Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	arm_n	great_a	king_n	4,088	5	3.5334	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90913	The declaration of Col. Poyer, and Col. Povvel, and the officers and soldiers under their command, which they desired to be published to the whole kingdome. Wherein they declare their intentions for restoring His Majesty to his just prerogative, and the lawes to their due course, for the maintenance of the Protestant religion, and the liberty of the subject : which was the ground of their first taking up armes, and for which they are resolved to live and die. April 10. 1648.	Poyer, John, d. 1649.; Powell, Colonel.	1648 (1648)	Wing P3122; Thomason E435_9; ESTC R203201	1,484	8

THE DECLARATION OF Col. POYER and Col. POVVEL and the Officers and Soldiers under their Command which they desired to be published to the whole Kingdome Wherein they declare their Intentions for Restoring His Majesty to His just Prerogative and the Lawes to their due Course for the maintenance of the Protestant Religion and the Liberty of the Subject Which was the Ground of their first taking up Armes and for which they are resolved to Live and Die April 10. 1648. Printed in the Yeare 1648. The Declaration of Colonel POYER c. IT is notorious enough upon what grounds this War was by us undertaken how the faults of Government precedent were layd open and reformation promised wherein the true Religion should be advanced the King made great and glorious and the just Priviledges of Parliament the Lawes of the Land and the Liberty of the People maintained But now how much our expectations have failed us and how we have runne into those evills which wee fought against is at last too apparent unto us who would not at the first believe the things wee now see insomuch that the Errours of the former Government are now so farre exceeded both in Church and Common-wealth that they are either justified or at least so much excused as that it is desired by the most and best of men rather to enjoy the former againe then to suffer such a Reformation wherein the Publique good is pretended and the particular ends of the Reformers intended For although our Party have prevailed almost these three yeeres and the King in the power of the Reformers almost these two yeeres yet the things promised to be reformed and which wee fought for are scarce so much as entred into or debated but cleane contrary things now acted The King instead of comming to his Parliament to treate personally with his two Houses imprisoned instead of being made Great and Glorious is become the most infortunate in the World and great and glorious onely in Piety Patience and Pitty our Religion Lawes and Liberties so much trampled upon and destroyed and the greatest Tyranny and Arbitrary Power set over us that the wit of man or malice of the Devil can invent and all this but to satisfie the Avarice and Ambition of a few men who by accusing their Brethren have already gotten too much power into their hands and do● now labour to disband u● not to ease the Country as is pretended but as wee are able to prove by their owne Letters and words to bring in other Forces such as may execute their Wals and make the Gentry subject to Sequestration inslawe the People and to use their owne words Roll the Country before them and to establish Excise Taxes and other intollerable charges not to be avoided without the effusion of more bloud then hath yet beene shed in this Quarrell unlesse God of his infinite mercy please to direct it by some meanes not appearing to us And that they might as much as in them ●es destroy our Soules as well as our bodies They goe about to put downe the Booke of Common-prayer in these parts as they have already done in the rest of the Kingdome which will be more wanted heere then in other parts because the Booke of Common-prayer is the sole comfort of the people heere and their way to attaine the knowledge of the Principles of Religion and coser●● God these things though evidentin themselves yet we shat be ready to make pro●fe of as occasion shall require And therefore that the whole world may see our integrity as well in the undertaking this Warre in the beginning and our Carriage hitherto as of our intentions for the future wee doe now declare That wee doe still continue to our first Principles to bring the King to a Personall Treaty with his Parliament with Honour Freedome and Safety that so the just Prerogative of the King Priviledges of Parliament Lawes of the Land and Liberties of the people may be all established and preserved in their proper bounds that wee will as much as in us lyes protect the people from Injury and maintaine the Protestant Religion and the Common-prayer as it is established by Law in this Land and therfore crave the Assistance of the whole Kingdome therein FINIS