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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	lord_n	person_n	2,832	5	4.9191	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92055	The armies remembrancer. Wherein they are presented with a sight of their sinnes and dangers. And also with a Scripture expedient for their preservation. / By a cordiall friend to the kingdomes welfare, Rr.	Rr.	1649 (1649)	Wing R2166; Thomason E537_6; ESTC R14971	36,097	40

others you provide it and store it up for your selves But besides this abuse of Mercies Victories and successes are there not with you even with you sinnes against the Lord Are you not distrustfull of his powerfull and providentiall care for you Is it not your unbeliefe that gathers strength in Christs absence that hath set your sinnefull feares on worke your corrupt selfe-love and carnall policy Why else have you taken hold of such ungodly meanes as now you use though covered with specious pretences in your Remonstrance You there pretend unto justice and that against the Kings Person as the most Capitall Offendor But let me be your Remembrancer of what is said to it by a Prophet of your owne Justice on Rem p. 42. 'T is not Justice you desire it appeares so to your blinde and deceived hearts but in the face of God it appeares farre otherwise But the searcher of hearts will deale otherwise with you and shew you what is within you and discover the falsehood and injustice of your spirits 43. Your Justice 't is but a bare name or a Heathen covering borrowed from men to hide your shame your malice your unbeliefe feare and such like monstrous lusts A cunning way to remove adversaries to take away those that stand in your way and paint them over with the names of Justice security to the Publique Interest and so Act them in the face of the Sunne For the Lords sake ponder this seriously with his instance following and be not deceived for God will not be mocked Oh take heede you that professe the knowledge of God in his Attributes and should hold forth a conformity unto him in your conversations to those that are communicable as his justice and truth how you plead justice for a cloake of maliciousnesse and to sinne so against his providence as to make it to be the Father not onely of your former perfidiousnesse and treachery against the Person of the King but of your present intentions to doe justice upon him which will appeare pag. 24. where you say God hath given him so clearly into your hands to do justice upon him when the world knowes you have perfideously and treacherously taken him in a snare will you make the righteous Lord such a one as your selves in whose essence or providence there is no iniquity Did God give him into your hands when you without the consent of both Houses tooke him away from Holdenby and after your tampering with him at Hampton-Court and possessing him with a false and notorious lye to make him in a wet and tempestuous night to leave that place to run into your Mouse-trap in which very act was such a concurrence of falsehood and perfideousnesse as never was committed by any Professors and yet this must be fathered by you upon your God who loveth truth in the inward parts You saying God having given him so clearly into your hands when as the world knowes you have taken him worthy Sirs I beseech you consider this least God say unto you These things have you done and I kept silence you thought that I was altogether such a one as your selves But I will reprove you and set your sins in order before your eies Psal 50.21 Having thus propounded Odeds question are there not with you even with you sins against the Lord your God against his truth against his mercies and against his providence immediatly or absolutely I shall but propound Odeds interrogation Are there not with you even with you sins against the Lord your God Relatively And that first in relation to the King I speake not of any thing here that you have done as Souldiers in the subduing of his forces for which you were raised and in which had you rested you had been the most renowned Champions in Christendome But in referrence unto what you have acted out of your places and so without Commission and under this consideration in relation unto the King 1 Aske your Consciences this question are there not with you even with you sins against the Lord in relation to the King who are the Causes of hardning his heart but your selves when you permitted his Chaplains to be about him with the Service in its superstitious formality to be in use after so long a weaning from them by the wisdome of the Rarliament who hath hardened his heart against all that do professe Religion and strengthned him in his own way But you with whom he hath conversed and hath found to be so treacherous perfideous and unconstant At one time crying Hosanna another time crucifige At one time moving for the Restitution of his Majesties Person his Queen and Royall issue to a condition of Safety Honour and Freedom Proposall 14. 1647 July 2. Another time moving for the execution of his Person that he may be brought to tryall for his life when some of you perfideously got him under your power under the pretence of the preservation of his life from the Levellers Oh Christians will not this bee required at your hands 2 But in the next place Are there not with you even with you Sins against the Lord your God in relation to the Parliament if your Consciences be tender they will accuse you to purpose Not to speake largely of your former violence offered to the Parliament which you made to vote and unvote at your pleasure in those days Oh blush and be ashamed at the comparing of the preface to your Remonstrance and your following practises You there professe your tender regard to the Priviledges and Freedomes of Parliament on which your hopes of common Freedome and right do so much depend And yet your practises immediatly declare the greatest breach of both that ever was under the Sun Oh deare Sirs consider this seriously are there not with you even with you sins against the Parliament who put the Sword into your hands What is the Kings abuse of trust to yours For first you not onely by your expressions in your Remonstrance make this War for which they raised you to be offencive pag. 27. When as the Parliament by severall Declarations and in particular in a Covenant which they took and ingaged mee with others in it do propound this as that which we should be perswaded or beleeve in our Consciences That the Forces raised by the two Houses of Parliament are raised and continued for their just defence of the true Protestant Religion and Liberties of the Subject against the forces raised by the King But this is not all the wrong you have done them for as you would pervert their sence in raising you so likewise their End which was to subdue the forces raised by the King but not to force and subdue themselves and to bring them under the power of the Sword and that in such a way as the Sun never saw nor would those dismall days of the 6 and 7 Decemb. being as darke and gloomey as the worke it selfe But besides that execrable force

