Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	death_n	king_n	treason_n	2,761	5	9.5559	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77402	A briefe answer to a booke called The declaration of the kingdomes of England and Scotland. Sent in a letter from a Member of the House of Commons.	Member of the House of Commons.	1644 (1644)	Wing B4539; Thomason E46_2; ESTC R4220	5,085	12

A BRIEFE ANSWER TO A BOOKE CALLED THE DECLARATION OF THE KINGDOMES of ENGLAND and SCOTLAND Sent in a Letter from a Member of the House of COMMONS OXFORD Printed by H. Hall An. Dom. 1644. A Briefe Answer to a Booke called The Declaration of the Kingdomes of England and Scotland Sent in a Letter from a Member of the House of COMMONS SIR I Have looked over the Booke you sent me intitled The Declaration of the Kingdomes of England and Scotland c. And send you what occurred into my mind upon reading the orders of these new States who give loyalty and allegiance the reward of villany and treason and evidence their seeking of truth and peace by condemning the Kingdom to Anarchy the Church to Schisme giving the lives of the Subjects for victims their estates for a prey to lawlesse rage and rapine an unlikely way to stop or dry up these streames of bloud that have covered this nation with a prodigious inundation but a meanes to feed that unnaturall fountaine that the children unborne may be bathed in bloud and inherit the misery of their parents for it 's not imaginable that the oppressing of a lawfull King disherison of a royall Progeny to whom the right of a crowne hath beene transmitted through a race of so many victorious Princes the cheating and dispossessing of a glorious nation of their Religion Lawes and Liberty can produce other then perpetuall divisions betweene the just demands of right by an injured King and people the continuall feares and plots of guilty usurpers to secure themselves and confirme their stolne Soveraignty If any man doubted heretofore of the intentions of these men this book leaves no place to any but the willfull have any in a blinde confidence perswaded themselves that these men meant not to take away the King 's Rights the Title of this booke is a Declaration of the Kingdomes against the will of the King And surly whoever undertake to binde the whole Kingdome without him exclude him from being the Head of the Kingdome that is a King and they that exclude him for an houre may by the same reason exclude him for ever and they have by their practice and former Declarations told us a King consenting not to what they thinke necessary for the Kingdome is to be reputed as a minor or incapable and that they may assume the royall power and allow the King no more liberty but submission to their decrees They claime a power under the name of States without limitation of time or power no appeale permitted from them no possibility of addresses for the greatest injury or injustice done by them and you may now see they set themselves in the Throne and admit the King to no other then a private condition Englishmen have beene accustomed to other language their stile being the King's Kingdome People Lawes Peace Armes And I doubt not but they abhorre this Title as an impudent forgery which would involve them in a disloyalty to their King and expose them to the scorne of forraigne nations and subject themselves to usurpers to whom they owe not allegiance and from whom they must not expect protection but the dissolution of their Lawes and an absolute Tyranny and arbitrary government by them who have broken their trust and faith with their King and Country Surely the Commons of England gave no power to their Knights and Burgesses to depose their King or destroy their Lawes they chose them for the Kings Counsell not for Kings over him and them to advise him not to treate or advise with forraign nations much lesse to invite strangers to the bloud and desolation of the whole Kingdome which is herein avowed and whereby all men may see as themselves phrase it our Religion Liberty and Lawes which have stood against the greatest assaults of forraigne power envying our happinesse are oppressed and troden under foot by the craft and cruelty of our owne neighbours and Countrymen I wonder our brethren the Scots are so soone weary of that amiable title and their owne peace and not onely as Ameleck whose name God threatned to blot out from under heaven that sell upon his weary brethren cut off the hindmost of them but rake in the wounds of their languishing brethren and adde smart and death to their hurts and they would perswade us that their oppressions of us are out of affection to us and for our liberty their distressing the King for his honour and safety and we may beleeve them in that aswell as the lawfullnesse to unite themselves in this warre without their King in whom they are united with this nation without consent of their owne Parliament without which it's treason and a breach of the Act of Pacification so solemnely vowed by them to be kept as if they would tell the world no lawes loyalty oathes or duty can hold them longer then it stands with their advantage And for their taking up armes for which they bring neither law Soveraigne command nor former practice of any but Traytors never were any borne more opposite to our duty to God Scandalous to our Christian Profession more unnaturall to our native Country more dishonourable to His Majestie more offensive to God more injurious to men Then these that fight against all whom the King commands to come to His defence or that assist him under the name of a Popish Prelaticall and malignant party it 's treason without contradiction to assault the King in any pretence and can He be killed by His Subjects through the sides of others or assaulted in the head of an Army surely vastantia peccata sinnes that lay wast the conscience corrupt the judgement and deface all shame and modesty and where men have cast off loyalty and falsified their oathes they grow bold with God and pretend feares and dangers they never beleeved Honour to His Majesties Person they pursue and reproach preservation of His Rights they take Armes to destroy The successe of their many Petitions Declarations and Remonstrances hath beene sutable to the merits of them and have very well served to informe the people how much they were deceived if they expected peace and unity from them that would sever the Body from the head in the state set up Schismatikes to alter the doctrine and discipline of the Church confederate themselves with Strangers impose Religion and Law upon King and People and authorize murder theft as warranted by law and conscience as those barbarous nations that enacted the most odious oppressions for Heroicke vertues This pressing and patheticke Declaration which they say they are put to wanting truth and right cannot with adulterate language legitimate such horrid crimes win credit to such incredible untruths nor consent to such unnaturall courses which would rather have the Subjects of England drench themselves in each others bloud that the worst of miseries a civill warre be perpetuated upon the Kingdome to it 's finall destruction which must inevitably follow then that