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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	act_n	grace_n	spirit_n	2,584	5	5.0422	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96763	Prosopopœia Britannica Britans genius, or, good-angel, personated; reasoning and advising, touching the games now playing, and the adventures now at hazard in these islands; and presaging, also, some future things, not unlikely to come to passe. / Discovered, by Terræ-Filius (a well-knowne lover of the publike-peace) when the begetting of a nationall-quarrell was first feared. Expressed in two lections, or readings.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1648 (1648)	Wing W3183; Thomason E1149_2; ESTC R204086	62,569	119

a time why some for ever fall Why some shall but for three descents remaine And how they might have had a longer raigne When war when pestilence when dearth will come Upon a land when GOD will take it from That land againe and how they may foreknow When he will bring a totall overthrow They who have learn'd to contemplate aright Those old records may gaine a true foresight Of many things whereby to regulate Enormities both in the Church and State Things to themselves pertaining to their friends Their Foes their Policies their Fates their ends And if this were not so what are to you The stories of the Kingdomes of the Iew Or of their friends and foes more usefull than Those which concerne the realmes of Powhatan Or so available as those relations Which memorize the deeds of your own nations But all this is but words there must be deeds Ere to perfection any thing proceeds You must not everlastingly be stating The Question or be seven yeares more debating For ere that time things will too late be done Which many fear will come to passe too soone Expect you some third persons should between The King and you at this time intervene To make attonement Pray who should they bee Who wisheth you so well who doth not see That all 'twixt whom and you there be relations Them qualifying for such mediations May get more by your wo then by your weale Who knowes not how with Friends most Friends now deale And who perceives not that those Mediators Have interests and many weighty matters Pertaining to themselves which they 'l begin On such a faire occasion to hedge in And whereby paradventure they may bring Great disadvantages upon the King Or on the Kingdomes and perhaps on both Which to indanger wisemen would be loth What then can be effected or by whom May your desires now feiseable become Since there is no way open for accesse Nor any meanes admitted for addresse The Parliament conceives it selfe abus'd In that their offers have been oft refus'd And seems resolv'd that they will never more Send Messages in vaine as heretofore And though the King were now as penitent As David and Manasseh with intent Unfainedly to satisfie and do What ever justice doth oblige him to VVhat ever you in reason could require To answer at the full your owne desire Or whatsoe're affections mortifi'd A contrite heart or conscience rectifi'd Should urge him to yet now there is no way VVhereby this may be manifest you say Despair not friends mind what I said before True penitence will find or make a door Though it be treason voted now to bring Or carry Message to or from the King Although his person be retain'd in ward Attended alwaies with an armed Guard Although strong walls have round inclosed him Though rocks far stronger have surrounded them Yea though the rageing and the roaring seas Have also like a mote incircled these Through all these difficulties I could find Conveyances if thereto he had mind To publish his repentance and prevaile If to performe his part he should not faile Yea find him meanes without an obligation To any party or to any Nation Or any but himselfe to make his peace VVith honour and his Kingdomes to possesse Now let him neither heed nor harken to VVhat other men do say or what they do For whatsoever they shall act or prattle VVill be to him but fruitlesse tittle tattle But let him sit downe by himselfe alone And set down as he reads it hath been done By King Manasseh most unfain'd confessions Of all his knowne offences and transgressions Acknowledge GOD's just dealing in afflicting His Providence and mercie in correcting So like a Father and for his attending So long time for repentance and amending Let him expresse a resolute intent To leave to GOD's dispose the government VVhich he hath mannag'd ill and to resigne Himselfe and his to providence divine With full assurance of obtaining place In his free love and alsufficient grace This done let him subscribe the same and spread it Before the LORD let him with such teares read it As may declare it was his act and deed Then seal it with a Heart which much doth bleed And with a Lion rampant so reverst That none may fear his rage or bloody thirst Upon which acts by meanes of your relation And by that spirit of communication VVhereby most secret actions are made knowne VVhen to good purposes they may be showne Ev'n at that point of time they who have bin His opposites will feel some creeping in First hopes then Good opinions and at last That which will blot out all Offences