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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	king_n	lord_n	people_n	5,525	4	4.6112	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93696	Certaine queries propounded to the most serious consideration of those persons novv in povver. Or any others whom they doe, or may concerne. / By John Spittlehouse, (late of the Army) whom the Lord hath stirred up (in the absence of Mr. Feake, Mr. Rogers, &c. now prisoners of the Lord Jesus) to mind our present rulers and Army, of their persecutions and apostacies; and what is likely to follow them for so doing, if they repent not.	Spittlehouse, John.	1654 (1654)	Wing S5005; Thomason E809_14; ESTC R203631	8,522	16

Elected of them they say shall be Parliament-men to indent with each other That the Elected shall not have power to alter the Government as it is by them established whereas it is well known what power the old Parliament exercised in reference to the Kingly Power it selfe 2 As in Article 22. where they say That the persons chosen and Assembled as aforesaid or any sixty of them shall be and be deemed the Parliament of Engl Scotl and Irel and the SUPREAM LEGISLATIVE POWER TO BE AND RESIDE IN THE LORD PROTECTOR c. whereas the Armies Declaration of June 14. 1647. p. 9. saith That they are so far from DESIGNING or COMPLYING to have an ABSOLUTE or ARBITRARY power SIGNED or SETLED for CONTINUANCE in any person WHATSOEVER as that if they might be sure to obtaine it they could not wish to have it so in the persons of Any whom they could MOST CONFIDE IN or who should appeare most of their OWNE OPINIONS OR PRINCIPLES or whom they might have MOST PERSONALL ASSURANCE OF or INTEREST IN. 3 Article 24. where they say That all Bills agreed unto by the Parl shall be presented to the Lord Protector FOR HIS CONSENT c. whereas in the Armies Remonstrance Albans p. 66. they propose to the Parl then sitting that they would declare That as to the whole interest of the people of England the Representatives thereof have and shall have the Supream power and trust of making of Lawes Constitutions and Offices for the ordering preservation and Government of the whole and as to the altering and repealing or abolishing the same the making of war or peace and as to the Highest and Finall judgement in all civill things WITHOUT ANY FURTHER APPEALE TO ANY CREATED STANDING POWER And that all the people of this Nation and ALL Officers of justice and MINISTERS OF STATE as such SHALL in all such things be ACCOUNTABLE AND SUBJECT thereunto and bound and concluded thereby I might also instance in many other particulars but these shall suffice at present to shew how the Army hath Apostatized from their Principles and that to their Eternall infamy without Repentance for certainly they will one day finde that God will not be mocked and that it was not a Childish sport they were about when they used those solemne expressions in behalf of themselves and the Common wealth whose SERVANTS they then were All which being seriously considered then 5 Whether all the aforesaid persons may not justly expect to be called in question for all such their actions when God shall in justice give an opportunity to his people and yet untainted free-borne persons of this Common-wealth so to doe and that according to the Armies owne principles as in the Breviate of their Remonstrance Albans pag 8. where after they have laid down several presidents of Gods people fixing solemn punishments on wicked Kings they present Asaph Psal 83.11 Praying that Nobles and Princes Enemies to Gods people may be used after former examples whereupon they draw this conclusion That as this kind of men is opposing Christ in these last times so are they by him and his people to be punished alluding to Psal 1. and Psal 1 ●o 5. viz The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through Kings in the day of thy wrath in Psal 149.8 9 to bind their Kings in chains and their Nobles in fetters of Iron to execute upon them the judgment written And Rev 19.17 18. The fowls are invited to eat the fl●sh of Kings and Captains slaughtered by the Lamb. As also in page 9. where they say to punish Instruments and let the head go free leads to endless trouble besides it seems a most unequal and partial way of Justice and the same principle that exempts Kings from justice would absolve their inferior Ministers or what they do in pursuance of such Commands And hereupon they urge the example 2 Chro 23. ult and the City was quiet after they had slain Athaliah with the sword And Numb 25.4 5 9. in the case of Baalpeer where the Lord said unto Moses Take all the head of the People and hang them up before the Sun that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel And Moses said unto the Iudges of Israel slay yee every one his men that were joyned to Baalpeer at which time say they the chief men guilty were first hanged being a thousand and then inferior men slain being twenty three thousand 1 Cor. 108. both making 24000. As also page 7. where they urge Job 34.30 that the Hypocrite Reign not least the people be insnared these are their own words in reference to the late King and his party in point of Iustice against them and so consequently applicable to all such as are or shall be found imitators of them And if so then Whether the Government or Monarchy of Charls Stuart which the army termed one of the ten Horns they say the Lord made them instrumental to destroy as in their Declaration to Scotland pag 38. as being guilty of the blood of the Saints can be thought by any rational man to be that Government they then Jehu like 2 King 10.16 so furiously contended for and that against the very same party they now joyn hands with all viz. this particular illustrated at large in a Book lately published Titled an Image of our reforming Times or Jehu in his proper colours and are to be sold by L Chapman at the Crown in Popeshead-alley And if not then Whether the said Army c. hath not played the hypocrites in a most high nature by their now adhearing unto the present Government And whether in so doing they have not also clearly declared themselves Rebels and Traytors to Jesus Christ and that from their own expressions as in their Declaration to Scotland pag 36 37 38 39. where among other words to this purpose they demonstrated to all the world that the Lord made them Instrumental to vex all in his sore displeasure that took Counsel against Christ whom the Lord hath Anointed and decreed King And that they themselves had not only PROCLAIMED Jesus Christ King of Saints to be OUR KING but that they would submit unto him UPON HIS OWN TEARMS and admit him ONLY to the exercise of his Royal Authority and thereby have made themselves not only lyable to the aforesaid temporal punishments instanced by them but also to the eternal wrath of the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah who will render vengeance in flaming fire to them that are so obstinately disobedient to his Royal Commands 2 Thes 1.8 c. And if so then Whether it be not now high time for them to entertain that Governor whose Right it is both as Creator God King Lord Saviour and Lawgiver to govern the Person or Persons now Governing as any other person or persons in the Common-wealth And whether this can any otherwise be done then by a general submission to those holy just and perfect Laws Statutes