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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	world_n	3,255	5	4.3685	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55189	The character of a good army &c. being a few hints touching the gallantry and fidelity of an army in the late wars who gave the sole honour and glory of all their atchievments [sic] to God alone, whom they exalted daily in these self-denying expressions / written by Capt. Tho. Plunket.	Plunket, Thomas, b. 1625.	1690 (1690)	Wing P2628A; ESTC R28444	17,060	25

you may guess at the rest Such a great and noble Donative especially for such noble and pious Ends I never read nor heard of in any Army but that No no other Armies have other and better ways to dispose of their Moneys than to such vain Phanatical ends especially their Officers for there must go tantum per mensem to the winking Whore tantum per mensem to the teeming Whore tantum per mensem to the finest Whore and many other Tantums and Items to keep the Kids abroad in Terra incognita c. O rare Faggot-mongers who in their way of Trading surpass the Brown Devil of Abbington I can take it upon my Oath that I never knew nor never heard of any Commission-Officer in Oliver's wherein I was fifteen years and before that four years in the Wars in Ireland and England that was in the least guilty of Whoredom no nor so much as suspected except Lieutenant W of our Regiment though nothing of that kind was ever proved against him being only matter of Suspicion proceeding from some joking talkative Soldiers and though this was all yet it hindred his Preferment all along for he never was Captain wh●le Goffe and Morley were Colonels and that was till the Restitution of Charles the Second God always sides with the best though fewest in number for seeing the World loves its own Joh 15.18 19 and hates such in whom there is any thing of God and not only so but joyn hand in hand against them seeking their ruine if possible for Pares cum Paribus facile congregantur so God by a parity of Reason must needs love his own People too as he doth indeed yea many degrees above what the World can do theirs And though that little Army little comparatively was scorned despised and hated of the world and are still yet in spight of the world their Bow abode in strength and the Arms of their hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob because they sought him earnestly frequently fervently and constantly all along till they were betraid at last by trusting more in the Lord of Hosts than in their own strength valour and policy to which I was an Eye-witness many years and plus valet unus oculatus testis quam mille auriti and the Words Absque Deo nihil possumus were always in their mouths and their constant Motto and ever shall be mine for without the help of God the greatest Army in the world can do nothing though they have the best cause in the world no not against a despicable Enemy England is owing to that Army or part of them next under God for the noble and profitable Island of Jamaica c. though even such as grow rich by trading there can scarce give them one good word for their pains and loss of their Lives Monstrous Ingratitude Ingratus qui beneficium accepisse se negat quod accepit Yea Ingratus qui id dissimulat c. The Impunity of wicked bold presumptuous Soldiers in an Army must needs be highly offensive to God who will certainly require it at the hands of their Officers another day perhaps in the day of Battel who had power to punish and restrain their Vices but did not But alas How can they punish Soldiers for that whereof themselves are guilty and perhaps in a higher degree If one single Sin of one Achan brought down the wrath of God upon the whole Army of Israel and was the cause of that shameful Rout near Ai Josh 7. then surely such impudent monstrous Sinnings both for quantity and quality now perpetrated in the very face of Heaven as it were in defiance thereof and especially upon the Lord's Days and that by many thousands of Achans Young and Old Males and Females of all Degrees and Qualities in Army City Town Court and Countrey will I fear make not only a Rout but a Rent amongst us a Rending and Tearing in-pieces by some heavy stroke of the impending just Judgments of the righteous God I say the remisness of Magistrates as well as neglects of the Army-Officers not punishing but rather in a maner tolerating all sorts of iniquity will be accounted for at the great day to be sure but few of them think of that Day in earnest Yea they put the evil day far off i. e. a day of trouble and misery in this Life especially such as drink wine in Bowls but are not grieved for the afflictions of Joseph Amos 6.3 4 5 6 7 c. the poor distressed Protestants in Ireland c. And now is the time and has been for many years last past that he that departs from evil any Vice or Wickedness maketh himself a prey Isa 59.15 For the wicked still still walk on on every side and one reason of it you have in Psal 12.8 Things were not thus neither in Army City nor Countrey in the days of yore no because the Officers of the one and the Magistrates of the other had a zeal for God and a zeal against whatever was offensive to God and such a zeal now would I am sure be accounted Phanaticism by many who think themselves better Christians than any they are pleased to stile Phanaticks Yea by some in holy Orders as they call it for many of that Tribe have found fault with such kind of Austerities as they term punishing Vice lest their dear Dalilahs should be discovered and themselves exposed Mean time the perishing world lies in wickedness like a dead Dog in a Ditch but God will be known by his Judgments amongst them in a short time and which is worse they shall be turned into Hell and all that forget God Arise O Lord let not man prevail let the wicked be judged in thy sight Put them in fear O Lord that the Nations may know themselves to be but men Psal 9.16 17 18 19 20. Yea let them know that thou whose Name alone is Jehovah art the most High over all the Earth Psal 83.18 As Christ hath purchased all Good for some and some Good for all so all ought to lay out their best endeavours towards the advancement of his Cause Gospel Interest and Glory in this world according to their power And if the former of these did not in a special manner make it their main business while in the world they should walk very unworthy of such great Favours as the holy Jesus hath purchas'd for them in both worlds But certainly they are not they cannot be so brutish as to neglect or slight over so great so necessary a Duty Now if I should affirm that the chiefest Ends and Aims of the Old Army especially of such as had the chief Conduct thereof tended to the same purposes I doubt many would be very angry and perhaps be so much transported with envy as to judge it a capital crime in me for asserting it and worthy of punishment but I can I will and must affirm it come what will come