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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	king_n	write_v	year_n	5,160	5	4.8919	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42267	Seasonable advice to the citizens, burgesses, and free-holders of England concerning parliaments, and the present elections / by a divine of the Church of England.	Grove, Robert, 1634-1696.	1685 (1685)	Wing G2158; ESTC R2863	21,459	42

immediately For this if the consternation he may have been in will give him leave to consider let every man consult but his own Experience Has he ever been illegally imprisoned Has any part of his Goods been violently wrested from him Has his House been rifled Have his Barns been Robbed Have his Cattle been driven off his Ground Has he Suffered any thing under colour of Authority that could not be justified by the known Laws If he do not find himself to have been thus injured or if he do if the Courts be open and ready to vindicate him in a fair and equal Tryal he may then reasonably conclude that neither his Person nor Estate were in that hazard which the Noise that was made might incline him to imagine For certainly our Liberties and Properties are as well secured as any thing on Earth can be they have all the defence that Human Prudence could possibly give them they are established by Law and have been confirmed and ratified by the constant Practice and many Gracious Declarations of a long Succession of excellent Princes And we can have no greater Assurances than these on this side Heaven But if we have not too highly provoked Almighty God by our great unthankfulness for the many Blessings bestowed upon us but can be perswaded to trust him with the Event and depend upon his Wisdom for the Issues of the future the Divine Providence might then be ingaged for our temporal Good and the preservation of those many Earthly Felicities we now injoy But our Fears and Jealousies are the most effectual way to defeat our Hopes and put all in Disorder they provoke God Who knows we have need of these things and has forbidden us to disturb our minds with distracting Cares for what is to come they highly disoblige our Sovereign by manifesting an open and professed Distrust of his Royal Goodness and Favour and they certainly bereave us of the fruit of that happiness we had in possession by racking our thoughts with vain surmizes of unknown evils we conceit may possibly befall us hereafter This weakness and folly of our Nation has not escaped the notice of Strangers There is a little Book written some years since and got into publick I know not how wherein the Author chalks out the way to the Universal Empire And among other remarks he tells us that If the King be obliged to maintain strong Garrisons though for their necessary defence this will make the People of England believe that he is forming great designs against their pretended Liberty So he is pleased to call it And this he observes not without Reason is one thing that will contribute very much to the hastening of our ruine And if so then those that seemed so very full of Apprehensions that they would have had his late Majesty's ordinary Guards disbanded did but pursue the Methods laid down in the French Politicks and if there were any Pensioners it may be easily guessed who they were unless the Gentlemen had so great a Zeal for the Service that they would do the work freely without expecting any Wages for their pains But they might pretend what they pleased for the ripening the Projects they were then framing Our Liberties we saw were not attempted and God be praised they remain unviolated still and are not in any Visible Danger unless we betray them our selves by our own Groundless and Extravagant Fears The next Pretence is not much unlike unto this And it is as we have been told that we were in imminent danger of Arbitrary Power that all things should be managed by the present Will and uncertain Humour of those that Governed and that our Lives and Fortunes stood continually exposed to their Pleasure just as we remember it was in the time of the late unhappy Confusions For answer to this we need but to examine again and consider whether every thing has not been administred in the due Form and Course of Law and then why should we entertain these frightful and uncharitable suspitions Princes do well understand that the Throne is established by Rightiousness and that it is their most unalterable Interest to take care that Justice be duely and impartially executed They whom the Laws have settled in the highest place of Eminency and Power will always have a tender regard to those Laws by which they Reign and do support their Royal Dignity and Prerogatives But all that invade the supream Authority by Usurpation must needs be Arbitrary They seat themselves by force at the Helm they come in with a storm and the Violence of the tempest unavoidably dashes the Vessel upon this Rock What they have gotten illegally cannot be managed according to Law What was the purchase of the Sword must of necessity be maintained by the Sword Intruding Powers will always be the most Arbitrary and Tyrannical Lawful Princes have a kind Sympathy for their Subjects and are sensibly affected with any Miseries and Inconveniences they suffer as the pain of every Member is immediately felt by the Head But an Usurper is not such a Sympathizing but a Rider as it were of the Body Politick he leaps into the Saddle and puts on Furiously and Whips and Spurrs without any Mercy to the poor Creature he has got under him He comes at first with his fair Promises and smooth Pretences and it may be inveighs most vehemently against Arbitrary Power and Invasion of the Rights of the People But it is time to look to your Money when the Pick-pockets bid you have a care of your Purses There was never any great Cry made about this Arbitrary Power and the like but that they who opened the loudest against it had a design to introduce it themselves It is beyond all question we have seen the thing effectually experimented more than once We have reason therefore to be always Jealous of these seeming Zealots for the Publick good but there can never be any just occasion of suspecting our Prince especially since his Majesty has been pleased to assure us That he cannot wish to be a Greater Monarch then the Laws of England are sufficient to make Him Which most Gracious expression if we had no other Arguments for our Confidence were alone abundantly enough to quiet all Men's fears as to this Particular But yet we have been farther told that there is great danger of our being suddenly over-run with Popery This indeed is a thing if it were true that might justly fill the minds of all sober men with very sad apprehensions But you know that it was this very pretence that was made use of to bring on and strengthen the late Rebellion The People were then generally perswaded to believe that the whole Church of England was at least Popishly affected but when they had destroyed or Eclipsed it by these malicious suggestions seconded by the force of Arms how very few were there of that Communion who did then revolt to the Church of Rome when they