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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	king_n	people_n	power_n	34,395	5	5.6262	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62781	To the King's most sacred Majesty and Clemency and to the great wisdom and piety of both Houses of Parliament, most humbly offered to consider, 1. Whether it be not more expedient now to enact a total suspension of all former laws, as to the sanguinary and mulctative penalties only, than any execution of them against recusants taking and subscribing the following oath? ...		1660 (1660)	Wing T1558A; ESTC R219580	3,836	1

To the KING's most Sacred Majesty and Clemency And to the great Wisdom and Piety of both Houses of PARLIAMENT Most Humbly offered to Consider 1. WHether it be not more expedient now to Enact a total Suspension of all former Laws as to the Sanguinary and Mulctative Penalties only than any Execution of them against Recusants taking and subscribing the following Oath 2. And whether a Conditional Proviso of strict indispensable execution of the said Penalties upon any perfidious Retractor may not sufficiently answer the Objection That no Subscription can secure them from refixing retracting or recanting after directly or indirectly 3. And whether it be not expedient also to comprehend on the same Conditions a competent number of their best principled or best affected Moderate Priests under the Protection of the same Law or Act against the said Penalties of all former Laws or Acts with this only Additional Proviso as to them That besides the Subscription of the said Oath they withall subscribe a Renunciation or Abjuration of some other false and dangerous Positions And that they Officiate only in private Families and not admit besides the Family of the House at one Meeting above the number of five Neighbours or Strangers 4. And whether this mild way of discreet Indulgence may not conduce much more to his Majesties security and to the other great end also of allaying Animosities reconciling Differences and bringing at last all sides to meet in perfect Concord Peace and Love serving the God of Peace in one Church of England than any other of undiscriminating or undistinguishing rigour against all Papist dissentors Priests and People whatsoever The OATH I A. B. do truely and sincerely acknowledge profess testifie and declare before God and the World That our Gracious King CHARLES the II. is true and lawfull King Supreme Lord Rightfull Soveraign and the only Chief Governour under God of the Realms of England Ireland Scotland and all other his Majesties Dominions and of and over all persons therein both Temporal and Spiritual of what Religion soever And that he is entrusted by God and by the Laws of his said Kingdoms and Dominions with the Supreme external Regiment of both State and Church People and Clergy in them And that although he be not impowred with any Spiritual or Supernatural church-Church-Power of the Keyes yet he is with a Royal Politique Temporal and Natural Power Supreme to direct by suitable Laws and Precepts all the aforesaid persons and to Coerce by suitable means and punishments all Transgressors amongst them and all Transgressions of every person of them without exemption of any in whatever cause or thing Civil and Temporal or Ecclesiastical and Spiritual And that neither the Pope nor any Prince Potentate State or Person nor any Synod or other Assembly or Representative of the Clergy or People or both Foreign or not Foreign of what Religion soever hath or have or ought to have over all or any of the said persons his Majesties Subjects or in or over any of their said Affairs or Causes within his Majesties Kingdoms or Dominions aforesaid any Power Superiority or Jurisdiction transcendent or paramount or co-ordinate or equivalent to the aforesaid Power Supreme Royal as to any proper effect thereof or any kind of Authority which doth or may contein it eminentially formally or virtually nor can have any part thereof inherent in or derived to them but from and by his Majesties special or general Commission or Permission according to his Laws and with continual dependance from and subordination to his said Majesty and Laws And that all the aforesaid persons his Majesties Subjects are obliged under pain of sin to obey his Majesty in all Civil and Temporal Affairs as much as or wherein the said Laws require obedience from them and in all Ecclesiastical and Spiritual things and Causes not only to obey the direction of the said Laws where such direction appears not to be against the will of God but also where it doth appear to them against such will then and in every such case to abide and suffer patiently without rebellious reluctance or any forceable resistance by Arms or by unlawfull and contumacious Riots or Tumults the coercion and penalties of the same Laws And that the aforesaid power Supream-Royal of his Majestie is not hitherto nor can hereafter be forfeited or lost by any abuse either true or pretended of it nor is any way separable from his Majesties Crown Imperial And that neither the Pope nor any other Forreign Prince Power State Person or Persons nor any Church-Council or Synod of Bishops nor any Estates or People Collective or Representative Forreign or not Forreign hath or have or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authority Spiritual or Temporal or mixt of both Celestial or Terrene Humane or Divine ordinary or extraordinary continual or casual direct or indirect in ordine ad spiritualia not even in the special cases of Apostasie Heresie Schism or pretended oppression of the Church or People sententially or otherwise to bereave or deprive his Majesty of or to depose or suspend him from his aforesaid Regal Power or any part thereof or of or from the administration use or exercise of it or of any part or appendage of it or to transferre the Rights of any of his Majesties Crowns or to dispose of any of his Majesties Kingdomes or Dominions to any other or to Authorize any other Prince State or People to invade or annoy him or any of his Countreys or to free discharge or absolve me or any other of his Majesties Subjects from or dispence with me or any of them in the sacred Tye of an Oath of Allegiance to the King after the taking or swearing it or from or in the Natural or Legal Antecedent Tye of Allegiance to his Majesty upon all his aforesaid Subjects whatsoever Temporal and Spiritual or any way to give me or any of them leave or licence to contrive or lay Plots raise Tumults bear Arms against or offer any violence or hurt to his Majesties Person or Royal Authority or the State or Government or to any of his Majesties Subjects within his Majesties Dominions And therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all Jurisdictions Powers Superiorities or Authorities whether Foreign or not Foreign wherein or as far as they or any one or more of them severally or joyntly shall pretend any Right or thing contrary to the premisses And I do swear in the presence of God that notwithstanding any Power or pretended Power of the Pope or See of Rome either from or by divine Right or Law or from or by any humane Right or Title or any Power or pretended Power forreign or not forreign whether Ecclesiastical and Spiritual or Civil and Temporal or Natural and Inherent of any other person or persons or Clergy or People or Synod or Assembly or other Representative upon earth and notwithstanding any general or special Excommunication or other Ecclesiastical