Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	king_n	ordinance_n	resist_v	5,553	5	9.4425	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35948	Complaints and queries vpon Englands misery acted Octob. 13, 1659, by some officers of the army, against the Parliament of the common-wealth of England / by a true lover of the lawes and liberties of England, E.D.	E. D., True lover of the lawes and liberties of England.	1659 (1659)	Wing D14; ESTC R12374	8,590	9

maintained Yea are not the Commanders of the Army by this course in a fair way to make their Children yea and themselves too very slaves in case they leave the Army or the Army leaves them and leave us in this condition 3. Touching non-serving the Parliament or any Form contrary to the said two Liberties This quaery is Whether the common use of this word Form of late years in a disdainful sence be not a Satanical invention and Engine to keep men off at large from any thing that should bound them to a closer conscientions walking despisig all wayes of Worship as Forms contemning Parliaments 〈…〉 ny the Power thereof whether this be to obey the Form of Doctrine 〈…〉 the Form of sound words 2 Tim. 1. 13. continued in the Scriptures 〈…〉 Command 1 Pet. 2. 13. To submit to every Ordinance of man in things Civil for Conscience sake Much more to a Parliament that is above Kings And threatens us Rom. 13. 1 2. That if we resist the HIGHER Powers we resist the Ordinance of GOD and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation Now is there any more natural and Genuine HIGHEST Power then a Parliament chosen by the People in whom the Original of Supream Powers r●dicated Quaery further whether though in some things there may be a form without substance there can be any visible substance or Action without its Form As can there be Fire without Heat Water without liquidity kinds of Beasts and Birds and men without variety of Forms True godliness without some Form of profession a fighting Army without some form of Battallio A Government set up by the people over themselves without a Parliament or call it what yo will that doth present the people by the peoples choyse and consent And is not the Peoples Agreement how they will be governed a Fundamental Form of Government both Intrinsical to the Constitution and Extrinsical to the Execution of the Legislative part Comp. Others say this Parliament consisting of these men are not fit to a rule as not refined enough and therefore a more refined party is fitter for it Not to excuse the want of that goodness as was desirable in some 3 or 4 of them were not the generality of them learned pious Godly men for men of that rank and quality If notwithstanding the Officers of the Army and their Adherents knowing them I suppose by name would call them into the House doth it not probably signifie that they called them to sit only to do their drudgerie viz To out Mr. Richard to clear the way for I know not who to make an Act of Indemnity for the Army to lay two Taxes to be paid within half a year to pay the Soldiery and Seamen to make two Acts the one for payment of excise the other for payment of Customs for them whom the Army should a 〈…〉 ter thrust into Government to gather up dismissing this Parliament under th 〈…〉 great odium of the people in the three Nations It is queered further if never 〈…〉 refined a party as can be had afore Christ come and make all the Inhabitants o 〈…〉 the Earth perfect Saints should take upon them the supream Legislative power and rule can they allow more Liberty of Conscience then aforesaid Can they defray the Commonwealths charges with less Taxes then will maintaine a stron 〈…〉 Fleet at Sea and pay 3 huge Armies in England Scotland and Ireland or can they rule justly without punnishing Offenders If they cannot where is the refined difference yea where will there be any Bassis or Bottom of that refined Government if the peoples consent Concurre not to their sitting And if their consent doth not Concurre where is our Civil Liberty as men and our Liberty of conscience as Christians liable to be imposed upon to submit to we know not what refined Phantasies FINIS