The Parliamentary Or Constitutional History of England: Being a Faithful Account of All the Most Remarkable Transactions in Parliament, from the Earliest Times. Collected from the Journals of Both Houses, the Records, Original Manuscripts, Scarce Speeches, and Tracts; All Compared Withthe Several Contemporary Writers, and Connected, Throughout, with the History of the Times. By Several Hands...

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Printed; and sold by T. Osborne; and W. Sandby, 1753
 

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Página 335 - Heaven upon this nation, if these distractions continue. God so deal with me and mine as all my thoughts and intentions are upright for the maintenance of the true protestant profession, and for the observation and preservation of the laws of this land : and I hope God will bless and assist those laws for my preservation.
Página 415 - ... serve and govern the kingdom, by the counsel " and advice of parliament, for his majesty and his " posterity, according to their allegiance, and the " law of the land : wherefore they did most humbly " pray, and advise his majesty, to desist from that " his intended passage into Ireland, and from all " preparation of men and arms tending thereunto ; " and to leave the managing of that war to his " parliament, according to his promise made unto " them, and his commission granted under his great...
Página 267 - ... from time to time, to cause to be arrayed and weaponed, and to take the muster of them in places most fit for that purpose. And...
Página 123 - I must break silence. I humbly beseech your Lordships to give me leave, to take this too just occasion to move your Lordships to take into your deep and serious consideration the woeful and lamentable condition of the poor Church of England, your dear Mother.
Página 78 - And we do here declare that it is far from our purpose or desire to let loose the golden reins of discipline and government in the Church, to leave private persons or particular congregations to take up what form of Divine Service they please, for we hold it requisite that there should be throughout the whole realm a conformity to that order which the laws enjoin according to the Word of God.
Página 63 - ... authority remained in a few of such as were most addicted to this party, whose resolutions and determinations were brought to the table for countenance and execution, and not for debate and deliberation, and no man could offer to oppose them without disgrace and hazard to himself.
Página 49 - God, in giving your majesty a safe and peaceable return out of Scotland into your kingdom of England, where the pressing dangers and distempers of the state have caused us with much earnestness to desire the comfort of your gracious presence, and likewise the unity and justice of your royal authority, to give more life and power to the dutiful and loyal...
Página 341 - That in this case of extreme danger and his majesty's refusal, the ordinance of parliament agreed upon by both houses for the militia, doth oblige the people, and ought to be obeyed, by the fundamental laws of this kingdom.
Página 413 - Irish papists had already, in a great part, effected in that kingdom ; and, in all likelihood, would quickly be attempted in other places, if the consideration of the strength and union of the two nations of England and Scotland did not much hinder and discourage the execution of any such design. And that they might manifest to his majesty the...

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