Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

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kingdom_n	sir_n	thomas_n	william_n	3,302	5	9.5263	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26020	Reasons against agreement with a late printed paper, intituled Foundations of freedome, or, The agreement of the people whereby it doth appear that the particulars proposed in the said paper are not foundations of freedom but of tyranny and slavery to the people, being destructive to religion, laws, liberty, and government against our Covenant and Protestantism, and very dangerous and unsafe for the kingdome / by William Ashhurst.	Ashhurst, William, 1617-1680.	1659 (1659)	Wing A3978; ESTC R26663	11,396	18

REASONS AGAINST AGREEMENT With a late Printed Paper intituled Foundations of Freedome Or the AGREEMENT Of the PEOPLE Whereby it doth appear that the Particulars proposed in the said Paper are not Foundations of Freedom but of Tyranny and slavery to the People being destructive to Religion Laws Liberty and Government against our Covenant and Protestations and very dangerous and unsafe for the Kingdome By WILLIAM ASHHURST Esquire LONDON Printed for Thomas Vnderhill 1648. And now reprinted in the Year of our Lord 1659. At the charge of Sir Francis Nethersole Kinght and by him humbly recommended to the serious consideration of all and every Member of the present House of Commons and of all other wise and true hearted English-men As no less considerable at this time then at that when they were published by the Author To the Reader I Have no more to say to the Reader but that when I had considered the Printed Paper intituled Foundations of Freedom or an Agreement of the People I was very much unsatisfied with it and so were others I met with And finding that the differences upon it would fall out amongst those who are obliged to friendship and agreement both for the good of the Kingdom and their own good I thought it unchristian and unsafe to let so great dis-satisfactions lie privately heating together until they might kindle into an hotter flame of discontent especially it having ever been as it is still my opinion which I have not hid that differences in this case should be ended by Reason not by Opposition And seeing the Publisher of the Paper calls upon every man for his Reasons against it I have here brought him mine under my hand wherein although I am sensible that I may discover my own weakness and folly yet I ever hating all private Contrivances or to do any thing of publick Concernment in a Corner have judged it more honest and that shall ever go for wisdom with me to use plain dealing which if it be according to the Proverb a jewell I am sure was never more precious then at this time W. A. REASONS AGAINST Agreement with a late Printed Paper Intituled An Agreement of the People THe Publisher of this Paper called An Agreement of the People tells us that it was tendred to the Consideration of the General and Councel of the Army but before it was Approved by them which I hope it never will he held it just to be published that men might offer their Reasons Against it wherein he is so ingenuous that however both the Epistle and Paper might give occasion to some personal Reflections yet I will only give him fairly my reasons why I cannot Agree to his Paper having for the more clear proceeding first laid down the most principal parts of this Agreement which as I take it is briefly That the people who shall subscribe this Paper shall Agree To take away this Parliament and to chuse an equal Representative consisting of 300. men who shall have full power without the consent or concurrence of any other person or persons either King or House of Peers to make repeal alter and declare Laws and that none do resist their Laws or Orders upon pain of death except such Representatives expresly violate this Agreement and they shall have power to choose a Councel of State for the managing of publick affairs But that they shall not have power to continue in force or make any Laws Oaths and Covenants whereby to compel by penalties or otherwise any person to any thing in or about matters of Faith Religion or Gods worship or to restrain any person from the professing his Faith or exercise of Religion according to his conscience in any house or place except such as are or shall be set apart for the publick worship nevertheless the instruction or directing of the Nation in a publick way for the matters of faith worship or discipline so it be not compulsive or express Popery is referred to their discretion with like restriction in other matters of less consequence I am very much unsatisfied with this Paper both for the manner and matter of it for these reasons 1. Reas Because it proposeth that the people or rather some small part of them without any colour of Law or Right should agree together to alter the present Government and to take away a legal right from Burroughs to choose Members to the Parliament which admitted they may with as much Justice and Right agree to take away any Law or any mans life or estate by which Rule we could enjoy nothing but at the will of any number of men that would call themselves The People And upon the same ground that those who shall subscribe this Agreement may call themselves the People might those who shall refuse to subscribe it and those who are not admitted to subscribe it both call themselves the People and at any time hereafter pretend like right to do the same or like things which must lay a foundation of certain confusions Neither can there be assurance of any settlement whatsoever in this way for what those who call themselves the People Agree upon now they may alter within a month or sooner if they please 2. Reas Because if there were a right by this way to alter the Government as there is not yet it is not reasonable to attempt so great a matter the Consequences whereof must be of so vast concernment to the Kingdome before the inconveniences of the present Government have been plainly discovered and solemnly debated And being found out tryall had been made whether by the present unquestionable power there might not have been found a remedy either by some Additions or smaller A●…tions without putting things to so great an hazard as an 〈…〉 ●…tion in the Supreame Power●… must bring and that without offering any reason for it Neither is there only these general reasons against the whole Paper but if the subject matter of it and the proceedings intended thereupon were lawful yet there are many Reasons against the particulars in it which I shall proceed with 3. Reas Because it doth propose to take away not only this King but all Kings and the House of Peers out of the Supreame Judicatory of this Kingdome and that for ever without shewing any necessity of it which the Papists Delinquents and ill-affected persons amongst us well perceiving how great a distraction it would bring did frequently charge upon this Parliament as their design whereupon to vindicate themselves from such aspertions they have made and published several Declarations that they would not alter the Government of the Kingdome by King Lords and Commons And this Kingdome having had so many hundred years experience of this present Government in the most part of which time they having lived in peace and plenty and when any wars have heretofore happened between the King and the People no such alterations being ever desired or attempted It is not imaginable that they will now