Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	according_a	good_a	law_n	2,744	5	4.6392	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31350	The souldiers alarum bell to awaken all such who are lull'd asleep in the supposed security of a Parliamentary conventicle unlawfully sitting at Westminster / by B.C.	B. C.	1659 (1659)	Wing C15; ESTC R1657	4,382	10

THE SOVLDIERS Alarum Bell To awaken all such Who are lull'd asleep in the supposed security of a Parliamentary Conventicle unlawfully sitting at Westminster By B.C. Printed in the Year 1659. Dear Friends and Fellow-Souldiers VVEE did believe and were fully perswaded that at our generall meeting in Shoe-lane the first of July instant you had clearly perceived and understood by our Timely Advice directed formerly to you the sole intent and way layd out therein by our present Pseudo-Masters wholly to destroy us from beeing what we are and have deserved by our former gallantry and stoutnesse upon all designes under the Conduct of a most Illustrious undaunted prosperous Generall whom the great God of all victories owned with our service in every design we mean Oliver late Protector who freed not onely this very nation of England from a long endured slavery and yoak of Tyrannicall bondage But also Ireland and Scotland of whom the worst of Sycophants cannot in truth speak evil Now the scope of this our second writing is as well to rowse you up and invest your selves with your former undauntednesse of spirit and resolution that our intended work may take effect As also to shew the truth unto you which is much endeavoured to be obscured from your and our knowledge but we have a faithfull Agitator as namely and formerly held forth unto you the timely preventing of our own ruin by our new usurped Masters the present Pseudo-Parliament who have no power but what they borrow from us and have not we an equall birth-right in all especially by the many hazards of our dearest lives and fortunes then let none of us all be faint-hearted let us knit our selves together and labour for our own preservations while we have advantage and the cause good let us strike least the world should have just Cause to say we have sold our former magnanimous spirits and undaunted resolutions for a dish of broth and a halfpenny loaf though many raw Souldiers who are lately crept into Regiments never suffered the miseries or underwent the many dangers we have done in the first and latter warre may peradventure serve without pay for bread and cheese And doth not the intentions of this Parliamentary-Conventicle now appear when their present resolves are first to have us give them three moneths of our pay not regarding the many necessities wee our wives and children have been put unto barely to live and many of us much indebted to Sutlers and Landlords who if wee should so childishly give away what we have earned with much penury our pay would quickly bring the lash of a Sergeant and stink of a prison upon us to the absolute ruine and destruction of most of us our wives and children After which done according to their present resolves to send some of us to Iamaica others into remote Countreys at their pleasures and disband the rest upon settling the Militia thus clandestinely under the notion of sugred dissembling promises and smooth words from oyled tongues we shall suddenly be betrayed and destroyed Is it not also manifest unto you what small provision they make for us now they have gotten the Staffe into their own hands endeavouring to make us despicable creatures by bringing beggery upon us the absolute scorne of a stout and valiant Soldier is not also the matter of that pretended Good Old Cause now turned into a new cheat then as the case stands upon our present decaying Interest is it not high time to relieve and restore our selvs to what of right we should be Soldiers not fearing the face of man and in whom the power of this Common wealth and change of Government shall rest and if we truely love God and our Countrey let us not suffer our own subversions nor any thing that may tend to destruction of us or our gained and dearly bought liberties Was not Oliver late Protector that ever undaunted Spirit of Magnanimity That absolute Honour of Mars That burning fiery flame to the great Turk the great terrour of all Princes and Countreys a second Solomon for wisedome while our Generall after all his hazards expences charges of a long dangerous and doubtfull Warr most passionately grieved and troubled that this then sitting pseudo Parliament who still strove as now to perpetuate themselves would never labour the settlement of our long contended for liberties till by providence our consents and the advice of all the Judges of these Nations the Government was settled in a single person as most agreeable to the lawes and nature of Englishmen and owned in him sitting too few years at the stern with hand continually upon the helm for the good government of these Nations according to law and Justice And where he found a good and just rule he altered not where he found none or a broken weak defective one he was ever most strong and earnest for reformation thereof Was not many abuses in the lawes by him regulated for the ease and relief of the people was not many poor despicable starving creatures by him constantly relieved did not very many in these three Nations who had long suffered under wrong injustice and oppression by him obtain relief did he not spend what he had in relieving the needy and oppressed did he not spend himselfe his whole strength of nature in studying and endeavouring the preservation of these Nations in peace did he not alwayes take some reasonable care and time for paying us did he not own us and succour us And can either you or we any way discover the like care to be amongst the present pseudo Governours doth not then those many undue Reflections Calumnies and unchristian scoffes cast upon the said late Protector rather argue the ventositie of mens braines the basenesse and vanity of their mindes with their dunghil spirits then either the solidity of their Jugements or the gravity of their conditions and behaviour being well known by all knowing rationall men in the world not any can justly Calumniate him Doth not also those Counties Cities Towns corporate magistrates ministers the Councell the whole Army of the three nations the Judges of the land who made their respective Addresses owned Richard the Protector as lawfull Successor to his late Father in the office of Protector according to an authentick Act of Parliament desiring him to protect those that are good to punish those that are bad to maintain the just rights and priviledges of the people of God and the whole nation engaging to assist him with their lives and fortunes and also imploring the assistance and blessing of God upon his endeavours herein sufficiently declare him to be supreme Governour of these nations And he who took such speciall care with the late Parliament for paying us off would also have been and we are assured will still be as carefull of us and our preservations so soon as we shall have reestablshed him Protector without whom wee are absolutely ruined our posterities being well assured that