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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	able_a	account_n	account_v	13	3	7.0182	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85407	Peace protected, and discontent dis-armed. Wherein the seventeen queries (with the addition of three more, postscript-wise) lately published, partly to allay the discontents of some about the late revolution of government, but more especially to guide every mans feet into the way of peace, as well his own, as the publique, are reinforced with replies unto, and animadversions upon, such answers, which some (it seems) have given unto them, to invalidate their purport and intent. Together with four new queries superadded. By the author of the said seventeen queries.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.; Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1654 (1654)	Wing G1188; Thomason E732_27; ESTC R202310	55,941	80

meet for him to have answered Nay but I will serve thee faithfully beneath in the valley Or is it not a grand detriment or loss unto the world when Princes as Solomon speaketh walk as servants on the Earth i. e. when men of noble Principles of publique Spirits whose hearts and souls are in travel with the wealth peace and prosperity of the world round about them who are shap'd and form'd as it were on purpose by God himself for Rule and Government shall want a stage whereon to act like Princes or be perswaded to enjoy themselves in privacy and retirement Or in case the Sun should be over-ruled to change place with the Moon should not the world have cause in abundance to lament the change Or had his tabernacle been pitch'd in any inferior Orb beneath that wherein it is now placed by God could the Earth have rejoyced in his light at that rate which now it doth Or had He been in any capacity to inrich the inhabitants thereof with his treasures as they are now inriched by him Or if a candle should creep under a bushel when there is a candlestick provided and set on the table for it should not they in the house have much more reason to be offended at it then well pleased Or is it not a secret guilt or consciousness in the generality of men of their own narrowchestedness and self-ward propensions which make them jealous that other men are and will be found in the same condemnation with them and that no man coming where he may without much danger serve himself will be much intent upon the service of other men further then his own secular interest shall super-intend and advise him This Query being the last is supposedly slain by the sharp sword of this Answer The flattery of the present power doth not become the Author who hath oft times approved himselfe not to be the servant of men But oh who hath now bewitched him to appear in this kind to strengthen the hands of the wicked and to make their heart sad whom God hath not sadded This Answer like the head of a polipus hath a mixture of good and bad in it The first words of it contein a worthy and Christian admonition viz. that the flattery of the present power doth not become the Author onely the application of it is reflexive if not aspersive without cause The next words that this Author hath oft times approved himself not to be the servant of men contain a friendly and Christian testimony But the words remaining are gall and vinegar given unto me and my betters to drink But oh who hath bewitched him c. But might not I had I pleasure in such hard sayings upon much more equitable grounds admiringly complain and demand But oh who hath bewitched the Answerer to appear in this kind to weaken the hands of the righteous and to make their heart sad whom God hath not sadded More particularly 1. To the implyed charge of flattering the present power it is a burthen laid upon my sound shoulder in which respect it little pincheth or paineth me Where the skin is whole vinegar poured on smarteth not The truth is that I am both naturally and supernaturally so farre indispoto flatter any inch of the greatnesse of this world that I am still put to my supernaturals to afford unto great men so much as common and meet respects and civilities Luther professed that for twenty years together he never felt the least motion in his heart towards covetousnesse I may as in the presence of God Angels and men professe and say since I first knew what the world and the greatnesse of it meant I never found my heart tempting me so much as to such a compliance with any great Person whatsoever which yet is warrantable enough and which I am farre from either reproveing or disliking in another Yea I have been inclined and am not yet much altered in my inclination to look upon the Generality of great men rather as faeces mundi the dreggs and retriment of the world and the reproach of mankind then as worthy the applications of sober men unto them And they who have best known me from my youth up untill now will I presume very freely give this testimony of me that what other weaknesse or undue cariages soever they have ob served in me they never found me adulterously inclinedto familiarities or correspondings with great men much lesse to any adulatory comportments with them This notwithstanding I must confesse that when I have met with any thing of the divine nature any thing worthy a Christian indeed in a great man I have occasionally and according to the best of my understanding to avoid offence endeavoured to nourish strengthen and increase it and possibly in doing this I have made the most of it and probably more then some others judg the true value or extent of it to be Nor do I think that the Apostle Paul himself was very farre from such a strein as this when he addressed himself thus to Agrippa King Agrippa beleevest thou the Prophets I KNOVV THAT THOU BELEEVEST 2. Although it be most true that flattery of the present power doth not become the Author yet the representing of the present power unto others and especially unto those who ought to live in subjection to it in the true shape of it and with those desireable and commendable things in it which are proper and likely to render this subjection the more niturall willing and free is nothing but what well become both the Author of the Queries and the Answerer also And what the present Query doth more then this the Answerer may with a much better judgement and conscience number amongst things which are no● then terme it flattery Therefore 3. The Answerer had very little cause to demand with an oh who hath be witched me I am able to give a reasonable and sober account unto any man of what I have either done or said in the Query This account I have given already in part and am ready to account further when required Therefore if I was bewitched when I conceived and drew up the Query it was not Sathan or the greatnesse of this world but God or the Spirit of sobernesse and truth who bewitched me 4. The Person whose hand as I suppose I am charged to strengthen deserves both from the Answerer and from the whole houshold of faith in the land a farre better stile then that of Wicked But the common saying is Regium est malè audire cum bene f●ceris It is Prince-like to be evill spoken of when a man hath done well Or if the term wicked be specificall not personal so that the meaning of the charge be that I strengthen the hands ●f the wicked partie of men in the land my defence is that the strengthening of the hands of a good Migistrate to execute judgem●nt and justice in his place is not to strengthen