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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	king_n	parliament_n	time_n	15,513	5	3.9937	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74121	To the present visible supreame power, assembled at VVestminster The humble petition, and desires of many thousand well-affected persons, in, and about the city of London, in behalf of themselves and the whole Kingdome.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1649 (1649)	Thomason 669.f.13[75]	1,409	1

To the present visible Supreame Power Assembled at VVEST MINSTER The Humble Petition and desires of many thousand well-affected persons in and about the City of London in behalf of themselves and the whole Kingdome Humbly sheweth THat your Petitioners being sensible what it is to offend the Almighty and procure his wrath upon our selves and our posterity as also of the misery of a late and lasting War and how dangerous a thing it is to offend against the very light of Conscience and to dally with Oathes and Covenants c. And having taken into our Consideration the present straits we are in if under one hand we shall oppose or speak against those present visible powers in being Or on the other hand shall violate the Oath of Allegeance which we were forced to take when we became Free-men and Subjects to the King the Protestation and the late Solemne League and Covenant all which we have by many learned Divines beene from time to time taught that they ought not to be violated and that from the same we could not be absolved But so it is as we humbly conceive if we shall comply with our Brethren in laying aside of the King the Parliament the present Settled Lawes and Constitutions of this Kingdome and shall side with and abbet in deposing of the King and His Posterity the dismembring of Parliament the defrauding of Fellow-members of their Freedome for to Chuse or to be Chosen in places of Office and Trust in the Kingdome we shall thereby violate our Oathes give up our undoubted Rights to others offend God and sinne against the light of our own Consciences Or if not we shall expose our selves and Estates into the power of those who by the known Lawes and undoubted Rights belonging and appertaining unto the Subjects of England have no power over us and to be tryed and disposed by unwritten and uncertaine Dictates Lawes and Rules to which we never gave the least consent nor had the least knowledge of Neither are we ignorant of what evill Consequences to this Kingdome the deposing of former Kings hath been witnesse the Story of Henry the Fourth and others And how God from time to time hath taken vengeance on Covenant-breakers though it was amongst Heathens themselves who have made specious pretences of good untill they have gotten power into their owne hands c. and of the sad consequences that have risen from the change of Government in a State witness that of Athens c. All which we beseech you to take into your serious consideration know you not yet that ENGLAND is destroyed before our miseries come inevitably upon us and there be no remedy nor hopes of Restauration to our hoped-for Peace and Tranquility and that for the prevention of the fore-mentioned evills felt or feared 1. You will please to propound to the whole Kingdome and not a part only that they within a certaine time to be limited convene together to declare their approbation of the present Members or to chuse others instead of them which Parliament so freely and satisfactorily chosen by the whole Kingdome may with the advice of our Brethren of Scotland consult and advise for the speedy Setling the Peace of both Kingdomes upon sure and lasting Bases 2. That for matter of Religion and Church-Government you will please to take advice of an Assembly of Ministers Convened out of England Scotland and Holland that so the better satisfaction may be given as to your selves so to the whole Kingdome 3. That you will declare unto us what immunities you will please to grant to those that discent from and cannot in Conscience joyne with the now propounded Agreement or Propositions drawn up and propounded by a few unto the whole Kingdome c. and that though in some meane condition we may live in peace amongst our Brethren who once declared it as most unreasonable for all Government to be in the hands of a Party c. Therefore our humble desire is that your Honour would be pleased to take the premises into your serious Consideration which granted Your Petitioners shall ever pray c.