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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	authority_n	king_n	parliament_n	1,836	5	6.6012	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61415	An admonition concerning a publick fast the just causes we have for it, from the full growth of sin, and the near approaches of God's judgments : and the manner of performance to obtain the desired effects thereof, which ought to be other than our Common Forms, and with stricter acts of moritication than is usual amongst us : with an abstract of Mr. Chillingworth's judgement of the state of religion in this nation in his time : and of a letter from the Hague concerning two sermons preached there in the French church at which were present divers of the English nobility.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.; Chillingworth, William, 1602-1644.	1691 (1691)	Wing S5415; ESTC R19528	31,813	42

Iniquity thereof in one notorious Part and that is Abuse of Apprentices after great Sums of Mony received with them I my self have had no less than four Sons as soberly Educated and as well esteemed as most before they came to be Apprentices and who behaved themselves afterward without any great Extravagancies placed here to suitable Trades with no little Pains and Charge yet after all ruined and undone by the Iniquity and Wickedness of their Masters and their Partners But I have seen the Judgments of God upon two of them already and to him I have committed my Cause with the other two This I write upon my own sad Experience and could say as much of my own Knowledge in the case of some others Of which I have written heretofore in a Paper Entituled Relief of Apprentices and mention it now as a Common Cause worthy of Consideration amongst others of the Magistrates for averting the Judgments of God from the City And while I write this of a Case wherein I my self have been so much concerned I cannot but be sensible of the case of some others which I often see and hear of and in Faithfulness to God and to the State and Charity to the poor People take notice of it upon this occasion And that is the Pressing of Men and sending them out of the Realm to Sea or beyond Sea by Force and Violence against their Wills I cannot find or learn upon Enquiry that there is any Law or Statute since those made in the Reign of King Charles I. are expired for the Pressing of Mariners and Sailers much less of Land-Men And if there be not I am sure it is contrary to a Principal Fundamental Right of the People whose Goods much less their Persons or Liberty cannot be touched but by Order of Law and their own Consent in Parliament and would frustrate the principal Design and Reason of the Habeas Corpus Act and render it ridiculous and contemptible in Cases of greatest Exigence and most needing its Relief The Rights of the Poor ought to be preserved inviolable as well as of the Greatest And they who can be content to see their own Rights violated in the meanest of their Countrimen while their own Persons and Estates are untouched do not deserve to have them preserved and may expect that they or their Posterity may by the just Judgment of God be deprived of them Nor can I see any Reason why the Poor of the Land who enjoy so little of it should be frighted from their Employments and forced from their Families Friends and the Trades and Labours to which they have been used to hazard their Limbs and their Lives against their own Wills to defend and maintain the Superfluities and Grandeur of the Rich Or how the Death of such in the Service being forced against their Will tho by Law unless they first forfeit their Right by their own ill Behaviour can be excused from Murder in the sight of God Nor Lastly How we can expect that either such should do any Great Service or that the Blessing of God should be with us in the use of such unreasonable Means If we enquire into the Methods of our Ancestors in such Case we shall find them more just and reasonable more prudent and honourable and more prosperous and successful when Men of Honour and Interest covenanted with the King to bring in their several Numbers raised them among their Tenants and Neighbours and led them themselves so that there was a mutual Love and Confidence between the Leaders and Soldiers But this mode of Pressing if I be not much mistaken is a novel Invention a base Project of the Authors of Ship-Mony put on now even while a Parliament is in being to the Prejudice of the King as well as of the Nation to furnish such Officers with prest involuntary Soldiers who have little Interest of themselves to raise Volunteers and whom few are willing to serve under And since it is done while a Parliament is in being which could have given Authority for it it may justly be looked upon as no ordinary Abuse to the King himself but as one of the Treacherous Policies of some Evil Persons to prejudice his Government and Cause make his Government offensive and suspected by the People and his Cause seem absurd while his Authority is abused to violate the Rights of the People which he came to preserve and in a Fundamental Point and contrary to his Coronation Oath and thereby to justifie or excuse the Miscarriages of his Predecessor For all this it plainly and directly tends to It is true there is a Necessity that Men must be had But Necessity will not excuse Injustice to the Poor with so great Violation of Common Right and when without either it may be supplied Let not such be excluded from the Service who are able and willing to serve in their own Persons and have Interest and Reputation to bring in Seamen and Soldier Let the Salaries Pay and Profits of Great Officers especially who sit at home and are out of danger be reduced to Moderation and those who venture all have a proportionable Encouragement both by good Pay while in Service and of Good Provision in case they be disabled and we shall want no Men nor need any Pressing And let but good Discipline be exercised as it ought to be in respect of the Manners of Officers as well as of Soldiers and Seamen and we shall not want God's Blessing But to leave these things to the Consideration of the Parliament and of the City of the Evil Manners before mentioned those which are Secret Sins only by Secrecy in the Commitment and as they are concealed from Men but otherwise are well enough known to all to be Sins though they have not so much of Scandal as those which are openly committed yet may they have other Aggravations which may equal that and require no less Severity of judging our selves if we would not be judged of God As to the rest which either in their own Nature are not so palpable or easily discernible from what is Lawful or by common Opinion and Usage of the World are reputed Lawful and Harmless nay commendable and some perhaps excused and Patronized in opposition to Popery it is to be considered 1. That some are condemned as wholly unlawful not only by the Judgment and Practice of all the ancient Christians for many Ages and comprehended in that ancient Solemn Renunciation required of all admitted into the Society of Christians by Baptism viz. Of the Devil and his Works the World and the Pomps Glory and Vanity thereof and the Flesh and its Lusts and Desires but also by the express Doctrin of the Holy Scripture both under such General Comprehensive Names as the Flesh Gal. 5. 17. Lusts of the Flesh Gal. 5. 16 2 Pet. 2. 18 2 John 2. 16. The Old Man Eph. 4. 24. The Natural Man I Cor. 2. 14. Desires of the Flesh Eph. 2.