Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	family_n	master_n	servant_n	3,657	5	6.8258	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32784	The true subiect to the rebell, or, The hurt of sedition, how greivous it is to a common-wealth written by Sir Iohn Cheeke ... ; whereunto is newly added by way of preface a briefe discourse of those times, as they may relate to the present, with the authors life.	Cheke, John, Sir, 1514-1557.; Langbaine, Gerard, 1609-1658.	1641 (1641)	Wing C3778; ESTC R18562	48,490	89

setting out your selves Yee should submit you by humilitie one to another and yee set up your selves by arrogancy above the Magistrates See herein how much yee offend God Remember yee not that if yee come nigh to God he will come nigh unto you If then yee goe from God he will goe from you Doth not the Psalme say he is holy with the holy and with the wicked man hee is froward Even as hee is orderd of men hee will order them againe If yee would follow his will and obey his commandements yee should eat the fruits of the earth saith the Prophet if not the sword shall devoure you Yee might have eaten the fruits of this seasonable yeare if yee had not by disobedience rebelled against God Now not only yee cannot eate that which your selves did first sow by labour and now destroy by sedition but also if the Kings Majesties sword came not against you as just policie requireth yet the just vengeance of God would light among you as his word promiseth and your cruell wickednesse deserveth For whatsoever the causes be that have moved your wild affections herein as they be unjust causes and increase your faults much the thing it selfe the rifing I meane must needs be wicked and horrible afore God and the usurping of authoritie taking in hand of rule which is the sitting in Gods seat of justice and a proud clyming up into Gods high throne must needs be not only cursed newly by him but also hath been oftne punished afore of him And that which is done to Gods officer God accounteth it done to him For they despise not the minister as he saith himselfe but they despise him and that presumption of challenging Gods seat doth shew you to have been Lucifers and sheweth us that God will punish you like Lucifers Wherefore rightly look as yee duly have deserved either for great vengeance for your abominable transgression or else earnestly repent with unfained minds your wicked doings either with example of death be content to dehort others or else by faithfulnesse of obedience declare how great a service it is to God to obey your Magistrates faithfully and to serve in subjection truly Well if yee had not thus grievously offended God whom yee ought to worship what can yee reasonably think it to bee no fault against the King whom yee ought to reverence Yee be bound by Gods word to obey your King and is it no break of duty to withstand your King If the servant be bound to obey his master in the familie is not the subject bound to serve the King in his RealmeÌ„ The childe is bound to the private father and be we not all bound to the common-wealths father If wee ought to be subject to the King for Gods sake ought we not then I pray you to be faithfully subject to the King If we ought dutifully to shew all obedience to heathen Kings shall wee not willingly and truly be subject to Christian Kings If one ought to submit himselfe by humilitie to another ought we not all by dutie to be subject to our King If the members of our naturall body all follow the head shall not the members of the politicall body all obey the King If good manners be content to give place the lower to the higher shall not religion teach us alway to give place to the highest If true subjects will dye gladly in the Kings service should not all subjects think it dutie to obey the King with just service But you have not only disobeyed like ill subjects but also taken stoutly rule upon you like wicked Magistrats Yee have been called to obedience by counsell of private men by the advice of the Kings Majesties Councell by the Kings Majesties free pardon but what counsell taketh place where sturdinesse is law and churlish answers bee counted wisdome Who can perswade where treason is aboue reason and might ruleth right and it is had for lawfull whatsoever is lustfull commotioners are better then commissioners and common woe is named commonwealth Have yee not broken his laws disobeyed his Councell rebelled against him And what is the commonwealth worth wheÌ„ the law which is indifferent for all men shall be wilfully and spightfully broken of head-strong men that seek against lawes to order lawes that thos may take place not what the consent of wise men hath appointed but what the lust of Rebells hath determined What unthriftinesse is in ill seruants wickednesse in unnaturall children sturdinesse in unruly subjects crueltie in fierce enimies wildnesse in beastly mindes pride in disdainfull hearts that floweth now in you which haue fled from housed conspiracies to encamped robberies and are better contented to suffer famine cold travell to glut your lusts then to liue in quietnesse to saue the Commonwealth think more liberty in wilfulnesse then wisdome in dutifulnesse and so run head-long not to the mischiefe of other but to the destructioÌ„ of your selues and undoe by folly that yee intend by mischiefe neither seeing how to remedie that yee judge faulty nor willing to save your selves from miserie which stiffe-neckednesse cannot doe but honestie of obedience must frame If authoritie would serve under a King the Councell have greatest authoritie if wisdome and gravity might take place they be of most experience if knowledge of the Commonwealth could help they must by daily conference of matters understand it best yet neither the authority that the Kings Majestie hath given them nor the gravity which you knowe to be in them nor the knowledge which with great travell they have gotten can move yee either to keep you in the duty yee ought to doe or to avoid the great disorder wherein yee be For where disobedience is thought stoutnesse and fullennesse is counted manhood and stomaking is courage and prating is judged wisdome and the elvishest is most meet to rule how can other just authority be obeyed or sad counsell be followed or good knowledge of matters be heard or commandments of Councellours be considered And how is the King obeyed whose wisest be withstaÌ„ded the disobedieÌ„test obeyed the high in authority not weighed the unskilfullest made chiefe Captaines to the Noblest most hurt intended the braggingest brawler to be most safe And even as the viler parts of the body would contende in knowledge government with the five wits so doe the lower parts of the Commonwealth enterprise as high a matter to strive against their dutie of obedience to the Councell But what talke I of disobedience so quietly have not such mad rages run in your heads that forsaking and bursting the quietnesse of the common peace yee have hainously Traiterously encamped your selfe in field there like a byle in a body nay like a sinke in a towne have gathered together all the nasty vagabonds and idle loiterers to beare armour against him with whom all godly and good subjects will live and dye withall If it be a fault when two fight together and

