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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	build_v	jerusalem_n	zion_n	14	3	8.5566	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93345	England and Scotland united, disjoyned. Or, A gentle corosive, and healing plaister, applied to two dying kingdoms: with some balsamum for wounded Ireland; humbly presented to both kingdoms, and communicated to all good subjects, that wish peace and good to the kingdoms, or to either of them. Wherein is represented, the grievances of the people, and their several murmurings. By Ethog Grimes Gent.	Smith, George, 1602 or 3-1658.	1648 (1648)	Wing S4034; Thomason E447_30	26,358	32

ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND UNITED DISJOYNED OR A gentle Corosive and healing Plaister applied to two dying KINGDOMS WITH Some Balsamum for wounded Ireland HUMBLY Presented to both Kingdoms and communicated to all good Subjects that wish Peace and good to the Kingdoms or to either of them Wherein is represented The Grievances of the PEOPLE and their several Murmurings By Ethog Grimes Gent. Read before you judge Read all or read none 2 Sam. 2 16. Then Abner called to Joab and said shall the sword devour for ever Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end How long shall it be then ere thou bid the people retur● from following their brethren Isa 1 5. Why should ye be smitten any more ye will revolt more and more the whole head is sick and the heart is faint Ier. 8. 22 Is there no balm in Gilead Is there no physician there Why then is not the daughter of my people recovered London Printed for Laurence Chapman and are to be sold at his sh●p next door to the Fountain Tavern in the Strand near the Savoy 1648. England and Scotland United Disjoyned OR A gentle Corosive and healing Plaister applyed to two dying Kingdoms WITH Some Balsamum for wounded Ireland BY your leave Gentlemen give me leave to step in among you and excuse my boldness I have a little interest with you in the Kingdom as well as you which I would not lose nor do I know how to save deem me not an intruder though I crowd in I truly confess I scarce know where I am things are so promiscously shuffled together men and things are so metamorphosed men know not themselves nor their own the world seems as it were turned round or in confusion Law is changed into Loosness and Liberty into Licentiousness where Order was there is Confusion and Fancy or Will is come in the place of Conscience Conscience is shrank or seared with an hot iron or hath quite suffered shipwrack sacred Truth analized judged misinterpreted eclipsed and comdemned by Humane Reason men and things all out of their places conquering Mars threatens the Islands with new War Jupiter casts ill aspects on men and things love is departed from men and malignity of spirit increaseth horrid Pride Ambition and Covetousness have contracted destructive divisions in Kingdoms Cities Societies and Families The son dishonoreth the Micah 7. 6. father the brother is against the brother c. and a mans enemies are the men of his own house is Christ a Prophet then conclude a Kingdom a City a House so divided cannot stand Mark 3 24. What 's the matter is all the world grown mad the effects shew the cause are not Englands brainsick distempers conceited fancies unparalleld head-strong passions and unreasonable actions the effects of the inflammation of the brain to madness What Bedlam fantacies whimzeys and self-fooling affections are discovered in men raging in all Societies and Families violence overspreads all as if there were new Nimrods on the earth or as if the people were building new Babels Midsummer-moon hath been apparently operative all this year What influence the Moon the Planets or Comets have upon mens bodies or fancies I know not nor did ever regard no more then some old new Prophesies lately discovered which I heed as Necromancers predictions But I cannot tell what to think that Herod and Pilate are made friends and yet love not one another that M●rs should be in conjunction with Venus and Vesta forsake her chastity is honesty a fool Minerva and Pall●ce were wise how is it they usurp Menesis and seek their own revenge it's strange to me and is no less then madness or is it a mystery but whether madness or mystery those are symptomes of Mortal-sickness in a Kingdom and at this time predict a period to three kingdoms all lying at this day upon the bed of languishing tortured with the pain of these distempers and the infected members of each are worse then Solomons mad-man Who saith he cast firebrands arrows Prov. 15. 18. and death It is mad-mens pastime to do mischief they care not who they hurt whether themselves or others so they fulfil their phrantick fancies a few such mad-men may destroy all But if all shall be mad who shall prevent destruction it was a curse threatned upon the rebellious Jews and is verified in truth upon England and Scotland The Lord shall smite thee with madness and blindeness and astonishment of heart and thou shalt be mad for D●u 28 ● 2● 34. the sight of thine eyes that thou shalt see c. Self-pride Ambition Covetousness and extream Oppression have put three Kingdoms into an extream mad condition Oppression saith the Wise man makes a wise man mad the heart of the oppresser is mad in oppressing the sweet of gain hath destroyed his heart though otherwise a wise man and like the horseleech he cryes Give give On the other side the oppressed under the burthen of pressures lying long upon him forgets his wisdom and patience and grows into desperation stark mad throws himself upon any danger counts it the smallest hazard in way of revenge Vid. S●nec● Cl●n lib. 1 cap. 12. ult to venture his life in every attempt counting himself deprived of the benefit of it whilest wounded by galling pressures Ill causes we know too often produce worse effects No man is born for himself but for others good as his own not for the hurt of any We ought to do good to every man but much more to seek to do good by laying out our selves for the publick Weal and in cases of necessity to the uttermost of our ability without grudging else were men ingrate to God and betrayers of the Commonweal But when Princes or Magistrates shall extort treasure from a willing and free people and convert their publick moneys to private uses self-purposes to particular ends it cannot be well endured especially when accounts of such moneys are not made to the Kingdom This kindles a fire of jealousie and makes men cry against it as grinding oppression and Robbing the Commonweal It was a reproof against the house of Jacob and the Princes of Israel That they built up Zion with Mic. 3. 10 blood and Jerusalem with iniquity not onely killing by the sword is counted bloody of which England stand guilty but when The ve 11 12. Heads of the people shall judge for reward and the Priests teach for hire the Prophets divine for money yet lean upon the Lord and say Is not the Lord among us none evil can come to us consider what follows Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field and Jerusalem shall become heaps c. likeness in sin brings likeness of judgement You shall see that because the two sons of Samuel that judged Israel were not just in all the ways of their father but turned aside after lucre took bribes and perverted judgement all the Elders of Israel gathered themselves