Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	charles_n	king_n	stuart_n	2,711	5	13.1708	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84012	The English banner of truth displayed: or, The state of this present engagement against Scotland. Wherein is soberly discuss'd the lawfulness and necessity of the engagement. The high aggravations of it, as to the Scots. The groundlesness of those of the Presbyteries coniunction with the Scots and malignants, either from religion, their former state-principles, or the demeanour of those those [sic] in authority towards them. Also, a brief series of transactions, whereby it appears that those of the Presbytery have continually endeavoured the disturbing of the peace of the nation, ... and are the ground of this third war now with the Scots and malignants. Together with some occasional assertions; that the laying aside of some members of Parliament, the proceedings against the late King, the changings of the government, is sutable unto the end of all our engagements ... / By a friend to the Commonwealth of England.	Friend to the Commonwealth of England.	1650 (1650)	Wing E3081; Thomason E608_12; ESTC R201940	14,208	16

The English Banner of Truth displayed OR The State of this present ENGAGEMENT Against SCOTLAND Wherein is to be discuss'd The Lawfulness and Necessity of the Engagement The high Aggravations of it as to the Scots The groundlesness of those of the Presbyteries con●unction with the Scots and Malignants Either from Religion their former State-principles or the demeanour of those those in Authority towards them ALSO A brief Series of Transactions whereby it appears that those of the Presbytery have continually endeavoured the disturbing of the Peace of the Nation and have been the occasion and encouragement of two Wars since the late King's party were first subdued and are the Ground of this Third War now with the Scots and Malignants Together with some Occasional Assertions That the laying aside of some Members of Parliament The proceedings against the late King The changing of the Government is sutable unto the end of all our Engagements and the supreme Law The Safety of the People and not contrary to the COVENANT Published for the undeceiving of Many and the encouragement of all honest men to assist this Engagement By a Friend to the Commonwealth of ENGLAND Si Populus vult decipi decipiatur London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1650. TO demo●strate the lawfulness and necessity of this presen Engagement against the Scots by the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England would be but the holding of a Candle to the Sun were not the eyes of men very much blinded their Reason prosticuted to the dictates of Selfishness and Prejudice it being a thing hardly to be imagined that any English man should be so far cheated as to betray the Interest of his Country to the Scotish Nation 〈◊〉 that those whose Principles have led them to assist the Parliament against the late King and whose prayers and swords h●ve strenuously endeavoured his removal should after the apparent and acknow●edged hand of God subduing that Faction fall into it and endeavour the re-inforcing thereof upon the blood and ruine of Religion themselves and this Common-wealth But seeing it hath pleased God to permit such a spirit of delusion and madness to seize on men and that under the disguise of Religion and the misguiding of Discontent which may prove of dangerous concernment to themselves and this Nation I thought it my duty according to my little time and talent to unveil this Mystery which I lay before the World to serve those ends for which God hath appointed it In the management of which I shall onely endeavour with what brevity I can to manifest 1. The lawfulness and necessity of this present Engagement against the Scots 2. The groundless conjunction of those of the Presbytery of this Nation with the Scots and Malignants either from Religion State-principles or the demeanour of this Commonwealth towards them In the close whereof something may appear whereby every honest heart may have matter of encouragement effectually to assist this work and to expect the presence of the Lord to accompany them therein The Justness of this Engagement against the Scots will be evident when it 's considered First that the Cause is the very same with that which was formerly in England viz. against the tyranny of the King which after the solemn Appeals of both parties to God hath eminently been from heaven determined not onely once but a second and a third ●i●e and this not in England onely but in Scotland and I●eland upon which ground we may expect his wonted presence This will appear no Riddle if it be minded 1. That without giving any satisfaction for the innocent blood that hath been shed by him or his father in these Wars in these three Nations or bringing him as a Delinquent to condign punishment they have treated with Charles Stuart eldest son to the late King who hath actually levied Arms against the Parliament of England and ●ave taken and proclaimed him King not onely of Scotland but of England and Ireland 2. They have engaged to assist him with Forces and are in Arms against the Commonwealth of England whereby they highly own not onely the guilt of the former Wars but gird unto ●heir loins the blood that may be shed in this Quarrel wherein they protect him from the Justice of England and assist hi● with A●ms further to pursue his tyr●nuical principles 3. They have joyned with all the old enemies of England Papists and Malignants with the Rebels in Ireland whom they entertain in their Armies as Officers and Souldiers and are employed in the Plots and Contrivances in this Nation the more to facilitate the intended issue of their monstrous Conjunction Secondly it 's not onely the same Cause that was formerly managed by the late King and his party but hath in it as to them these Aggravations 1. In that the Quarrel they now take upon them was first designed and acted upon Themselves in the yeer 1639 by the late King whom we then so greatly tendered that we rather put the most probable hopes of our relief viz. our Parliament to a dissolution then to assist him against them 2. That when the Q●arrel was afterwards on foot in England they seemed to retain so much sense of the former cou tesie that they levied Forces and came in to our assistance declaring them to be not onely ours but their Common enemies and so for a time they pursued them which Quarrel they now espouse to themselves 3. After we had rolled thorow the blood of seven yeers War into a little Peace and were beg●nning to sit under our Vines in stead of rejoycing that we that took the War out of theirs into our own bowels were returned to rest they cruelly designed our Invasion and with a full consent of Parliament entred our borders with a great Army committing unspeakable mischiefs and villanies in the English Nation and all to set up the late King on the blood of the honest people of this Nation and the destruction of Religion and Liberty To which though some of the Leading men now amongst them seemed to dissent yet we very well know who first designed the Invasion and that the Invasion was was not the scruple but what hand should manage it whether Duke Hamilton or the Kirk 4. That when through the Providence of God this weapon turned into their own bowels so that the flames of war designed and blown upon us were like to consume them●elves upon the request of those men which before and now breath forth nothing but our destruction we came to their assistance not with Recompences but with love not with the wounds of enemies but the embraces of friends not with the powering forth of thei● blood but the laying of our own on the ground for their sakes and through the blessings of God ended that war and returned with such humble expressions of our thankfulness as is too long to be related 5. When our enemies were subdued on