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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	kingdom_n	pope_n	2,577	5	6.6882	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85282	The fifth of November, or, The popish and schismaticall rebells. With their horrid plots, fair pretences, & bloudy practices, weighed one against another: and in opposition unto both two things asserted. 1 That the supreame authority of establishing, reforming, and vindicating religion is placed in the King. 2 That religion is not to be established or reform'd in bloud.		1644 (1644)	Wing F891A; Thomason E43_8; ESTC R23274	14,141	27

authority of both Houses of Parliament in England In truth so unhappily penned with so little variation of language that but for the alterations of Ireland for England sayes that letter to the Member of the House and some great persons of this Kingdome in the places of some named by you your owne Clerke would hardly know it from one of your owne Declarations All that they do is for the good of the King and Kingdome The King is trusted with the Forts Magazines Treasures Offices for the good safety of the people if he doth not discharge this trust but is advised by evil counsellors persons they cannot conside in 't is their duty so see this trust discharged according to the condition and true intent therof that they saw their Religion and Liberty in danger of extirpation therfore they had reason to put themselves into a posture of defence that they are ready to lay down these defensive arms as soon as the great Offices of the Kingdom are put into such hands as they can confide in Thus the Popish Rebels in Ireland fetch their Materials from these here in England and both Babels are built upon the same foundation that hath been laid in the Votes Ordinances and Declarations of the pretended Parliament To returne to the Fifth of November whence we have digressed It was one of father Parsons maximes which those old Powder Traitors built upon that if any Christian Prince shall manifestly turn from the Catholique Religion and desires or seeks to reclaim others he presently falleth from all Princely power dignity that before any Judge hath passed sentence upon him therupon his subjects are freed from al bond of Oath of Allegeance That they may ought provided they have a competent strength cast out such a man as an Apostate heretick backslider and revolter from the Lord Jesus Christ and an Enemy to his owne state and Common-wealth Nay they goe one step farther if he favours or countenances an Heretick put in a Malignant too and that is any man they shall please to call so for they will be accusers and Judges to in their owne cause against their Soveraigne he presently looseth his Crown so the King is to be deposed and the Pope immediately to present unto the Kingdom for whom the people are to fight upon paine of damnation Out of which detestable conclusion saith our Author arose the first smoake of the Gunpowder Treason Speed ubi suprema And what is attributed to the Pope by the one side the other with as great a freedome and confidence assume unto themselves for evidence whereof we need referre you no farther then their Pamphlets and Actions The plea is the same Lastly the meanes which they use to advance their designe is the same too For their zeale those prayed Ibid. prosper Lord their paines that labour in thy cause night and day Let heretiques vanish away like smoak Ibid let their memory perish with a crack like the ruine and fall of a broken house For case of conscience Garnett Gerrard and Tomson three Jesuits gave it lawfull to kill innocent with nocent rather then the service should quaile For plausibility of carriage at home Catesby advised Winter the King might be solicited by petitions to repeal the penall statutes made against Catholicks and to tolerate and range them among his other good Subjects And to be plausible abroad Owen was imployed to allay the odiousnesse of the fact with forraign Princes and to impute the treason unto others discontentments * They imputed their treason to the puritans who to be quit impute this Rebellion unto them They threw scandalous aspersions upon the face of His Majesty spread supposititious letters in the Kings name to their owne advantage All which are as like the practises of our times as if the braines now on worke had forged them or those souls being transmitted into these bodies But above all they are alike in their meanes of glueing and cementing their party together by Oathes sealing up their soules to a faithfulnesse in their desperate conspiracy and tying knots upon their consciences least they might happily have relenting thoughts and with too much ease upon a sad remorse slip thorow it But herein they differ that these transcend them in perjury for the obligation of one single oath was to them an end of all strise but amongst these one protestation was not enough to extinguish or becalme their jealousies their feares issuing from so extreame a guilt of conscience betray all those succours that both reason and religion offer and can admit of no security If any question should be made about the place these may challenge the right-hand-file as out-stripping them in foure or five particulars 1. They were to act their execrable villany in a Vault of darknesse as it were in the secret tyring-house as if their hearts had still continued the command of a reserve of modesty But these as if they had made an order for the banishment of shame play their prize upon the publike stage in the view and to the reproach of Christendome 2. The leaven of their malice had tainted but some few measures of meale but these have spread their infection so farre that a great part of two or three Kingdomes are leavened and by this meanes the Church that bred and nourisht them is turned into an Acheldema And as if all these were not a continent capacious enough for their bloody malice they have poysoned the waters too with their Rebellious practises that if need be they may staine the Ocean with blood and make a red-sea of it for their passage to another Canaan Lastly though the Complexion of their hearts be equally sanguine yet these have hands defiled in a deeper dye of blood They did but prime the pan these have given fire in the very face of Majesty What those did but designe these have put in execution And if out hearts rise against such as have discovered but an intent to butcher our friends how shall we containe our hand from them that have actually spilt their innocent blood Indeed the child of that first and monstrous conception was come to the birth But there was no strength to bring forth Here I confesse is more strength but it shall be no more then may serve to lengthen the paines and exasperate the sorrowes of their travaile As that peece of the Psalmist might have beene their History Behold he travaileth with iniquity and hath conceived mischief and brought forth falshood or a lye he made a pit and digged it and is saken into the ditch which he made Psal 7.14 15. So may the next words be a Prophesie for these Their mischiefe shall roturne upon their owne head and their violent dealing shall come downe upon their owne pate That Cockatrice egge which is hatched by themselves shall in the end prove a serpent onely to themselves and herein I doubt not to