Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93104	Animadversions upon Iohn Lilburnes two last books, the one intituled Londons liberty in chaines discovered. the other An anatomy of the Lords cruelty. Published according to order.	Sheppard, S. (Samuel); Sheppard, Simon,	1646 (1646)	Wing S3173; Thomason E362_24; ESTC R201220	9,950	15

Distressed Christian you espying a Ring on his finger upbraided your soldiers that they took it not off who replying they could not get it off it having bin so long worn by the party that the flesh had overgrown it your counsel to them was this why then cut off his finger and all ah where then was your Christian Piety to wil so bloody an act Sir I know wel you have shewed your self a man sufficiently valiant and have been an instrument of advancing the Publick good therfore you are the more to be admired that you should so horribly revolt and become an enemy to them who have esteemed nothing too dear to purchase lawful immunities and to promote the Gospel of Christ here I cannot but wonder at one passage inserted in your last book intituled Londons Liberty in chains discovered where so much you tryumph at the Recantation of one White a Warder of the Tower setting forth in Print that you chose for umpires to take up the matter those Knights Sir Iohn Strangewayes Sir Lewis Divet c. prisoners in the Tower that sometime bare Arms against this present Parliament and did their utmost endeavors to impede the settling of that Reformation for which you fought by reading which passage the shallowest capacity may conceive that you look more then one way and hide two faces under one hood is there any followship betwixt God and Mammon betwixt Light and Darknesse Can you be a sincere desirer of the Commons Liberties and yet hold correspondency and comply with those that would have enslaved them May not GOD say to you as once to that lukewarm Congregation Revel 3. verse 13. Novi te neque frigidum â—eque fervidum utinam esses itaque quoniam topidus es evomam te ex â—â—e meo I need not English this to you for I may suppose you understand Latin else you would never have inserted a whole Page of it in your last Book called Londons Liberty in chains discovered and yet it may be you are as ignorant as you were some few moneths since when you solemnly protested in one of your Books that the Latin tongue was unknown unto you and this I am moved to think because that order you then cited was framed to your hand and you needed but to coppy it out I much wonder that your wisdome foresaw not the Aspersions that the divulging of such a passage might draw upon you but it is just with God that those men which trust so much to their own Abilities as I am confident you do should being left to themselves discover that of themselves which if another should relate they would be greatly inraged For my own part I wish your release from trouble with your infranchisement and I sympathize of anothers afflictions having my self drank of those bitter waters But this let the world know with mee Maris Coelique temperiem turbines tempestateâ—que commendant habet has vices conditie Mortalium vt adversa secundis adversis secunda nascantur occultaâ— utrorumque semina Deus plerumque bonorum malorum causa sub diversa specie latent Storms and tempests contribute to the clearnesse of the Heavens and the smoothnesse of the Sea the condition of Mortals hath this property that Adversities grow out of Prosperities and Prosperities from Adversities God hideth from us both the seeds of the one and the other and oftentimes the causes of blessings and evils are covered under one and the same appearance And now Sir I hope for the future there wil be no more occasion of trouble betwixt you and me and I shal hope you wil no more vilifie me in Print which if you shal my frailty is such that I shal not so far regulate my passion as to sit stil and not Answer you I have hopes this Letter may be a means to quench that fier your Anagram says you burn in and not augment it which if it shal I find but what I expect and what I have lately read in one of the best of our modern Poets Master Withers a man worthy of all honor yet too much addicted to your own Fancies wherefore perhaps you wil the more willingly hear him Who saith But faulty men accus'd if stil they find Their power continue feel another mind Vnto their guiltinesse they malice add They grow revengeful mischievous and mad Plunge in the toil strive strugle scratch and tear Rage like a Tigre roar out like a Bear And are so nettled that you may behold Their guiltinesse before the same is told Yes and by hearing them ere them you see May know what vermine and what beasts they bee I pray Sir read these Verses o're again and mark whether the Poet hath not rightly Characterized you and set forth the nature the world hath found to be in you in as ample a manner as if he had wrote it of your own Person I much admire Sir that trouble and contention so much pleaseth your mind you keep the field continually and are still brandishing your weapon I mean the two-edged sword your tongue against some party or parties if you should continue in your critticall course you wil be esteemed the only Momus and Zoilus of the Age and the Poets wil forget those two others so notoriously known and instead of them celebrate your name which wil be for your infinite dishonor But Sir now I shal come up more close unto you and desire of you if you shal so please to shew some particular Relations or some infallible Arguments that may prove I have dealt Currishly with you or charge it on my own conscience if you can to the uttermost if in my Famers fam'd the ground of your malice I have calumniated you the least but what is sufficiently evident to all men I extracted most of it out of your own Books I mean the passages you boastingly relate of your superbious carriage to those you ought to honor and reverence I mean the House of Peers and I confess I was mightily troubled to see a man do that which was contrary to GODS expresse Command and then to make his so doing known to the world in Print as glorying in it which was the true cause that moved me to Answer to those your Vindicators the one the Author of The Iust Man in Bonds the other naming his Pamphlet A Pearl in a Dunghil this was it that moved me to reply to wit that I might let those men see they stood for his cause whose actions rather merited an open Recantation then a publick Vindication and also that your self might know how much you swerved from the ways of godliness and from the obedience God commandeth you to yeeld to your superiors And I must tel you Sir although perhaps you see it not no man desiring to know his own imperfections you have occasioned to the Commonwealth much vexation and to the Church of God much trouble For in a Book said to be written by you intituled An Answer

