudice first against the Puritans in England then against all truly Religious and Conscientious People as Puritans and Precisians and at last against all who discovered any great warmth against Popery By this means Formality and Indifference in Religion was brought into fashion and encouraged and sincere Religion and Devotion slighted and discountenanced And for this purpose was the Book of Sports upon the Lords day set out and ordered to be Read in Churches and many good men put out of their Livings for refusing to Read it And when by these means Formality and Popery being favoured and sincere Religion not only slighted but oppressed contrary to Law discontents could not but rise these were again made use of to represent the best part of the Nation as ill affected to Monarchy and the Church because they began to be sensible of the approaches of Tyranny and Popery and of the over-speading of Formality And this is the true Original of the great outcries The Monarchy and The Church being in danger as indeed they were but the one of degenerating into Tyranny and the other into mear Formality if not Popery whereby multitudes were imposed upon to put their helping hands to overturn both one way while they were craftily made believe that others were doing it the other for these had their influence in producing the late Civil War in conjunction with those before mentioned 3. By the same means was the Foundation laid for the Corruption of the Manners of the Nation But by what Means and Methods that was promoted before the Kings Restauration and afterward rais'd to that height in his Reign is not much to my present purpose though we feel the ill effects thereof and are still like to do so if they be not reformed The Dismal Consequences of these things to the King to the Church and to the whole Nation sad Experience at length taught her careless and inconsiderate Scholars who disregarded the milder and safer Admonition of Provident Wisdom And though the Effects and Consequences were such as one would think should not easily or quickly be forgotten yet because the Practices and Causes are so little understood or considered by a great part of the Nation that they seem disposed to be as much imposed upon again and run into the like Confusions to this brief and plain Narrative I will add some few Observations to stop the Current and give some warning against the Danger And First To such as have any Sense of Religion and Acquaintance with the Works and Methods of the Divine Providence it will not be hard to perceive That the Original of all those Evils in which King James involved himself and his Family was his Deserting of that great Duty of Trust and Considence in and firm Dependance upon that Providence which had with so much case and safety brought him to the Throne of these Kingdoms beyond his expectation and given him so great an Experiment of its Protection by so amazing a Deliverance from so great and imminent a Danger and applying himself to vain worldly Wisdom in seeking Security by Compliance and Alliances with Enemies those very Enemies from whose subtile Machinations he had been so admirably delivered and prostituting his Religion to those Politicks which was somewhat of Kin to the Sin of Jeroboam which stuck so close to his House Secondly The immediate Evil which he and his Family thereby incurred was a most just and suitable Punishment viz. To be deserted by that Providence which he first deserted and be given up Rehoboam-like to the evil and pernicious Counsels of those flattering and deceitful Favourites whom they chose and adhered to This was one and a special part of the Fate of the Family out of which they never extricated themselves though they had divers fair Opportunities and very cogent Motives offered to them to have done it Thirdly That which exposed him and them the more to this Fate and intangled them the deeper therein was an insatiable Desire and Affectation of an absolute Dominion which was not so much satisfied as inlarged by the Accession of those two Crowns of England and Ireland to his former one of Scotland and a certain Degeneracy of mind the usual effect of unjustifiable Actions or insincere Designs which made them neglect the Legal Privy Council and avoid the Presence of Parliaments as People in a Fault do the sight of their best Friends till some necessity constrain them And this gave Opportunity and Encouragement to those Evil Counsellors to entangle them more and more in illegal Projects and Practices which made them so much the more afraid of Parliaments to whom it belongs to enquire and consider of such matters and adhere the faster to those Favourites till they became so united to them that they thought themselves struck at in whatever was done or proposed against them Fourthly