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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	ecclesiastical_a	king_n	supremacy_n	2,485	5	10.5338	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40607	A Full answer to the Levellers petition, presented to the House of Commons, on Munday Septemb. 11, 1648 wherein the divellish poyson therein contained is discussed throughout ... / by a lover of peace and truth.		1648 (1648)	Wing F2343; ESTC R16218	13,050	18

of the Nation and all the blood hath been spilt by the King and his party intimating thereby most inhumanely and unchristian like that there can for this Nation be no attaining unto the Haven of freedome and safetie but through the innocent blood of their true and naturall Soveraigne with his faithfull Subjects which wicked and canniball intentions God of his infinite mercie destroy and prevent that England may never more be guiltie of such horrid crimes Next they accuse their Gods the lower House for betaking themselves to a Treatie with His Majestie O hideous wretches is there anie other visible meanes left for peace and accommodation Doe you not see the Kingdome thorough their ruines brought unto an uproare which will never be appeased but by the restitution of his Majestie whereunto a Treatie is the surest and safest preparation but this is it which they are too sensible of now their eyes begin to be open and they see how they are guiltie of the breach of the Law of the Land and they who have so long bragged and boasted of their fear of God are now in a slavish fear of man but know they this that though for a time they may escape the hand of man yea and that though our gracious King which I know he is willing to doe give them all pardons yet except they repent they cannot escape the judgement of the Almighty for shame therefore let them cry out no longer the Law of the Land and the Law of the Kingdome and the like but cry out of themselves in that they have by their treason and rebellion transgressed the Law of God who is King of Kings and let them not for the safety of a few private men prefer the ruine of a glorious Kingdome before the peace and union thereof See these weak and false principles wherewith they seem to under-prop this falling and tottering conceit against a Treaty because the ruine of the Nation and the blood that hath been spilt hath been caused by the King and his party for so they speake almost totidem terminis good people take up your senses againe and then judge whether the breakers or maintainers of established Lawes are the cause of the ruine of a Nation and the blood-shed therein and then your consciences must needs tell you that you and your party and not the King and his party are the sole instruments whereby those your sad complaints have been effected Again you complaine against the lower House for putting one that is but one single person and a publike Officer of the Common-wealth in competition with the whole Body of the people whereas if this Parliament were the exactest and compleatest Representative that ever was in England it is preposterous for them to stand in competition with him though you falsly account them the supreme Authority of the Kingdom you are therein far from the truth for His Majestie is the supreme Power of the Kingdome whereunto every man ought to sweare in the Oath of Supremacie the words are these I A B doe testifie and from my conscience declare that the Kings Majestie is the onely supreme Governour of this Kingdome and all other his Majesties Dominions and Territories as well in all spirituall or ecclesiasticall matters and causes as temporall c. Which Oath every man now sitting in the two Houses of Parliament hath taken therefore their standing in competition with their Soveraigne whose Supremacy they have so solemnly sworne and unto whom they have sworne Allegiance proclaimes them unto all the world guiltie of traiterous and rebellious perjury and these titular Petitioners do clearly bewray their corrupt and unchristian minds by speaking so irreverently and unworthily of their rightfull Soveraigne calling him a single man and publike Officer c. as a man of the least consideration in the Kingdome What followes in this part their complaint of the lower House discloses their ill-will unto Monarchy and Kingly Government which considering what hath been hitherto said in the like case is not worth answer In their complaint of their own danger they show us how and which way they were misled they took false principles which have deceived them whereas if they had but remembred their rudiments of Grammar they might have called unto mind the old example Jusipientis est dicere non putaram I wil leave the English unto their School-boies still they run upon the old strain they have opposed their King in defence of the lower House its Supreme Authority is not this wilfull obstinate ignorance will not the same law of the Land which to use their own terms makes it expressely a crime no lesse then treason for any to raise warre against the King tell them where the supreme Power is but this their rash undertakeing and their forwardnesse in thus declaring themselves to have run into innocent bloodshed upon these grounds is another warrant to assure them it must be thus I am glad there are such pangs within it may please God they may produce good effects for they deem themselves in the most dangerous conditition of all others left without all plea of indempnity for what they have done oh it workes this is a verie good symptom they may become honester long it is true many of their Associates have already lost their lives and liberties for things done or said against the King the Law of the Land frequently taking place and precedencie against and before the Authority of the lower House their esteem whereof to be supreme cannot make it so but that against it the Law of the Land ought to be pleaded the Law of the Land is the safety of the people and if ever they will injoy themselves and their livelihoods they must recover their Lawes and though they will condemn these titular Petitioners yet we have a mercifull King who will and can give them pardon if they will have the grace to ask it which is a sure way but their depending of the supreme authoritie of the lower House is a broken reed which will pierce their hands and whereas they seem to be something conscious that they cannot be exempt from the guilt of Murderers and Robbers if the lower House persist to disclaim their supreme Authority they herein aggravate their fault in labouring to perswade the lower House to claim title unto that which is none of their own neither will conscience be able to acquit and justifie any for cruelty and unjustice such as is that which they call Murder and Robberie and their attributing of supreme Authoritie due or belonging unto the lower House neither will this plea hold that they have opposed none but manifest tyrants Oppressours and their adherents If they have opposed any other then whom they thus judge I leave them to be their own judges by their own principles but on the other side under the names of manifest Tyrants Oppressors and their adherents against some they have made opposition which can be against none but