Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	duke_n	french_a	king_n	14,745	5	4.5867	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20838	The practise of princes. Published by A. Ar	Ar., A.	1630 (1630)	STC 722; ESTC S100204	18,364	24

Commanders in war but such as they knew were sure to theire religion and would strive all they could to maintaine and propagate the same In all theire treaties and warres this was ever one main ende they aimed at as appeareth by Gondomars practises in his treating with England and the care and zeale of theire Generals of Bavaria Tillie Spinola and the rest as he saith that writes the seidge of Breda Against them it was thought fit our forces should be bent not for affectation or desire of Soveraignty but for the reestablishing of religion and regaining what they usurped Now if they had seene like true zeale and care in the English councell and Generals for the Protestant religion they never durst have attempted so much as they have but they grew confident that England then the strongest of all protestant States and most likely to worke Romes Ruin if truly zealous could not to any purpose helpe the Palatinate the French Protestants nor the King of Denmarke much lesse hurt the proceedings and conquests of Romes champions spirituall or temporall knowing the Kings dispositioÌ„ and that she and they had the Duke and other secret freinds in England who one while would hold the Kings hands easily kept from drawing his sword under vaine pretexts of hope to set all right by treatie while they of the Palatinate and the French Protestants were loosing and bleeding and another while when they could with no colour use that course any longer would in counterfeyt zeale get forces raised with greate shew of ayding and defending religion and the freinds thereof but with secret purpose to bringe them for Romes sake to nothing as besides delaies the lame commissions procured the popish leaders and instruments imploied and munition and victuals to the enemies transported sufficiently manifested that so at last England might be glad of peace with France and Spaine on hard conditions And in the meane while they could with gifts presents flateries promises and som small supplies and services make shew that they were greate freinds and Agents to the King for the King and Queene of Bohemia theire issue the King of Denmarke and the Rochellers the easier to cousen them all and get the fault laid on the Parliament that stroue most to remove such deceitfull practisers as by working these things seemed to hope a rebellion would follow and then Romish champions might be called from France or Spaine to take a side and get all as wisdom saith A seditious person seeketh only rebellion therefore a cruell messenger shall be sent against him Kings can not binde them from such practises by shewing them favour for papists wil forfeit all other bands to strengthen those of theire religion Secondly because in Germanie France and Spaine the Popish clergie high and low have ever had free libertie to speake and write unto Princes and others for the defence and propagation of theire owne religion and rooting out of theire adversaries and to reprove all such as failed therein and get them punished while in the meane time the Duke and other theire secret freinds in England so laboured and by the helpe of the Bishops obtained that protestant preachers writers should not doe the like for theire religion no not though it were by Gods undeniable word and that if any did it should be never the better yet till there be the like care zeale both in the counsell of state and in the clergie things can never go well with our religion and state nor they be enabled to stand against the zeale and practises of a contrarie religion and kingdom Ministers are Christs Embessadors and Agents and therefore ought to have free libertie to speake in the word of the Lord to Kings statesmen so it be in good and reverent sort for things pertaining to the furtherance of Christs Kingdom and against such practises as hinder the same They ought rather to have had this privileidge then Gondomar the Dukes mother such others as on the contrarie laboured for the kingdom of Antichrist and till they have it princes can not say rightly that Christ hath his Embassadors or Kingdom received in theire courts Which som undertake to prove can not be till the hierarchie and dominion of the Lord Bishops never by Christ ordained but forbidden be overthroweÌ„ as dangerous to protestant Princes and states because the greate places thereof are only baites to make som divines temporisers instruments and freinds of such trecherous Arminians church-popelings and delinquents as can prefer them and others to spend theire zeale in maintaining the hierarchie and the fruitles dominioÌ„ traditions and ceremonies thereof Out of all which he that wil may see that the losses dishonours and troubles that have befallen this Land and indeede our religion and brethren also in the Palatinate Germanie France and other parts have cheifely sprunge from these two fountains 1. A corrupt councell and clergie in England that were more for the Duke and his confederates that helped them to honours offices and preferments theÌ„ for the religion and state divided and kept low by his and theire practises which the Pope the howse of Austria and the French King perceiving tooke that for a time of persecuting conquering and depelling all Protestants 2. A vaine policie of suppressing such preachers writers and Parliament men as sought to discover the mischeife of trecherie and obtaine effectuall reformation In the later if not in both the power and flatterie of the Bishops were principall helpes theire seeming holy habit reverence and authority countenanced the projects of the Duke and his coÌ„federates while for preferment they stuck fast to him and them in court and Parliament and theire power and hierarchie served to terrifie suppresse and stop the mouthes of such ministers writers who otherwise might by theire sermons and bookes have discovered the homebred enemies and obtained releife for the freinds of our religion which is the service Christ gets by Lord Bishops and theire hierarchie who hereby shewed that they will sooner let religion Prince State and all go downe then theire owne usurped dignities and hopes of further preferment for these and other courtiers and Dukanists that have stil pretended the Kings power and prerogative have not strengthened but rather weakened and debased the same 1. By those fruitles expeditions that they caused abroade which were so forecasted that the Sailers and Souldiers neither comming to good service nor theire pay should refuse to serve the King any more or to be governed by his officers but be readier to spoile theire countrey when they returned 2. By those dangerous divisions that they have procured and nourished at home And while they got his majestie to suffer divers ambitious divines for advancement to broach anew the doctrines of Pelagius and to erect popish superstition to the treading under foote as wel of the divine law as of the ParliameÌ„t have they by al these things gotten the King and his lawes to be

