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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	council_n	parliament_n	privy_a	2,717	5	9.7040	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91901	The petitioners vindication from calumnie and aspersion. And the young mans animation to the building up of Zion. Published in their defence, against a scurrilous book or pamphlet lately written against them by I.W. and scandalously intituled, Petitions against bishops and their votes in Parliament. Subscribed unto after a clandestine, delivered after a tumultuous manner, and falsly going under the name of a whole county or town, proved to be both contrary to our late taken Protestation, as also utterly unlawfull by many other cleare and evident reasons. Now answered and refuted, and petitions delivered unto the Parliament, by impregnable reasons proved to be both lawfull, and according to the petitioners duty, and the late taken Protestation. With many other remarkable passages worthy of observation. By T. Robinson, veritati devotum.	Robinson, T., fl. 1642.	1642 (1642)	Wing R1715; Thomason E146_24; ESTC R212725	45,496	53

for in all his discourse he doth not so much as blow upon it And what way more humble and lesse offensive then supplication and what way more submisse and tolerable then petition Sure he is rapt in the spirit intimating divine deprication then which with God nothing indeed is more forcible But I think I may rather say unto him Satin ' sanus es is he well in his wits for what is more lawfull nay more needfull and commendable then to ask things lawfull whether from God above or of the gods belowe especially with this conclusion humbly subjecting to their grave wisedom as it is well known all our Petitioners have done Again what man distempered in mind sick or maimed in body or crazed in estate will not discover to his Divine Physitian or Lawyer his grief yea and the cause too if he can earnestly imploring help and comfort from him nay not cease untill if it may be he hath in some good measure obtained it And hath not the whole mind and body to wit both the Ministery and Magistracie of the Land and every living member thereof been grievously distempered sick and wounded and whom should we inform and make acquainted with our desperate maladies and their causes But that most wise and ever approved skilfull Minister Physitian and Lawyer the all healing Parliament whom we have chosen and in whom under our God we do confide for the diligent search of our distempers redresse of our grievances reparations of our estates and restauration of our perfect health and strength again Yet as the Patient doth alway find and feele somewhat more in himself then the Doctor can discover or discern So doth the great Patient our Land and Kingdom find and feele many close and inward griefs which that learned Doctor the Parliament cannot of it self espie and therefore on necessitie must be by their great Patient the people informed of or else they can minister no remedie My Author hath forgot the old Rule Egrotare malum sed pejus nolle sanarl It is ill to be sick but much worse not to seek cure Besides he is but an ill servant and a negligent that while his master is busie in private consultation within or in serious examination of his estate will not have a carefull eye into the shop and affaires abroad and in case he discry any danger theft or other evill act do not speedily give his master notice for remedy The happie Parliament is our Privie Councell Chamber or the great withdrawing roome of the Kingdom where they as so many great State Masters do sit in consultation and strict examination of our publique estate and welfare The whole Land is the shop of all manner of intercourse and negotiation We should prove our selves but very bad members remisse servants and carelesse if while our great Masters were thus busied within we should not once look about in the shop in the common-wealth every man according to his severall place and if we see or foresee any evill present or approaching not yeeld them intelligence that so they may happily make prevention And now do I remember the urgencie yea and the varietie of vehement arguments the poore widow of Tekoah used to bring back banished Absolom 2 Sam. 14. 4. to 21. a wretch and of no relation to her Ought not we much more to be instant and that by many Petitions with our David with our Parliament who are indeed even as an Angel of God in hearing of good and bad therefore the Lord their God be with them vers 17. for the bringing back not of a murderous Absolom but a poore dejected distressed Kingdom spoiled and stabbed as I may say to the very heart not by one but many faire looked false-hearted Absoloms yea and as all the people throughout the Tribes of Israel 2 Sam. 19. 9. were at strife to bring back David to his Kingdom whom ambitious Absolom his unnaturall sonne had put to flight so why should not we contend what City what company and what County should be formost with our pains and petitions to bring back I cannot say our King Charles from exile God forbid but I may say * His Person to his Parliament his ancient glory and honour and the old renown of this Land and Nation which the aspiring Absoloms of our time unnaturall Brats have so farre as they could even put to flight and banished out of sight yea out of many a heart And I know no sound and honest heart can deem this a mark of a w tyrannicall Judge or an illegall witnesse or of a transgressour of the Laws or one that seeketh confusion as my Author implyeth against the Petitioners But he will say they came with weapons as swords bils staves c. It is true but neither to offend nor enforce but to defend their own persons from such as for their good will to the common good * As Lunsford and his company the Bishops imps and Dam-me Boies at Whitehall did maligne them and to their eternall contempt and odium be it spoken did despightfully use them And thus much for his third ground Now you shall hear his fourth fol. 4. viz. I am likewise obliged to maintain the Kings royall person honour The Authors 4. ground and estate and to preserve the union and peace between the three kingdoms much more among our selves Now there is no better way thereunto then to x keep his laws for both the honour and safety of the King the liberty and peace of the Kingdom and welfare of them both are involved in them Here is little to be gainsaid for who knoweth not that the Answer prime way to honour his Majestie and to preserve peace in the Kingdom and common-wealth is to keep and obey the Laws provided alway they oppugne not Gods Laws and I would they had been alway kept as they should have been and then we should have had lesse trouble at this time Yet one thing more then meer obedience to the Law is every one that hath taken the Protestation bound unto that is to do their best to bring every one that doth disobey the Laws to condigne punishment otherwise there can be but little peace be you and I never so obedient and the best way to conserve peace is to endeavour the correction of all the perturbers thereof which are the violators of the Laws the bonds of our peace and herein have the Petitioners but justly also fulfilled their oath in praying the execution of the Laws upon all Recusants and Delinquents who have ever been the onely Authors of our unquietnesse seeking still to break our bands our Laws and to cast our cords to wit our Statutes from them But as for my Author I do not understand that he desireth any such execution for he rather judgeth the Petitioners for justice breakers of the Laws then keepers of them and this he secretly x implyeth though not openly averreth And so I come to his fifth ground