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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	act_n	king_n	parliament_n	4,616	5	7.4258	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40647	An alarum to the counties of England and Wales with the oath of abjuration for ever to be abjur'd, or the sad malady and sole remedy of England / by a lover of his native countrey.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing F2402; ESTC R224486	4,703	14

to all should be handled by all is a Truth so clear and strong that they must offer a Rape to their owne Reason that deny it Such also is this Maxim Vnrepresented unconcluded So that if so few have in them the notion of a Parliament it is a bare Notion indeed especially seeing this handfull of men were say the Cavaleers dissolved by the death of the King dissolved said Cromwell by his Sword dissolved say some Great ones by an Act of their owne entred into the Iournall Book of the Parliament dissolved must their own Consciences say by their voluntary accepting of Elections in later Parliaments 13. Now the Members of a Free and full Parliament the onely Hope of Humane help ought thus to be qualified 1. Let them be Godly and well-affected indeed and not in the canting language of the Times 2. Men of Estates who will be tender in taxing others as striking them thorough themselves whilst such who bear nothing care not how much they burthen others as if paying were as easie as voting and Money as free as words 3. Men of spirits no dull Souls all the sparks of whose activity are quenched in their own flegm 4. No Gainers by the continuance of the Army Demetrius the Silver-Smith was no foole what ever else he was so sticking for the shrine of Diana by which Craft he got his Gain 5. Men of moderation a quality not opposed to Diligence but to Violence not unactiving men but regulating their Activity 14. This their moderation must appear in considering all Interests seeing there be no two Interests in the Nation so contemptible which if united and twisting their discontents together cannot draw trouble on all the rest Especially the Sectarian though presented I believe by their party through a multiplying Glasse are considerable on a politick score of their numbers and pious account of their conscience for though many of them carry the later in their purses who when they finde the moisture of Profit to fail them will fall off like leaves in Autumn yet can I not be so uncharitable but to believe that many of them having the heat of their affections above the light of their judgements follow erroneous Consciences Besides having gone loose so long they must needs swell if hardly girded 〈◊〉 a sudden 15. This moderation also must be used by all other Persons to work themselves to be if not pleased contented with the decisions of a free Parliament All must sit down Losers save such alone who can plead that they have been no Sinners in our Nation The Grand designe must be to have none or if that be impossible as few as may be utterly ruined I confesse two hungry meals makes a third a Glutton and such who have long fasted from their detained Estates will be not onely greedy but ravenous to recover them Yea such will shrewdly plead that they now expect moderation from them who never used moderation to them However in such a general danger men must depose their animosities labouring first to reconcile their spirits then their perswasions the later being at lesse distance than the former And men must divide where they cannot get the whole seeing few will pity his starving who will eat no bread at all because he can recover but halfe of his own loafe 16. It will be objected that such a full P. is still but an Empty Parliament having no House of Lords therein But know if both hands of a man be bound no hope of liberty from himself but if one be untied it may do the brotherly office to unloose the other Let us be content to row in a Sculler till we can get a pair of Oars And such surely is the Ingenuity and publick spiritnesse of the Peers that laying aside personal Interest which upon debate may appear more they wil suspend their Rights immunities and priviledges and submit all to the determination of a Free-Parliament to acquiesce therein 17. God give our Nation seasonably to understand their own strength that the wars begun may be ended amongst our selves before Forreigners become the Arbitrators of our differences who will demand great wages for little work yea and turn their own Paymasters thereof And may that great General whose Intentions long have stood in the dark to our Nation whilst our Nations desires were all the while in light to him understand that Vox Populi is Vox Dei and interpret that God calleth unto him by the Declarations of all Counties to be chiefly instrumental in asserting our Liberties and we shall have cause for ever to blesse the Day of his Nativity yea to erect a Statue better than Gold of Gratitude in our Hearts unto him 18. Indeed had Providence fixed our Nativities under the Duke of Muscovy whose list is his Subjects Law we would because we must work our selves patiently to the obedience of his power But seeing God hath given us with S. Paul to be free-born Acts 22.28 though also with the Centurion we have given great summs not to obtain but contrive this freedome let us not tamely loose our birth-right and vigorously endeavour their preservation 19. The Story is wel known of the old Woman who having but a small parcel of Wood would leasurably roast her Goose stick by stick till her wood was all burnt and her Goose still raw If the severall Counties singly engage one after another all will be overthrown and nothing effected as to our releife Let the two and fifty Shires of ENGLAND and WALES with the City of LONDON which eminently is two and fifty more be all as one and unanimously advance the Worke and not do as they dealt with poore CHESHIRE using it as Ioab did Vriah putting him forward on action then falsely retreating from him and leaving him a prey to his enemies But I hope our old Shipwracks will be new Sea-marks to us documented by former nocuments to steer a surer course for the general good 20. There is no English man so inconsiderable but he may at the least in a single capacity be contributive to the happinesse of his native Countrey the Wise with their Brains the Rich with their Purses the Learned with their Pens the Strong with their Persons All with their Prayers And if now they suffer this opportunity which GOD puts into their hands to slip thorough their fingers they may hereafter have more yeares to bemoane their folly than minutes to amend their misery it being better now to say WE WILL NOT than three yeares hence to say We cannot pay our Taxes FINIS