Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	king_n	lord_n	subvert_v	2,748	5	13.0585	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58912	A seasonable and necessary warning concerning present dangers and duties from the commissioners of the Generall Assembly, unto all the members of this kirk.	Church of Scotland. General Assembly.	1650 (1650)	Wing S2216; ESTC R39524	8,308	15

A SEASONABLE and Necessary WARNING Concerning present DANGERS and DVTIES From the COMMISSIONERS Of the GENERALL ASSEMBLY Unto all the MEMBERS Of this KIRK EDINBURGH Printed by EVAN TYLER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1650. 25. Iunii 1650. Postmeridiem A seasonable and necessary VVarning concerning present dangers and duties from the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly unto all the Members of this Kirk IF the eminencie of the danger and the necessity of our duty did not constrain us we had rather chose to be silent then to emit any publick warning to the land within so few dayes of the meeting of the Generall Assembly but we should not only run the hazard of just blame from them but also be conscious to guiltinesse in our selves if we did not in a time of so great strait give warning to the Lords people both of their danger and of their dutie The Insolent and strange actings of that prevailing party of Sectaries in England these yeares past in reference to Religion and Government are so well knowne and have been so often and fully laid open in the former Warnings Remonstrances and Declarations of this Kirk that we need not now take up much time in representing the same Albeit the Reformation of the Church of England and the advancing of the work of Uniformity there in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government was the great dutie that the Lord called that Land unto and which all the people of God in these three Kingdoms did ingage themselves in Covenant to endeavour to the utmost of their power yet doth that work so much desired and longed for by all the lovers of Sion in these Nations and all that concerns Religion lye in the dust altogether forgotten and despised by those men and in stead of the beauty and order that should be in the house of God a vast toleration of many grosse errors is allowed whereby so many and so monstrous blasphemies and strange opinions in Religion have been broached and are vented in England as the like hath not been heard of almost in any generation And though Monarchy and the Power of Parliaments was the ancient and long continued Government of that Kingdom yet have those men usurped above the Parliament whose servants they were and by open violence driven away many and imprisoned some of the Members thereof and have not onely taken away the house of Lords and destroyed the late King but also subverted Monarchy it selfe and turned the Foundations upside down and labour to wreath the voke of their oppression upon the necks of our brethren in England not only in regard of that which concerns their bodies and estates but also in regard of that which concerns their soules and consciences whereof that Ingagement that is now pressed in England is a present and publick testimony being a sore bondage under which many in that land now groane whose case and sufferings for the work of God we desire not onely to remember dayly before the Lord in our prayers and supplications but in every thing to regard it as if it were our own being confident that such as love the truth cleave to the Covenant in these Lands shall obtain mercy of God to be faithfull in the midst of temptations and that the Lord will not suffer them to be tempted above that they are able to bear but will give unto them the issue with the tempation This party after that they have acted such things in England and also sore afflicted and oppressed our brethren in Ireland now conceiveing that they cannot be established and that they cannot eat the fruit of their own devices without contradiction as long as the Kirk and Kingdome of Scotland stands in their way threaten us with a warre by drawing their Forces Northward and sending them in small parties towards the Border that it may be the lesse discerned what they intend to do And if the Lord in his righteous and wise dispensation shall suffer them to invade this Land as it is to be seared that the Gangrene of their errours may take hold upon men of ignorant and unstable mindes who have not received the love of the truth So may we if they prevaile look for confusion and desolation and that the Pil ars both of Religion and Government shall be ruined and razed in this as well as in our neighbour land It doth therefore in the first place concern all the Inhabitants in this Nation to draw near to God and to mourn for their own iniquities and for all the ignorance and prophanity and backsliding that is in the land and to studie to make peace with God in Jesus Christ The continuance and increase of many of those sinnes for which formerly we seemed to have been humbled doth doubtlesse grieve the spirit of God and may if they be not speedily and sincerely repented of and forsaken provoke him to give us over to the lust of our adversaries Our King our Princes our Nobles our Pastors teachers and people have sinned Let us therefore search and try our wayes and turn again to the Lord Let us lift up our heats with our hands to God in the heavens that he may spare and save his people that they be not a prey to the enemie In the next place As the Parliament of this Kingdome have taken care for putting the land in a Posture of Defence so we hope that none shall be so negligent of their duty and so insensible of their danger as not to give chearfull obedience to the lawfull commands of their superiours in those things that concern the security of Religion and peace of the Kingdome and that are necessary for the defence of the cause and of their native country but that every man in his station and calling will willingly and cheerfully acquit himselfe in the diligent and faithfull performance of all the duties that relate unto those ends It is far from our meaning that any who are tainted with Malignancie and Disaffection to the work of God should be allowed or permitted to associate or joyn themselves together by parties in Armes much lesse do we mean that we should associate and joyn with them or that they should be imployed or made use of or countenanced or permitted to be in our Armies The Lord hath so far cleared his mind both by his word and works against these things that they are very blind who are not convinced herein and we have made so solemn publick confession of this sin that relates unto Malignants and so solemnly engaged our selves against the same that they among us who should again hazard upon it should seem to be desperately perverse It were not only to give great ground of encouragement to the Sectaries before whom Malignants have already so often fled and fallen but to discourage the hearts and weaken the hands of men of Integrity and godlinesse who could hardly expect a blessing in the fellowship of such nay it were from the