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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	reformation_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	21	3	8.5711	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96785	Vox pacifica a voice tending to the pacification of God's wrath; and offering those propositions, or conditions, by the acceptation, and performance whereof, in some good measure, a firme and continuing peace may be obtained. It is directed to the King, Parliaments, and people of these islands: By Geo. Wither Esquire, (a commander in this war) heretofore their unheeded remebbrancer [sic] of plagues and deliverances past; and their timely forewarner of the judgments now come. He hath disposed it into six books, or canto's, whereof foure onely are contained in this volumne; and the other deferred to be hereafter published, as there shall be cause.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1645 (1645)	Wing W3210; Thomason E1242_1; ESTC R202399	111,848	215

weather Else up and down still wrestlesly are borne And by these foolish Fires ev'n as you see By shining-vapours rising in the night Mis-led from safe high-waies poore people be To fall in Pits and Ponds by their false light So these and other have by their delusions Brought on these Nations mischieves and confusions And these confusions not alone befall The Civill State but have disord'red so Your Discipline Ecclesiasticall That Church affaires are out of order too Each one sets up their private Idoll there That man contends for this this man for that Some would have new things some for old things are Some would have somthing but they know not what Some care not what they have and some there be That would have nothing which might them confine In doing or believing but live free In ev'rie thing a perfect Libertine And most in such a posture do appeare As if the Towre of Babell raising were Some to no Congregation will repaire In which their duties are extemporarie As if because some call vaine bablings praier No man possest that guift in ordinarie Some do abhorre Set-Formes as if they thought The Spirit whereby they were first indighted Dispis'd the words which by it selfe were taught If more then once though with true zeale recited Some care not how GODS Fields are over-grown With Briars and Thornes some others are so strict That for his Vineyards they no place will owne But those from whence all weeds and stones are pickt As if they for a Church allowed not What hath a scarre a wrinkle or a spot A Militarie-Church was well exprest In ancient Hieroglyphicke by the Moone To shew that when her light was at the best And when her brightest glorie she puts on Some shadowes or some Waynings will declare That in this world she hath not her perfection And that the Sun from whom her beauties are Conveigheth light unto her by reflection Somtime that Sun doth hide his face away Lest men ascribe to Her what is His due Somtime her proper motions her convey Too high or els too farre beyond the view Of private-spirits And somtime from sight Earths Globe and somtime Clouds obscure her light Which many not consid'ring are offended Without a cause and indiscreetly marre That Beauty which to polish they pretended And 'twixt her Members raise intestine warre Some Weeds and Corne are in the blade so like That many Weeders have deceived bin And oftentimes good corne away do pick And make the crop at harvest very thin A spotlesse Church or perfect Disciplines Go seek at None-such For they are not found In any place between the Tropick-Lines Or any where upon this earthly Round Though some have shaped modells in their braine Of that whereto they never shall attaine On speculations these have doted so Which their own Fancies forme that they have lost The Body of Religion and let go That Forme thereof which must enshrine the Ghost And he who being in the flesh believes The soule of Worship can retained be Or known without a Forme himselfe deceives Yea others with himselfe deceiveth he And wanders restlesse in perpetuall motion In quest of empty-shades and to pursue Each flitting dreame and ev'ry changing Notion Which comes within his intellectuall view Till Pride upon his Fantasie begets High thoughts of his own light and in his brest Stirres up and kindles those distemper'd heats That keep the mind and body without rest And then perchance he to a meteor growes Which Fooles to be a Starre a while suppose But if you mark such well their new-borne-blaze Is quickly out and you shall see ere long Some Evills follow whereof they were Cause As well as Signes And take you this among Your Notes that when your Marches furious be Like Jehu's in Religions reformation And so pursu'd as if you said Come see Our zeale for GOD that but for ostentation Or for your own advancements you become So zealous and that when you execute GOD's mandates