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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	bring_v	let_v	lord_n	4,767	5	3.9259	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83951	Englands complaint, or the church her lamentation, pittifully bemoaning her selfe to her children, to move them to compassionate her, now in this troublesome time, and to bring them to a mutuall agreement and reconciliation.		1642 (1642)	Wing E2952; Thomason E118_47; ESTC R11341	6,357	9

Ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament that this bee forthwith printed Hen. Elsinge Cler. Parl. D. Com. ENGLANDS COMPLAINT OR The Church her Lamentation pittifully bemoaning her selfe to her Children to move them to compassionate her now in this troublesome time and to bring them to a mutuall agreement and reconciliation IT was the Fathers complaint over his children Heare O Heavens and hearken O Earth for I have nourished and brought up children but they have rebelled against me Even so now it is and may well be the Mothers Heare O yee Heavens and hearken O Earth For I have nourished and brought up children but they have rebelled against me in seeking to destroy me and to bring me to utter ruine and desolution Ah woefull Mother of a stubborn and disobedient off-spring How did I sit as a Queen rejoycing and solacing my selfe in the midst of the Nations and said I shall see no sorrow But now behold that which I feared not is come upon me it is come upon me suddenly and in a moment and paines as upon a woman in travell My lovers and acquaintance begin to forsake me and stand a far off looking upon my trouble I am forsaken of mine own children even those I brought up upon my breasts and dandled upon my knees Behold therefore if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow and like unto that wherein the Lord beginneth to visit me Pity me ô my children ô pity me and let not your fainting and disconsolate mother sinke down betweene your hands O be not so cruell and hard-hearted as by your civill discord by intestine war by schisme faction and division to rend and teare out the bowels of your mother which hath so lovingly nurst brought you up so tenderly kept you and Pelicane like hath fed you with her own heart bloud even the bloud of Saints Martyrs O make not my sorrow greater in despising of me I am black but comely I am black in regard of some enormities misdemeanors and imperfections but comely as the tents of Kedar and as the curtaines of Salomon Regard ye me not because I have some spots and wrinckles in outward shew and appearance yet behold within I am all faire and beautifull For the King's daughter is all glorious within It is the Romane strumpet that doth adorne and set herselfe forth to the eye that would seem all beautifull without when as within she is full of rottenesse dead mens bones and all uncleanesse It is the note of a false and erroneous Church to boast its selfe of its purity I confesse my fault I acknowledge my deformity and desire to be reformed Therefore plead with me my children convince me of my errors Let our controversie be decided by a lawfull assembly which the King and Parlia●ent may appoint But alas how shall they appoint that about the which they are in controversie already If that which should be my curing bee my wounding how great is my misery Let the righteous smit me but let not their precious baulme breake my head Fall not out my deare children neither destroy your selves for the blemishes and imperfections of your mother O give eare and listen to my counsell least I be constrained to call upon the Father of those children to be a Iudge and a Witnesse against them Give eare and help me ô my King for the children are brought to the birth and there is no strength to bring forth Dread Soveraign your Nobles and Peeres do sit in Parliament for a redresse reformation of things and there is no strength to bring to passe without your Royall consent God himselfe is about a work a great work a work of Reformation tending to his own glory and our good ô be not you a means to hinder or prevent it or that that which should be for our cōfort turn to our utter ruine or destruction Remember that you also have a King above you to whom you must give an accompt of all your ways at the last day Resist him not withstand no longer least hapily you be found to fight against God himselfe Remember that you are not only a Defender of the Faith but also that you should be a nursing Father O let not posterity record you a destroyer of your people and Countrey Let not the frogs of Egypt or the Locusts of the bottomlesse pit any longer whisper in your Royalleares to seduce and deceive you they croke only for their own advantage and to bring you and yours back again to the Egyptian bondage and to Romish captivity Give eare and way dread Soveraigne to your Parliament and trusty Counsellors who not only know and are privy to the enormities of the Land and the disastors of the Kingdom but also are willing to redresse and reforme them having their hearts touched with zeale to Gods glory love and duty to your Majesty care of their Countrey and seeke and indeavour the good and welfare both of Church and Commonwealth They desire not to rule but to be ruled neither are they willing to usurp soveraignity but to acknowledg you their leidge Lord they desire to bring in no innovation but to reduce the Church and Countrey to their ancient Lawes and