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	people_n	tyranny_n	2,786	5	9.5807	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91936	Mene, tekel, perez, or, A little appearance of the hand-writing (in a glance of light) against the powers and apostates of the times. By a letter written to, and lamenting over Oliver Lord Cromwell. / By John Rogers. In this woful howre of his temptation, and of Sions sore pangs, and solemne appeals; and of the precious saints imprisonments and persecution for this most glorious, betrayed denyed, and crucified cause of Christ Jesus King of Saints and nations.	Rogers, John, 1627-1665?	1654 (1654)	Wing R1811; Thomason E231_2; ESTC R7990	15,517	17

a price upon such proceedings it being one witnesse of God in the world to carry on a Testimony against the injustice and unrighteousnesse of men And against the miscarriage of Governments when corrupted and declining from the primitive and originall glory So page 9. We are so farre from designing and complying to have an absolute o● arbitrary power sig●ed or setled for continuance in any PERSONS WHATSOEVER at that if we might be sure to obtaine it we cannot wish to have it so in the PERSONS of any Against absolute Government in one Person whom we our selves could most confide in or who should appeare most of our PRINCIPLES and Opinions or whom we might have most personall assurance of or interest in but that the Authority of this Kingdome in PARLIAMENTS may ever stand and have its course as the supream power and trust with many other things in that Declaration So in the case of the Army stated and proposed by the Agents from Gilford Octob. 9. 1647. page 4. We tooke up Arms in Iudgement and conscience for the peoples Just Rights and Liberties not as mercenary souldiers hired to serve an arbitrary power So page 13.14 The people shall see we minded not our own interest For successive Parliaments but the Good Freedome and Welfare of the whole Nation which in the same page is declared particularly to be in new Successive Elections of Supream Assemblies of Parliaments at Periods of times and that it ought not to be denyed them this being so Essentiall to their Freedome that without it they are no better then SLAVES that therefore it be insisted on so positively and resolvedly as not to RECEDE from it So page 15. That PARLIAMENTS rightly constituted are the Foundation of our hopes of Right and Freedome to the people that therefore the constant SVCCESSION of PARLIAMENTS be so resolvedly insisted on that a law PARAMOVNT be made for it And wheras all power is originally and essentially in the people and whereas their free choice or consent by the Representors is the only originall and foundation of all Iust GOVERNMENT that it be insisted upon positively that the supream POWER of the peoples REPRESENTORS in PARLIAMENT be forth with declared for as their power to make LAWS or repeal Lawes and to call to account all Officers in this Nation whatsoever So page 16. This supream and sole Power in Parliament being the thing against which the King contended and which the people have defended with their lives and therefore ought now to be demanded as the PRICE of their BLOOD So page 17. The many oppressions of the people and the danger of absolute tyrannie were the occasion of the expence of so much blood so that the people have bought these their Rights and Freedomes by the price of blood c. Since that the Remonstrance of St. Albans Right and freedome where it lies 1648. pag. 14.15 The summe of the publick Interest of a Nation to COMMON RIGHT and FREEDOME which has been the chief subject of our contest and in opposition to TYRANNIE and INJVSTICE of KINGS or others we take to lye in these things following 1. That all Matters of supream trust or concernment to the safety and welfare of the whole be in a common and supream Councell or Parliament c 2. That the power of making Lawes Constitutions and Affairs for the preservation and government of the whole and of altering or repealing and abolishing and power of finall Iudgements concerning Warre or Peace the safety and welfare of the people and all civill things whatsoever and the supream Trust in relation to such things rest in that supream Councell of Parliaments So as 1. the ordinary ordering and government of the people may be by such Offices and Administrations and according to such Lawes and Rules as by that Councell or Representative have been prescribed or allowed and not otherwise 2. That no extraordinary or ordinary powers as above mentioned may be exercised towards the people by ANY as of right but by that supream Councell or Representative nor without their advice and consent may any thing be imposed on or taken from the people or if it be otherwise attempted by ANY that the people be not bound thereby but free So page 16 That it may not be left in the wil of the KING or any particular person whatsoever standing in their own Interest to oppose make void or render ineffectuall such determinations or proceedings So page 21.22 Where any person is trusted with a limited power according to Laws to preserve the Rights and Liberties of the people and abuses of power to their hurt or by the advantage of that power shall rise to assume hurtfull powers which they never committed to him and indeed to take away all those Foundations of Right and Liberty of Redresse and Remedy and to swallow up all in his owne absolute will and power to impose take away and destroy at pleasure They fought against personall Interest c. Such person doth ipso facto forfeit all that trust and power he had c. Further in p. 65.66 That satisfaction assurance be given that what they have contended for against the King which is our humble suit now for which we have been put to so much trouble cost and losse of blood hath been only for the Liberties and common Interest and not for your personall Interest and Power that there may be a sound settlement of the peace and future government of the Kingdome upon grounds of common Right and Freedom as followeth For Parliaments Annuall or bionnual 1 That there be a certaine succession of future Parliaments Annuall or Biennuall with secure provision that none who have ingaged or shall ingage in warre against the right of Parliaments or Interest of the people therein or have adhered to the enemies thereof may be capable of electing or being elected at least during a competent number of years nor any other who shall oppose or not joyn in agreement to this settlement and that it be declared that such Representatives have and shall have the supream Power and Trust Besides much more in these other Declarations that upon the Armies march into Scotland 1650. pag. 36. We found our hearts extraordinarily stirred up by the Lord to assist the Parliament against the KING being abundantly satisfied in our Iudgements and Consciences that we were called forth by the Lord to be instrumentall to bring about that which was our continuall prayer to God viz the destruction of ANTICRIST and the deliverance of his CHVRCH and people And upon this simple account we ingaged not knowing the deep Policies of worldly States-men and have ever since hazarded our lives in the high places of the field against all the opposers of this worke of Iesus Christ And having those things singly in our eye namely the DESTRVCTION of ANTICHRIST and the advancement of the KINGDOME of JESVS CHRIST Against King and against Antichrist