law and his commandment is that every man should safely keep his own and use it reasonably to an honest gaine of his living Yee violently take and carry away from men without cause all things whereby they should maintaine not onely themselves but also their familie and leave them so naked that they shall feele the smart of your cursed enterprise longer then your own unnaturall and ungodly stomacks would well vouchsafe By justice yee should neither hurt nor wrong man and your pretensed cause of this monstrous stirre is to increase mens wealth and yet how many and say truth have yee decayed and undone by spoiling and taking away their goods How should honest men live quietly in the Commonwealth at any time if their goods either gotten by their own labour or left to them by their friends shall unlawfully and unorderly to the feeding of a sort of Rebels be spoiled and wasted and utterly scattered abroad The thing yee take is not your right it is another mans owne The manner of taking against his will is unlawfull and against the order of every good Common-wealth The cause why yee take it is mischievous horrible to fat up your sedition Yee that take it be wicked traitours and common enimes of all good order If he that desireth another mans goods or cattle doe fault what doth he think you whose desire taking followeth and is led to and fro by Iust as his wicked fancie void of reason doth guide him He that useth not his own well and charitably hath much to answer for and shall they be thought not unjust who not only take away other mens but also misuse and waste the same ungodly They that take things privily away and steale secretly and covertly other mens goods be by law judged worthie death and shall they that without shame spoile things openly and be not afraid by impudence to professe their spoile be thought either honest creatures to God or faithfull subjects to their King or naturall men to their Countrie If nothing had moved you but the example of mischiefe and the foule practice of other moved by the same yee should yet haue abstained from so licentious and so villanous a shew of robbery considering how many honester there be that being loath their wickednesse should be blazed abroad yet be found out by providence and hanged for desert What shall we then think or say of you shall we call you pickers or hid theeves nay more then theeves day theeves Herd stealers Sheire spoilers and utter destroyers of all kinde of families both among the poore and also among the rich Let us yet farther see is there no more things wherein yee have broken the Kings lawes and so uildly disobeyed him contrary to your bounden dutie Yee have not only spoiled the Kings true subjects of their goods but also yee have imprisoned their bodies which should be at libertie under the King and restrained them of their service which by dutie they owe the King and appaired both strength and health wherewith they live and serve the King Is there any honest thing more desired then liberty yee have shamefully spoiled them thereof Is there any thing more dutifull then to serve their Lord and Master But as that was deserved of the one part so was it hindered and stopped on your part For neither can the King be served nor families kept nor the Commonwealth looked unto where freedome of liberty is stopped and diligence of service is hindred and the help of strength and health abated Mens bodies ought to be free from all mens bondage and cruelty and only in this Realme be subject in publike punishment to our publike Governour and neither be touched of headlesse Captaines nor holden of brainlesse Rebels For the government of so pretious a thing ought to belong unto the most noble ruler and not justly to be in every mans power which is justly every living mans treasure For what goods be so deare to every man as his owne body is which is the true vessell of the minde to bee measurably kept of every man for all exercises and services of the minde If yee may not of your own authority meddle with mens goods much lesse you may of your own authoritie take order with mens bodies For what be goods in comparison of health libertie and strength which be all setled and fastned in the body They that strike other doe greatly offend and be justly punishable And shall they that cruelly and wrongfully torment mens bodies with yrons and imprisonments be thought not of other but of themselves honest and plaine and true dealing men What shall we say by them who in a private businesse will let a man to goe his journey in the Kings high way Doe they not think yee plaine wrong Then in a common cause not onely to hinder them but also to deale cruelly with them and shut them from doing their service to the King and their dutie to the Commonwealth is it not both disobedience crueltie and mischiefe think yee What an hinderance is it to have a good garment hurt any jewell appaired or any esteemed thing to be decayed And seeing no earthly thing a man hath more pretious then his body to cause it to be cruelly tormented with yrons feebled with cold weakned with ordering can it be thought any other thing but wrong to the sufferer crueltie in the doer and great disobedience transgression to the King How then be yee able to defend it But seeing yee so unpittifully vex men cast them in prison lade theÌ„ with yrons pine them with famine contrary to the rule of nature contrary to the Kings Majesties laws contrary to Gods holy ordinances having no matter but pretensed and fained gloses yee be not only disobedient to the King like Rebels but withstanding the law of nature like beasts and so worthie to dye like dogs except the Kings Majestie without respect of your deserving doe mercifully grant you of his goodnesse that which you cannot escape by justice Yet yee being not content with this as small things enterprise great matters and as though yee could not satisfie your selfe if yee should leave any mischiefe undone have sought bloud with crueltie and have slaine of the Kings true subjects many thinking their murder to be your defence when as yee have increased the fault of your vile rebellion with the horrour of bloudshed and so have burdened mischiefe with mischiefe while it come to an importable weight of mischiefe What could wee doe more in the horriblest kinde of faults to the greatest transgressours and offenders of God and men then to look straightly on them by death and so to rid them out of the Commonwealth by severe punishment whom yee thought unworthie to live among men for their doings And those who have not offended the King but defended his Realme by obedience of service sought to punish the disobedient and for safeguard of every man put themselves under dutie of law

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