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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	call_v	king_n	parliament_n	1,781	5	6.4909	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97105	Some considerations tending to the undeceiving those, whose judgements are misinformed by politique protestations, declarations, &c. Being a necessary discourse for the present times, concerning the unseasonable difference between the Protestant and the Puritan.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.	1642 (1642)	Wing W691A; Thomason E126_45; ESTC R21577	12,653	16

defame all the honest men of the Kingdome yea even of the Parliament themselves so that if we be not the more cautious we may be so farre deluded as to disesteeme even their actions not for that to any reasonable discreet man they can appeare to be any other then as the actions of the most wise should bee but because they are approved of by the honest Puritan It is not safe they thinke to rave against the Parliament point blanke they would then indeed appeare so palpably malicious and villanously disaffected that men would have much adoe to tarry their tryall by Law without doing present execution on them therefore like men full of subtlety they wound the Parliament through the Puritans sides and therein take so vast a liberty that almost provokes an honest hearted man beyond his patience sometimes they speake in a doubtfull sense so as that all who are misled by them can understand them and yet they thinke that if they should be questioned as out of guilt of conscience they cannot be expect if they shall bee able to give such an interpretation to their words that thereby they can delude the holdfast of Law and the censure of justice thus they provide an excuse before they act their villany and proceed as farre as they imagine that will beare them out what high time it is that these men should bee crushed least in time they sow so many tares in the hearts of men that no wisedome of man shall be able to plucke up but that they choake even the seeds of good doctrine and root out of our minds the very principles of reason Another villanous worke they have in hand is to take away our courages and dull our resolutions by commending peace unto us when we are necessitated to take up our Swords what fooles they imagine us to be as if we did not know what were the sweets of peace but then it must be accompanied with liberty the bondman is at peace there is peace there is peace in a dungeon yet I thinke no man can bee heartily in love with such kinde of peace no certainly if our liberty and our religion be much dearer to us then our lives as I thinke they are to every wise man then sure they must be dearer to us then our rest our swords are drawne for them and so long as they are violated what peace what peace so long as the insolencies and conspiracies of unjust men and their usurpations are so many what peace so long as those that would free us from former oppressions and would provide for our future liberties are in no safety but in continuall hazard of their lives were wee not necessitated to it it were madnesse to thinke wee could take pleasure in shedding of our owne bloods what shallow men doe they imagine us to be that thinke that though their sweet words and smooth faces we doe not see their fowle and mischievous intentions yes to their griefe of heart and they joy of all good men they behold that notwithstanding they have in many other things deluded us in this they have not the Militia is setled in safe and trusty hands the Forts and strong holds made good 〈◊〉 Navy secured and commanded by a faithfull and couragious 〈◊〉 of his country that a strong and a welfurnished Army is a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the terrour of wicked men and we hope to the suppression they are quite frustrate of their ends all their cunning discourses and subtle motions for peace though delivered with never so much pretended piety and seeming love to our safeties come short of their purpose they have not thereby lulled us asleepe and 〈◊〉 us to secure no we have the courages of men of valiant provoked men upon us provokt by an insight into all our injuries which are now fresh in our memories provoked by discovery of their delusions and animated by the amiable sight of liberty which we may now if we will our selves obtaine of which for many yeares we have beene deprived and therefore it is not good nor honest that they continue their invitations to peace so long as the Parliament see it needefull to provide for warre This it is when they will be overwise and passe the bounds of their office nor are they more mistaken in this then in other matters especially when they plead the Kings cause their engagements and flatteries here make them starke blind and let them not see how under stickling for the Kings prerogative they comprehend under that such things the obtayning whereof if duly considered would make his Majesties office the most hazardous and fraught with least content of any one in the Kingdome A negative voyce they much stand for a power of calling and likewise of disolving Parliaments these things because they carry power with them and see me to adde much greatnesse and high prerogative to the King they stickling for them and see not that if the King should have them he would be thereby ever liable to the blame and censures of the people for if any thing should be consulted of by the Parliament and by them concluded to be safe and necessary for the Kingdome and that the King by that power they claime for him should crosse it if the people should in the time to come by necessitie for the want of what the Parliament would have provided for them and the King would not whom have they then to blame but the King and he likewise must of necessitie lie under their hard opinions should the neglect of calling Parliaments bring oppressions upon the people or the too soone dissolving them without consent of the House before their businesse were ully dispatcht Both which in their booke of Canons and constitutions ecclesiasticall where without once mentioning the Parliament they take liberty to make the Kings Prerogatives what they please there I say have they peremptorily concluded the power of calling and dissolving all assemblies to bee the Kings undoubted right and would likewise have possest the people so by the quarterly reading of those decrees of theirs in Churches by their owne order It is true indeed these commons are most justly damned by the Parliament but by the remembrance hereof we may palpably observe what a power they then usurpt to themselves and how notoriously they abused that power to the prejudice of the King his perpetuall hazard and disquiet The King past all question saw all this when he so willingly assented to those two acts for the constant calling of Parliment and not dissolution of this both which the Clergy had no other means to disanull and make of no effect then by infusing into his Majesties eares and insinuating to the people that the King hath a negative voyce by which all that the Parliament shall doe comes to nothing unlesse it pleases the King to assent which is not like to be but when those that are so powerfull his evill counsellers over him shall give way to by which meanes alone those evill men have a power of crossing and making voyd all the debates and conclusions of the Parliament and though this bee in effect to make the safety and freedome of the people to depend upon one mans will understanding an absurdity in government a man would think these men could not have the impudence to plead for much lesse that the people should be so unadvised as to admit it to enter their thoughts as a thing iust and reasonable yet indeed so impudent are those as to plead for it and so ignoran are the people as to admit it which is the ground and occasion of all the evils and mischiefes which at this day threaten both his Maiesty and the whole people So that wee see the King hath little to thank them for their too hasty forwardnesse in clayming what is so unsafe for him and so likely to divide the affections of the people from him But what care they the King getting power they get advancement credit honour and what not so little respect they what is safe for him or prejudiciall to the people so their owne ends bee served there comes no harme from good consideration the advice then cannot be amisse to wish every one to consider what they heare to examine all not timorously nor prejudicially but impartially by that uncorrupt rules of reason and to give no credit to what is spoken for the credit or estimation of the speaker but because it is the truth and nothing but the truth FINIS