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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	great_a	king_n	put_v	7,804	5	5.0519	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94087	A vindication of that prudent and honourable knight, Sir Henry Vane, from the lyes and calumnies of Mr. Richard Baxter, minister of Kidderminster. In a monitory letter to the said Mr. Baxter. By a true friend and servant of the Commonwealth of England, &c.	Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.	1659 (1659)	Wing S6068; Thomason E985_21; ESTC R203679	15,324	23

tongue and pen What was your design I pray you in reproaching this Gentleman was it to render your self famous in rendring his person and parts infamous to posterity nay was it not to curry favour with Mr. Cromwell that so you and your Complices might ride him at your pleasure and accomplish your selfish ends by the pliablenesse of the young Gentleman to the enslaving of your native Countrey hence it was that by you and your friends instigation so many flattering Addresses were presented to him from the severall Counties and Cities whereby the young man was puffed up and made believe that all the people in the three Nations were at his command and yet not a man of you would couragiously stand up for him and his declining Protectorship when he had most need of you Sect. IV Whereas you impudently tell the world in your late railing Book * That Sir Henry Vane and the Vanists put the King to death that he was the Master of the Game That he and his fo lowers are no better then Papists Jesuites c. That the Papists are strong in England under the m●sk of the Vanists whereof you make him the Ringleader That he was in Italy and brought from thence most wicked and corrupt opinions And having thus vented your self in a vain and frothy discourse wherein perhaps you think you have sufficiently answered the Papists and vindicated the Protestant party touching the Kings death by these manifest and grosse untruths as if it were lawfull for you to to speak wickedly for God and to lie for his glory b Give me leave in a friendly way to Expostulate a little with you Did you ever see the face of this Gentleman whom you have so frequently reproached neither Minister nor Man-like or at least did you ever speak a word with him either to know his judgment concerning the proceedings against the late King or his principles in matters of Religion I am confident you do not know him neither had you ever any conference with him but you may have in time for though these Injuries if they were done onely to a private man might be passed by and remitted without exemplary punishment yet being done to one in a Publ●que capacity the Authority of the Nation may in due time take Cognizance thereof Now as touching the death of the late King will you say that all those Gentlemen that sate in the High Court of Justice by Authority of Parliament upon his Triall and yet Sir Henry Vane was none but I am sure some of your good Lords and masters were of the number of his Judges were Popish and Jesuiticall and that therein they carried on a Popish design against the Protestant partie and Interest Can you put no difference between the Clandestine Assasination of a Prince to serve the Jesuites turn and the publick execution of Justice upon a King for levying War against the two houses of Parliament coordinate in power with him and shedding the bloud of his Su●j●cts upon that account who was not put to death to gratifie the Jesuites but to free the Nation from Tyranny and Slavery and from the luxury and unnecessary charge of the Court d Wo be to us and the Protestant Interest if we had ●one that could or would plead out Cause better then you have done for it is well known that you Symbolize with the Papists in many materiall points * and have given no small advant●ge to the Popish party by your calumnies and Invectives against the most eminent Protestan's both on this side and beyond the Seas Sect. V But say you the Vanists and Levellers were the chief Agents in the death of the King and these men are no better then Papists and Sir Henry Vane was the master of the Game This is a manifest u●truth re●lecting no small disparagement upon the Ministry which for my part I honour and reverence as a pretious Ordinance of Christ and am hear●ily sorry that you and others should bring the same into contempt by your bitterness factiousness and ambitious designes and practices That Honourable Gentleman whom you calumniate and from whom I believe you never received the least injury was not free to act in Parliament not in the high Court of Justice upon the garbling of the House by the Army and the Tryal of the K●ng by the Commissioners but did there upon as I remember retire and ●equester himself from publique Imployment being not fully satisfied at that time with the procedings of the Parliament and Army And therefore how co●●d this Gentleman have a chief hand in the death of the King It concerns every man and much more a Minister of the Gospel to write the truth both in a Log●call●nd morall consideration and to speak no otherwise then he knows the thing is and not to utter an untruth though he be ignorant of it Whosoever loveth and maketh a lie shall not inherit the kingd●me of heaven Rev. 22. 15. And the Apostle exhorts us to put away lying and every man to speak truth to his neighbour Ephes. 4. 25. The truth is this honourable Gentleman of whom I have often made mention having absented himself from the Parliament upon that great change and alteration of affairs in the year 1648. Lieutenant Generall Cromwell who sate upon the triall of the King and incouraged the commissioners of the High Court of Justice to proceed to ●entence it being the generall vote and desire of the Army that the King should be put to death was importunate with this Gentleman and ●sed many arguments to perswade him to sit again in Parliament and in the Council of State and did at length prevail with him to come in Now Mr. Baxter the truth of the matter of fact being thus stated if you would have been impartiall you should rather have said that your Lord Protector and his followers had a chief hand in the death of the King whether upon a publick or private account I leave it to the Lord then that Sir Henry Vane and the Vanists were the chief Actors in it But you were resolved to cast dirt in the face of this Gentleman and so to ingratiate your self with the new Court the glory whereof is now laid in the dust together with all your flattering Addresses You have another fling at Sir Henry Vane who it Sect. VI seems is a great eye-sore to you for you tell us that he was in Italy and from thence brought over dangerous opinions a palpable untruth which a meer moral man much more a true Christian would be ash●med of he never sojourned in Italy in all his life and therefore could bring from thence neither sound nor corrupt Doctrines nor is he willing that his eldest Son that proper young Gentleman should travell beyond the Seas lest his youth should be leavened with the corrupt opinions Customes and practises of forraign Popish Countreys so much is he in love with them Judge now Mr. Baxter