Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	church_n	doctrine_n	homily_n	2,580	5	12.0475	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83941	England & Scotland: or, The proceedings of the Parliament of England, the Confession of the Church of Scotland. Also severall advertisements 1. To the city, and to the associated counties. 2. To those who engage themselves 1. For liberty. 2. For religion. 3. For Gods, and Christs cause.		1644 (1644)	Wing E2929; Thomason E2_5; ESTC R2444	4,760	10

two yeares In May They Declare against the Kings Negative Voice The Kings neg●tive Vote even in the businesse of the Militia without which his Majesty cannot discharge his Kingly Office and protect his people Also they say that they should not want modesty or duty if they followed the highest precedents of other Parliaments 4. To compose the differences arisen to satisfy their feares The 19 Propositions and jealousies they offer to his Majesty 19 Propositions Iune 2. which strike at Regall power it self and would transfer it to and settle it in the Houses of Parliament for ever● and so of a Monarchy would make this an Aristocracy and Democracy sutable to the Government they intend in the Church the Presbitery and upon the Kings refusall of them they publish Propositions for bringing in of money c. to raise an Army Iune 10. 5. From the premises it appeares that the publike grievances The result of the Kingdome were all remedied at the beginning of the Parliament And that presently there was an attempt by some to alter the government of the Church and State And when they could not compasse it in a free Parliamentary way that they attempted it first by Tumults foreing the Parliament and afterward by Armes to force the King And in this case I would have every one complying with them to consider the Doctrine of the Church of Scotland concerning the Civil Magistrates delivered in these following words We confesse and acknowledge Empires Kingdomes Dominions The Scottish Confession and Cities to be distincted and ordained by God The powers and Authoritits in the same be it of Emperors in their Empires Kings in their realmes Dukes and Princes in their Dominions and of other Magistrates in their Cities to be Gods Holy Ordinance ordained for the manifestation of his own Glory and for the singular profit and commodity of mankinde so that whosoever goeth about to take away or to confound the whole State of Civil policies now long established we affirme the same men not onely to be enemies to mankinde but also wickedly to fight against Gods expressed will It being evident how and by what meanes the Power of the Kingdom was seized on and why and to what end Armes were taken up on the one side t is thereby manifest also wherefore they are taken up on the other side 1. To maintaine the Liberty and Freedom of Vote in Parliament Why the King taketh up Armes against Tumults 2. For recovery of his Majesties Rights and Prerogatives 3. For redemption of the subject in point of Propriety and Liberty from new and illegall impositions and imprisonments 4. To reduce the subject to obedience in point of the Militia and of the Lawes concerning Religion So the King and his forces come amongst you to Right the Parliament The advertisements and himself and to reduce you and to take you into his protection and to require aide and comfort of you And saith the confession of the Church of Scotland which by the Covenant you To the City and Countries have sworne to maintaine They who deny comfort and aide to Kings and Princes travelling vigilantly in their office as his Majesty doth even to the hazard of his life deny aide and comfort to God himself who requires it of them by his Lieutenant Besides we have all a speciall obligation upon us by our Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy to defend the Kings Person his Crowne and Dignity and to maintaine and defend all his Preheminences Priviledges and Prerogatives whatsoever Nor do his Majesties forces come as you conceive to invade spoile kill and slay nor to exercise any hostility unlesse opposed by you and opposing in this case doubtlesse you cannot but be guilty of resisting the Ordinance of God Rom. 13. and of all the bloodshed and rapine and devastation that shall happen upon your resistance And whereas men ordinarily engage themselves for Liberty and for Religion I would have them to consider as I conceive 1. That our Liberty as it was sufficiently asserted and setled by Of Liberty divers Acts in the beginning of the Par● so it might have been kept inviolate by the authority of the Parl. sitting so long as they please and by the power of the Militi● setled in the hands of those men whom they had recommended to His Majesty But I feare Liberty with subjection doth not suffice now and the affectation of Liberty without Subjection is no lesse then Rebellion 2. That our Religion by Law established might have been preserved Of Religion also by the same Authority and Power and by the same meanes their Priviledges also might have been preserved and secured Besides his Majesty by his Proclamation had required the due observation of the Lawes concerning Religion and it is a cause in part of his Majesties taking up Armes to maintaine the Religion by Law established And as concerning Popery to suppresse the growth thereof Of Popery his Majesty had by a Proclamation required the Lawes against Popish Recusants to be put in execution without favor or connivence And to root out Popery his Majesty offered to joyne with the two Houses in any further Act against Priests and Jesuits disturbing the State and against Papists eluding the Laws by trust and for the education of the children of Papists by Protestants in the Protestant Religion But their extirpation must be Military not Parliamentary And they are not content with preserving but fight for altering Religion by Law established if not in Doctrine as I doubt whether the Doctrine of the Church of England concerning Active and Passive Subjection delivered in the bookes of Homilies will stand or no yet in the forme of Worship and frame of Church Government and that against the Lawes the King the Order and Vote of the Houses before the Tumults Lastly whereas men flatter themselves that they fight for Gods cause and for Christs cause i. e. For the Presbyterian Discipline O● Christ his cause and Government which they conceive to be of Gods and Christs own institution I would have them enquire and informe themselves whether the House of Commons have not voted that Government and Discipline not to be of Divine Right and whether Of the Presbytery they have not resolved and professed that they wil admit no Church Government to be of Divine Right that they may order and alter it as they please and whether this be not the chiefe reason wherefore they deny the Divine Right of Episcopacy PROV 24. 21 22. My Son feare thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change For their calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both FINIS