Jehu-like you for the same Shall tast of his false zeale the bitter-fruit That other men may learn his will to do For his owne sake and with due meeknesse too No few disosters had prevented bin If in the Worke now doing you had learn'd With whether part 't was fittest to begin Which might in GOD's own works have been descern'd For though this World in worth inferiour be To Man and though the Body be below The soule in value yet created He The meanest of these first And that may show How men should work For had Man been created Before the World or had the Soule been made Before the Body where had they been seated To exercise the Faculties they had Though noblest works should first be thought upon Sometime a meaner work should first be done A Common-wealths blest being doth depend Vpon the Church the Churches Reformation You therefore principally should intend And yet your zeale may merit commendation Though to reforme the Civill-government You first begin and waive a while the other If there shall happen some such accident As hinders the reforming both together Else peradventure while you are contriving Your Forme of Discipline there may begin A mischiefe not alone of Peace depriving But of a Countrey to professe it in And so with you it hath almost succeeded Because this freedome was not timely heeded For had you tim'd and ordered aright The Civill-Part and therewith brought along The Church-Affaires as by degrees you might The Work had prov'd lesse grievous and more strong Or had true Prudencie directed Zeale First to reforme some things pertaining to The safe well-being of the Common-weale Both had not been at once distracted so And yet in this the wisdome of the State Deserves no check but rather that Defection Throughout the Land which doth irregulate The Works in hand and keep them from perfection By multipli'd Obstructions and sometime By streightning and necessitating them For such is your corruption and your folly So false and hypocriticall you are So brutishly profane and so unholy Though you Religious-Nations would appeare That had your temp'rall grievances been eas'd And all those Priviledges been secur'd For which to be at cost you yet are pleas'd And many Deaths and dangers have endur'd Most would have hazarded nor life nor limb Nor Goods nor paines the Church to vindicate From her enthralments but to sink or swim Had left her in a deplorable state And therefore GOD permitted the pursuit Of Counsells which have brought forth bitter fruit Ev'n as a Worldling who hath spent his dayes In carnall Pleasures and hath partner bin With lewd Companions in their wicked wayes And in the practice of each crying sin When he doth feele the stroke of some disease Portending Death and that the self-same houre Those horrours on his conscience also seize Which threaten Soule and Body to devoure Desire of Life and fearfulnesse to die Distracts him so that heat once for aid Both from Physitians and Divines doth crie And having

calling understand And lay their many failings more to heart For most have liv'd as if to idlenesse And to debaucherie they had been borne And large estates for nothing did possesse But for supplies of lust to serve their turn A die a cocke a hound hawke horse or whore Were chiefest objects of their contemplation Their sinnes alone are though you had no more Enough to bring a Land to desolation And they have been chiefe cause and instruments Of all these Plagues for which this Realme laments But much will want of perfecting a peace Vntill your Men of Law perswaded be To mourn apart For they will re-increase Your quarrells else assoon as you agree By their formalities and slow proceeding Your remedie for injuries is made A mischiefe the disease oft times exceeding And if some eye unto them be not had So many places in your Parliament They will supply and fill so many Chaires In your Committees that much derriment Vnto the Subject and some close impaires Of publike freedomes e're you be aware Which slip upon you if you have not care They have already made the common way Of Trialls very greatly to inlarge Your troubles by impertinent delay And circumstances to the suiters charge So strong a party they have alwaies had That your Great-Charter which doth interdict Delay of Justice was in that point made E're since the grant a Law without effect But when their Courts and practises have reach'd Oppressions height They as the Clergie were Shall downe into another Orb be fetch'd And taught to keep a constant motion there This Work upon some Courts hath been begun Another time it shall be fully done Let ev'rie Oiconomick-Government And ev'rie single person through the Nation In ev'rie Family apart lament And take his wayes into examination For all Estates and Common-weals that be Consist of these And whensoe're you shall Those Pettie-Governments reformed see You then are in the way of mending all