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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	king_n	parliament_n	successor_n	2,446	5	9.0199	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54970	The Plain dealer an essay wherein are some remarks upon Mr. Thomas Long, but more particularly upon Dr. Hollingworth's book where the character of King Charles the first is inserted from the declaration of Mr. Alexander Henderson, which book he calls A further defence of the Kings holy book &c.		1692 (1692)	Wing P2349; ESTC R26227	10,822	18

The Plain Dealer AN ESSAY Wherein are some REMARKS upon Mr. THOMAS LONG But more particularly upon Dr. HOLLINGWORTH's Book WHERE The Character of King CHARLES the First is inserted from the Declaration of Mr. Alexander Henderson Which Book he calls A further Defence of the King 's Holy Book c. London Printed in the Year 1692. THE Plain Dealer THere has been a vile Bustle between one Richard Hollingworth Doctor and an unknown Author in two or three Answers to some Papers came abroad under the Name of Lieutenant General Ludlow The great Struggle is Whether Charles the First wrote that Book entituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or was the Martyr asserted in the two last Reigns under Charles the 2d and that most Religious Merciful Brave and Wife Prince the late King James of Blessed Memory * In Mr. Henderson's Character of Ch. I. pag. 3. in Dr. Hollingworth's Remarks two Princes the hopefullest that ever were in these ingrate Nations The Doctor like a Politick Clergy-man to say no more of him has took the strongest Side and I must say the Gentleman that provoked him must be a bold Man whenever since Sixty the Time we date the Prosperity and Glory of these Nations when Luxury ceased when one of those hopeful Princes already mentioned exemplary in Piety Vertue Religion Chastity and Frugality influenced all about him a Law was on his Side a Man's Head was the Price of but Whispering against The Anniversary preaching up of the Martyrdom of Ch. I. of which the Clergy to whom the Doctor is related and who never fail to flatter Power were the Interpreters It signfies not much to our present Affairs though the Church-of England-men think themselves * Long in his Preface is in such a sury upon it that when he reads it in his calmer Temper he 'l blush to find his grey Head guilty of such intemperance ruffled to their undoing though in both with submission all the Arguments seem against the Doctor whether Charles the First wrote that Book or was the Martyr nor should either have made me set Pen to Paper had not the Doctor 's indirect and malicious course to have his Book gain Credit and the base Treatment he and Mr. Long make the Gentleman whose Name and they know it without his privity though he ought not to think himself affronted at it the Author there makes use of 〈◊〉 been the occasion As to the malicious ' part of which should I make Remarks of all the Doctor writes I should grow tedious and as Impertinent as our Clergy-man therefore I shall only observe the Doctor 's Darling his last Answer for which I expect Cannonading with double Shot if the Doctor out of his languishing Magazine has any left to the vile Book c. I protest it seems to me as ill-natured a Piece as any e're sent abroad and the Declaration in the Front the Doctor values so much wrote by a Man highly disobliged For there Pag. 3. Mr. Henderson's words are That which we esteem a God-like Kirk-Policy instituted by the Lord Christ and his Apostles is no better to them than a kind of Slavery and some do not stick to call it worse than the Spanish Inquisition nay even the greatest part of those who invited us to assist them in it and sent hither their Commissioners to induce us to enter into a solemn National Covenant for that Effect having served their Turn of us to throw down the King and the Prelatical Party and to possess themselves with the Supream Government both of Kirk and State are now inventing Evasions to be rid of us and to delude it some of them publishing openly in their Pulpits and Print that the Sacred Covenant was never intended for the Godly c. Was not the Doctor put to his last Stake sure he would never have inserted the Character of King Charles the First given by this Man apparently disgusted * Tho I have been lately informed this Character said to be Henderson's was not writ by him but soisted in by this or such another Author In one place of his Books the Doctor expresses vehemently an aversion to Presbytery and says He never was a Presbyterian in his Life and by God's Grace never will for I neither liked the Principles of that Government nor the Spirit of too many of that Party Yet the Doctor gives you a taste of what he may be upon occasion for though he says he will not be c. he makes use of one of the † Ridgedest worst of them to serve his Turn And I am afraid should the Government once turn upon that Point since the Doctor so profligately makes use of Presbyterian Prejudice was it for his Turn he would be perswaded to be one of them but whilst it is not I conclude with the Doctor that he will love the Constitution of the Church and the Sweets of the Church of England and as he says Pag. 22. what in him lies promote its true Interest while he has a Tongue to speak or a Pen to write But we will leave the Doctor to his Resolution and make some other Remarks may back our Opinion that this last Piece of our resolute Gentleman's has in it much of Malice and ill Nature for Pag. 15. he suggests nothing will satisfy the Person he pretends to answer and his Party but extirpating Monarchy the Church and all good Men for there he says barbarously enough the Ends of them are to destroy Church and State and therefore not one word of the Vertues of this Prince I warrant you But this is not the only rancor'd thing our good-natured Answerer has subtilly couched in this his notable Paper for Pag. 17 and 18 taxing the Author of the Lewd Book as the Doctor with his usual Rhetorick calls it for asserting that the Condescension of King Charles the First in passing so many Bills the first Year of the Parliament were no Favours nor deserved Thanks he observes for this Man and his Party must design against all Kings such an Assertion takes off all Obligations to their present Majesties and their Successors from the People as to any future Acts of Grace they grant for which says he he deserves no Thanks from the Crown and indeed for which he ought to be looked upon as a down-right Enemy to the future Intercourse and good Understanding betwixt their Majesties and their People and hopes the saucy Assertion will be taken notice of One may boldly aver here was our good-natured Doctor in Power saying should not gratify his Spleen but thanks be to the humble Sphere of our Divine though the Author has the Grinn he remains out of the reach of Biting Knowing little of the King's Book though I may as well pretend to write against it upon that little knowledg I have of it as the Doctor does for it having only seen under the Earl of Anglesey's own Hand that King Charles the Second and King