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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	france_n	king_n	prince_n	18,120	5	5.7862	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83953	Englands crisis, or, The World well mended		1689 (1689)	Wing E2954B; ESTC R42979	6,321	2

was Honorable and one Reason of his Expedition had at lest a shew of Justice in the Quarrel I mean the Business of the Prince of Wales which I cannot but confess some People managed as if they designed either that we should not believe at all or if we did our belief should be as Implicit as to Successions and Inheritances here as that of the Romanist is in his expectation of Inheriting the Kingdom of Heaven hereafter but they have cured me of that Disease and I do no longer Believe That he ever intended to perform what he promised in his Declaration That he came to restore our Government to it self and to support our Church which Popish Counsels had indeed put into some Disorder for now by a nearer Converse and an impartial View of the present Measures we see these things were farthest from his Thoughts By all Observations that can be made the End of his coming was To serve a Covetousness Natural to the Dutch and an Ambition and Revenge as Natural to Himself For now thank God we know that the Preparations for this Expedition were not only begun but very far advanced before the Seven Bishops were sent to the Tower before the Queen was Breeding and before the starting the Magdalen Colledge Case so that though the Discontents of the Nation upon those Accounts serv'd both to promote and disguise his Designs they were no Occasion of his first taking them up And now his Success has carried him to the Top of his Hopes he is so far from redressing our Grievances that he adds greater and Himself continues the greatest of them all Ad Culmina Rerum Injustos crevisse queror He has a Popish Army commanded by Popish Officers and Papists go in great Numbers to Mass at several Chappels as openly as when King James was here and with a non Obstance to all our Laws enjoy as great P●iviledges They that thought these to be G●ievances before must allow them to be much more so now if we take into our Consideration a Speech he made to the Convention well said to be Transubstantiated into a Parliament we may clearly see that neither his Desire nor Design is to preserve the Church of England as is uncontroulably manifest by his Abol●shing Episcopacy in Scotland But if we can be quiet still and get over all these Considerations and in good Truth a drowsy negligent Spirit seems to have lock'd up the Noble Genius of the Nation I must lay before you another Consideration that will be sure to touch to the Quick. Peace and Plenty are the C●rdinal Blessings of a Kingdom and the latter of these has such an Absolute Dependance upon the former that Light and the Sun Heat and Fire are not more inseparable When the Sword moves Trade stands still and the Plough is idle for no Man will bestow his Pains and venture his Money when he knows not how soon or who may be Masters of both and if their be ●o Trade there can be no Diffiusive Plenty For Trade is a kind of Circulation of Blood it preserves Health and distributes Nourishment Whatsoever therefore brings a War upon the Nation brings the greatest Plague upon it that can be a War abroad ●ometimes may indeed be a kind of Physick to the Body ●olitick but a War at home is a Fever in the Bowels The Ruins of Churches Palaces and Publick Buildings and the many indigent and begging Gentlemen still left amongst us are sad and fresh Monuments of our Deliverance ●rom Popery and Slavery betwixt the Years 40 and 60. In which time it Cost the N●tion above Twenty Millions of Money and a Hundred Thousand Lives and if we do not before it be dark Night see the things that belong to our Peaca we must it possible fall into greater Confusion Do but prevail with your self so far as not to let a little consideration be either troublesom or uneasy to you and then you will find that unless like Judah and Israel we ●e●d to the King to return in Peace to his own Throne we must have a Bloody War till he recovers his Righ● o● so long as he lives for he has Money and he cannot want Men and will never give it over nor indeed can the War dye with him for so long as the Prince of Wales lives and lives abroad and whilst there is a King of France or a Faction in England the War can never dye a Calamitous and Bloody War must needs be intail'd upon the Nation Trading is already sunk extreamly and heavy Taxes are ●oming on a pace and the Wheels of the New Government are already so clogg'd that Six Millions of Money will scarce grease them enough to make them glibly turn round whilst England that Taxbearing Mule tamely wears one of Jacob's Sons Inglorious Coat of Arms Issachar is an Ass Couchant under a Burden of its own making All our Comfort is that in the judgment of the best learned in the Laws of this Kingdom this Assembly neither is nor can be a Parliament and indeed it can be no Parliament but by virtue of a Power which God Almighty never claim'd I mean Self-Creation and Dr. Burnet himself is of the same Opinion for in the 66 Pag. of his Collected Papers speaking of the Convention that brought in King Charles the Second and which also afterwards voted it self a Parliament he has these very remarkable Words It 's being call'd without the King 's Writ was such an Essential Nullity that no subsequent Ratification could take it away and if so the Subjects are not obliged to pay any Taxes because no Money can be raised here but by a Parliament nay the Subject not only is not obliged to pay them but it is also his Duty to refuse and then all Assessors Collectors and Officers that Aid or Assist in the Gathering or Constraining the Payment of such Illegal Taxes will stand liable to the highest of Punishments probably Death where there is a violent taking and also to an Action respectively for all Wrong done and Damages sustained and although the King by a General Pardon may Forgive the Crime yet that will not relieve them against the Personal Action Nay we shall be as false to our selves as we have been to the King if we suffer a Company of Men Assembled without Writs to take upon them such a boundless Authority it is a very dangerous thing to depart the least Tittle from any thing that is Fundamental in the Constitution and we know not how soon they that do thus may either make Parliaments without Elections as well as without W●its or el●e wholly lay them aside both which have been done within the M●mory of Man Death and Desolation I leave to every Man's priva●● Reflection and new Oaths Impos'd upon us against our Consciences under heavy Penalties The Fellows of Magdalen Colledge were Expell●d b●cause th●y would not violate their Consciences nor the Oath they had taken and now Thousands of the