past And make them kill their fat calfe daunce and sing That they have found againe their long lost King Oh that I could behold that happy day Of penitence and that behold I may Both Parliament and People meet therein So truly that their unrepentant sinne May not when God hath re-inthroned him Prolong their woes or bring new plagues on them But who am I that either you or he Should on my word rely or take from me Those things which I have said know I am that Which is your GENIUS cal'd If you ask what A GENIUS is I will define the same According to the nature and the name So cal'd it is because it doth incline With an affection truly Genuine To draw to good and to withdraw from ill Those Persons both in action and in will To whom it doth relate and from disgraces And spoile to keep such Persons and such places A GENIUS is an incorporeall creature Consisting of an intellectuall nature Which at the selfe-same time a being had With that for whose well being it was made And may be cal'd that Angell which designeth Adviseth moveth draweth and inclineth To happinesse and naturally restraineth From harme that creature whereto it pertaineth And this am I to you Then have a care My counsells now with good respect to heare For they to whom their GENIUS represents That which to saftey tends and harme prevents If then they shall his good advice neglect And passe it by with willfull disrespect They shall deservedly be left to those Ill Angels whose direction they have chose And what will then succeed they shall perceive When 't is too late their evill choice to leave Then looking backe he fixt his eyes on me And said my Secretary thou shalt be To Register and publish to these Nations What counsells warnings and what exhortations God hath vouchsaf'd them that what ere betide His Grace or Iustice may be glorifi'd This being said my FANCY rose and drew A Curtaine wherewith quite beyond my view This apparition vanish'd And I tooke My pen to put in writing what was spoke And publish it to others that it may Prevent if possible your evill day For till amendment or destruction come The Beasts would preach should men continue dumb Yea what their Genius now to them doth speake If they should

may more befall Unlesse the pow'r of God prevent it shall Let him observe to what despised things Below the honour not alone of Kings But of Inferiour Persons he is brought By seeking that which he in vaine hath sought By list'ning to bad Counsell and by still Pursuing those beinnings which were ill Let him impartially resolve in mind To what conditions it hath him confin'd What heights of Glorie it hath cast him from To what a depth of Troubles he is come What meanly-qualified Groomes of late He hath been faine disguis'd to personate What triviall Fellowes he is forc'd to feed Ride and converse with yea let him take heed From what sleight Jockies and what Scatter-wits He seeketh aid and thereby nothing gets To further his Designes nor ought but Lies Rodomantadoes and such Vanities Nay let him mark it once and then againe What beggerly Companions he is faine To fawne upon to humour bribe and woe VVith promises of wealth and honour too To serve his ends when thereto they can add No more then from a Porter may be had Except it peradventure be Returnes Of ruine on themselves and on him scornes Let him examine by himselfe alone VVhat he commited hath or left undone For which this Change befalls him And not dream That these afflictions have pursued him For other mens transgressions altogether And let him seriously consider whether There can be hearty penitence or no For wrongs without some satisfaction too Let him examine if a sacrifice Of words and protestations may suffice For bloodsheds and those many robberies VVhich on his Person and his Partie lies Or whether he and his Prerogatives VVere ever worth so many thousand lives As they have cost or whether when to make His last accompt he cometh GOD will take So triviall an answer as to say His will and pleasure they would not obey But rebells were who did that power resist VVhich he doth claime of doing what he list As his Vicegerent and as he was taught By those whom he to be true Prophets thought Let him consider what best guards a Throne And keeps him safest who doth sit thereon By whom Kings raigne why they at first were made And for whose sakes authority they had That he may not suppose GOD did provide His Kingdome only to advance his pride Or to inflict an heavy curse upon VVhole Nations by inslaving all to one Let him consider in what infamies A Tyrant lives in what ancertainties Feares doubts and dangers and with what esteem Content and peace he weares his Diadem VVho raignes as knowing that he had his Crowne More for his peoples sake then for his own And let him kick away those Parasites Whose Counsell to Oppression him invites Or foolishly perswades him to improve Pow'r wealth or pleasure by the losse of love And thereby makes him labour to enjoy That pow'r which will at last himselfe destroy Let him consider soberly if he In honour or in conscience bound may be Himselfe for those to hazard who pretended His Honour and his Rights to have befriended Whereas it may by many a circumstance Be made appeare that at their