Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	people_n	power_n	4,914	5	5.4287	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89403	A pair of spectacles for this purblinde nation with which they may see the Army and Parliaments like Simeon and Levi brethren in iniquity walk hand in hand together. Or A perspective to take a view of the Army, and Parliaments political combination in betraying their countryes priveledges. By H.M a true friend to this nations liberties.	H. M.	1659 (1659)	Wing M30; Thomason E986_9; ESTC R202953	8,339	16

judge it if any should divest you of what was left you by your parents Indeed if men come to power and authority by fraud and violence as you our new Masters have done and for you to concur in oppressing the supream Magistrate and in taking from him what belongs unto him if conscience be suffered to make report it will be confessed to be the highest injustice for as to detract from the Standard which is the rule of measures is the greatest sin so it is to detract from Carolus Rex or Protector Richard who are the Standards of righteousness in this Kingdom and for these incarnate devils to subject dispose both King Protector and People to their own lawless Arbitrary Power and Government which is but the product of a rabble of vanish'd Libertinism Quakers monstrous Anabaptists King-killers Covenant-breakers Jesuites Seminaries and Papists old Gunpowder Traitors contrived that Good old Cause Treason beyond the Seas and in private secret Conventicles here but now avowed in open general Councels of the Army by whose design it is and alwayes hath been to alter the whole frame of Monarchy both of Church and State which is the best of Governments Deut. 17. 14. being that of God himself over the whole world Psal. 10. 16. and of Christ himself in and over his Church Psal. 2. 6. O God brand these jesuitical popish antichristian practises with the highest temporal punishment eternal torments and condemnation in this and another world 6. Did the late Protector for so it seems he must be called ever give any ground at all for you Gentlemen to dethrone him and protest against him and his Government I could wish and many thousands more the reasons might be seen for nothing hath passed or bin observ'd by diligent observers that might render him unlovely or inacceptable to any person whatsoever however if there be any grounds or considerations that might induce the Army to such a grand transaction as this first to reject and slight him and then to give reasons if there be any is to hang a man first and to try him afterwards seeing there can be no substantial grounds as it s presumed there none can be even as little as you may blame the Sun for running his course so harmelesse hath he been whether then there hath been in any age more unfaithfulness injustice greater covenant-breakers persons so rebellious men that have rendred the blessed Gospel of Christ and professours thereof more uncomely then this adulterous generation hath done let the world judge for indeed they have already given their verdict in the case which more is the pity That mammonistical Hypocrite Hon. Vane had the impudencie to affirme to the rest of his sociates that they might without want of modesty and duty depose him return to the discharge of their trust is not this a transparent figment who trusted them the people but the people since have delivered their trust elsewhere for when his late Highness did send out Writs the people might have staid at home there was none forced to choose but freely they have elected others if so be the free choice and election of the people make a Parliament they are also free to choose as often the providence of God shall put opportunity into their hands then it s very doubtful whether this be any other thing then onely a Parliament so called the people having freely declared otherwise are these the onely persons whom God and the Law hath trusted and may they do what their own i●clination and fury leades them to can it be presum'd that they were trusted with a power to destroy and dissolve our Antient setled Government by Kings Lords and Commons to a sneaking Oligarchial Tyranny under the bare name of a bastard Good old Cause which is as changable as the addle heads that contrive it and to make themselves perpetual Dictators over the Protector and his People what doe you intend that the Law it self shall be subject to your votes and that whatsoever you say or do should be lawful because you declare it so Seeing that these hellish designes and actings of a malignant party of this Kingdome working to regard the progresse or subvert the being of the true Protestants and therein to bereave us of all our hopes of reformation or future peace or happinesse to this Church and Kingdome It shall be a peece of my daly oraizons that God would brand these Iesuitical Doctrins with the markes of perpetual scorn and Indignation 7ly Are not these our new State-mongers or this Parliament if it needs must be so called like to infringe the peoples rights and give lesse satisfaction than one single person with a Parliament for my reason is this Parliament of 40. or 50. or there abouts and 70 more Senators besides have every one of them a long train there is never a one but is a file-leader that is hath at least 16. or 20. in a family to be provided one way or other and all hungry as Hawkes ready to catch at any thing and nothing will serve but the blood of the people for they must be fed with something a reason it is against the standing rules of reason the professed principles of the Army for any power or Authoritie to have the Militia and the Command of the Peoples purses which these Cormorants hath which is both destructive and pernicious Though the command of the peoples purses was never desired or practised by a single person and was not the Government setled by Parliament under one head To Execute the Laws of the Government so made by Parliament more pleasing and rational than to have a body consisting of so many Knaves Drunkards and Whore-masters which is monster like I desire all Christian people to consider also the condition of this factious Generation that have done more disgrace and wrong to Chrifts Gospel than ever was offered since Christs time never did any in so short a space ascend to that zenith of villany as they have done or pretend more Godlinesse with the practice of so much wickednesse I confesse they promise fair like those Galathians whom St. Paul writes unto they begin in the Spirit with the mention of Sin and Mercy they have the faces of men but observe them well we shall find they have the teeth of Lions and the tail of Scorpions my endeavours shall be on purpose to detect their wiles that men may avoid them and not be hurt by them for they have got above board in these times and stile themselves in their scandalous Pamphlets the Army of God Gods only good Children but in very deed their works speak them not to be of God La●my may their name and title properly be We have two grand Impostors amongst us Rogers and Canne who are very zealous in their scurrulous pasquils for that whorish Old Cause which is only to revive that Tragedy which Mr. Hocker relates of the Anabaptist in Germany Who talking of nothing