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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	law_n	lord_n	4,135	5	3.8427	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95603	A thunder-clap to Sion-Colledge. Or, a catalogicall hint of the pulpit inveteracy, and apostacy, of that mischievous assembly, or mystery of iniquity, at Sion Colledge. By S.T: a cordiall friend to truth and peace, &c.	S. T.	1649 (1649)	Wing T58; Thomason E542_9; ESTC R205963	9,149	13

appear for the Kings interest But truly all things considered we need not wonder at it for Ecclesiasticall Interest and Monarchicall Interest hath been and must be jumbled together as interwoven one in another Suteable to that Text Revel 17.7 The beast must beare the whore A lively portracture of your Church Such is your Interest that it cannot stand unlesse upheld by the Kings of the earth your Kingdome is of this world Contrary to the nature of the Kingdome of Christ and upon this account you may well struggle and bussle for Monarchie because your Interest depends upon it But one would think you should not be so mad and so perfidiously irrarionall as to attempt owne or prosecute the destructive propagation of the corrupt Principles and Interest of this King so palpably destructive to the Kingdome and to the whole publick Interest I beseech you looke back a little and take a particular survay of the wonderfull transacting of things in relation to the Kings proceedings did ever any Engage Contrivers contend for him and prosper hath God thinke you I appeale to your Consciences fought so wonderfully so unparalleldly so miraculously against both foraigne and domestick enemies and blasted all Plots Contrivances Attempts and Stratagems for nothing I say is it for nothing that God hath done all this Nay what hath the People of England fought for this many yeares if not for a free and impartiall execution of Justice upon Capitall offenders and originall Authors of all the blood misery and ruine of the People of this Nation and dare you I say dare you in person presse or Pulpit attempt to stop the Current of Justice I wonder at your Impudence is not Impartiall Justice the alone sollid Foundation of all the peace liberty and freedome that can be expected Object But you would have the King exempted because there is no president for the like Action I wonder at your weaknesse Answ This is your great Argument that makes a monster through Citie and Kingdome But If examined as light as vanity it selfe for mind if no President can be produced or extracted from our Ancestors Then this Parliament hath made and may proceed to make a president for Posterity upon such sollid stable answerable justifiable grounds of Reason Equity Justice and Common safety that all the world if they judge impartially cannot possibly contradict now as Presidence are not constant Rules to act by so no former president whatsoever can bound or limit the proceedings and actions of the succeeding Generations because presidents of necessity may and must differ according to the mutable different conditions of times But the reason of no president is cleare because no King did ever Personally or Commissionally so perfidiously attempt the ruine and desolation of the publike Interest and therefore no cause of a president of this nature I hope gainsayers will be silent in this for whoever deny it must exceed the bounds of Reason and common sence And whereas you falsly affirme and declare in your pernitious letter-to the Lord Gen. that its an action contrary to the Law of God and man if you study and prevaricate while doomes day you can never prove it I demand whether the Law of God or Nations the Law of equity justice and safety do more or lesse in reference to dignity or a title of Honour exempt a man from deserving justice he that sheds mans blood by man shall his blood be shed Gen. 9.6 now this text nor no other text hath the least limitation or restriction to the title King But if he be a man interpret as falsly as you will or can he is not exempted but comes within the compasse of justice But when every thing desert you then as your last support you fly to the Covenant and you can pull and wrack that with all the false misconstructions that can be invented to patch up all your weaknesse and inveteracy and like your perfideous Scots your dear Brethren you can strike through the heart and bowells of the Covenant with the Covenant in your mouthes But if it be demanded why I direct my speech to Sion Colledge it s because I conceive that to be the conservatory or fountain originall from whence flowes all that rubbish trash and trumpery that is publiquely divulged in most Pulpits throughout the City in your monthly morning Lectures and every Lords day though I despise not your Lectures if either intended or acted for good Is this the best eggs you can hatch at your dayly and weekly meetings at SionColledge that as the results of your pernicious Counsels you must allot and appoint every one his work one shall raile against the Army another inveigh against the present forme and Constitution of the Parliament another must pray and preach devoutly for restoring the King another cry up the secluded Members What ruffish is here to stuffe Sermons withall have you nothing else to doe but to poyson pervert distract and disquiet the Spirits of men who would otherwise willingly and freely aquiese were they not by you inraged incouraged incensed and animated against the Army and Parliament If you were not as blind as Beetles you may be satisfied that the Army in conscience could doe no lesse unlesse they were so mad as to stand still and serve 7. or 8. years labour travell and hazard so perfidiously lost and resigne up their Liberties and Freedoms which is the price of their blood into the hands of theirs and the Kingdomes thrice Conquer'd enemies It s as cleare as the Sun that the Parliament was then going about to sell them with all the honest party in the Kingdom into the blood and revenge of an enraged and tyrannicall King who I am confident would under some pretence or other have cut the throats of all the godly in the Kingdome by thousands and all the Liberty Freedom Priviledge and publicke Interest fought for eight yeares together would have been swallowed up into perjury and professed tyranny and all the circumstances and parts of that treacherous agreement for Peace with the King considered compact and patcht up together were destructive to the publick interest and upon this account whether the necessity were not absolute or else ruine unavoidable I leave to the judgements of rationall impartiall principled men publike If the Army which you contemn had not tooke more for the care then you but derogated from their principles as you have don all the godly in the Kingdome might have hang'd their harps upon the Willow trees and sought a residence in a strange Land and get you like ungratfull wretches now they have done the Kingdom such unparallel'd service you could now cut their throats for their labour I wonder you are not ashamed to bring such an infamy upon your Coat are you not in a direct way to lay a plat-forme for a new Summers bloody ruining War do you love to fish in troubled waters and delight to be kindling the fire of discention and discord and