owne advance They chiefly aim'd or to preserve the Lot VVhich they had by his Grace already got For to prevent approaching Beggery Some strengh'ned him in acts of Tyranny Some to disturb the waters that in them They might be thriving Fishers under him And very few what e're they counterfeit To him adhered but to save or get Or though their love ingaged them yet none Is bound to more then can by him be done Nor is it just that he himselfe should lose Because he wanteth pow'r to save all those VVho stood with him ingaged Nor would they Desire it if they lov'd him as they say Let him not trust to those fanatick things VVho dote upon the Accidents of Kings And sleight their Essence For as hitherto These by their aid did but themselves undo VVithout his benefit so shall it be Hereaftet till their errour they can see There is no help in humane policy Nor any way but down-right honesty To his security or to redeem Their happinesse who have assisted him For ev'ry course and politike designe That shall be drawne out by a crooked line VVill but beget new mischiefs and inforce New projects whose effects will still be worse Till spight of pow'r and fraud long swords and daggers He stand enrowl'd among the Royall-Beggers Or with those Kings who from their honour fell Because they sleighted those who wish'd them well Let him not fancy that their seeming love VVho Court him yet will worth regarding prove Though daily more and more they shall repaire To kisse his hand or fill the emptie aire VVith acclamations or although they may Upon his birth or Coronation day Make Bonefires ring the Bells drink healths unto him And such like triviall and rude honours do him For herein these act but a sensuall part Delightfull to themselves without a heart Some to expresse their present discontent And dis-affection to the Parliament Some for self-ends some out of levity And many other they well know not why Seem zealous of his honour who would soone Repent what they now covet should be done VVere he restor'd unto them with that mind VVhereto as yet he feemes to be inclin'd And they who do this day Hosanna crie VVould say perhaps to morrow Crucifie The common People rather live by sense Then reason and so quickly take offence At present suff'rings that they oft are pleas'd To cut their own throats that they may be eas'd And when it shall distast their Fantasies VVill tread on what they did Idolatrize If therefore he would in their love confide And gaine from them Affections which will bide He must protect them from receiving wrong In things which to their Freedomes do belong Of their proprieties he must take care And that their Persons and their purse he spare Till he shall need them and untill they see How for his honour and their good 't will be For they will then be forwarder to give Then he shall be to ask or to receive And when just cause the same occasion may Fling for his sake both goods and lives away Let this be then his aime and his intent VVhen God shall joyne him with his Parliament VVith Justice let him round impale his Throne And set before it like King Solomon A guard of Lions that may keep away Those Apes Baboons and Foxes which assay Thereon to make intrusions or devise How to invade him with such flatteries As may delude him and divert him from Those Duties which his Dignitie become All his Prerogatives likewise let him So mix with equitie so circle them With pious Charmes and so confine and awe His Vassalls by Example and by Law That in all times to come nor he nor they Who shall succeed him find occasions may To dim his glory or his pow'r to shake Or on the Subjects right a breach to make So

mean soere the counsellor shall seem And when the King thus changed shall return Who would desire his coming to adjourn When thus a true repentance doth inprove him Who would not then forgive and trust and love him For when you find a metamorphosis In him so supernaturall as this Nought formerly by him mis-said mis-done Or misconceived shall be thought upon To future disadvantage though the sin Hath black or of a scarlet tincture bin Though by an over-good conceit of him Who stood suspected he restrained them VVho sought to bring his fathers death to triall And gave offence by giving a deniall To Justice in that cause to take her course And rais'd suspitions too of somewhat worse Yea though he were a sinner twice as bad As he by those who love him least is made And had beside the blood his Partie spilt More sinne upon him then the double guilt Of King Mannasseh he as pure should grow By such repentance as the Mountaine snow And when to this repentance he is brought VVho can object or how can it be thought That in fullfilling of the covenant As touching him you shall one title want Of that Branch which expresseth your intent To bring delinquents to due punishment For if you can conceive what 't is to bring The lofty heart and spirit of a King To stoop so much as to descend unto VVhat he that 's truly penitent must do Or if you could beleive what selfe-denialls What inward torments and what fiery trialls Are undergone and must be passed through By those who truly penitentiall grow You would confesse that nor restraint nor chaines Nor death it selfe had in them feares