Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	according_a	lord_n	work_n	1,535	5	5.1853	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76638	A back-blow to Major Huntington, for his treacherous accusation of Lieutenant Generall Cromwell, and Commissary Gen. Ireton. Published for generall satisfaction of all, who have unadvisedly received the malicious accusation against those active gentlemen.		1648 (1648)	Wing B264; Thomason E461_34; ESTC R205205	11,783	16

kill and slay such a man or sort of men admit your judgment and conscience tells you those men have done no wrong or that those things are just and good for which the Parliament commands you to kill and slay them who is judge in this case Are not you a murtherer if you obey them Who is Judge if you obey them nor Certainly this principle would not have offended you had not your conscience been stifled with ambition and mercinary gaine Their second principle he saith is that the interest of honest men is the interest of the Kingdom and the truth is the interest of honest men is an honest interest and if the Kingdoms interest hath not been so or is not so yet that it ought to be so who will gainsay nor is an honest interest so hard to be discerned in these discoursive and experimentall times But the Lieutenant Gen might be confident that those only were honest who were conformable to his judgment for who thinks him not able to judge of publike right Believe it those that throughly know him do testifie his ability sufficiently And as for his engageing of Col. Rains borough it s wel known that Rainsborough is mettle past bowing or warping and its an Argument the Lieut. Generalls interest was certainly just when Col. Rainsborough would promise conformity to him and the Com Generall Their third principle he sayes is that it is lawfull to passe through any formes of Government for the accomplishing of his ends now it s known his ends alwayes proposed have been publike freedom and safety and who in these knowing times is so ignorant as to deny so undoubted a truth Are not all formes of Government appointed to those ends Now if any Government shall become so farre degenerate as to neglect or betray the just liberty and due safety of the people doth it not utterly expire in it self and cease to be any more a Government but rather a meere confusion Is not Salus populi suprema lex Or is any form Government Argument Law objection or exception to be pleaded against the freedom safety of the people No certainly so that this principle being rightly applyed wel under stood is so far from disparaging these Gentlemen that nothing could be an occasion of their greater honour then that it may be recorded and related to all posterities the whole course of their actions manifested this was their undoubted principle Their 4 and last principle he sayes is that its lawful to play the knave with a knave such a phrase of speech any of them might occasionally express as being a common saying but that they meant as he would have them understood appeareth not it being generally taken in a more tolerable sense as to deceive the deceiver which is excused by Hushies policie in destroying the corrupt Councell of Achitophell But wise and good men may somtimes be more apt in way of discourse to speak of such a thing then at any time to practice it and no doubt but foresight resolution prevents the need of it the success thereof seldom answering the expectation one evill yea the least seldom escaping without producing another and so also it cometh to passe with those that make use of a K. to catch a K. as may be seen by their using of this Major in all they imployed him which may be a sufficient warning for them henceforth to take heed what sort of men they trust there being hardly any vain glorious flattering or covetous men employed by them but one way or other they are prejudiced and disparaged by them And though this treacherous Major for a conclusion to his accusation would induce all men to believe that if these Gentlemen thus principled shall prevaile by the Army they intend to destroy the power and authority of Parliament for which he saies he engaged beleive him those that can yet if their demeanour towards the Parliament in generall upon their late successe and their gentle bearing towards their greatest opposers from whom not one drop of blood nor one penny of mony hath been drawn nor taken they all being out of trouble imprisonment exile and fear and so in all probability may still continue except they make to themselves new occasions by contrivances and Personall Treaties If these and the like carriages and inclinations in them be duly weighed it wil be impossible for any construction to be made but that most earnestly they desire to see the Common-wealth restored to a certaine condition of just and true freedom safety and peace by this Parliament according to the trust reposed in them and would rejoyce that it might neither be deferred nor done to halves nor parcels which as all men see doth cause new and perpetuall troubles And these their just desires and resolutions being perceived by this Malignant Major hath caused him at this time to appear in his colours to acquite his command and to fall upon this course to put the Parliament Army and Kingdom into further distempers and there by to render them more incapable of making opposition either against the Scots or other forraign forces or intestine enemies which have risen up in so many places for the King his Master against the Parliament and Army But it availeth nothing God is mercifull hath fetcht them home by repentance made them to see be sencible of their errours passes ever their many failings and infirmities remains with them still blessing them with success upon success even to admiration and doubtles will continue so to do if yet they shall vigorously set themselves to do his work in suppressing all kinds of tiranny oppression in whomsoever in clearing and securing the liberty peace safety of the people according to their many promises engagments and for which just ends God hath raised prospered preserved them but let them henceforth beware of shewing respect to persons in judgment and of that curse which certainly attendeth all those that do the work of the Lord negligently FINIS