Selected quad for the lemma: blood_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	offer_v	sacrifice_n	shed_v	6,837	5	9.8568	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38376	Englands apology for its late change, or, A sober persvvasive of all disaffected or dissenting persons to a seasonable engagement for the settlement of this common-vvealth drawne from the workings of providence, the state of affaires, the danger of division.		1651 (1651)	Wing E2942; ESTC R20286	29,201	44

and are still those that lies in Christs way to his royal Throne and the glorious exercise of his Kingly power shall be first on the Powers of this world who have combi●ed together against the Lord and his Anointed and have bin the most undermining and profest enemies that Christ and his Saints have had in the world and all those that seek to underprop that tottering state must expect to fall with it for God hath either laid aside or destroyed the best sort of men who though with never so much tenderness or zeal put forth a hand to uphold this Monarchy and if ever Haman begin ●o fall before Mordecai he never riseth more but to h●s utter ruine What is it that lies so weighty on our spirits that no providence no argument can ballance I wish it were not to be feared of many they have made snares for their Consciences and then catch themselves willingly in them Are not the dayes of Mourning for the late King yet expired and our hearts refreshed by what God hath acted since in these three Nations It s now high time for us to wean our hearts from the flashy ravishments of Names and Titles when we have so long suffered for our affections Surely if we were impartial Judges of that Act which I may call the first cleer and thorow Act of Justice that ever was executed in the Western World and if we did like good and wise men observe the nature and fruit of Actings we shall find that as never an Act of Justice was accomp●nyed with more remarkable observations and blest with more happy Testimonies of Approbation then the beheading the la● King Besides the righteous grounds upon which they gave sentence of death against him which when looked into we had rather need to wonder such a Head should stand on his shoulders the● that it was solemnly severed from it being one who was the Author of the shedding so much blood in three popolous Nations meerly for his prerogative tyranny for all other things he might have had and much of that also with the hearts of all good subiects But the circumstances if they doe not deserve a better name in his execution may inform us somthing more then ordinary if we shut not our eyes First that God should so order it to bring him to his death and shed his blood before that very place where the first blood in this war was shed while he looked out through that window with sport God doth somtimes write mens sins in their punishments Secondly that in so populous and vast a City among millions of his most intire and desperate friends there should not be found the least tumult or motion or insurrection for to res●ue him all men being under a divine restraint and awed by the dreadfulness of Gods justice in such an act what was that poor Army who were disperst up and down the City to the legions of enemies that were against them who might have destroied them in a moment and eat them up at one morsel I am loath to strain these things too far but only to name them to make us consider that they are not ordinary It was one of the great circumstances named in the childrens of Israels deliverances out of Egypt that not a dog did bark at them but doubtless never was such an act of such concerment do●e since that time in the world with less noise and silence then that which argues that something more then humane was at the doing of it and which may not be omitted God hath not suffered the least hair of the heads of any of the prime Instruments in that glorious piece of service to be touched by any Assass●●ate notwithstanding all the threatnings and bloudy malice that works strongly in dissolute and desperate spirits And if we have had but any eyes to view the consequences and issues of it we cannot say but that there is at least occasion of seriousness and ponderousness of spirit ere we have a thought a miss concerning the lawfulness and justness of it for as until that time we did but trifle and dally with the sword and were but off and on up and down mo●e in hazards then hopes so from that day hath God blest us and without intermission or halt freely fought our ●attels and intirely engaged himself in England Ireland and Scotland and which is more hardly a drop of blood hath been spilt in England on that Quarrel ever since as if God should say the sacrifice is offered up the Achan is destroyed my wrath is appeased all the blood you shed before was an aggravation of your sin while that person who was the Author of all and the common person and head to give life and motion to all the rest was untouched in such a dialect God seems to speak to open and attentive ears by all his actings since I leave these as considerations to employ second and more se●ene thoughts upon yet if any be of so tender Conscience in that particuler that they still scruple let them not judge others who are clearly satisfied they have their liberty of dissent yet let them know they are bound to present dutyes which if we had but a faculty of arguing how easie might we draw the necessity of cutting of the late King commune with your own thoughts was not he guilty of all the blood which hath been so prodigally spilt among us It must either ly on him or the Parliament if on the Parliament we condemn our selves for joyning with them and we are partakers of the same murther if it lay on the King what way had we to free this Nation of the guilt but letting him bear his own punishment all other acts of friendship would be but contracting of his guilt on us for as there be two ways of making a man guilty either by his own personal act or by complyance with another which is done by countenancing the malefactor as by coacting with him as he that keepes a murtherer in his house and gives him any countenance is in law made equally guilty with him It would have been thus with our Parliament had they gone on in any other way then to preserve this nation but by revenging blood with blood for how ever publique wars may seeme to be an excuse and mitigation of guilt of killing of man yet it s the cause that gives the advantage of innocency and righteousnes in these acts the wrong cause make all the rest murtherers in Gods sight and he will prosecute them as murtherers especially the prime agents in such affairs yet all meanes was used to the utmost until we had almost lost our selves and the sence of our cause again let us seriously contemplate what good we could have of such a person after all his high and bloody actings against this Nation when he refused to grant the propositions of the Parliament so necessary for this Nation and only shewing a willingness to grant some