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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	war_n	4,472	5	6.2395	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47719	The emperors answer to the French king's manifesto translated from the Latin.	Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1640-1705.	1688 (1688)	Wing L1108; ESTC R13327	11,412	22

Language and unjust Railing against His Sacred Person but to wipe off all the Scandal which this Impudent Writer has endeavoured to fix upon the House of Austria and which the Ministers of France do every where scatter about and to defend His own Innocence And moreover that this His Cause may be more and more publickly known and testified to all the Christian World He does publickly declare and call the Omniscient God to Witness that He never thought any thing of breaking the Truce but that He was alwayes firmly resolv'd and it is still His true and serious purpose to keep it inviolably if it will at last please His Most Christian Majesty to stand to the Covenant of Truce and the Declarations which He made and reiterated but the last year from Paris and not to endeavour to make any alterations But as for passing this Truce into a firm and perpertual Peace He persists in that that He will most candidly and willingly shew forth all readiness in endeavouring it provided that a Commission being appointed for the dividing of the Borders and discussing the Controverted Rights may proceed in that Manner and Order as is agreeable to the Laws made betwixt France and the Empire Wherefore if there be any regard to Justice in the Most Serene K. of France as it is hop'd His Imperial Majesty has good Reason to believe and trust that He will of Himself Chastise and Correct the Calumnies and Slanders of this Scandalous French Print will withdraw His unjust Arms restore Dammages bring back all into its Primitive State permit the Most Serene Prince Clement long since Legally Confirm'd by His Holiness to enjoy quietly the Electorate and Arch-Bishoprick of Cologne and will remit the Cause of the Prince Palatine to a competent Court of Judicature in which His Imperial Majesty does promise that Justice shall be Faithfully and Impartially done And Lastly That He will suffer the Peace which He sayes He wishes for to be procured in the time manner and order as is set down in the Truce But if He be not willing to do these things none can then suppose there is any other cause for the French King thus to revive the War then that the singular favour of the Divine Providence and the wonderful defence it has afforded to the House of Austria are things displeasing to Him or that He fears the great encrease and enlargement of that August Family by their late Victories which have carried the Empire beyond Belgrade or that He has a desire to raise up again the beaten and depressed Turks by diverting our Arms as 't is said He has promised them Or Lastly That through too greedy a desire not only of assuring to Himself for perpetuity what He has got for a time by the Articles of the Truce but also of Conquering the whole Roman Empire He thinks Himself not oblig'd by any Pacts or Covenants but that He may break them at any time at His Pleasure Whatever it is the Most Glorious King of France shall not escape the Infamous Mark of a Perfidious Prince that violates His Faith. And therefore His Most Sacred Imperial Majesty does protest before God and the whole Christian World that the said King is free to stretch forth His Hands either to the Fire or the Water and either to abuse the felicity of His present Power or in time to fear those Adversities which he provokes the Omnipotent God 〈◊〉 Anger to send upon Him. But as for Himself being driven to the necessary Defence as well of His Provinces as of the Sacred Roman Empire the Electors Princes and States thereof He shall be blameless and free from all the guilt as well of the calamities like to follow from the War and the effusion of Christian Blood as of the Mahometan Superstition continuing still in Europe and of the destruction of so many Christian Souls miserably groaning under the Yoke of the Turk The Author indeed of this Print boasts and glories that His Most Christian Majesties Arms are p●oved just from Heaven by their success wheresoever He moves 'em but with what Truth let him shew if he can His Imperial Majesty being fully satisfied of the goodness of His Cause is resolved if it shall please God in this occasion to give prosperous success to the French Arms He will never the less adore and Magnifie the secret Counsels of God who has sometimes Chastized and Corrected even those whom He Loved by such as Attilas But He is glad that He has cause to hope better in this World. The Most High has thrown down and humbled the Turk that broke his League but a little before it was ready to empire And He will also throw down and humble the French Violater of a League which should have held Sixteen Years longer Vienna Octob. 18th 1688. FINIS