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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	act_n	king_n	law_n	3,507	5	4.7950	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39358	The letter torn in pieces, or, A full confutation of Ludlow's suggestions, that King Charles I. was an enemy to the state by the author of two papers formerly published, viz. the Vindication of the honour of King Charles the First and the Earnest call to the people of England, &c. ; in which there is a clear vindication of His Majesties carriage towards the church.	Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1692 (1692)	Wing E679; ESTC R41119	5,615	8

The LETTER Torn in Pieces OR A Full Confutation OF Ludlow's Suggestions THAT King Charles I. WAS An Enemy to the STATE By the Author of Two Papers formerly Published Viz. The Vindication of the Honour of King Charles the First And the Earnest Call to the People of England c. In which There is a Clear Vindication of His MAJESTIES Carriage towards the CHURCH 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prov. 10. 7. Licensed Sept. 29. 1692. Edmund Bohun LONDON Printed by T. J. and are to be Sold by Nich. Hooper in Amen Corner near Stationer's-Hall 1692. 1. NO doubt but HELL is more Enrag'd 'Gainst Saints in HEAVEN then when they 're here Hence 't is that LVDLOW's Pen's Ingag'd To Blot Great CHARLES's His Character 2. Such Painted Crimes on Him to Place Doth to His Lasting Glory Add True Goodness Shines with greater Grace By the Enmity of All that 's Bad. 3. A REGICIDE must needs Hate KINGS But all his Fury's Spent in Vain His Conscience has a Thousand Stings His Soul 's still full of Rage and Pain 4. Go Fiend Incarnate do thy worst Fill all the Earth with thy Dire Name Let All Men see that thou art Curst Thy HELLISH MALICE to Proclaim Anno DOM. 1691. THE LETTER Torn in PIECES c. WHatsoever Errors or Miscarriages in Government Our Gracious Soveraign K C. the First had been Guilty of either through ill Advice or the Common Frailty of all Mankind most evident it is that he made full satisfaction for them in Granting the Petition of Right And as to those Fears and Jealousies which were rais'd against Him after the Granting of that Petition as if he Design'd to Act Contrary to the Laws of the Land so that he could not undertake to justifie His Actions to His own Parliament and to all the World as agreeable to His Just and Honourable Professions to prevent all Appearance of Reason for such Fears and Jealousies he bound himself by a Law not to Dissolve the then Present Parliament as long as they desir'd to Continue upon which Act His Majesty Reflects thus in His 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By this Act of highest Confidence I hoped for ever to shut out and lock the Door upon all present Jealousies and Future Mistakes I confess I did not thereby intend to shut my self our of Doors as some Men have now requited me True It was an Act unparallel'd by any of my Predecessors yet cannot in Reason admit any worse Interpretation than this of an Extream Confidence I had that my Subjects would not make ill use of an Act by which I declar'd so much to trust them as to deny My self in so high a point of My Prerogative Sure it had argued a very short sight of things and Extream Fatuiry of Mind in Me so far to bind My own Hands at their Request if I had shortly meant to have used a Sword against them To thee O my God do I still Appeal whose All-Discerning Justice sees through all the Disguises of Mens Pretensions and Deceitful Darknesses of their Hearts Let thy Grace Teach me wisely to enjoy as well the frustratings as the fulfillings of my best hopes and most 〈◊〉 desires Thus have they Requited me Evil for Good and Hatred for my Good-Will towards them O Lord be thou my Pilot in this dark and dangerous Storm c. All Men but such as are Blinded by the Darkness of HELLISH Malice may clearly Perceive that this Most Christian Prince by the Excess of His Desires to satisfie the utmost Doubts and suppress the Fears of any of His Subjects did so Strengthen the Hands of the Traiterous and Sediticus that they Acted so Subtilly and Vigorously upon a Pretence of the Authority of Parliament that within a few Years they got their KING into their Power and Murther'd Him to the Regret even of divers both of the Lords and Commons who continued Sitting till they were Excluded by the ARMY And so in the sight of all the World they Subverted the whole Government both of Church and State I shall here Recite the Relation of some of their Unparallel'd Enormities and most Prodigious Outrage which was Publisht by a Person that had a full View of them In the Mystery of the Two Juntoes Presbyterians and Independents P. 3. We find these words There hath been given away to Members openly besides innumerable private cheats mutually conniv'd at at least 300000 l. in Money besides Rich Offices Imployments in Money Committees Sequestrations and other Advantages Such as have gone beyond the Authority given by Parliament and Sequestred Men unjustly and so withheld their goods under pretence thereof and such as have Levied Taxes Three or Four Times over are quit from private Actions and the Benefit of Law and Justice taken from the Oppressed to secure Country Committees and Sequestrators and others not Prerogative but Legislative Thieves contrary to Magna Charta which says Nulli negabimus nulli differemus justitiam aut rectum We will deny nor defer Justice and Right to no Man Oh Prodigeous Acts and of greater Tyranny than any King ever durst Adventure upon P. 6. How frequently the Country Committees Act contrary to the Laws of the Land How they ordinarily turn well-affected Men out of their Freeholds and Goods Imprison and beat their Persons without any known Charge Accuser or Witness against them nay Murther them as in the Case of Dr. Rawleigh Killed in Prison at Wells by the Committees Marshal and the poor Men Murthered at Bridge-Water whose Bloods were shed like the Blood of a Dog and no real Prosecution thereof How they Excluded all other Magistracy Ingrossing to themselves the Power of Sheriffs Justices of Peace Church-Wardens c. in an Arbitrary way keeping Troops of Horse upon Pay and Free Quarters for their Guard like the Thirty Tyrants of Athens and if any but speak of calling them to give an Account they presently Vote him a Delinquent and Sequester him The History of Independency P. 46. Anthony Nichols was Arrested upon the way into Cornwal by the Army and dispightfully used and when the General was inclined to free him Cromwell told him he was a Traytor to the Army You see now upon whom they meant to fix the Peoples Allegiance for where no Allegiance is Due there can be no Treason P. 47. The Speaker pulled a Letter out of his Pocket from the General and General Council of the Army it was accompanied with a Remonstrance of Villainous Language and Threats against those Members that Sate while the Two Speakers were with the Army calling them Pretended Members charging them in General with Treason Treachery a Breach of Trust and protested if they shall presume to stir before they have cleared themselves that they did not give their Assent to such and such Votes they should sit at their peril and he would take them as Prisoners of War and try them at a Council of War What King of England ever offer'd so great a Violence to