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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	life_n	saul_n	1,175	5	9.4858	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87530	A looking-glasse for the Parliament. Wherein they may see the face of their unjust, illegall, treasonous and rebellious practices, 1 Against Almighty God. 2 Against their King. 3 Against the fundamentall lawes of the kingdome. 4 Against their own oaths and covenants. Argued betwixt two learned judges, the one remaining an exile beyond the seas, the other a prisoner for his allegiance and fidelity to his King and country.	Jenkins, David, 1582-1663.; R. H.; Heath, Robert, Sir, 1575-1649, attributed name.	1648 (1648)	Wing J595; Thomason E427_17; ESTC R202656	43,342	52

the Lord shall have them in derision he shall bruise them with a Rod of Iron and breake them in peeces like a Potters Vessell Be wise now therefore O yee Princes be learned O yee that are Judges of the Earth What though many Ox●n are come about the King and fat Bulls of Rasan have closed him in on every side that gape upon him with their mouthes as if they were ramping and roaring Lions was not this good King Davids case Psal. 22. 12. was not he hunted after by Saul to destroy his life as a man hunteth after a Partridge in the Mountaines 1 Sam. 26. 20. did not his enemies lie waiting in his way on every side turning their eyes downe to the ground Like as a Lion that is greedy of his prey and as it were a Lions Whelpe lucking in secret places Psal. 17. 11. 12. They spake against him with false tongues compassed him about with words of hatred fought against him without a cause Psal. 109. 3. And Davids enemies kept him Prisoner too as out King is for they compassed him about Psal. 140. 9. Nay he complaines more heavily they that hate me without a cause are more then the haires of mine head they that are mine enemies and would destroy me guiltlesse are mighty Psal. 69. 4. Yet what of all this Are not there many promises held forth in the holy Scriptures to us that may assure a man of the smallest faith that the King shall be reestablished in his Throne and his enemies confounded for David assures us there is verily a reward for the righteous Doubtlesse there is a God in Heaven that judgeth in the earth Psal. 58. 11. and Psal. 9. The Lord is knowne by executing judgement the wicked shall be shared in the works of their owne hands for the poore shall not be alwaies forgotten the hope of the afflicted shall not perish for ever and to prove this he affirmes by way of evidence Psa. 27. 2. When the wicked even mine enemies and my foes came upon me to eate up my flesh they stumbled and fell and Psal. 30. He shewes his deliverance by his thanksgiving in these words I will magnifie thee O Lord for thou hast set me up and not made my foes to triumph over me thou hast turned my heavinesse into joy thou hast put off my sackcloth and gi●ded me with gladnesse How then can I dispaire of our Kings deliverance and victory I hope I may without offence say that I beleeve our King is a parallell to David in his vertues and the justice of his Cause and therefore shall with David Psal. 21. conclude this point The King shall rejoyce in thy strength O Lord exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation thou shalt give him his hearts desire and wilt not deny him the request of his lips and why Because the King putteth his trust in the Lord and in the mercy of the most highest he shall not miscarry And for the latter part of your Argument which is that either the King will signe the Propositions and so mine estate will be confiscated or if he doe not the Parliament will doe it by their Ordinances without him I answer that I feare not his Majesties consent to give away the estates of his Loyall Subjects but if he be a Prisoner as you signifie unto me by your letters that he is I feare not much that his assent to the Propositions can take away mine estate neither doe I hold it a peece of wisdome to presse his consent perdures to such Propositions for you that are learned in the Lawes know that such consent is not any way binding at all amongst common persons a fortiori in the Kings cause And for their disposing of mine estate by Ordinance without the Kings consent I must deale plainely with you it terrifieth me not at all for I am cleerely of opinion that no Ordinance without the Kings consent is binding to the people or can alter any property that I have in mine estate by the Fundamentall Lawes of the Land And if the King should consent to such an Ordinance it were onely binding till the first Sessions of the next Parliament and then to dye of it selfe if not againe revived which if I thought you doubted of I would take the paines to cleare it by citing you authorities sufficient in the point whereupon I doubt not but you wil infer that there can be no good assurance or sale made of the Bishops lands by Ordinance without the Kings Royall and personall assent nor that both or either House of Parliament can dispose of his Royall person by any Law of the Land and I hope God will never permit them to dispose of him otherwise then to re-establish him in his Throne againe and invest him with all his Royall powers and interests which by the knowne Lawes of the Land are due unto him and to make him a glorious King according to their severall Declarations Protestations oaths of Supremacie and Allegiance and according to their solemne League and Covenant all which Protestations Oaths and Covenants every Member of both Houses either by the Lawes or by their owne Orders hath or ought to take Now as concerning the Covenant if I understand it aright the principall ends of it are the setling of Presbyterian government in the Church the extirpation of Episcopacy the right and priviledges of Parliament the preservation of the Kings Majesties person and authority which is qualified with a clause of equivocation viz. in the maintenance of the true Religion and liberties of the Kingdome to bring Incendiaries and malignants or evill instruments to condigne punishment and lastly to assist and defend all those that joyn in that League and Covenant to the ends and purposes aforesaid These being the ends of the Covenant it is expedient that I should consider whether it be lawfull to take any Covenant tending to these ends for I will not dispute the legality or illegality of taking of Covenants in generall but whether without my King and his confirmation I may make any Covenant at all with any sort of people in this Land especially to abrogate any knowne and established Law of the Land Now to pull downe that government of Episcopacy which is established by divers acts of Parliament in this Kingdome to set up Presbyterian by force of Armes which is inconsistent with the Laws and Statutes of this Realme and without the Kings consent who by his office of divine appointment is the nursing father of the Church as Isaiah 49. 22. and by the Statutes of this Land acknowledged to be supreame Moderator and governour of the Church and Kingdome as hereafter is more at large declared I very much doubt and scruple whether I may doe it and the rather for this cause for feare lest joyning in an unlawfull Covenant haply I be found to fight against God as it was said in the case of the Apostles Act. 5. 30. for if I enter into