Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	france_n	king_n	orange_n	2,955	5	10.1958	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38366	England and Scotlands covenant with their God in viz, the protestation, the vow, and covenant, and an ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the taking the same / ordered by the Commons in Parliament that these covenants and ordinances bey forthwith printed and published.		1645 (1645)	Wing E2931; ESTC R23870	17,390	60

the more to let in all these calamities upon the Kingdom and cast upon it a necessity of renewing Covenant and of entring into this If it be said the extirpation of Prelacy to wit the whole Hierarchicall Government standing as yet by the known Laws of the Kingdom is new and unwarrantable This will appear to all impartiall understandings though new to be not onely warrantable but necessary if they consider to omit what some say that this Government was never formally Established by any Laws of this Kingdom at all that the very life and soul thereof is already taken from it by an Act passed this present Parliament so as like Jezabels Carcasse of which no more was left but the skull the feet and the palms of her hands nothing of jurisdiction remains but what is precarious in them and voluntary in those who submit unto them that their whole Government is at best but a humane constition and such as is found and adjudged by both Houses of Parliament in which the judgement of the whole Kingdome is involved and declared not onely very prejudiciall to the Civill State but a great hinderance also to the perfect Reformation of Religion Yea who knoweth it not to be too much an enemy thereunto and destructive to the power of Godlinesse and pure administration of the Ordinances of Christ which moved the well-affected almost throughout this Kingdom long since to Petition this Parliament as hath been desired before even in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth and of King James for a totall abolition of the same Nor is any man hereby bound to offer any violence to their persons but onely in his place and calling to end eavour their extirpation in a lawfull way And as for those Clergy-men who pretend that they above all other cannot Covenant to extirpate that Government because they have as they say taken a solemn Oath to obey the Bishops in licitis honestis They can tell if they please that they that have sworn obedience to the Laws of the Land are not thereby prohibited from indeavouring by all Lawfull means the abolition of those Laws when they prove inconvenient or mischievous And if yet there should any Oath be found into which any Ministers or others have entred not warranted by the Laws of God and the Land in this case they must teach themselves and others that such Oaths call for repentance not pertinacy in them If it be pleaded that this Covenant crosseth the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance there can be nothing further from truth for this Covenant bindes all and more strongly engageth them to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties Person and Authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdoms That scruple that this is done without the Kings consent will soon be removed if it be remembred that the Protestation of the fifth of May before mentioned was in the same manner voted and executed by both Houses and after by order of one House alone sent abroad to all the Kingdom His Majesty not excepting against it or giving any stop to the taking of it albeit he was then Resident in Person at White-hall Thus Ezra and Nehemiah drew all the people into a Covenant without any speciall Commission from the Persian Monarchs then their Soveraigns so to do albeit they were not free Subjects but Vassals and one of them the meniall Servant of Artaxerxes then by Conquest King of Judah also Nor hath this doctrine or practise been deemed seditious or warrantable by the Princes that have sate upon the English Throne but justified and defended by Queen Elizabeth of blessed memory with the expence of much Treasure and Noble blood in the united Provinces of the Netherlands combined not onely without but against the unjust violence of Philip of Spain King James followed her steps so far as to approve their union and to enter into League with them as free States which is continued by His Majesty now reigning unto this day who both by his expedition for relief of Rochell in France and his strict confederacy with the Prince of Orange and the States Generall notwithstanding all the importunity of Spain to the contrary hath set to his Seal that all that had been done by His Royall Ancestors in maintenance of those who had so engaged and combined themselves was just and warrantable And what had become of the Religion Laws and Liberties of our Sister Nation of Scotland had they not entred into such a solemn League and Covenant at the beginning of the late troubles there which course however it was at first by the Popish and Prelatick Projectors represented to His Majesty as an offence of the highest nature justly deserving chastisement by the fury of a puissant Army yet when the matter came afterwards in cool blood to be debated first by Commissioners of both Kingdoms and then in open Parliament here when all those of either House who are now engaged at Oxford were present in Parliament and gave their Votes therein it was found adjudged and declared by the King in Parliament That our dear Brethren of Scotland had done nothing but what became Loyall and obedient Subjects and were thereupon by Act of Parliament publikely righted in all the Churches of this Kingdom where they had been defamed Therefore however some men hoodwinkt and blinded by the Artifices of those Iesuiticall Engineers who have long conspired to sacrifice our Religion to the Idolatry of Rome our Laws Liberties and persons to Arbitrary stavery and our Estates to their insatiable Avarice may possibly be deterred and amused with high Threats and Declarations flying up and down on the wings of the Royall Name and Countenance now captivated and prostituted to serve all their lusts to Proclaim all Rebels and Traytors who take this Covenant yet let no faithfull English heart be afraid to joyn with our Brethren of all the three Kingdoms in this Solemn League as sometimes the men of Israel although under another King did with the men of Judah at the invitation of Hezekiah 2 Chron. 30. What though those tongues set on fire by Hell do rail and threaten That God who was pleased to clear up the innocency of Mordecai and the Iews against all the malicious aspersions of wicked Haman to his and their Soveraign so as all his plotting produced but this effect That when the Kings commandment and decree drew neer to be put in execution and the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them it was turned to the contrary and the Jews had rule over them that hated them and laid hands on such as sought their hurt so as no man could withstand them Esth 9. and that same God who but even as yesterday vouchsafed to disperse and scatter those dark clouds and fogs which overshadowed that Loyall and Religious Kingdom of Scotland and to make their righteousnesse to shine as clear as the Sun at noon day in the very eyes