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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	england_n	reform_a	4,212	5	9.5265	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42981	A bitte to stay the stomacks of good subiects, or, A suddaine and short vindication of the Scotts Commissioners papers intituled, The answer of the Commissioners of the kingdome of Scotland, &c. from the imputations laid upon them, in the declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning the papers of the Scots Commissioners, &c. Martij 13 by A.H., Scoto-Britan.	A. H., Scoto-Britan.	1648 (1648)	Wing H1; ESTC R4885	6,911	12

and therein unto what tearmes he and they pleased This is the greatest crime they charge the Scotts Commissioners with A Personall Treaty at London is first in their thoughts and discourse P. 18 19 The most secret and greivous sinne doth not more abominate light and manifestation then Treason the sight of Regall Majesty abused by it The presence of the King at London might give him opportunity say they to caiole the Citizens i. e. to cozen and cheat them as themselves have done Their diligence employes it selfe with Achan to hide the Goulden wedge and goodly things they espied in this City to convey it into their owne stuffe and makes the riches thereof serve unto their own ends with which It can no wayes stand to admit King Charles unto Loudon No the undeceived Citisens would have too many representations in his Majesties presence of their sufferings occasioned by his absence A Treaty there say they and contrary unto their custome most truely would treat us out of what wee have fought for i. e. the Soveraigne Dominion draw the whole guilt of this effusion of blood P 20 upon our selves and tend unto the Apparent destruction of the Persons i. e. themselves that have engaged This Proposition of the Scots Commissioners is too much for the Advantage of his Majesty and indeed too honest for this pack't partie the present partie-colourd Parliament to yeeld unto And therefore whilst he is at this distance of affection with them they say not of Judgement for what good man can close with them P. 22 His locall absence is Necessary But nothing more startles this Crue then that the Scots should now varie from that wherein they formerly concurred with them Or what Reasons they have thought on since which they Iudge more effectuall then those formerly I will assigne them some few of many Naturall affection and Loyalty quickned by the word of God and conscience informed Honor their owne Interest and the perfidie and Irreligion of this present Parliament All which by a joynt and respective Influence upon them now powerfully dispose them unto their duty of Subjection and Christian Obedience wherein they are obliged unto their Dread Soveraigne They were formerly decoyed into this Kingdome under those winning pretences of Reformation of Religion corrupted and the preservation of the just liberties of the subject encroached upon and fearing the Inconveniences which flow from these might reach unto themselves they willingly engaged in this war but now contrary unto their Hope finding the successes of their Armes to have beene the fruitfull parents of infinitely more corruptions in church and common wealth and that the intentions of these Reformers what ever they pretended never aymed at or were directed unto these good ends but at the subversion of Monarchy and placing a supreame power in themselves and the driving on of particular ends and interests of their own and an Arbitrary Government to support which as they tollerate all Religions and even the most damnable Here●●es So they do all illegall practises and the most unwarrantable and violent actions of those who adhere unto them These things visible unto all who have eyes appearing unto the Scots they do now not without just resentment reflect upon themselves and are resolved no more to partake with these men in their sins but to do their first workes returne unto their first love and as the Tribe of Judah did by King David being bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh they will by Gods assistance industriously endeavour to bring their natural King unto his owne house and that with honor safety and freedome maugre the opposers Nor will his Majesty be ever pressed by them to take the Covenant having so often protested his aversenesse thereunto there being more reason herein what they upraid the Commissioners with P. 36 to take the measure of their desires from what may please the King then what they with Ieroboam doe to establish their owne throne and new erected dominion to set up so many Calves and Idolls such multitudes of reidiculous teachers and abominable Sects and Heresies For what else is it to conive at and tollerate them yea to countenance them yet this sect forsooth must be convinced by the word of God P. 50 with Gentlenesse and Reason and not beaten out of it by force Thus must Anabaptists be dealt withall yea pleaded for also and supplyed with a better argument then ever they could find for themselves That It is onely a difference in the circumstance of time in the Administration of an Ordinance It is admirable that Moses could not hit upon this distinction unto the Angell who was ready to kill him for his deferring the circumcision of his sonne Eleazar equipollent unto baptisme Independents also under which Notion Antinomians Libertines Brownists Seperatists P. 53 Arminians Familists Erastians Seekers Shakers all the rable of Heretikes shelter themselves must have indulgence granted unto them yea and the chiefe places of Honor trust and profit in Church and common wealthe conferred upon them how ever we are borne in hand with the settlement of the Presbyteriall Government P. 38 and yet because the Comissioners would have the King complyed with and the conviction of his Iudgement and satisfaction expected This must be in them a Coznage Nor will such as have adhered unto his Majesty in the late Warre be through the Scots procurement pressed unto the Covenant which hath bin truely made an Hooke only to draw the Kings partie into danger A meere Cobweb to catch flyes in the weakned Kings partie whilst the stronger Reptilia bred in their owne intralls can breake through it when they list Surely an equall respect is due nay a farre greater unto those of the Kings Judgement for the antiquity of their Reformation and uniformity then unto your Independents and Sectaries so that what you will not extend P. 45 Indulgence to tollerate unto them the use of the Common Prayer will bee left unto his Majesty to give unto them It being much more in the apprehension of the Scots tollerable that Prelacy some excercise of which Government they have seene in other Kingdomes embraceing the Reformation should be restored then instead thereof such thick weeds of Heresies as now daiely spring up in the Church and are ready to choak the seed of Gods word be permitted a full growth And herein they say much lesse then that great Patron of Independencie Mr. Iohn Goodwin the Bellweather of that Flock doth P. 26 who tells us That there was more of the power and truth of Religion in England under the late Prelaticall Government then in all the reformed Churches besides which they say not in others in this Church is most true But this Parliament likes not as not likely to Thrive by it uniformity in Religion being certainely for the greater part of them of Kinne unto that English man our Countrey man Barkely speaks of who seperating from his Neigbours first placed the true

