Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

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
B10258	The mystery of the two ivntos Presbyterian and independent. Or, The serpent in the bosome vnfolded.	Walker, Clement, 1595-1651.	1647 (1647)	Wing W332A; ESTC R235062	15,370	28

such their Confidents as look too intentively after their own gain the Grandees of each Junto conferre something of advantage upon those that are subservient to them as five pounds a week or some petty imployment The seeds of these factions spread themselves into the Common-wealth and Armies as Rheume distils from the Head into all the body 8 Monopolizing Profits and preferments Thus the leading men or Bell-wethers have seemingly divided themselves and having really divided the Houses and captivated their respective parties judgement teaching them by an Implicite faith Jurare in verba Magistri to pinne their opinions upon their sleeves They begin to advance their Projects of Monopolizing the profits preferments and Power of the Kingdome in themselves To which purpose though the leaders of each party seem to maintain a hot opposition yet when any profit or preferment is to be reached at It is observed that a powerfull Independent especially moves for a Presbyterian or a leading Presbiterian for an Independent and seldome doth one oppose or speak against another in such cases unlesse something of particular spleen or Competition come between which causeth them to break the common Rule By this meanes the Grandees of each faction seldome misse their mark since an Independent moving for a Presbyterian his reputation carries the businesse cleare with the Independent party and the Presbyterians will not oppose a leading man of their own side By this artifice the Grandees of each side share the Common wealth between them And are now become proud domineering Rehoboams even over the rest of their follow members contrary to the liberty of Parl. which consists in an equality that were formerly fawning ambitious Absoloms There hath been lately given away to members openly besides innumerable and inestimable private cheates mutually connived at at least 300000 l. in money besides rich offices Imployments in money Committees Sequestrations and other advantages And those members who have so well served themselves under colour of serving the publique are for the most part old Canvasers of Factions who have sate idly and safely in the house watching their advantages to confound businesses and shuffle the cardes to make their owne game when others that have ventured their persons abroad labour'd in the publick work like Isaelites under these Egyptian task-masters and lost their estates are left to sterve untill they can find reliefe in that empty bag called by fooles fides publica by wise men fides punica And are now looked upon in the House superciliously like unwelcome guests for it is known how malignantly and how juglingly writs for new elections were granted and executed and called younger brothers and like younger brothers they are used their elder brothers having slipped into the world before them and anticipated the inheritance They have broken first into the common field and shut the dore to prevent after commers even from gleaning after their full harvest For the better effecting whereof they have now morgaged in effect all the meanes they have to raise money unto the City And being themselves fat and full with the publike Treasure to expresse rather their scorne then care Ther are making an Ordinance that no more money shall be given to their members And yet to shew how carefull they are of all such as have cheated the Common-wealth under them I will not say for them They have taken advantage of the petition of the Army wherein they desired Indempnity for all acts done in relation to the warre And have passed an Ordinance of Indempnity for all such as have acted by authority and for the service of the Parliament wherein under great penalties with an app●ale at last from the Judges of the Law to a Comittee of Parliament 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 leavied taxes three or four times over are quit from private actions and the benefite of Law and Justice taken from the Oppressed to secure countrey Committees Sequestrators and others not Prerogative but Legislative Theeves contrary to Magna Charta which saies nulli negabimus nulli differemus justitiam aut rectum We will deny or deferre justice and right to no man Oh prodigious acts and of greater tyranny then any King ever durst adventure upon What is become of our Nationall Cov. and the Parliament many Declarations for defence of Lawes and Liberty Or have we fought our libertie into slavery By these devises the honest middle men of the House whose consciences will not let them joyn in any faction to rend the Common-wealth in sunder are out of all possibility of repaire and made contemptible as well by their own want as the pride of the Grandees and in the end their poverty will inforce them to leave the sole possession of the house to these thriving Junto men who do beleaguer them therin making them for farther addition to their losses pay all taxes from which the thriving men go free so that the poorer part of the house payes tribute to the richer Nay it is further whispered that at last the Junto men will quit the Parliament Priviledge of not being sued purposely to leave these younger Brothers to the mercy of their Creditors and disable them to sit in their House An other ambitious ayme of those Junto men is their devise of referring all businesses of moment to Committees 10. Committees of the Houses For the active speaking men by mutuall agreement naming one another of every Committee or at least their confident Ministers doe thereby fore-stall and intercept the businesses of the house and under colour of examining and preparing matters they report them to the house with what glosses additions detractions and advantages they please whereby the House judging according to their report oftentimes mis-judgeth and if it be a business they are willing to smoother the Committees have infinite artificiall delayes to put it off and keep it from a hearing or at least from reporting By this meanes the remaining part of the House are but cyphers to value and Suffragans to ratifie what is fore-judged by the said Committees This usurpation of theirs is much helped by keeping the doors of their Committee roomes shut and dispatching all affaires privately and in the darke Whereas Justice delights in the light and ought to be as publique as the common aire it being against its nature to be chambred up and kept from the observation of eye and eare witnesses Parts of this project wee may well call the Multiplicity of money Committees as Goldsmiths hall Haberdashers hall 11. Money Committees the Committee of the Kings revenues Committee of the Army c. Where every mans profit and power is according to his cunning and conscience Hereby they draw a generall dependency after them for he that commands the money commands the men These Committee-men are so powerfull that they over-awe and over-power their