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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
reason_n	day_n	rest_n	sabbath_n	4,922	5	10.2084	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56284	Scotlands holy vvar a discourse truly, and plainly remonstrating, how the Scots out of a corrupt pretended zeal to the covenant have made the same scandalous, and odious to all good men, and how by religious pretexts of saving the peace of Great Brittain they have irreligiously involved us all in a most pernitious warre / by H.P. ...	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1651 (1651)	Wing P421; ESTC R40061	65,174	82

truth is not repugnant to any of our former Oaths or Obligations is lyable to no just doubts For our former Oaths and Ingagements if we rightly understand them did not so intentionally oblige us to the form of Government as to Government it self nor to this or that changable medium of governing as to the fixt perpetuall end of government Forms and Means are sometimes very expedient and so long they are necessarily to be observed but the question is how far they ought to be observed when they clash and by some emergent alteration in the State are put out of Tune and so jar as it were with substances and Ends and all wise men know Subordinata non pugnant the matter of lesse moment gives way to the greater The Law of the Sabbath was strict in all its rites and requir'd an exact obedience in all its duties which were suitable to its end but when mans being which was the end of the Sabbath came in question all its subordinate offices and solemnities submitted The Jews thought man must rather perish then the Sabbath be broken by any labour to save him and if man had been created for the celebration of that day they had judged rightly but since that days rest was ordained for man our Saviour gives a contrary judgement The same reason reaches our case Our allegiance has been formerly ingaged to the State of England governed in such a form that form is now changed and now our allegiance to the State cannot be continued in the old form without danger to the substance without ruine to the end for which allegiance was so ingaged In this case if we grant that the form of government is but a mean and that it was ordained for the convenience of government not government for the forms we have nothing to do but to conclude with our Saviour that necessity makes the change lawfull and the violation of the form no violation forasmuch as there is no repugnance in subordinate things Dunkirk was yesterday under the Spaniard t is to day under the French the loyalty which the Dunkirkers payed yesterday to the Spaniard is now due to the French That Dunkirker which now keeps his loyaltie to the Spaniard breaks it and may justly suffer for Treason but that Dunkirker which departs from his former loyalty keeps it and the truth of his loyalty will be justified by the end of all Loyalty Consider Known Malignants whose Consciences are too hard for such scruples readily take the Ingagement and so get Trust and imployment whilest the tendernes of Conscience shuts honest men out Answ 2. This Objection has no more Force against the Ingagement then it has against preaching the Word administring the Sacraments and all the best Ordinances that ever were past by God or man for there was never any duty so holy nor injunction so equitable but some scrupulous men perplexed and intangled themselves with fears about it and some men of ill conversation would rush and intrude rudely into it T is impossible for the Magistrate either to ease tender Consciences or to discriminate hard hearts in all cases wherefore let us not require impossible things of our Magistrates Consider This Ingagement is so pressed that scruples arising none is permitted to clear them to himself nor can the tendrers of it prescribe the sense wherein it is to be taken so it must be subscribed blindly in the implicit meaning of the Imposers This agre●s not with the nature of a solemn Obligation Answ 3. The Ingagement is most injuriously accused of any obscuritie no art of man could pen any thing more clearly or succinctly nay I am verily perswaded that the same men that cavil at the Ingagement for ambiguity can scarce produce one Law or rule in all the book of God which might not be made as subject to cavillations as this bond of allegiance By our subscriptions we onely binde our selves to be true and faithfull to the Common-wealth of England as it s now governed without King or Lords To ask what the Common-wealth of England is is ridiculous t is the same now under this form of Regiment as it was before under Monarchy To ask how it can be governed without King or Lords is more ridiculous our senses discover to us that we have a government that we have a government without King or Lords and if we please we may further inform our selves that there have been other such governments in all ages amongst all Nations To ask how we may be true and faithfull to this Government is most ridiculous of all for Truth and fidelity in England is the same as Gods Law commands every where No Law of Gods is more perspicuous then that which enjoyns obedience and subjection to Powers and Magistrates and yet the same Law of God which injoyns obedience and subjection intends true obedience and faithfull subjection they cannot be divided false obedience is no obedience unfaithfull subjection is no subjection Therefore let our Considerator cavil at God and his Word to which our Ingagement refers him let him not cavill at those which refer him Consider The Subjects Liberty is saved to Him by divers Laws and Oaths yet the not subscribing of this Ingagement hercaves any man now of the benefit of Law the greatest of all Liberties and rights Answ 4. Liberty is the due birth-right of every Englishman but Liberty has its bounds and rules and the liberty of every member must be subordinate to the liberty of the whole body By the Laws of Liberty every man is to injoy that which is his own but since one man has far greater and better things to injoy then another the liberties of one may extend further then the Liberties of another Likewise when our Liberties are equall extensive one man may voluntarily renounce or maliciously forfeit that which another does not Therfore we must not suppose that any man in England by the Protestation or Covenant or any Law else has such an estate or inheritance in his Liberty as is altogether indefeasible and unreleasible whatsoever He does or saies But in the last place there is a Liberty of the whole State aswell as of any particular subject and that Liberty of the whole State must supersede the Liberty of every particular subject whensoever both accord not the lesser to avoid repugnance must alwaies give place to the greater The Con●iderator is very erroneous when He thinks the Law allowes him any right or freedome to disturbe the Law or to oppose any constitution upon which publick right and freedom is founded Consider These kinde of ties have commonly prooved uneffectuall nay they have often proved mischievous like artillery turned against the first planters and devisers of them Witnesse the Bishops Canonicall Oath witnesse the late Covenant c. Answ 5. Religious ties and pacts are not unlawfull in themselves but we hold the use of them unlawfull when they are inforced without sincerity without necessity and without due authority