Church in his owne family and having severall Sonnes these afterwards being different in Judgement there became at length so many Churches and Religions as there were persons in the House from which many of the Grandees at Westminster are probably extracted And as unto that grand exception taken against the Commissioners for propounding that an act of oblivion without any caution or limitation should be passed in both Kingdomes whereby Delinquents shall be set upon an even flowre p. 33 with those that have engaged against them in that Cause The Scots conceive themselves obliged in the strictest points of honour to advance what they possibly may the good of those high Noble and Loyall spirits which no obliquity of worldly respect no distortion of danger or weight of suffrings hath beene able to divorce from his Majesties service And as they acknowledge it their great unhappinesse that they have not had the Honour to be sharers with them hitherto in this Glory So now it is their ambition to have part and fellowship with them in this most noble worke and just undertaking of re-establishing his Sacred Majestie into his unquestionable Rights In pursuance whereof what the Parliament object unto the Scots Commissioners that through all these and many former Papers they plead the Cause of the King and his Partie They will hence forward p. 34 urge that Cause with the most powerfull and now onely Arguments the Parliament of England can yeild unto gnash they never so much with their teeth Such favorites are Delinquents now growne with them p. 35 as by their Reception at Edenburgh they may guesse Nor can lesse be expected from the Scots as on whom the Parliament of England hath so notoriously imposed as to have his Majestie left unto them by them upon such tearmes and assurances of high regard unto his Majesties Person and Royall Rights The contrary whereof in every point they have unto their eternall infamy performed p. 41 which assurances though they evade and deny them shall be justified unto the world by the publication of the transactions betweene the Commissioners of both Nations at New-castle and also by the Overtures ever sithence His Majesties Person and Royall Rights being of equall concernment unto the Scots with the English although the Parliament of England call these exclusively their owne rights for which they hold it not fit to capitulate p. 41 And for this abuse of brotherly confidence in the Houses the Scots doubt not in Gods mercy to bring them unto such an account as shall leave the whole reckoning of His Majesties unparalel'd sufferings upon themselves who now seeme to have no way of Iustification left but by further progresse in crimes So that it is not to be marveiled at they seeme so much to undervalue His Majesties Regall Power of conferring titles of Honour and labour to render the Scots ridiculous for that they are so extreame thirsty p. 75 to drinke of the Fountaine of Honour so they stile the King say they because indeed the Parliament of England as to the over-ruling partie thereof many being led aside by their fraud and violence have left off to be honest Honour being but the proper seat and stall of honestie Neither can it be presumed that they desire to taste of this fountaine when they make it their worke to damme and fill it up with the rubbish of their new Government and yet unshapen Tyranny wholy trampling under their feet all the Divine and Glorious prerogatives and Royall Priviledges of Monarchy exercised in all ages by the Kings of England and Scotland The Sunne in his greatest splendor is not more manifest then this By their endeavour to take away His Majesties Prerogative in the settlement of Religion His Legislative power the Negative voyce the Militia the disposing of Offices conferring of Honours the disposing of his Children the election of his Servants with many other rights that append unto these In which transcendent usurpations upon their owne borne King should the Scots concurre they should most justly render themselves the shame of all Nations and the off-scouring of the world The perfidie of the leading partie in the present Parliament hath already given too great a staine unto their Honour by their dealing with His Majestie which they will sooner wash off with prodigall streames of the dearest and best blood of Scotland then they will suffer to remaine or rest longer upon them And whereas they lay an heavy load upon the Commissioners of unthankfulnesse unto their Armie who shewed such tender fellow-f●●ling of their sufferings and their true-heartednesse towards them p. 88 89 The Armie might well pay them with words for thy many blowes they received and with which they discharged their scores in Scotland and saved their heads with the losse of many thausand of their owne lives in England They no wayes being able to have matched much lesse to have mastred His Majesties party without their conjuncture No English man all this while loosing one drop of blood for the Cause in Scotland and as the Scots have very dearely earned their whole pay had it beene more and more truly paid with the vast expence of their blood the impoverishment of their County and a bloody engagement against their owne bowells so hath it cost them most by incurring the forrain censure of disloyalty Into which the Hypocrisie and Avarice of the Parliament of England principally led them and to discharge themselves of this burthen now become intollerable and to shew unto the world that the present practises of the Parliament of England were not the motives of their advance into the Kingdome they resolve with Gods leave to manifest the contrary and speedily to come nearer unto them to debateface to face the Royall Rights of His Majesty p. 76 80 and their joynt interests so eluded by them with such demonstrations as by Gods helpe will be of force manifestly to prove by their power what by their Commissioners they have propounded in their Papers Reader take this for the first light skirmish of a reply unto the Declaration untill the maine battell of more manifest Demonstrations for the truth of what is here set forth in the behalfe of the Answer of the Scots Commissioners can be drawne up and rallied FINIS Sion Coll. visited Icon Ani.