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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	parliament_n	4,725	5	6.6957	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94235	A scandalous, libellous, and seditious pamphlet entituled, The valley of Baca: or, The armies interest pleaded, the purchasors seconded, the danger of the nation demonstrated in 34 quæries, answered. And the present state of affaires briefly vindicated. By a true lover to the peace and wellfare of his countrey.		1660 (1660)	Wing S815; Thomason E1034_16; ESTC R203483	12,863	16

A Scandalous Libellous and Seditious PAMPHLET Entituled The Valley of Baca OR The Armies Interest pleaded the Purchasors seconded the danger of the Nation demonstrated in 34 QUAERIES ANSWERED And the present state of Affaires briefly vindicated By a True Lover to the Peace and Wellfare of his Countrey LONDON Printed in the Year 1660. THE Valley of BACA Answered 1. VVHe●her seeing it was the Parli●ments Army that brought in his Majesty when his own Party and Armies could not do it They deserve not all due respect and tenderness And whether proportionable encouragement ought not to be given t● such who shall be found to merit it according to his Ma●esties late Declarations Answ His Ma esty hath given assurance to confer a Character of Favour upon those Person of the Army who were Instrumental in his Restauration and in order thereunto there is Care taken that those Lands purchased by them or Received for Service in their possession to be secured to ●hem and their Posterity 2. Whe●her it can be call'd tenderness or encouragement to turn out so many of the old Officers ●nd Souldiers of the Army and Garrisons contrary to the known Laws Martial and contrary to his Ma esties Royal Promise and Engagement not paying ●heir Arrears before disbanding nor letting them know any cause for which they are Outed onely to make way for such who have been known Enemies to Parliament and Army not having left above one Comm●ssioned-Officer in many Regiments And whether the rest of the Army who engaged for the Parliament are not like speedily to follow if not prevented And whether the Nations are not insensibly brought hereby to ruine and slavery before they see it Answ To the Second Let the Querist inform himself aright and he shall find tho●e onely of the old Army divested of their Imploymen●s that have been Instrumen●s actively or passively under all Changes and are person tempered fit for the swallowing down of any Change whatsoever And those Continued are either Persons that have given Testimony of their dislike of those Grand Inconveniencies that were daily practised upon these Nations by a Giddy Unconstant Proud Insolent Ignorant and unprincipled Generation Or else such who were wearied out with the often Changes abhorred to be Instruments longer in using their Arms to defend Faction and therefore they did readily adhere to that Noble Northern Conductor The Querist in these words viz. Turning out many of the Officers of the Army to make way for known Enemies discovereth his spirit to be turbulent and factious to keep up distinctions of Parties A thing Dangerous and Unprofitable and not permitted by any Wise Princes or States But as the Case now standeth it is the most wise and adviseable course that can be taken to put Arms in the Hands of such Persons of both Parties as really desire Settlement If the Arms of the Nation were not so disposed of there would be new Matter for Jealousie which is endeavoured to be fomented by the Author of these Queries 3. Whether the Justice of the Long Parliaments Cause hath not been sufficiently owned by the late King his concessions at the Isle of Wight And by the Solemn Covenant and Declaration of this King made and taken at his Coronation in Scotland Answ No doubt but ●hat Publike or Sacred Act or Thing was done either by his late Majestie or his now Majesty due respect will be had thereunto However the Scene of Affairs are altered his late Majesty was under Restraint and a powerful Army in being his Majesty present had a Crown offered him upon Terms it is not to be believed or supposed otherwise then Enviously that what His Father did or what He did Himself will be by Him disowned although peradventure not in the sense of the Author of these Queries His Majesty now was called in out of a perfect necessity to bring the Nation to some kind of Settlement and the security the Nation hath is his own Interest that is it is his Interest to do all or more than what justly or legally could have been expected by the Undertakers of the late War It is evident for that by any thing his Majesty hath already done and will be led by his Principles of just preserving Policy his deep Judgment and Skill in Government that he will be a King of Vertue a Rectifier of Abuses a Ballance to Justice a Prevention of Exorbitancies in Ministers of State and Justice an Expeller of bad and grievous Lawes a Discountenancer of Debauchery and Vice an Encourager of those that do well by which he will find Favour of God and Man 4. Whether this Convention now sitting are not like to endanger the Cause of the Long Parliament our Religion and Liberties by bringing the guilt of the blood shed in the late War upon their heads and all who adhered to them if the bold and saucy incroachments of Prelatical and other intruders be not timely prevented Answ I shall answer this Quaere with another whether that the Long Parliament did not suffer their Cause to be overthrown by Cromwel the Usurper and his Acomplices in the secluding of Members putting to Death of the King and other Actions that made the Nation to loath them and weeded them out of an Interest to back them in carrying on of what they undert●ok 5. Whether the Old Parliament may not yet have another Resurrection seeing they could not be d●ssolved without the joynt consent of both Houses which hitherto hath not been done according to the Legal intent of the Act for that purpose Answ To the first part I answer yes 19000 years hence if the Doctrine of that Philosopher be true that once in 19000 years all Beeings shall Act the same part over again they have already Acted hereupon Earth In this Age it is not likely they shall have a Resurrection in regard they preserved not their Authority free from those Violations and Alterations that passed upon them To the other or last part of this Quaere I answer As the Saylor cannot Sayl by the Compass in a Storm and that it is convenient to restrain the Sick from Food and to give him Physick Laws that are made to respect such and such Reasons of State are in force as long as the occasion lasteth Affairs have changed themselves into many forms and shapes since insomuch that that Act will not at all fit or sort with Affairs now it is become Null and Void of it self If they had con●inued without those Vicissitudes and Changes and the same Reasons of State on foot and the same Interest able to support it self in that Case the Act had been pleadable Bracton Fleta Horn and Littleton agree That if the Lord shall fail to protect his Vassal the Vassal's Oath 's dissolved for that the Law intendeth a Condition and the Law freeth him from his Obedience Even so is it that Parliament seased to be a Parliament by being not able to protect the People from those frequent