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england_n	king_n	kingdom_n	lord_n	18,878	5	4.5108	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75897	An admonition of the greatest concernment in the present juncture particularly to the citizens of London, touching their election of Common-Councill men; and to them, all sober-minded persons of every other city, town, and county in this nation, touching their election of Members to serve in the Parliament, pretended to be shortly convened.		1659 (1659)	Wing A595; Thomason 669.f.22[27]; ESTC R211390	3,457	1

An Admonition of the greatest Concernment in the present Juncture particularly to the Citizens of London touching their Election of Common-Councill men and to them all sober-minded Persons of every other City Town and County in this Nation touching their Election of Members to serve in the Parliament pretended to be shortly convened Gentlemen THe necessity on You and Us in this day of our greatest Distraction and Fears to be most careful in the choice of Common Councill men to be made on Wednesday the 21. of Dec. instant is so great and obvious that onely such as are pronounced to be incurably infatuated can be ignorant thereof We therefore who are as well-meaning publick-spirited English-men onely concerned for our Selvs Wives Children and Families in the weal or misery of this bleeding dying Nation are bold to become your Remembrancers how all Members of Parliament Members of Common Councill and all other Officers ought to be qualified And that too in the Sense of the late famous Parliament such time as they were neither awed garbled menaced disturbed or interrupted The Protestation then universally taken and the Parliament's Order thereon wherein is manifest what is aforesaid follows IA B. do in the preseace Almighty God promise vow and protest to defend as far as lawfully I may with my life power and estate the true Protestant Religion expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England against Popery and Popish Innovations within this Realm contrary to the same Doctrine and according to the Duty of my Allegiance to his Majesty's Royall Person Honour and Estate as also the Power and Priviledge of Parliament the lawfull Rights and Liberties of the Subjects and every person that maketh this Protestation in whatsoever he shall do in pursuance of the same and to my power and as far as lawfully I may I will oppose and by all good wayes and means endeavour to bring to condigne punishment all such as shall either by Force practise Counsells Plots Conspiracies or otherwise do any thing in this present Protestation contained and further that I shall in all just and honourable wayes endeavour to preserve the Union and peace between the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland neither for hope fear nor other respect shall relinquish this promise Vow and protestation Friday July the 30th 1641. Resolved upon the Question THat this House doth conceive that the Protestation made by them is fit to be taken by every Person that is well-affected in Religion and to the good of the Common-wealth And therefore doth declare That what Person soever shall not take the Protestation is unfit to bear Office in the Church or Common-wealth BE remembred also of the solemn League and Covenant not out of Date like an old Almanack as some have pleased with impudence enough to Say and Print but in force and the Deliberate and Allowed Breach whereof God is now too palpably Visiting upon Us WEE Noblemen Barons Knights Gentlemen Citizens Burgesses Ministers of the Gospel and Commons of all sorts in the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland by the Providence of God living under one King and being of one Reformed Religion having before our eyes the glory of God and the advancement of the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the honour and happinesse of the King's Majesty and His Posterity and the true publike Liberty Safety and Peace of the Kingdoms wherein every ones private condition is includ●d and calling to mind the treacherous and bloody plots conspiracies attempts and practises of the enemies of God against a true Religion and professors thereof in all places especially in these three Kingdoms ever since the Reformation of Religion and how much their rage power and presumption are of late and at this time excreased and exercised whereof the deplorable estate of the Church and Kingdom of Ireland the distressed estate of the Church and Kingdom of England and the dangerous estate of the Church and Kingdom of Scotland are present and publike Testimonies we have now at last after other means of Supplication Remonstrance Protestations and Sufferings for the preservation of our selvs and our Religion from atter ruine and desiruction according to the commendable practice of these Kingdoms in former times and the example of Gods people in other Nations after mature deliberation resolved and determined to enter into a mutuall and solemn League and Covenant wherein we all subscribe and each one of us for himself with our hands lifted up to the most high God do swear 1. That we shall sincerely really and constantly through the Grace of God endeavour in our several places and callings the preservation of the Reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government against our Common Enemies the Reformation of Religion in the Kingdoms of England and Ireland according to the Word of God 2. We shall with the same sincerity reality and constancy in our several Vocations endeavour with our estates and Lives mutually to preserve the Rights and Priviledges of the Parliament and defend the King's Majesties Person ond Authority that the World may bear witness of our loyalty and that we intend not to diminish his Majessie's just Power and Greatness 3. We shall also with all faithfulness endeavour the discovery of all such as have been or shall be Incendiaries Malignants or evil Instruments by hindring the Reformation of Religion dividing the King from his People or one of the Kingdoms from another or making any faction or parties amongst the People contrary to this League and Covenant That they may be brought to publick trial and receive condigne punishment as the degree of their offences shall require or deserve or the supream Judicatories of both Kingdoms respectively or others having power from them for effect shall judge convenient 4. And whereas the happiness of a blessed Peace between these Kingdoms denyed in former times to our Progenitors is by the good Providence of GOD granted unto us and hath been lately concluded and setled by both Parliaments We shall each one of us according to our place and interest endeavour that they may remain conjoyned in a firm Peace and Union to all Posterity And that Justice may be done upon the willful Oppressors thereof in a manner expressed in the precedent Article 5. We shall also according to our places and callings in this common Cause of Religion Liberty and Peace of the Kingdom assist and defend all those that enter in this League and Covenant in the maintaining and pursuing thereof And shall not suffer our selves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terrour to be divided and withdrawn from this blessed Union and Conjunction whether to make defection to the contrary part or to give our Selves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this Cause which so much concerneth the Glory of GOD the Good of the Kingdoms and Honour of the King But shall Constantly continue therein against all opposition whatsoever And that We are not able to suppresse we shall make known that it may be timely prevented And because these Kingdoms are guilty of so many sins and approvocations against GOD and his Son Jesus Christ as is too manifest by our present distresses and danger the fruits thereof We professe and declare before GOD and the World our unfeigned desire to be humbled for our own sins and for the sins of these Kingdoms especially that we have not as we ought valued the inestimable benefit of the Gospel that we have not laboured for the purity and power thereof and that we have not endeavoured to receive Christ in our hearts nor to walk worthy of Him in our Lives which are the Causes of other sins and transgressions so much abounding amongst Us And our true and unfeigned purpose desire and endeavour for our Selves and all others under our Power and Charge both in Publick and Private in all Duties We owe to GOD and Man to amend our Lives and each one to go before another in the Example of a real Reformation That the Lord may turn away his Wrath and heavy Indignation and Establish these Churches and Kingdoms in Truth and Peace And this Covenant We make in the presence of Almighty GOD the searcher of all hearts with a true intention to perform the same as We shall answer at that great Day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed Most humbly beseeching the Lord to strengthen Us by His Spirit and encourage other Christian Churches groaning under or in danger of the yoke of Antichristian Tyranny to joyn in the same or like Association and Covenant To the glory of GOD and the enlargement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ We could wish this or either of them might be Revived and by Authority be made the Touchstone or Shiboleth of every Person to be Elect. But justly despairing thereof we pray you to agree with us who are many thousands as one man in the Rule following Namely That you give not your suffrage for the Election of any into the aforesaid great Trusts Who have been of any Illegal High Courts of Justice or who are or have been of Committees for Sequestration Farmers or other Officers of Excise or Customes Purchasers of of any the Late Kings Bishops Deans or Chapter Lands or Delinquents Estates Nor of their Receivors General or any of the Officers of the present Army Since that from these and many such others whose business hath been and will be to secure themselves from that Danger of the Law and such Estate from a proper reverting the due settlement of the Nation or just Foundation cannot by Us not by any who are not afrighted from their Reasons be expected but much rather for the gratifying of the aforesaid Corrupt ends to see our present Bondage transmitted to our Posterity or at least to find our Selves in little time overwhelmed with them on their approaching Ruine Revel. 2.5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and do the first works or else I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy Candlestick out of his place except thou Repent