If ev'rie Houshold-Prince and Officer Within his Jurisdiction would but please To make compleat a Reformation there The Work-desired should be done with ease Let each one therefore take the same in hand In all relations wherein he may stand Let ev'rie Master prudently direct And ev'rie Servant faithfully obey Let ev'rie Husband husband-like affect And ev'rie Wife a wife-like love repay Let Parents parent-like their hearts enlarge Their filiall duties let the Children do Let singly all of these their parts discharge Both to the Family and Strangers too Yea let each person individually Now take himselfe apart and all alone His heart examine what Impietie By him hath been occasioned or done Whereby your Peace was broke and then assay To help renew it by what means he may But chiefly let the Royall-Family Admit this Discipline that others may Receive encouragement and light thereby To find a Penitentiarie-way Oh I let the King if ever he expect To see the Citie of his Throne in peace Go mourne apa●● and let his thoughts reflect Vpon his folly and unrighteousnesse Let him like David and not Ahab-like Take meekly those reproofs that GOD shall send And let them on his heart so kindly strike That he enraged grow not but amend With that great Patterne of true Penitence When he like sheep beholds his people slaine Let him not look too much on their offence But rather let him of his own complaine That they may do the like and GOD perceiving True penitence quit both by free forgiving Let not the Jezabel of Rome delude him With her black witch-crafts and her fornications The cup of her delusions if in vaine His warnings prove the deepest he shall sink Into that Lake whence none can rise againe Because he hath not only had a sight Beyond them all of her seducing waies But also hath acknowledged that Light And wilfully himselfe to her betraies Yea and to make his sin and shame the more Betraies the bloud of others to the Whore Yet that he may have all the meanes to fetch him Back from perdition if he be not gone So far by wilfulnesse that none can reach him Let him be personally call'd upon To look unto his waies And since you know His Flatterers present him their false glasse Himselfe thereby unto himself to show And make him seeme the man he never was Help thou to undeceive him lest he may With his three earthly Kingdomes now halfe lost Fool desp'rately a heav'nly Crown away And think he shall redeem it at the cost Of trimming up the Western end of PAVLS By Fines extracted from afflicted Soules First bid him call to mind with mourning for them The sins which did his Fathers-house pollute And in his heart so seriously abhor them That it may bring forth penitentiall fruit The bloud of War that hath in Peace been shed The manifold uncleannesses therein The superstitions thereby cherished Offences known and those that hid have bin The prosecution of the royall-bloud In Arabella guilty of no crime Except it were offensive to be good And to have had her being in his time The matchlesse prophanation of a Day For Gowries death his many great oppressions The fooling of the Kingdomes wealth away And Subjects lives by cheating Expeditions With whatsoe're offences of this kind He shall upon a strict enquirie find Wish him with like affections to recall The slips of his own Reigne and of his life The mischiefs which to Him and you befall In hunting for a superstitious Wife His making of Nobility a scorne By dignifying men of base-condition By choosing Counsellours to serve his turne In setling things unworthy his fruition By suffring of his royall Proclamations To be abused to injurious ends By making showes of verball Reformations For publike good when rapine he intends By faining fears when cause of feare none give him And by protesting untill few believe him Let Him consider that all those for whom Against two Kingdome he in Armes appears And whose Protector He is now become Are men whom nothing but their sin endears Let Him consider what a sea of bloud In his three Kingdomes hath of late been spilt For those who share among them all his good And make him culpable of all their guilt Let him consider that what now he strives And fights for is but power to be undone Or that he may by his Prerogatives Without controule unto the Devill run For unto him that power or that supply Which may be for his good none shall deny Let him remember what the German-horse Should have been sent for Let him call to minde Distressed Rochel And that which will worse Afflict him when his feeling he shall finde Poore gasping Ireland whose wide-gaping wound Calls out for vengeance and his honour taints With deep-di'd staines His flat'rers feigne a sound From Straffords bloud and other such black-Saints But that Illusion will not keep him long From hearing Ireland For two Kingdomes more Have sent in bloud to make a triple-Song Which will so dreadfully so