Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	charles_n	king_n	stuart_n	2,711	5	13.1708	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84162	The voice of the iron rod, to his Highness the Lord Protector: being a seasonable admonition presented to him, and to all judicious men: by Arise Evans.	Evans, Arise, b. 1607.	1655 (1655)	Wing E3473; Thomason E1474_3; ESTC R209514	6,890	15

do what you can it will slip thorow your fingers as think to rule this Nation without a strait Church-government even such a Government as your Army hath and that duely and diligently it be executed upon offenders But you will say There was no such Government in the Apostles time I answer No for they were but as men that beat for Volunteers and that list men to go into a strange Island which cannot prescribe absolute Laws for them whilst they remain in their own native Land but when they are come to the intended Island then they have Laws given them which if they transgress they must suffer accordingly though it be to the death Or to speak more plainly in your own Military language the Apostles were as men when at first they are raising an Army who put their Souldiers immediately in Companies under some inferiour Officers and there they let them rest a while yet it is then intended that the Souldiers shall not remain so always but the intent is that there shall be a General in chief over them besides Colonels and Majors and a compleat Government among them So likewise when the Church at first by the Apostles were in gathering and put under such Government as then being persecuted they best could do they doubtless then intended for it a Government that should be compleat even such a Government as we had not long since here in England Therefore stand for Church government and for Charles Stuart or else you cannot stand proclaim him speedily lest some Parliament-men do it before you and then you be undone for that party which proclaims the King now shall increase like a snow-ball and I tear all that you can do shall not be able to dissolve it My Lord the people generally look upon you now as one that can shew no colour for your Authority to rule them for since the last Parliament disowned you whom we looked upon as honest men all do disown you and the most judicious say that nothing will bring you into favour with them again but your speedy restoring of the Church and King Oh do not let your adversaries prevail against you through your neglect You know Samson slept so long upon Dalilah's knees until his locks were cut off that when he poor man awaked and thought to go out and prevail as at other times alas he was soon overcome and had his eyes put out and was put to grinde in a mill like as if he had been a founder'd blinde horse Judg. 16. 19 20 21. So these Colonels dally with you but in the mean time they cut off your locks in the Army and they know already that they have more of the Army on their side then you have besides their furious party abroad else would they not be so bold with you as they are They say Treason never prospers and why because if it prosper none dare call it Treason Therefore what is Law to day may be Treason to morrow I know there is no truth among the Sectaries but that of the Anabaptist which did all for rebaptizing is a truth as I shall make it appear by Scripture by Reason by ancient Records and by Saint Augustine's own confession but their denial of Infants baptism by their Sureties is an errour as I have and shall make it appear with as full proof at large Therefore the Cause as we call it is a controversie which God had with his people for their sins Mic. 6.2 and though he gave them into your hands for a time do not you go as the Heathen did go beyond their Commission in afflicting Gods people Zech. 1.15 16. My Lord to deal plainly with you do you think that the people are so abased now through the fear of you that they will maintain your 30000 men besides the great Navie and a great Court for you at their own cost and charges whereas they know that by their exchanging you for King Charles they shall be freed from all that cost and charge judge with reason is it wisdom for you to think so for then the Kings Revenues and Church-Revenues running in their own chanel again will make the people as free from Taxes as they were before these Troubles began And many that have bought of the King and Bishops Lands to my knowledge are so honest wishing it were come to that pass though they should lose their money by it My Lord I have been told by discreet men of all parts in England which are no enemies to you and therefore they bid me tell you that they perceive there will be a sudden general Rasing against you at one day and hour in all the Counties of England and by Visions also and Scripture it is confirmed to me that it will be so if you do not prevent it by the speedy proclaiming of Charles Stuart It is true Jeremiah was favourably used by Zedekiah and so was I by you therefore Jeremiah shewed him the way how to save himself his City and family and he seemed to be well pleased with it but notwithstanding Zedekiah went in his own way to do it and you see what became of him and of his City and Family Jer. 38. Jer. 39. and I beseech you consider that if the Country will not pay the Assesments as I hear many say they will not because you had no power say they from the last Parliament to raise money I say If they will not rate it how can you raise it in equity And if you want money what will become of you The late King lost all upon that score going to raise Ship-money without consent of Parliament Take heed what you do for I believe your Souldiers consider all these things as well as others and that though for the present they obey you to see what you will do yet they will not serve you to keep their native Country in such bondage Therefore trust not to them upon such an account but do righteous things and then they will gladly follow you My Lord you are designed for higher things then to live so dishonorably at White-hall as to be counted a Tyrant and the very enemy of your native Country My Lord you are to look higher then on such a lowe contemptible way of living you are to do the work of God for which you were designed and called and you are to have the dominion though not for your self over the chiefest City in the world afore it be long as I told you in my former books And wherefore was Darius his age ●et down Dan 5. 31. but that you might know when it shall be your own age will tell you that keep it secret Come not short in these vertues of a Heathen Captain Alexander the Great who did excellent things for his own vain-glory but do you the like to the glory of God therefore you must exceed him in such godly vertues which he by nature did the things contained in the Law as Saint Paul