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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	time_n	year_n	19,963	5	5.0438	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06090	The Times dissected. Or, A learned discovrse of severall occvrrences very worthy of speciall observation, to deter evill men, and incourage good.		1642 (1642)	Wing T1289; ESTC R185073	6,468	11

THE TIMES DISSECTED OR A LEARNED DICOVRSE Of Severall OCCVRRENCES Very worthy of SPECIALL OBSERVATION To deter evill men and incourage good Printed in the yeare 1642. THE TIMES EVROPE afflicted mournes an Age it may be accounted when ruine is from time to time but great Brittaine as the last in the world in reservation of punishment is assailed with an Inundation of troubles a Country found no danger therefore sought no remedy as a Province when a Comet hath no relation to it feares not this caused her make no use of others harmes as wisedome should have done when a neighbours house is on fire therefore either because God chasteneth more the faults of us hee loveth a signe of good will or because he punisheth our errors he is most obliged to pay with revenge the s●urce of which Malady if we take the Elevation from the past inward or outward causes proceed First from our sinnes which did cast a Epidemicall Lethargy of unthankefulnesse for mercies received the greatest sicknesse a conceit of health when most in danger The second because there was not heretofore a perfect union twixt England and Scotland incorpor●ting both into one body and minde if possible it might have beene a reason hath caused Portugall and Catalonia to revolt from the King of Spaine and Transilvania Valachia and Moldavia under Vayvodes and not Bashaes easily elapsed to disobedience in these turbulent and lachrymable times enter the yeare 1639. when two Armies in hostile manner oppose each other but cured with a pacification the ulcer not killed it revived the yeare 1640. inve●…oming the mindes of both Kingdomes as in a hecticke or rather a burning feaver with much corrupt matter ascend●ng caused a new Parocisme to devour the substance of the King and people which was prognosticated by divine anger threatned by the Ministers the Church conspurgated with errors the Common-wealth loaded with projects Monopolies and Impositions a Tyrannical Government propounded and assaied Parliamentary wayes denied the Road and Highway to justice the petitions of the people not heard nor answered all which chalked out ruine whereupon finding their lawfull desires made vaine they doe not so willingly obey the soveraignes edicts and commands finding the Diadem led with pernitious councells so that the Feaver of disobedience growing high the Scots invaded our souldiers had no will to fight the subjects no desire to pay to such a warre whereby the precepts of the head were of no availe over purse and spirit to oppose such invasion this distemper caused the King summon the Peerary to Yorke to consult and play Physitians to cure the present malady with a purpose King and Lords might doe all things without the Commons but they out of a sincere minde petitioned his Majesty for a Parliament because they could not accomplish the businesse without common consent to set in joynt the factions and fractions of the Kingdome which appeared by the miserable condition the face of the Common-wealth was beheld withall now better by a thousand degrees thankes be given to God for many wrinckles are worne away and I hope it will come to be in good health since the Parliament cannot be dissolved till all things desired be accomplished of which the Trieuniall Parliament will be the touchstone to try the truth But finding the Episcopall government caused divers distempers in the State by introducing new innovations in the Church as Altars removed for adoration a new unlawfull oath imposed by the Canons and not confirmed by the Parliament without which it was of no validity Secondly Service said at the Altar that the greater part of the people could not heare and the Pontificall Divines teaching and preaching in bookes and sermons that the King might invade our liberties this caused a research of the Episcopall power by whose authority this poyson was infused that a Bill issued from the Commons to the Lords and passed their House in all but one point which was putting out of the House but since some pride from the Bishops and Petitions from some parts of the Kingdome finding Church and republike impostumated the House of Commons hath committed a Bil for the eradicating of roote and branch Noble Friend to satisfie the appetite of your desires I will tell you the various opinions of men some there are haters of Reformation and pure formes like those that live in corrupt aire cannot breath in pure or used to brackish water delight not in sweet fountaines others there are who adhere to Rome and would have that forme of Church which but by a paire of sheeres devides from that Hierarchy that they might easily in that path goe to the Antichristian way which if it were hedged up had no gap to Babylonian errors for they found none but the Bishops and their followers brought in the Arminian and Socinian errors the bridges for Popery Some they say there are who have sucked in errors at the Vniversity by reading Papisticall bookes admitted by the Bishops and allowed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and are so infected in judgement that they had need of Spectacles to discerne the truth or of eye salve to cure and cleere their judgements Likewise others affirme many great Ladies because they are esteemed and flattered of Bishops would have them in their Pontificalibus some Protestants whose knowledge is not great would have them without other reason giving them because they have beene bred in that way And further the Papists whose Religion for the most part is in reverence and devotion are mightily for them because by that Hierarchy they confirme their opinions in Popery as an antiquity derived from Popish Bishops who first instituted inducted and confirmed them in the beginning of Queene Elizabeths time so that all our Pontificall Clergy derive the pedegrees of their rites and ceremonies from Rome so that if they are not in the first institution there may be a retrogradation to Rome by the same steps as in a maze goe backe againe the way they came in The politique sort finding the predominant constellation of their aime and pride are carried with other considerations that Monarchy had better give a loose to Hierarchy for there is nothing Aristocraticall but Parliaments which consists of Lords Spirituall Lords Temporall and Commons the three last are Aristocraticall now if one of these three be dissolved the Monarchy wil shine cleerer for that none can oppose the Supremacy of the King in great Britaine and Ireland but the Bishops who would if they had occasion draw the power to themselves from Rome and Peter and disseize his Majesty moreover some of the Lords Spirituall being Temporall Lords it may be feared there may be Parliaments without the Temporall Peeres for some of the Bishops are Temporall and Spirituall so that it is possible that the Lords Temporall may be barred which God forbid And further it is apparent the Commons shall passe nothing because the Bishops will not who sway the Lords House much with the Catholique party