though God religion Prince people state all loose by it which hath filled the Land with many secret murmures and groanes in so much that some who are reckoned wise men have not sticked to infer that there is no likelihood that God shoult ever give a blessing to such mens counsailes as have either assisted the Duke and his faction in theire projects of betraing the Palatinate the French Protestants and the religious indeauours of Parliament men and other good Subjects or connived at these vile practises and so justified him and his confederates for say they such counsellours as could not see these practises which every mechanical fellow and very ploughmen perceived beeing so many so frequent and so apparant they are blind guides unfit to be about Kings and such say they as percived them and did not lay themselves and theire fortunes downe at the Kings feete to shew him the trechery and danger but connived to get or keepe preferment they were cowardly and mercinarily base and unfaithfull to God religion theire King countrie and the verie State wherin they were chosen watchmen Where in policie poperie is connived at neutralitie and Arminianisme favoured delinquents borne out and Parliaments for theire sakes dissolved the King must needes have such Servants and them ever false Cum privilegio for if he hearken to them that say that these are good policies to hearkens to lies God saith Of a Prince that hearkens to lies all his servants are vvicked Men that take his word say that therefore as theire roote must needes prove rotten so things can never goe wel with the Christian world much lesse with the religion and state of England till the councell which hath beene so Dukified be in a manner wholy changed they therefore count them fooles who thinke if God should take the King away issules that the injured King and Queene of Bohemia should come to the crowne things must needes mend saying that could not be unles the councell were also changed and made examples to keepe others from the like treacherie and temporising for say they if a King be constant to religion they also can make greate shew of defending religion as the Duke and others dâ—d thereby to get trust that they may under hand betray it And people say they had the like hopes when King Iames died seeing our King that now is make greate preparations and for ought wee know with sincerity but by the practise of the Duke and his faction retaining all his fathers counsell which for the most part were Hispanolished Frenchified Romanâ—sed or Newtralised and suffering som worse both spirituall and temporal to be added unto them al those forces weere soone brought to nothing things are growne a greate deale worse and to the greater greife of all goodnes and good men without Gods speciall mercie remediles seeing that a king who only heares and sees things in such mens reports can not know the truth and that no man dares speak for a free Parliament that may sift it out much lesse for an effectuall reformation for as Wisdom saith of such potent counsellours When the vvicked rise up men hide themselves but when they perish the righteous increase A man that hardeneth his neck when he is rebuked shall sodainly be destroied and can not be cured as God manifested in the Duke when the righteous are in authority the people rejoice but when the wicked beareth rule the people sigh Rehoboam was not strengthened by such counsellors but weakened A King and his people are a body politik and the Parliament his representative body Now as in a body if the faculty of the braine in one side be stopped that it can not descend through the sinewes to the senses of moveing in the limbes and members then those parts have the dead palsie and the man becomes as it were halfe dead and as unable to doe any service effectually as our men were at the Palatinate Cales Ree Rochel and in the Parliament howse so is it with the body politick of greate Britain through the practise of som Iesuited Spirits who beeing disguised in the sheepes clothing of a protestant outside gotten into the place of favourits counsellors have cuningly infected many both Bishops and others In whom and by whom the braine for the most part is ill affected and the reciprocall passages betweene the head and the members are stopped so that the right facultie can not descend through the sinewes the peeres Iudges and Bishops to the senses of moveing in the Kings body the Parliament and so his Ma tie giveing no life and strength to that body and the best members thereof nor they meanes to him the whole body is halfe dead so unable to offend adversaries that it can not defend it selfe but must needes perish if those ill humours in the braine of counsell be not by his maiestie purged and removed whereas if he did agree with the Parliament and had a counsell favouring the moveing indeauours of the same he must needes grow dreadfull to them who now hope to see his kingdom by these continued divisions easely conquered witnes the Popes Bull to the present French King given at Rome Septemb. 4. 1626. Now then seeing that it is cleare that in these things the Kings Ma tie himselfe who is ruled and abused by them is not the least sufferer but hath cause to say of them as old Iacob did of Simeon and Levi bretheren in evill Jnto their secret let not my Soule come and that thus divided from his people which under God are his strength he must nedes be in more danger of foraigne enemies forced to treate with them on harder conditions which is one of the secret ends that som of these whisperers had to helpe the Catholike cause at least under a pretext of zeale to the Kings prerogative which zeale they used both as an instrument to worke division and a cloake to cover theire treacherie to our religion and theire secret favour to Rome and her champions what true Subject but wil pray and indeauour that the King may see expell these dangerous counsellors which is the ende of these few collections and reflecting the light of that wisdom on theire practises which saith Blessed is he that shall not be offended in me but wisdom is justified of her children practises so desperatly persisted in that there seenes to be eniuitie jelousie and emulation betweene France and Spaine whether shall by theire meanes hold the continued honour of cousening in the end of conquering us wherein yet I should abhor to be so plaine indeede to medle at all if the many greate and manifest wroÌ„gs done to God religion my King countrie with the extreme danger the three later stand in did not seeme to crie out of silence banking to call to me for plaine dealing what ever it cost me as Isa 1.23 Ezech. 22.27 for 1. What a miserable thing

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