Selected quad for the lemma: order_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
order_n	house_n	parliament_n	vote_n	2,126	5	10.2910	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67241	The remonstrance of the Commons of England, to the House of Commons assembled in Parliament preferred to them by the hands of the Speaker.	Walker, Henry, Ironmonger.	1643 (1643)	Wing W382A; ESTC R222557	8,065	18

Church Government ye endeavour to take away the function and very beeing of Church Governours as Bishops and their Assistants the Deanes and Chapters so to take away at once the preferments of learned men and the encouragements of learning In the name of God let the abuses be taken away but not the good uses also 5. For the rectifying of matters amisse in Church Discipline and some things in Doctrine also as is pretended an Assembly of Divines is propounded to be convocated and consulted with The matter is right but the manner is surely amisse and so we are likely to loose the benefit of the substance for the errours in the circumstance which is That in this intended Convocation the Divines are not nominated by Divines who can best judge of their abilities which is the legall way the greatest part of those who are named are knowne or justly suspected to be persons ill disposed to the peace of the Church and addicted too much to Innovation you your selves being all Lay-men are to be the onely Judges of what shall bee propounded and what determined the Divines but your assistantes and the King is totally to be excluded from having any voice or hand in it And as it propounded this is to be a perpetuall Convocation if the Houses of Parliament so please 6. Under the colour of freedome of Preaching seditious Sermons are preached daily even in the hearing of many of your selves who traduce the Kings Sacred Person flander His Government and in expresse termes encourage the maintaining and continuing of this unnaturall and unchristian civill Warre and yet none are punished for it which makes us feare that this is and long hath beene made by some to be the principall engine to kindle this fire of Hell to the just scandall of all good men and slander of our Religion this doctrine comming so close to that of the Jesuites 7 And divers worthy learned and painefull Preachers have beene committed to prison by you for delivering their consciences freely and religiously and preaching of obedience to their Soveraigne these things we observe unto you as tending mainely against the maintaining and propagation of the true Protestant Religion Touching that part which concerneth the maintaining of the Lawes we shall observe also some things unto you wherein your owne practice differs much from your professions a preposterous way to perswade us or any other by-standers 1 Ye assume that power to your selves that ye by a bare vote without an act of Parliament may expound or alter a known Law whereas the Commons house formerly assumed to themselves no such power but in order towards the making of a new Law nor did the House of Peeres challenge any such thing But they having the power of Judicature as Judges they proceeded according to the Rules of the knowne Lawes and upon their honours are answerable for the justnesse of their Judgments as other Courts are upon their oathes 2. Ye make your owne orders and ordinances to be as Laws and compell them to be observed and with a stricter hand which may bind the Members of your House in their priviledges but have not nor ever had the force of Lawes untill by both houses and the Kings Consent they were confirmed 3 And for your owne observation of the Lawes of the Land ye take your selves to be so farre above the reach of them that by your orders and ordinances ye enioyne the Judges and Ministers of Justice to forbeare contrary to their oathes to proceed in their ordinary courses where ye please 4. Ye make an Ordinance to put the Militia of the Kingdome into such hands as ye please and shall confide in and this without the King and expressely against His Command 5. Ye possesse your selves of the Navy Royall and appoint Admiralls and other Officers by Sea without the King and use those ships against the King Himselfe 6. Ye take the Kings Castles Forts and Ports the places of greatest strength in the Kingdome and keepe them against the King himselfe as Hull and Portsmouth and Windsor Castle and these three last actions appeare to us to have beene done by Designe for 7. The pretence at first was for the preservation of the kingdome against some forreigne Enemy but when none appeared in many moneths and we now beleeve none such in truth ever were a warre for the Parliament against the King himselfe was raised for the preservation of the King 8 And those who refuse to joyne in this warre with you or to contribute unto it with giving or lending of money horse armes c ye proscribe as Malignants and persons ill affected to the Common-wealth although we see not how it can be lesse then Treason against the King to joyne with you therein 9 But to all those who are your Commanders or Officers of your Army ye give large and even profuse entertainments and rewards but out of our purses who give you little thankes for it Thus much may suffice to give a taste how the Lawes are and are likely to be maintained in the course we are now in And for the Liberty of our persons and Propriety of our Estates we shall say a little in the next place and by a few particulars judge what we may hope for therein 1 Ye take the Kings Treasure ye intercept his revenue possesse his houses of accesse and all these for his owne service if any attend him or assist him they are condemned as Malignants Popish evill Counsellours and Enemies to the State 2 Ye have by messages endeavoured to perswade our Brethren of Scotland to joyne with you in your Rebellion against your Soveraigne and this was not done by some private men alone but ordered by the Votes of your House 3 Ye condemne the Rebells in Ireland and that very justly for their horrid rebellion there and yet your selves doe greater and more horrid acts of barbarous hostility against your King even in his owne person in England and when yee have beene charged with it ye would excuse it by saying that it was not your fault but the fault of the King himselfe and of the Counsellours and Cavaliers about him that he went himselfe in person into the battel which he did with that magnanimity and Kingly courage as will adde to his honour and your shame whil'st the world endureth Thus your action is become odious to God and Man and your excuse for it ridiculous 4 And as if ye had shaken off all subjection and your selves become a State independant ye have treated by your Agents with forreigne States Such an usurpation upon Soveraignty as was never yet attempted in this Kingdome 5 Ye command your owne orders ordinances and Declarations to be printed and published cum privilegio But if any thing come from the King which may truely informe and disabuse the people ye forbid those to be published and commit them to prison who do it 6 The monies advanced by gift or adventure or act of