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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	comply_v	faithful_a	good_a	10	3	2.0868	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93715	A modest plea for an equal common-wealth against monarchy. In which the genuine nature and true interest of a free-state is briefly stated: its consistency with a national clergy, mercenary lawyers, and hereditary nobility examined; together with the expediency of an agrarian and rotation of offices asserted. Also, an apology for younger brothers, the restitution of gavil-kind, and relief of the poor. With a lift at tythes, and reformation of the lawes and universities. All accommodated to publick honour and justice, without injury to any mans propriety, and humbly tendered to the Parliament. By a lover of his country in order to the healing the divisions of the times.	Sprigg, William, fl. 1657.	1659 (1659)	Wing S5078; Thomason E999_11; ESTC R203651	64,567	117

the root of all our Evils we shall yet hear our Bells ring more changes and instruments of Government be wound up to more harsh and discordant Notes then any our ears have been entertained with yet Now to know the spring and source of our misery I presume we need neither consult an Oracle or ask Councel of a Conjurer and perhaps it may be less difficult then safe to discover the Caution of Solomon being good Councel Be not righteous over much neither make thy selfe over wise why shouldst thou destroy thy self Whence we may learn it is not the difficulty but danger that obstructs the discovery of many things For who will contend with time that is mightier or too strong for him So I returned and considered all the Oppressions that are done under the Sun and to behold the tears of such as are Oppressed and they had no comforter and on the side of the Oppressors there was power but they had no Comforter Now should we ask Council of our old Nobility the Lawyer the Clergy or the Citizen we know what would be their advice to face about return to the old constitution to go back again into Aegypt to return to our making of brick and so build up the things we have so lately destroyed for it was better with us then it is now we shall never find out a better constitution in which all interests were so well bounded and ballanced as the old faith the Ancient Nobility Nor will any so well suit with the genious humour of the English people and the tenour of their Lawes saith the Lawyer Religion and Learning never flourished so well as under Monarchy nor were there then so many Schisms and Heresies saith the Divine In the time of the King and Court we had far better Trading saith the Citizen nor were we then burdened with so many Taxes saith the Country-man so that all are willing and agreed to face about and be as they were And what 's the reason of it but that men mistake their interest and there is an evil report raised on the Land whether we are travelling as if it were a Land of Confusion and not of Peace and Liberty And the Spies have done ill offices which hath occasioned this brief Map or Description of a Common-wealth or the presenting these few bunches of Grapes that you may have a taste of what Liberty may be expected in the Canaan towards which we are setting our faces Let us therefore stand still and see the salvation of God and not murmur against his providences that have so long detained us in the wilderness but follow the Captains and Leaders that first lead us out of Egypt and are now restored to put us in possession of what we have so long expected if we do not through unbelief render our selves unworthy to enter Courteous Reader THe Author of these Discourses living where the Keyes of the Press hang at their Girdles who had rather stifle than in the lest be accessary to the birth of any thing of this nature was necessitated to make use of one at too great a distance for his inspection and therefore to trust wholly to the courtesie of the Printer by whose negligence the following Errata's have been suffered in many places to steal away the sense of the discourse there being many other smaller lapses through mispointing and the like together with the Errata's of three or four of the last sheets that the Author not having an opportunity of perusing must be submitted to the Readers judgement or Candor to be either corrected or forgiven Epistle to the Reader PAge 1. l 23. r. Cultivate f. Culturate p. 2. l. 28. r. after f. offer p. 3. l. 19. r. world f. word and l. 22. r. wealth f. wrath p. 5. l. 17. r. him f. time l. 27. r. then then l. 30. the Genius and humour PAge 6. line 13. for that Olygarchy read Oligarchy that c. p. 7. l. 21. f. equalities r. capacities p. 9. l. 26. f. stabi●ity r. subtlety p. 16. l. 4. f. pricks r. P●kes p. 22 l. 28. of those c. r. to those p. 44. l. 16. limit r. remit p. 47. l. 4. humane r. humour p. 49. l. 9. learned r. leavened p. 50. l. 23. stated r. elated p. 52. l. 8. curbed r. crabbed p. 54. l. 30. conclusion r. confusion p. 58. l. 11. their r. either imprudence c p 58. l. 1. strain r. theame p. 61. l. 4. burnings r. turnings p. 62. l. 2. imprudent r. impendent p. 62. l. 26. concern r. conceive p. 63. l 21. and worse r. divorse p. ●6 l. 5. Oppressors r. Oppr●ssions p. 67. l. 8. most r. more p. 68. l. 8. Sons r. Sions p. 69. l. 2. rescue r. receive c. THE PROEM CONTAINING A PLEA for an Equal Common-wealth or Free-State against Monarchy I Have sometime by what charms I know not been so strongly possest with a fond opinion of the indifferency of all forms of Government that I have looked on none as objects of greater pity then such as prompted by an ignorant and blinde zeal have left their memories on the file of History and their names registred in the bloody Rubricks of Times-Calender as Martyrs of State for as I presumed all Governments alike subject to corruption and oppression so I supposed none uncapable of becoming the Conduits of Justice and administring Truth and Righteousness to the people And therefore have been apt to interpret a non-compliance with present power as rather proceeding from ill manners or a peevish kinde of morosity that in some turbulent ill-natured spirits is the infirmity or rather hereditary malady of their Melancholy Complexion then from any true work of Conscience or Reverence as commonly pretended to the Sacred Bonds of Religion which betrayed my rashness into a fond conceit that not onely the Male-contents under one Government would be the same under any other unless their ambition were gratified with a share and interest in the administration and management thereof but a●●● that such good natures as can comply with one will if the Scene chance to change and the Ballance of Affairs turn with as great readiness espouse and cast themselves into the imbraces of another as acknowledging the tribute of all faithful duty and loyal obedience justly due and of right to be paid to whatever Power is so well sledg'd as to extend the wing of their Protection for a defence to the Lives and Estates of all such as are willing to own and receive warmth from their Authority The consideration whereof rendred me very neutral in reference to State affairs supposing Faction and Ambition to bear greater sway then Religion in by assing mens Propensities ruling their inclinations as to things of this nature Insomuch that I have been apt to pity and commiserate the unhappiness of those God had been pleased to call up to the battlements of Soveraignty and placed at the Helm of Affairs by reason there never have been