Liberty They indeavour to bring your Majesties subjects to your obedience and our Religion to that purity it was in Christ and his Apostles time For this they have humbly sued to your Highnesse for this they strive and contend They desire being Protestants to conforme themselves to all other Protestant-Churches and not to halt any longer between two opinions between Christ and Beliall betweene the Truth and Antichrist between Rome and England or between a Papist and a Protestant or being luke warme to deserve to be spued out It is no dishonour for a King to be ruled by a wise and religious Councell Your Majesty intends no other Law or Discipline but what was in force in Queene Eliza●●th her time and in the dayes of your Father our late Soveraigne of famous Memory the Parliament intends nothing else Onely they indeavour to breake and disa●ull that absolute Soveraignty your Highnesse doth seeme to challenge whereby they find not only your Subjects Liberty infringed but also themselves and the whole Land brought into an unaccustomed bondage and servitude You blame them for taking up Armes It is not against your Majesty but for you It is for the peoples liberty and safety and in so much as it is for them it is for you because the Honour welfare and happinesse of a King consists not o●●ly in the multitude of his people but also in the Liberty Peace and safety of his Subjects Your Highnesse will aleadge that they have no Law for what they doe I answer they have and are a Law in themselves for Parliaments both have made Lawes and d●●nanull'd them And though they seeme to enterprize that which was never seene nor heard off before and from the which your Majesty may seeme to be dissenting

you And to the end you may bee great and that your posterity may prayse your doings you alwayes side with the stronger party and to gaine the world yee would even loose your soules forgoe the Gospell and betray Christ for this cause you are more ready to blo● the fire that is kindling then to quench it You like and skill so well of superstition and Idolatry that you neither can nor will forgoe the Roman Monarchy seeing it was the first of you rising is as yet the only prop of your greatnesse no wonder then that King and people be seduced wh●nas those that should be our guides doe mistead us and are mislead themselves for if the light that is in us be darknesse how great is that darknesse You are or should be the light of the world but resei●ble the darknesse of Aegypt dark Lanterns that do lead thousands to eternall perdition and destruction So that Satan needs no other agents upon Earth but you you are so accustomed to ease that you cannot take paines and therefore downe with preaching playing bec●mes you better then praying and feasting then fasting And if you preach at any time it is to shew your selves your Learning your Eloquence and to obraine your base sinister endes even to get a living preferment or the like or to maintaine and uphold the Papa●l dignity your pompe your pride and vaine glory or to move sedition and faction in the Land and to breed division between the King and his Subjects and betweene the Governours and their inferiours You are in and of the flesh and therefore cannot savour the things that are either of God or of his spirit The Apostles travelled from country to country on foot preaching the Gospel of the Kingdome being poore naked d●stitute and despised yee ride in coaches like Princes and j●● it up and downe in long Robes and costly apparell f●ring deliciously every day Yee have greetings i● the markets the chiefe roomes at Feasts and of men to bee called Rabbi O how unlike are yee to the Apostles whiles yee would seeme to imitate th●m pretend to be their successours finally in a word yee are the sole and onely cause of all my evill and of the trouble and danger that is come upon mee Pity me therefore ô my children and repent and doe the first workes Least God remove the light of his countenance and of his Candlestick from among us and take his word and Gospell and give it to a Nation or people more thankfull than wee and that will bring him forth the fruit thereof in due season Let us breake off our sinnes by speedie repentance and our iniquities by shewing mercy to the poore if it may be a lengthaing of our tranquillity Let us pray for the peace and welfare of Ierusalem for the safeguard and protection of our King and Country knowing that it is for our sins that he and the Land is troubled Let us ● let us by a mutuall love and concord seek to reconcile our selves one to another knowing that our jarring is but the rejoycing of our Enemies and that our fall will bee their r●sing whereas our friends cannot chuse but mourne and lament at our misery and ruine Let us every one turne from our evill wayes and from the violence that is in our handes who knowes whether the Lord will turne and repent him of his fierce anger that we perish not O Let not this potent and flourishing Land and Nation come to a perpetuall and utter desolation Let not Satan delude you my children to make you a h●ssing or a mocking stock to other Nations but remember your mothers former and ancient splendor and brightnesse remember your zeale your love your faith religion and happinesse and be not overcome of evill but overcome evill with goodnesse The which that we may all do God of his infinite and endless● mercy and goodnes give grant and give us his grace for Christs sake Amen FINIS