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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	people_n	3,792	5	4.4298	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48136	A letter sent from a gentleman in Oxford, to his friend in London concerning the iustice of the King's cause, and the unequall proceedings of those against him, who are now found to be the enemies of our peace and happinesse : or a short character of the actions of our new state-reformers, in which the seduced people may see to whom to impute the beginning of these miserable distractions, and the continuance thereof.	Gentleman in Oxford.	1646 (1646)	Wing L1595; ESTC R9389	4,940	10

A LETTER Sent from a Gentleman in OXFORD To His Friend in LONDON Concerning the Iustice of the KING's Cause and the unequall proceedings of those against Him who are now found to be the Enemies of our PEACE and HAPPINESSE OR A SHORT CHARACTER Of the actions of our New State-Reformers in which the seduced people may see to whom to impute the beginning of these miserable distractions and the continuance thereof Printed in the Yeare 1646. SIR I Have received your Letter and with as much care as you desired I have perused it and for your advice I returne my thanks to your error not your love beleeving from that Spring all your lines have been derived and that like People infected with the Plague your desires have still been to corrupt others mistake me not neither I blame not your Endeavours in gaining all you can to your Party since it is multitude not the justice of your cause that must nurse up that Birth your Deceit hath begot upon the Feares and Jealousies of the People and that those Routs the pillars of your new Modell might the better be fashioned into what formes were most convenient for your designes it was extreamly necessary you should take from them all the rules and squares both of Civill and Ecclesiasticall Government and that you have most fully and amply done by a new way of pulling downe the old Religion and setting up of many nay any that might serve either your ambition or your gaine and like Jeroboam in your new Government when it could not be safe for you to erect another you adulterate the old Certainly if you seriously reflect if you review this act of corrupting Religion with a recollected judgement you cannot but find that you have cleane mistaken the way you pretend though not that which you intend for whoever yet would so much Cashiere his reason in things of the smallest moment as to leave a certain positive good for an uncertaine accidentall one take heed the same mistake cost the seduced Prophet his life and if you take the Maxime of the Law for Vmpire that the same cases are to be judged by the same reasons you have cause to feare it may in time prove your owne But admit this Forme this new Directory for the Church were as pure as you would have the People beleeve it or your selves desire it and that ours were as great an abomination as the forsaken Tribes Idolatry was to Israel yet give me leave to tell you and from Scripture from whence you say you borrow all your directions that from thence you are so farre from drawing any argument that can give you authority to plant your Religion by the Sword that you can hardly find any will allow the defence of it by Armes Surely when I consider these things you must give me leave to beleeve you are much a Kinne to those that followed our Saviour for the loafes and the relieving their necessities rather then the love of his Gospell and like Demetrius's Crue serve the Goddesse of your owne setting up because it brings much gaine much wealth to your Cofers And now that in silence I passe over the Extirpation of Bishops both root and branch wonder not at all it is but Consonant that to Silver Deities there be Leaden Priests and therefore you did well to forbid the standing by of such Gamesters as would quickly see more then the Players And because the fall of the Church is commonly a Preface to the ruines of the State take this small glosse upon the defections you have caused in that too and in this I meet first with the Power by which you have erected all this Pile of desolation and here I find Jacob in his Elder Brothers Clothes for from the King first that power issued and by his Writs you were call'd and now surrepticiously like Prometheus you have stolne Fire from Heaven to animate the fond Conceptions of your owne depraved wills and as if in this act you meant to give earnest for all the evills you meant to practice you have eaten through the bowells of your owne Mother devoured the Wombe that first disclosed you Certainly when the King first Assembled you thither as He intended not to trench on your Priviledges so He never meant never beleeved so ill on you that you had the least thought of wresting His Power from Him wresting so I tearme it for I know of no act by which He either lent or gave it away to you and therefore you must excuse me if with you I consent not to beleeve your Power legitimate But admit His Majesty for the good of the Kingdome entrusted His Power with you truly I think it was farre from Him to imagine you would have given it to the Scot and make the representative Body of the Kingdome a Committee to worke journey-worke for them who if things succeed according to their expectation will be so much your friends as to allow you the same favour Polyphemus did Vlysses and too late then you will begin to find with the Country-man you warmed the Snake that shall hisse and sting you and your Generation from your so long enjoy'd Possessions which will be some allay to my misery when I am undone by you to see you perish by your selves and them Nec lex est justior ulla c. But why extends not this Communion of Power to the Irish as well as Scot who if we confide in Proverbs are as faithfull as they truly I 'le answer for them they were Starre-Crost and mistaking the Sceane entred in the Prologue For had they stay'd but two minutes longer they might have Rebelled by President and confirmed it by Authority but I passe over this with the observation of the Poets In quo quis peccat in eo punitur you have stolne the Kings Power from Him and fooled both your owne and His to the Scot which every English man will find a greater breach of the Priviledges of the Parliament of England in joyning your selves to them and refusing to receive any thing from the King in which they are not made your Partners then that which you alleadge in the King for a breach in naming the Common-Councell with you for a Security for His Person But my hopes at last are that if this Power have any thing of the Ingredients of Pythagoras's soule in it it will transmigrate into the first owner And so leaving the right of Power I come to survey the use of it and here at the first fight I perceive the Gyants Club too big for your hands you can weild it to nothing but destruction For I remember at His departure from London He left a City more thronged with Wealth then People a Kingdome more flourishing with good Lawes then any but at His returne I believe He would be glad to find His talent wrapt up in a napkin for in stead of finding His Wealth increased it is diminished His People slaine and the