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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	parliament_n	scot_n	5,191	5	9.5999	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97130	An ansvver to a declaration of the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly, to the whole Kirk and Kingdome of Scotland. Concerning present dangers, and duties relating to the covenant and religion. / By Borialis Guard.	Ward, Nathaniel, 1578-1652.	1648 (1648)	Wing W778; Thomason E433_21; ESTC R206198	8,194	8

it bee so to all In the close he mindes them of that which of all other must not be forgotten The dissolving this Parliament to make way for another by due elections that is wherein his partizent Cavalliers and malignanrs may be both elected and electors and so undoe all that either is already or shall hereafter be done by this and then we have spun a long thread to little purpose rare sophistry and King craft But I hope the people of England understand their interest better then thus to pull downe their props and bring the house upon their heads and that they will not take seemings for Beings nor shadows for reallities Take heed of disguises and Court-masks after so many blows and bullets be not fool'd with faire words and false fires I pray your Majesty Beleeve your selfe a Subject as well as a Sovereigne and know that honesty is the best policy stand not on your head and shake your heels against heaven Take God more into your counsells and your people into your care It hath ever been the fault of Kings to study and practice policy more then piety which hath brought so great miseries upon many of them and some to untimely ends and what came of them after God knows what will it advantage you to gain the whole world of power and that power never so absolute and lose your precious soule you must dye as well as other men and leave your Crowne behinde you when you goe to the grave Sure Kings either thinke they may sin cum privilegio or that those things which are sins in other men as bing dissembling oppression murder rapine swearing forswearing are not so in them Play with your conscience which one day will be serious with you pretend not protection when you intend destruction be not deceived Got wil not be mocked How can you expect to be believed that never kept your word till this parliament nor now if you could have broken it the endeavours whereof hath been the cause of all this Civill war and blood-shed besides you still retain the same principles entertain the same counsellours and adhere to the same friends It 's true that Kings are called Gods so are Devills to therefore beare not your selfe upon that as if there were no excellence in God but Power and Sovereignty whereas he hath other Attributes and Properties besides that are honourable and that he is to be honoured for as goodnesse mercy justice protection faithfulnesse initate him in these so shalt you be Gods indeed and though you must dye like men yet shall you be as the Angels for as ill Kings their condemnation is greater so are good Kings their glorification higher by how much their talent and stewardship on earth is above others The Scots are singular School-men in State-matters and can distinguish to a mote in the sun If the Parliament wish'd them to advance Southward they retreated Northward by a Scotch figure because the North of England is the South of Scotland And lay just so long before Newarke till by private confabulation the King came to their Leaguer and then and there broke their word but kept Covenant with the Parliaments Commissioners against their promise carrying away the King to Newcastle in all post haste as if they had meant to have invited him to Edinburgh in freedom honour and safety but no such marter my Lord touching the Kings dignity and greatnesse the Covenant only binds on this side Tweed for beyond it He 's little enough but it seems they have bargained with him like the two Tribes and halfe so they may have all beyond Jordan they le see him in safe possession of Canaan therefore for that end must there needs be a personall Treaty and an invitation of him whom they 'le neer invite into Scotland to London in honour safety and freedome the Kings own words fiddle and stick which makes Pregmaticus the Court-jester ready to leape out of his skin for joy to heare this tune played upon the Scotch Bag-pipes so that hee 'l goe neer to want a Theame to time upon next week being reconciled to this loyall fraternity But they tell you the reason and for my part I beleeve them why they would have the King entertained at our cost because they say their happinesse is in him for you must consider the two great wheels of the Scotch Engine is now in perpetuall motion the one to make England Scotland in matters Ecclesiasticall so that It is and It is not so in Scotland were urged in the Assembly like ipse dixit in the Schools the other is to make Scotland England in things ervill and though an English man in Scotland must not untie the Kings shoe latchet yet they stick not to propose to have the third part of offices about him here They cry out of the abuse offered a single Commissioner at Hampton-Court and that no repaire is made the whilst they sanctuary Knox and nose us with Cheesley those arch incendiaries that in whole volumes abused the whole state of England with breach of priviledge of Parliament to boot which by Covenant is to be maintained and they punished but a trick at maw will helpe that for they can in their printed Papers those Scotch spectacles to blind Englishmen take the Covenant in pieces and quote it in abstract Propositions leaving out the principall verbe still the conditionate coherence of one thing with another so that the reason why they so cry up themselves wherein they have an excellent faculty for transeendent Covenanters is because they doe by the Covenant as some Sectaries of these times doe by the Scriptures bring their sense to it and not take sense from it And for most part what is their Religion Presbyterie they doe by it as the Jewes did by the Temple worship it instead of God and though swearing lying and dissembling be even nationall vices amongst them yet by vertue of this bare badge they cry up themselves for the people of the Lord as if heaven also could be caught by craft but forma dat esse is a maxime undeniable with them they are the best Christians and Covenanters because the best Presbyterians which they make their staulking-horse to catch citie and countrey and the Assembly also and their skreen to be-spatter the English Parliament except the eleven Members whose devotion to Presbyterie and the old Model prefers them in favour above the rest From State Presbyters Libera nos But however let us doe them all good Offices and keeps them at all due distances mix not interests keep Covenant in the intive plaine English sense of it avoid their tedious Haranys pend speeches and voluminous Papers which they only speake to the Parliament first to the end that after they may speaks them in print to the people which they know so great a body as the Parliament pressed with infinit and weighty businesses cannot suddenly answer and so think to cary the cause by cajoling the vulgar