Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	earl_n	king_n	northumberland_n	2,516	5	11.4024	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61509	Jus populi vindicatum, or, The peoples right to defend themselves and their covenanted religion vindicated wherein the act of defence and vindication which was interprised anno 1666 is particularly justified ... being a reply to the first part of Survey of Naphtaly &c. / by a friend to true Christian liberty.	Stewart, James, Sir, 1635-1713.	1669 (1669)	Wing S5536; ESTC R37592	393,391	512

the King had violated the conditions made had caused burne by the hand of the Hangman a paper containeing explications of some tearmes used by him in the treaty of Peace had denyed accesse to their commissioners afterward when he had signified his willingnesse to heare such as they should send such as were sent were committed to prisone and one of them viz. The Lord Lowdon ordained secretly to be beheaded in the Towr of London and in the meane while warre was concluded against the Realme of Scotland in the King's Council The Earle of Northumberland was made General a Parliament was convocated both in England and Irland for raising of subsidies to the carrying on of this warre The Deputy of Irland with some there had promised much assistence The Prelates of England had offered great summes to carry on this Bellum Episcopale as they named it Scottish shipes were intercepted their goods taken away and the seamen cast into prifsones and miserably handled The sea ports were closed up with frigots The castle of Edinbrugh oppressed the City with their shot and killed many both young and old Were all these things no beginnings of a warre nor no acts of hostility How can he or any else then say that the King was not the first aggressor or that Scotlands warre was not purely defensive 2. As to these things wherein he would make his reader beleeve that the Honest people of Scotland were the first invaders what a malitious fool doth he manifest himself to be for 1. How or what way was his authority invaded was it because they would not receive a masse book in English obtruded upon them by his sole authority without the concurrence of Church or State 2. What lawes were troden upon Weknow no lawes but acts and statutes of a lawful Parliament made for the glory of God and the good of the land and what such were trode upon 3. What way were his proclamations despised Is it to despise a King's proclamation for free subjects to vindicate them selves of what is unjustly laid to their charge in this proclamations by faithful and humble protestations of their innocency 4. What were those castles seised upon Some be like in Vtopia for before this warre was begun Anno 1639. The Covenanters seised upon none of the King's castles When they savv the King bore a hostile minde against them and intended no good they watched the castle of Edinbrugh that more ammunition and provision should not be carryed into it And this was all they did until they were necessitated to put themselves into a posture of defence then they seised upon some houses here there the lawfulnesse of which is demonstrated by Lex Rex the Apology 5. What illegal courts were those which were set up Sure those tables as they were called were no courts assumeing to themselves any judicial determination in any matter of State civil or Ecclesiastical nor conventions for disturbance of the peace or usurpation against authority but meer meetings allowed by the light and law of nature for consultation and advice anent the matter and manner of supplications which they were to present to his Majesty and his Council and of propositions to be presented to the lawful State and Church-judicatories 6. Who were those subjects walking according to the lawes who were persecuted We know of none who were troubled at that time except the Prelates the Troublers of our Israel and all the persecution they met with was that the honest Covenanters did give in complaints against them and offered to make good what they allaiged upon the highest perill and did supplicate the Council whereof some of them were Members that they might not fit there as judges but stand as Rëi and answere for themselves and that the General assembly indicted by his Majesty after mature deliberation and full examination did excommunicate them for high and notorious crymes to be seen in the registers of that Assembly But 2 will these things to judicious persons lay the ground of a lawful warre by the Magistrate against his owne subjects Are these who cannot yeeld obedience unto unlawful commands who humbly protest for their owne innocency who meet together for drawing up supplications and ordering matters thereanent and who give in complaints against the Pests Troublers of the land and exerce Church censures upon the scandalous invaders of the Soveraign's authority And when a King upon these grounds invadeth his subjects with an army of armed men can any man of common sense think that his war is not an invasive vvarre Hath not Magistrats other lavvfull vvayes to defend their ovvne authority and lavves and orderly subjects and to reduce the disorderly then fire and svvord Sure for a King to cut off his subjects is to diminish and annihilate his authority and lavves both And for a King to vvage vvarre against the Body of a land to pleasure Fourteen of a fevv of the basest and most unvvorthy of all the subjects vvould seem to be the result of no grave and sage Council nor vvould it appeare to be much for the Kings honour to have his Soveraigne authority imbarqued vvith a fevv abjects so as if they did sinke to the bottome of the sea It could not swime The next thing and that is the 2 hypothesis he allegeth is That they represent him in their virulent he should say nervous writeings as Nerone ipso Neronior a great persecuter of Religion intending the total ruine and destrustion of the protestant profession and the total ruine and destruction of the whole people of the land Answ They represente him no othervvayes then his owne publicke owned and avowed deeds and declarations did represente him to all the world What was his secret intentions God knoweth but his deeds did declare that he minded no good to the poor Church and State of Scotland for to pleasure a few abjects that had drunken in much Popery and Arminianisme and stirred him up to urge upon our Church 2 Popish publick service book of canons and ordination Popish ceremonies and such Romish trash he sought by fire and sword to reduce us to ashes We shal not now trouble his Urne by speaking to what this Surveyer sayeth afterward This we knovv That he died but vvhether as a glorious Martyr for the true Religion of God vvhich yet may admit several senses so ambiguous is it though vve let it passe in the best and lavves and liberties of the people as he sayeth many doubt At length he closeth his digression thus If there was any thing that could not have a favourable interpretation in that unhappy book that gave therise to the troubles how timely was it retired and great satisfaction and security given for religion If through default of Ministers of State any thing had creeped in that could not abide the test of law how willingly was ●treformed yet all could not sist begun course of violence till through God's dreadful indignation against a sinfull