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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	king_n	lord_n	people_n	3,378	5	4.9550	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33894	A word in season to all in authority with weighty considerations what persons, practices, and things doth chiefly cause division and contention, rending of kingdoms, and distresse of nations : as also a plain discovery of those things and that ministry that will bring blessings and unity, with deliverance from bondage into liberty, and instead of strife, wars, and fighting, righteousnesse, reconciliation and peace in the land of our nativity / published by J.C.	J. C. (John Collens), d. 1682.; Anderdon, John, 1624?-1685.	1660 (1660)	Wing C5235; ESTC R27130	21,270	30

all and brought them into subjection how soon did they Court him with Flatteryes endeavouring to promote him to the highest honour and so blinded his judgment and he suffering them to breath a while and not executing judgment speedily their hearts had another mischief to devise and so then preaching up his Government as Jure divino and then both they that had joyned with the King and stirred up people to fight for the King and for the service-Service-Book and the rest of that stuffe and them also who had fought against the King and service-Service-Book they soon became one and they preach up Oliver to be Protector and they all make use of his Authority they tooke the Engagement against King or House of Lords and so then he was the only man and this was the only Government But still there was a few people who still saw their deceit and Treacherous dealing with all sorts and these could not cease to make mention of it their souls being grieved with their abominable deceit and then they make it their whole business in all places to stir up the Rulers and especially the Protector to cut off such from the earth and they labour to create Parliaments to their mind and all sorts of Rulers to their mind never ceasing by all meanes to cut off this people But Oliver the Protector being by the Righteous hand of God cut off because he had not executed the thing for which the Lord raised him up but suffered the people of the Lord to be sorely afflicted and the same oppression to remaine upon the free people of this Nation as before His Son Richard he came in his stead how then did the men called Ministers hasten with their addresses from their severall Townes and Corporations to congratulate the young Protector and to give unto him the greatest stile that could be thought upon so that to some he was the Orient Star that was risen to give them light and such like and so having lifted up the young mans heart they then thought themselves secure and then they with him call a Parliament according to their own hearts desire whom they thought were fitted to do the work which they long had desired but when they had as it were brought that work to maturity that was to have cut off all those from the earth which would not bow to their Image the Lord overturned their Counsels in one * day brought up another people in their stead into whose hands the Lord delivered them for that they many of them had long cryed against the Protectors Oppression and Usurpation and had promi●ed to execute the judgment which God expected should be done upon those who had kept his people in bondage but they likewise forgot the day of their adversity in which they cryed unto the Lord and he heard them and they likewise began to lay more heavy Yoaks upon Gods people * and the Lord overturned them likewise and set up another sort * but their hearts being not right in the sight of God and had no mind to execute his judgment upon these who still held the people of God in bondage the Lord gave them no rest but brought in their Enemyes upon them as a flood his long-suffering being at an end and the measure of their transgression finished he hath now delivered them into the hands of their Enemyes that as the Lord sent his Servants to cry unto them and to wa●ne them and they had no regard unto the sufferings of his people yet the Lord often warned all sorts of them of the evil day that is now come upon them and they would not hear nor regard the cry of the Oppressed but the men called Ministers they preacht peace unto them and said no evil should happen unto them and they cryed that the Lord had not sent these men but they were deluded untill sudden destruction came upon them as is seen even pain as upon a Woman in Travell And now what is become of these men called Ministers who as I said before the war and in the war Preach'd and Prayed against the King who made it as it were their work and the Cause of God to f●ght against the King the same men against the Protector and for the Protector who were so zealous for the Government of the Protector that they imprisoned and whipped and cryed out in the ears of Magistrates where ever they came against a poor despired people that they were Enemies to the Government and were suspected that they met together to plot against the Government of the Protector I mean and stirred up the Rulers and they got Souldiers and they called Ministers with the Souldiers and rude people brake their meetings and accused them as being dangerous to the Government having a design against the Government and so cast into prison and all this in Zeal to the Government of the Protector and these were Ministers so called of all sorts as well of them who had been formerly for the King and those who had likewise been against him were become one for the government and one against the people of God which discovered their deceit and the Protector as it s well known and his government was the onely Man and Government that stood in opposition both to the Person and Government of the King yet all this and much more that might be said was then done by that sort of men in behalf and by vertue of that Government and these are the men that now as it were with one heart and with one consent Preach up and cry up the King O you that are now Rulers Are these men to be trusted Are these men to be followed as leaders Are these men to be regarded as to teach the way to eternall life Are they not guilty of all the blood-shed in these Nations Can any Government be secure whilst they are the men set up and their wayes upheld after such a manner as now it is Did not the King and that party follow them and were guided by them in their Councell and had their blessing and were taught by them that they were in the Truth and that they should prosper And did they not prove false Prophets unto them and were deceived by them and led into destruction Whereas on the contrary if the King had removed the Yoak off from the Consciences of people and had set peoples Consciences free and have had his eare open to have heard the cry of them who were afflicted by the Cruelty of the then Bishops and their Courts and Clergy and had eased the burthen from off their shoulder why then might not the King have lived in peace and ruled over the people and gone to the grave in peace And again after if the Parliament had not fought to inslave this people and have brought a greater yoke upon the Consciences of those who sought after God in sincerity of heart might not they have remained and their