or paines So terrible so full of grief and smart As those which exercise a contrite heart And you would say when forth this fruit he brings No sinners no such Penitents as Kings Oh what a blessed what a glorious thing It were Great Britan to behold thy King Come back thus chang'd nd with a mind to do That which thy Genius hath advis'd him to And that which his owne conscience cannot chuse But tell him it were madnesse to refuse How would his drooping Subjects then rejoyce To bid him welcome both with heart and voice How would his friends triumph how would his foes Their aimes and wicked expectations lose How would those hypocrites among you tremble VVho did with him and all the world dissemble How would their soules be comforted who were To him and to the Common good sincere And by both sides oppressed for abiding In their first principles and for not siding VVith this or with that faction to make strong Themselves and other men in doing wrong VVhat hopes thereby would other Nations take That his example would some changes make In their oppressors How would they be struck With terrors who have Tyranny mistook For Kingship and by strained Monarchie Themselves infected with Lycanthropie How would your noisome Grashoppers and Flies Frogs Lice and Caterpillers which arise From their corruptions fearing to delay Their lingring here hop fly and crawl away How would the BEAST then rage the Scarlet Whore Then curse and raile the Devills howle and roare As fearing they their heights were falling from And that the Kingdome which they hate were come But his conversion would not long adjourne Their miseries to whom he should return Unlesse they take more care and more delight To make their conversations more upright Then heretofore unlesse to meet him too They better shall prepare then yet they do Unlesse they more unite more wise appeare In resolutions and then more adhere To that which is resolv'd unlesse more jealous They grow of Publike honour and more zealous Of Publike Faith more clear in their intent More diligent more studious to prevent Supplanting wiles more sensible of wrong Sustain'd by them who to their side belong More carefull that their Friends may firme abide And that all others may be satisfi'd According to just hopes and plainely see The common-good their chiefest aime to be For sure the Kings repentance will availe But little to their comfort who shall faile In such like duties or in meeting him With such affections as he brings to them But when all other sinners grace receive They shall with Hypocrites their portion have And to their shame and great vexation then See those whom they thought worst the better men The British Genius as if he had in Some secret Musing or Devotion been Here made a pause and therefore here will we Take breath a little if you pleased be The Contents of the second Lection THe Genius here declares to them Who exercise the Power-supreme How they much mischiefe might prevent How they the people may content How keep their Pow'r and Cause upright With honour in their Foes despight And tenders that this may be done Much to be duly thought upon Tells what the people ought to do To give assistance thereunto Perswades the Nations to agree Lest by themselves they ruin'd be The Factious-parties doth advise To lay aside their vanities And interweaveth here and there What others may with profit heare Shewes LONDON where her wealth doth lie Speaks reason to the Soulderie Minds to what sort of Irish you Some share of mercy should allow To Preachers preacheth waies of peace To further Truth with Righteousnesse Then drawing toward his conclusion Presageth Order from confusion Informeth from what Pedigree Good Government deriv'd will bee And when that 's told you ye shall heare What 's whisper'd in the Authours eare THE GENIUS whom observe I pray with heed With raised eyes did thus againe proceed How faine would I find words and exhortations Which might not now be lost upon these Nations But cause them to consider and discerne Those things which their well-being may concerne That all well meant endeavours for their good Might not be still neglected or withstood And future ages wonders what dire Fate This Generation did infatuate My breath hath hitherto been chiefly spent The Kings approaching ruine to prevent By skrewing thoughts into him which may wake him From slumber and for peace industrious make him Now I will also somwhat say to them Who stand in prime relation unto him That if his heart GOD change not neither he May them destroy nor they destructive be Unto themselves And what to that good end I shall advise is this Dear friends atttend Let those high Courts by whom the Pow'r-supreme Is exercised in the name of him Who now is laid aside let those adventer No longer to wheele round without a Center But six on somewhat whereon to be steddie Before all catch the Staggers and grow giddie Let that be rectifi'd which now disturbs Their nat'r all motions in their sev'rall Orbs Lest if the Nations clash they thereby crack The wheeles of Government and make them break Against each other when there will be here To mend them no well-skill'd State-Ingineere Reduce your wand'ring lights let ev'ry star VVithin your Firmament