for your standing up for the rights and priviledges of the people I honor and esteem you but for your superbious and unwarrantable carriage to your superiors I contemn and despise you the subjects of this Kingdome have been a long time enslaved and like foolish prisoners played with their fetters it hath pleased God now to open a way to their infranchisement O! let it be done in a fair and regular manner let us not be so unmannerly to caâ—ve to our selves since there are those appointed who are both able and willing to to distribute unto us and let us not while we go about to enjoy the immunities of Magna Charta break and infringe Gods Commandements And now Sir for all your great skil in the Law I must tell you that you are very grosly mistaken in one point which you recite page the 10. of your Anotomy of the Lords Tyranny Where you say To speak truly the Parliament are not nor ought not to medle with causes betwixt party and party that are decidable at the common law they being the supream Iudicature of the Kingdom and the last refuge to appeal to in case of injustice elsewhere and so may properly be called Iudge of Iudges rather then Iudge of particular causes and parties I pray Sir let me demand of you one thing what renowneth a King more although to speak truly he is appointed by God only to look after the good of the people in general to appoint over them prudent and faithful Governors and to see them execute Justice and Judgement yet I say what hath renowned them more then to bee so tenderly zealous over the welfare of their subjects as to deign to fill up the seat of Justice with their Persons and to hear the particular complaints of each peculiar subject and indeed Equity commandeth it should be their constant imployment but that the possibility thereof is taken away by reason if it were so they must with Moses sit each day from morning til night and yet the people depart unheard so is it with that great Counsel the Parlament of England it is for their everlasting Fame and Honor to decide pettie causes whereby they shaw their pious care of the Commons happiness now this sometimes they leave undone not because it doth not belong to them to hear private causes but because they are not able to decide affairs of State and private affairs between man and man also therefore is your Argument waved that it belongeth not to the Parliament to hear private causes Again I wonder you should cast such an Aspersion on the Lords as you do in the 14. page of you Book intituled An anotamy of the Lords Tyranny you say The Lords have been the principal instruments to engage this Kindome in a bloody Warr That they set us a fighting to unhorse and dismount our old Riders and Tyrants that so they might get up and ride themselves Where in saying so O how much do you mistake your selfe it is evident to the whole kingdome that the Lords have been the Composers and not the fomenters of the common troubles had they sided with the Malignant and Royall partee I fear it had not been with us as now it is but it fareth with you as with the Poet Homer who never writ well of any whose actions were never so meriting that disturbed his Country so you delight to say the worst you can and to Maligne any be they never so innocent that have taken part any way against you which is in you a very great over-sight Again I esteem you very incorrigible that you should desire as in the Anatomy of the Lords Tyranny pag. 19. That you hope the Honourable House when they have judged your cause will not onely cause the Lords to restore the charges you have been at during the time of your Imprisonment but will also grant you ample repairations for your hard and unjust sufferings Your sufferings your selfe occasioned by your sturdy and imperious carriage to the Lords who you not onely resisted but reviled and is it any reason that when a man shall wilfully set fire on his house and goods his neighbours should be constrained to make him reparation I trow not so is it in your case your own obstinacy perhaps hath impoverished your state and therefore the Lords must make up the breach and restore unto you the monies your folly hath caused you to expend for which there is no reason or the least colour but you seem to urge some reasons in page the 20. why it should be so where you say That the Kings constant custome was to provide lodging dyer and to pay the Fees of all those he committed to the Tower but the Lords for no cause at all having committed you thither put you to pay all the vast extravagances and Fees Alas sir the reason thereof might be this The Lords know what a numerous multitude of Sectaries were your Idolaters and they in not providing for your entertainment in the Tower would put them to the test and thereby would give you occasion to find your friends indeed from your friends in shew and all this was for your information in that point and you have found during your imprisonment in the Tower very much accommodation from those of your society have neither wanted as is credibly reported for either good cheer or wine a certain Symptome of their affection towards you and now it being fairely hoped by you as perhaps it may certainly happen that you shall be delivered out of bonds O that God would put it into your heart to do as you once protested to the Lieutenant of the Tower upon condition he would admit you the Society of your wife and friends to wit that you would not write a line in the way of controversie which would be for your exceeding great availe but I fear it will be with you as with those superstitious sea-men who being in an hideous and threatning storme in danger to loose their lives with their fraught make solemn protestation to some Saint that if they will appease the fury of the tempest and allot them safe harbour they will offer up to their shrine large gifts which notwithstanding when the waves are silent and they arive on shore they forget to do so it is to be feared that you when you are again at liberty and injoy those immunities you did ere your confinement will be the same man still and steer a course as irregular as ever before but I hope the Lord will guide your heart better and quiet your troublesome spirit and unite your heart to his Church and people that now at length we may have peace and union among our selves and not suffer us while we Tithe Mint and Cummin to leave undone the more necessary duties not suffer us while we are busied to finde fault and to urge needless disputations to forget those duties necessary for the saving of our souls that we may no longer be a scorn to our neighbouring Nations who clap their hands and rejoyce to behold our divisions and distractions hoping thereby to make themselves Lords over us but he that ruleth the heavens and the earth I hope will so Order the Councels and consultations of our happy Parliament that by them as his Instruments he will settle his true worship in this Kingdome and cause the Natives thereof to injoy peace truth and happinesse FINIS

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