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lord_n	edward_n	king_n	sir_n	22,698	5	5.9318	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91292	Summary reasons against the new oath & Engagement. And an admonition to all such as have already subscribed it. With a cautionarie exhortation to all honest English spirits, to avoid the danger of perjurie by taking of it.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1649 (1649)	Wing P4096; Thomason E585_9; ESTC R206265	10,914	17

Summary Reasons against the New OATH ENGAGEMENT AND An Admonition to all such as have already Subscribed it WITH A Cautionarie Exhortation to all Honest English Spirits to avoid the danger of Perjurie by taking of it PROVERBS 24. 21. 22. My Sonne feare thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change For their calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both PRINTED in the yeere 1649. Summary Reasons against the New Oath and Engagement YOV shall Sweare or I Declare and Promise That I will bee True and Faithfull to the Common-wealth of England as the same is now Established WITHOUT KING OR HOUSE OF LORDS FIRST This Oath and Engagement is imposed by those who by the Lawes of God and the Realme had never any Power admit them a full and free House of Commons under no Force as they are not to Administer much lesse to Make or Impose any Oath in any Case Cookes 3. Institut p. 165. and lesse Authority then the Bishops and Clergy in Convocation who made the c Oath not so bad as this adjudged high-Treason in Canterburies Case for which hee lost his head Canterburies Doome p. 26. 40. though not so bad as this Secondly It is contrary to all the antient Oathes of our Judges Justices of Peace Mayors Sheriffs Recorders Clearkes of Chancery and other courts of Justice To the Oathes of Fealty and Homage made by all the Kings Tenants The antient and late Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance the Vow and Protestation the solemne League and Covenant and Engagement of the whole Kingdome to the King his Heires Successours and Posteritie for ever to defend their undoubted Right to the Crowne with the last drop of their Bloods conteined in the Statutes of 1. Jacobi cap. 1. 2. and involves the Makers and Takers thereof in manifold execrable perjuries to the scandall of our Religion Levit. 19. 12. Nation a Dishonour and high Displeasure of God and just damnation of their Soules Deut. 5. 11. Thirdly Jer. 5. 2. c 7 9. It is a new Gunpowder-Treason blowing up the King and his Posteritie Ezech. 17. 12. to 20. Zech. 5. 3. 4. Mal. 3. 5. Monarchy the House of Lords the Constitution and Priviledges of our English Parliaments our ancient fundamentall Government Math. 5. 34. Lawes Liberties and our three Kingdomes at one crack Rom. 1. 31 32. 2. Tim. 3. 3. 4. the very same and farre worse then that of the Jesuites and Papists condemned by the Statutes of 3. Jacobi cap. 1. 2. 4. executing farre more then what they intended and quite deleting the Infamy and memory of that and all future celebration of that joyfull day of November 5. never to bee forgotten Fourthly It disseiseth disinheriteth fore-judgeth the King of his b 1. Jac c 1. 2 4. 3. Jacobi 1. 2. Rightfull Crowne and Revenues the House of Lords of their Peerage Priviledges and c A Plea for the Lords the undoubted Rights our English Parliament and Kingdom of their very Liberties and beings un-Kinging un-Lording un-Parliamenting un-Kingdoming them all at once without once summoning and bringing them to Answer by any legall Processe to heare what they can say for themselves and without any lawfull Judgement of their Peers according to the Lawe of the Land contrary to the expresse Letter of Magna Charta ● E. 3. c. 9. 25. E 3. c. 4. 28. E. 3. c. 3. 37 E. 3. c. 18. 42. E. 3. c. 3. and the Petition of Right yea d Votes of Octob. 11. 22. 1649. debarres these Ministers Officers Lawyers Students from their Augmentations Callings Offices Preferments and Degrees who Refuse or Neglect to Subscribe it contrary to all these Statutes and the Lawe of the Land without any hearing or Tryall the extremitie of Tyranny and Injustice transcending that of King Prelates Starre-Chamber or High-Commission Fiftly It inevitably involves the Makers Takers and Subscribers thereof in manifold High Treasons against King Kingdome Parliament for some of which only in a farre lower Degree Strafford Canterbury and many others have lost their Heads as you may read in Master St. John's Argument against Strafford and Sir Edward Cookes 3. Institutes cap. 1. 2. to the forfeiture of their Lives Estates Soules yea Infamy and Ruine of their Families Sixtly It enjoynes us to bee True and Faithfull to the new Common-wealth of England the Generall Councell of Officers of the Army the new created Councell of State and their Westminster Conclave of Journey-men as it is now Established WITHOUT KING OR LORDS without consent of Kingdome People or Parliament by force of Armes Treachery Perjury that is to assist and defend them with our Lives Councells Estates and to submit to all their illegall Acts and Taxes to the losse of Lives Liberties Properties against the Kings or Lords just Titles and our owne Lawes Liberties Byrth-Rights which to doe is not only contrary to Lawe since no Homage or Fealty is due from any Subject whatsoever to other Subject but to the King alone and with a saving of that Faith which hee owes to our Soveraigne Lord the King and that only where there is a legall Tenure betweene them as Sir Edward Cooke Resolves 1. Institutes f. 64. 65. 67. 68. but no lesse then High-Treason within the Statute of 25. E. 3. c. 2. as he Resolves in his 3. Institut c. 1 and therefore unreasonable and Treasonable for such as are True and Faithfull neither to King Lords Parliament Kingdome or People to exact or expect from any others Seventhly It most ingratefully and unworthily obliterates the memoriall of all the good Lawes Liberties Franchises Protection Benefits Deliverances wee have received and the Peace Prosperity Freedome and Happinesse Wee and our Ancestors have enjoyed under the Reignes of most Generous Valorous Bountifull Pious Religious Kings and Queenes especially our late renowned King Edward the sixt Queene Elizabeth King James and a great part of King Charles his Reigne which the Parliaments in their Reigns in e 15 H 8 c. 12. all Acts of the Subsi●ies granted by the Laity or Clergy in their reignes sundry Acts our own forreigne Historians and Writers have so highly magnified and blessed God for and our very last Parliament remembred and thankfully acknowledged in some of their f Exact Collection● p. 14. 15. 16. ●96 Remonstrances of which we need no other testimony but our g Exact Collection p 712 713. 714. Kings Coronation Oath in extirpating Kings and Monarchy for ever after for some confessed extravagancies and Errors of the beheaded King not halfe so grievous oppressive unjust or impious as those themselves are guilty of especially in Repealing as much as in them lies the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance and the solemne League and Covenant the principall Bullwarks against the Pope and Papists encroachments and imposing this new Oath and Engagement against the very Letter Scope of these and sundry other just