of publique danger and the extremity thereof that yet from evill intentions and an inordinate temper of spirit you would breake those bonds of law and Magistracy which you finde to restraine you Besides which are not you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 condemned of your selves even out of the words of your owne mouths as being defective as in that which you your selves doe propound must concur to their full justification that shall plead Salus populi for you say he that ingageth page 5. Vpon such pretences must do it really for publike ends and but upon publike necessity or extremity and with a sober spirit But whether you are not unquallified in all these I leave it to God the World and your owne Consciences when awakened to judge whether in your pleading of Salus populi and your actings upon it instead of reall publike ends private interest carnall feares ambition pride an apprehension of your neglect in the Treaty no assurance of pardon for your fore-mentioned practices against the King and Parliament without and contrary unto commission are not really your publike ends that put you upon this plea of Salus populi That it is not for publike necessity and extremity except to beget it you have the cry of the whole Kingdome against you for it and if you have the quallification of the agent a sober spirit for your iustification let your actions upon it in the violent seising upon the persons of so many grave godly and publike Patriots of the Kingdome with horrible indignitie by turning them into Hell with such unheard of taunts and reproaches as are upon record in your Moderate Intelligencer that came out the tuesday following plead for you These things I say doe cry loud in the eares of God to whom you have appealed and as you acknowledge hath appeared as a severe avenger against such pretenders page 5. and without repentance will be a swift witnesse against you there being in you even in you sins against the Lord your God committed with this and many other aggravating circumstances For the Lords sake if you be Saints such as should be grieved at the least rise of corruption in your soules that should avoid all appearances of evill Oh let what I have propounded stay you in this your sinnefull progresse that you proceed not to fill up the measure of your iniquities Methinks it should move you if I should be your Remembrancer but of those miserable effects that are or may be the products of your abused trust and your unwarrantable walking by providence without a precept Should not the glory of God the honour of his great name be deare unto you Oh my soule thou hast heard the reproach of the adversary how are they confirmed in their profanenesse and superstition in their opposition unto the Reformation that hath cost so deare See See say they how all your hypocrisie is discovered and rather then they shall goe unpunished for their rebellion against their King those who were raised up to be their saviours shall be executioners of Gods vengeance upon them and though the Kings Party with his Cavaliers could not be avenged on this City the nursery of all this Rebellion yet it shall be done by an Army of their owne raising What is more common then such reproaches in the day of our calamity which you have brought upon us And is this nothing unto you Oh where I say is your zeale for God and his cause which you professe unto How is the name of God blasphemed amongst Atheists Papists Malignants profane and carnall persons by your fore-mentioned practises which hath opened their mouths against you how are your friends upbraided to the peircing of their souls when they say unto them Lo are these your Saints your godly and religious party which held forth nothing but justice Righteousnesse who were raised for the preservation of the fundamentall Lawes and of the priviledges of the Parliament and the liberty of the Subject and are now risen up in armes to ruine the King and his posterity to destroy the Parliament and give lawes unto the Kingdome did ever the profanest Officers or souldiers under Essex Waller or Massey attempt any of those things which they have effected Oh Sirs should not this be for a lamentation that instead of putting to silence 1 Pet. 2.15 the ignorance of foolish men by a conformitie unto those Gospell precepts 1 Pet. 2.13 Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreame or unto Governours You should open their mouths by your evill workes that they behold Oh Sirs consider at the last these true taunts of the adversary by which God is dishonoured and let them not only pierce your eares but your hearts Let me further I pray you be your remembrancer of another effect and a sad one too of these your present practises and that is this That you are not onely thereby cast out of the esteeme of Morall men as walking in such waies that by their light doe looke of an ill complexion But also out of the approbation of very many tender conscienced Christians who as they dare not say unto you in this your way we wish you will in the name of the Lord or bid you God speed least they should be partakers of your evill deeds 2 John ver 11. So they cannot remember you unto God in their prayers except it be that he would restraine you and hedge up your way with thornes and is not this a sad effect indeed Oh pray Sirs let this consideration take hold of your hearts and like Jeromes Surgite emortuis be ever sounding in your eares both in your Counsells and the execution of them That the arme of flesh being broken on which they trusted that staffe your selves on which they leaned having peirced them and gone into their hands they have betaken themselves unto the old and never failing weapons of the Church praeces lachrimae prayers and teares the mouths of which Cannons being turned against you Which I think though you are good souldiers should somewhat affright you and will if you are spirituall because they are spirituall weapons Besides which I pray let me remember you of another effect of your unwarrantable waies in relation unto the publicke now it comes in my minde and that 's this you have justified all the jealousies and feares that many dissenting from you had of you in your minoritie before moddellizing That if the power of the sword were wholly put into Independents hands they would abuse it for their owne selfe interest against the publicke have not you justified the Cities Remonstrance and their feares in this respect have not you made many supposed scandals in the Gangrend to be but true predictions But besides your justification of the feares of many which might fill your faces with shame As another effect of your miscarrages Have not you blasted the reputation of some eminent persons