Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	army_n	enemy_n	great_a	1,068	5	2.8750	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89973	A new found stratagem framed in the old forge of Machivilisme, and put upon the inhabitants of the county of Essex. To destroy the army under his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and to inslave all the free-born of England on a sudden: manifested and laid down, in certain animadversions, upon a clandestine, illegall petition, contrived, made, and privatly printed, by a destructive party in London: and then by them sent down to the ministers of the county of Essex, to publish as on the last Lords day, 4. April, to the people, with directions to take their subscriptions in two sheets of paper: which being done: so many of the subscribers as can, are to be desired to meet at Stratford Langton, the 18. instant Aprill, and so to come and present the same to both Houses, as the petition and sense of the whole county :whereas it was never propounded to the county, nor ever heard of among them, before it came down ready in print, from London, to be published by their ministers, in there severall parishes. With certain observations and cautions on the same, conducing to the information, and publick good of the whole Kingdome.		1647 (1647)	Wing N641; Thomason E384_11; ESTC R201451	8,787	15

have Have not they subdued our enemies and removed our feares and caused us to dwell in safety And are not they a contented patient well governed people can you say that God is not amongst them then certainly they that hate and despite them are of the Devill For my part Country-men and all others whom it may concern I hold nothing more expedient for you and me and all true English men seeing the publick adversary is subdued and our Parliament so averse and indisposed to do us justice and establish our liberties then to petition forthwith effectually to have justice speedily and impartially executed and our Lawes and liberties established and a just account rendered of all the monies they have received and without question when these just things are done the Army will of its own accord cease and lay down I account this that unum Necessarium that one necessary thing which is now principally to be minded in the Kingdome not to petition about quarterings and removings and preachings and places and any thing indeed rather then this very only thing without which all other our outward enjoyments are nothing was but one thing done Law and liberty established the wheels of our State would goe easily commands would be pleasant discontents would be removed injustice oppression and Treason would be banished and supplanting dividing spirits would be utterly disappointed In the meane time till this be done it is the best and only way for the Countries and free commoners of England to preserve this Army in power and being and to petition that it may still stand and be continued and tha others rather then it may be sent into Ireland that so in case these just demands be denied contrary to duty Oath and Covenant the poore Commons may have a shelter and defence to secure them from oppression and violence and his Excellency and every Soldier under him by the duty of his place and vertue of the Protestation is bound thereunto Who knoweth whether wee may not yet have as great need of this Army as we have ever had For it is evident and all men may see that our native rights and liberties are now in more hazard then they were at the first and that we are more in jeoperdy of them by a close trayterous party our pretended friends then wee were by our publick professed foes And our greatest and most dangerous enemies are now they of our own House Sweet friends I am a meer stranger to you but one that am a true lover of my Country and therefore thought good as a Member of the same body politicke with you to give you a few animadversions with some cautions and observations concerning the subtill and deceitfull dissembled practises wherewith your homebred adversaries goe about to make you instruments of your own misery and mischief And lastly mark this I beseech you and consider it seriously Why cannot the Parliament as well send over those Officers and Soldiers they have intended for a new Army here to serve in Ireland as these of this Army Can they give the Kingdome a satisfying reason It is more then I and many more can apprehend if they can But if here ly not a deep mistery no better then close treacherie I am grosly mistaken Let none therefore so farre delude you as to draw you to petition for the disbanding of this Army no both for your honour and security discountenance and disclaime it and all such practises and conspiracies against it for such deeds will savour more of ignorance malice and invie then of any prudence justnesse or necessity and whereas in the close of the Petition it is said that the disbanding of this Army is a plenary expedient against the worst in generall that may be feared let them by no meanes under pretence of benefit ease or advantage deceive you for it is apparent and will yet be made more manifest that the disbanding or otherwise dissolving of this Army is the only plenary expedient to render us Vassals and slaves to the will of our enemies and to bring upon us the worst of miseries and that suddenly and insensibly for alasse we are at the pit brinke and see not FINIS