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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	allegiance_n	king_n	oath_n	2,942	5	7.6429	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37335	An antidote against the infection of the Jacobites, occasioned by last papers of Sir John Friend, Sir William Parkins, Mr. Cranburne &c. who pretend to die in the communion of the Church of England. By a minister fo the Church of England.		1696 (1696)	Wing D56; ESTC R216707	7,730	7

rewarded them with Frowns and Scorn with Imprisonment of their Bishops with the violent Invasion of the Rights of their Colleges with the Discountenance of their Persons and with Threats of greater Mischiefs And since his Exile he is grown more fierce and unreconcileable to the Members of our Church tho never so sincere to his Cause Witness the unhappy Fates of Sir James Montgomery Madam Ashton and many more whose Loss of Estates and Country for his sake could not perswade this bigotted Prince to shew them the least Favour or to admit them to his Service without a publick Abjuration of their God and Religion Never any Romish or Heathen Persecutor was ever more resolved to destroy our Church and the sincere Professors of it Never any bore a greater Antipathy and was more violent against us than is the late King James and does our former Obligations to him as Subjects bind us to cast away our selves and the whole Nation to his merciless Fury and oblige us to a constant Allegiance to such an one to an open Enemy What Methods have other Nations taken in such a case When Sigismund King of Sweden a Papist Prince succeeded to the Crown he swore to maintain the Laws and Religion of the Country but when he began to impose and bring in the Romish Superstitions the States of the Realm banished him and chose in his stead Duke Charles his Cousin the Father of Gustavns Adolphus who warred against him and the Poles his Subjects and never would admit him again The French Nation would never receive Henry 4. as their lawful King but were resolved to elect another until their Laws and Religion were secured from a Change by an Abjuration of that Prince's former Profession and a publick Compliance with that which was generally professed in the Country The whole Kingdom and all Men in it are concerned by the Laws of God and Nature in the Preservation of themselves from Ruine and Destruction And Government was not intended for the Advantage only of the Prince and to gratify his Lust and Pleasure but for the Benefit of the whole Society that are to look to themselves when a Prince designs to betray them to the Power and Tyranny of their Enemies no Man by any Obligations of former Loyalty and Allegiance being bound to destroy himself much less the Body of a Kingdom And there is a greater Duty that we owe to the publick Community that we belong to than to any particular Member tho the Head And all our natural Obligations to a Prince tho confirmed by Oaths are always in reference to the Good Peace Happiness and Prosperity of the Body Politick unto which the Prince himself ought as divers have done in former Ages to sacrifice himself and Fortune 2. That no foreign nor domestick Power can alienate our Allegiance The Meaning in relation to us is That no Obedience nor Allegiance is to be paid to our present King that protects us tho the Laws and the publick Interest require it That our Governours could not lawfully demand that Security from us to swear to bear true Faith and Allegiance to K. W. and Q. M. Certainly the Government as it is now established ought in reason to secure it self from the Designs of ill Men and no Method more moderate nor Oath more favourable could be contrived than that which was imposed upon us whatever Construction is given to it by these Zealots for the Rights of the late K. J. it obliging us to nothing but a quiet and peaceable Behaviour and ties our Tongues and Hands that they might not plot and conspire against the Government of this present King And is there any thing more reasonable than this Law Shall such Men live amongst us Shall they enjoy the favourable Countenance of the Government Shall they be protected in their Lives and Estates and shall they be allowed at the same time to endeavour the Ruine of King and Kingdom I cannot in so short a Compass examine what Allegiance is due to the Kings of England how much we are bound in Duty to such a King who hath forsaken us and joined himself to our Enemies what Power is in our Parliaments to require a new Oath of Allegiance Whether it may not be as lawful for the Chieftains of our Politick Body to alienate our Allegiance from him who hath alienated all Duty and Kindness from us and whose Religion forbids him to keep any Faith with us Hereticks but binds him to destroy us with Fire and Sword I know some will say that Men by Religion don 't forseit their natural Rights and that K. J. was thereby intituled to our Allegiance and had a natural Right to govern us Grant this and a great deal more but now that he ceaseth to govern and protect us and instead of being our King he is become a desperate Enemy shall our former Allegiance to him hinder us from seeking to be sheltered by another The Self-Preservation of a Kingdom is a natural Law that puts a great Difference between the Rights of a private Man and that of a publick Person whose Right to our Allegiance is not to be allowed to overthrow and ruine a whole Kingdom 3. That it is justifiable and their Duty to endeavour to restore the late King c. This is affirmed in relation to this grievous Plot of assassinating K. W. of inviting over a foreign Power c. to vindicate the Justice of the horrid Treason in the Eyes of our English World Pray let considerate Men take notice how unchristian and barbarous is this Principle Pray let them see the bloody Disposition of these furious and Apostate Members of the Church of England how unreasonable and cruel are their Tempers The Restoration of King James in the Eyes of the sober Part of the Nation is look'd upon as one of the greatest Mischiefs that can befal us and our Christian World in this juncture of Affairs and must needs be followed either by an universal Apostacy from the Reformed Religion together with the Loss of the Liberties of Europe or an universal Persecution and Oppression of all honest and good Men who will be forced to yield to the Pleasure of the French Tyrant and the Romish Cruelty It is a Folly to think otherwise of the Conjunction of the Forces of these three Kingdoms with the Power of Frame Besides it hath been long ago resolved by K. L. and K. J. to drive on this wicked Design together When K. J. withdrew to Brussels in his Brother's time he passed from thence to Paris incognito and was admitted to a long Consultation and secret Council where the hastening of the Death of K. C. was resolved who was a Bar to their base Purposes and immediately followed the violent Persecution of the French Protestants And the Jesuits were so confident of Success that they published to the World that within 20 Years not one would be found in Europe to own the Protestant Name Some Years before