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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	king_n	people_n	5,231	5	4.6713	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26049	The assenters sayings published in their own words for the information of the people : being in requital of Roger L'Estrange's Dissenters sayings / by an indifferent hand.	Indifferent hand.	1681 (1681)	Wing A4019; ESTC R4649	21,051	39

it otherwise were to give Credit to the false suggestion and base contrivances of those who Design nothing more than to take us off from watching over their Motions by engaging us one against another and infusing such Jealousies as may effectually divide us among our selves The only way that is now left without a Forraign power first to break and then to Conquer those in seperated parties whose united strength they know they cannot Resist Ibid. p 18. 66. God be Thanked none of our Differences are such as we may Despair of Reconciling them or at least of bearing with one anothers Infirmities and Mistakes Ibid. p. 26. 67. Many that are for the Church should abate of their stiffness in things not Essential and unite at home all that are capable of it by adjusting matters among our selves and those cannot come into that Union be at least Inoffensive to them that do Ibid. p. 28. 68. The Kings great strength is his peoples love Causes and Remedy of the Distempers of the times p. 285. 69. But these like the grave swallow all the good the bad life Liberty and Estate Families posterity Root and Branch in one Day I mean such as are Trepanners or Countenancers of them sham-Evidence false Witnesses whose Tongue can Swear and unswear whose Tongue perhaps have Cut the Throats of many a poor Innocent already and still want more work more work men of no Honour no Honesty no Religigion except of that Notorious and Bloody Religion that is worse then no Religion you may have more Truth more kindness more Fidelity fairer quarter from Infidels then from such Bigotted-Catholicks that think it is Religion and pleasing to God to cut men's Throats Horrid Sin of Man-Catching p. 9. 60. Which they dare not always do in the down right Godfrey-way of Murdering that has and may prove Dangerous no the Devil is crafty and his Agents and Emissaries can improve in Wit as well as Malice they do the Feat lay their Snares catch men not in the night and be Hang'd but at noon Day and by Law not with Cruel Hands but a way worth two on 't with Venemous Tongues of a Serpent Ibid. 61. And that by false Oaths false Tongues swearing pro con as if those that will swear you Twenty Oaths in an hour for God have Mercy will scruple at an Oath for Money and to have all other Oaths and Sins pardoned into the Bargain Ibid. p. 10. 62. Wicked men by false Oaths can do the Business do their own Business get Rewards for catching Innocent men and not always though sometimes the Gallows also for their pains in setting Snares to catch men these are the men that can do any mans business how Innocent soever Ibid. 63. Holy David compares these lurking Catch-poles these Knights of the Post that wait in all Companies and spie in all Assemblies unto a Lion Lurking in his Den or in secret places lying in wait privily and under some Covert perhaps of the Righteous Law to catch men to catch their Prey Where men walk where men Talk by the way-side says David they insinuate into all Companies all business all Assemblies where they can get Admittance they are never out of their way they catch at the words of a Minister in the Pulpit of a Judg upon the Bench laying Snares for him that Reproveth in the Gate Trepanning their very Comrades their Friends and Familiars like Jeremies Companions Jer. 20.10 Saying Peradventure he will be inticed and we shall prevail against him and we shall take our Revenge on him But this they do with all privacy imaginable perhaps under an Oath of Secrecy to pump the deeper under Colour of Friendship or under Colour of some doubtfull word that will bear two Sences and they shall always take it in the worst Sence and in the wrong Sence and inconsistent in Sence and incoherant with all former or subsequent Discourse or make Additions villanous Additions of their own these are the Dark-Lanthorn men that like Faux walk with a Vizard on the vizard of Honesty of Religion Friendship or perhaps of good Fellowship laying their Snares secretly and in the Dark to catch Men. Ibid. p. 14. 64. These are the Blades of our times and the men of Valour that dare strut like those Giants of old that bid Heaven battle and did Defiance to the God of Heaven and Blaspheme him to his Face and if ever they Pray to him 't is only in jeer as when they pray to God to Damn them Damn them Ibid. p. 16. 65. Words are lost and much more holy Scripture words are lost on these stout Hectors Atheists false Witnesses men-catchers Catch-poles and Sham-Evidences God bless us all from them and grant we may never come into their Clutch or within the reach and probability of their Oaths their Oaths the Snares wherewith they catch men many honest men useful men nay therefore these men-catchers lay their Snares and their oathing-gins to catch them because they are honest and usefull and stand just in the way to hinder their Villanous Plots and Design Well go on and swear and Dam your selves to the Pit of Hell and let men perswade you there 's no such thing as Hell at worst but a kind of Purgatory a certain refining crucible only to take away your Dross and for a little money or killing two or three Hereticks and that warm her house too may be avoided Ibid. p. 19. 66. They 'll say it is a difficult thing to prove a Rogue perjur'd and an Affidavit-man and an Evidence shall find favour and Friends 't is hopefull and if we swear say they to catch and trap a man out of his life and Estate we are upon our Oaths so they are every hour of the day but when they sleep but no sooner awake but the first is a prayer to God damn me none can contradict us the Jury is bound to believe us whether they will or no and in spight of their Heart and Conscience they must go according to their Evidence yes yes the Juries well know their duty well know you and your Evidence too none know to the contrary an Oath is an Oath they go on and say before Death and the day of Judgment wee 'll Repent and get a Pardon from our Ghostly-Father nay perhaps they have one before hand in their Pockets Jub Sigillo piscatoris vel Sacerdotis But your Ghostly-Father nor their Father Pa Pa pater patrum cannot deliver the false Swearers and Men-catchers from the just Judgment and Discovery of the Father of Spirits who protests he will be both Judg and Jury and Witness too against the false Swearers Adulterers and Oppressors Mil. 3.5 Ibid. p. 19. 67. There was a Plot a horrid Plot and Conspiracy by the Chief Priest and Scribes against our blessed Redeemer's Life and willing enough they were to kill him but they feared the people Wherefore they Resolved he should suffer by the Law of the Land for Treason in